Deep Blues: The Explosive Commotion of the Black Keys
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- Deep Blues: The Explosive Commotion of the Black Keys
- Legend Roy is heading to town
- Johnny Cash | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
- Addictions muffle singer rising to top of blues chart
- Leiber and Stoller: They are music and they write the songs
- Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | New music
- Calvin Johnson and the Sons of the Soil
Deep Blues: The Explosive Commotion of the Black Keys
filter-mag.com – Apr 24, 2007
However Auerbach does not find that an apt pairing. "We play rock music" he says pointing out that there is a likeness between the two although it’s hardly binding. "There may be some similar song structures between our music and blues but I don’t think we play blues music. "He would know. A huge fan of blues Auerbach has been known to take solo trips from hio to Mississippi to sleep on floors and jam with legendary bluesmen specifically Junior Kimbrough. Unfortunately every trip Auerbach took down found Kimbrough in worse and worse condition bedridden and unable to perform his famed Sunday-night sets for the last couple months of his life. "I got to see his family perform his sons but I never got to see Junior" laments Auerbach.
Legend Roy is heading to town
Chorley Citizen – Apr 24, 2007
Widely considered one of Britain’s most unique songwriters Manchester-born Harper is an icon of modern British folk rock. The singer began playing skiffle music with his younger brother David Harper at ten years old but was also influenced by blues music jazz and classical. His first album The Sophisticated Beggar was recorded in 1966 after Harper was signed to Peter Richard’s Strike Records. His 1977 album Bullinamingvase featured “ne of Those Days in England” with backing vocals by Paul and Linda McCartney which became a Top 40 hit. The first recipient of the Mojo Hero Award it was said: “He may be cantankerous and opinionated but through all this he remains a highly intelligent poet and hopeless romantic blessed with aremarkable voice. Support is from Matt Churchill.
Johnny Cash | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
MTV.com – Apr 24, 2007
With the outbreak of the Korean War he enlisted in the Air Force. While he was in the Air Force Cash bought his first guitar and taught himself to play. He began writing songs in earnest including “Folsom Prison Blues. ” Cash left the Air Force in 1954 married a Texas woman named Vivian Leberto and moved to Memphis where he took a radio announcing course at a broadcasting school on the GI Bill. During the evenings he played country music in a trio that also consisted of guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. The trio occasionally played for free on a local radio station KWEM and tried to secure gigs and an audition at Sun Records. Cash finally landed an audition with Sun Records and its founder Sam Phillips in 1955… He began writing songs in earnest including “Folsom Prison Blues. ” Cash left the Air Force in 1954 married a Texas woman named Vivian Leberto and moved to Memphis where he took a radio announcing course at a broadcasting school on the GI Bill. During the evenings he played country music in a trio that also consisted of guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. The trio occasionally played for free on a local radio station KWEM and tried to secure gigs and an audition at Sun Records. Cash finally landed an audition with Sun Records and its founder Sam Phillips in 1955. Initially Cash presented himself as a gospel singer but Phillips turned him down. Phillips asked him to come back with something more commercial.
Addictions muffle singer rising to top of blues chart
Florida Times-Union – Apr 24, 2007
It’s a bit of a comedown for someone who once opened for Willie Nelson to be headliner at Saturday’s sixth annual Tree Hill Butterfly Festival. But what matters to Cosby these days is just getting a chance to play. “I just like being in a blues band” she said. “It’s like therapy for me… Music is what emotion sounds like. She’s even recorded a new album Murdered by Love though she has no distributor and is selling the CDs herself. She’s still not making much money with her music. So she keeps food on the table by working as waitress at a Westside barbecue restaurant. But don’t call it her day job.
Leiber and Stoller: They are music and they write the songs
PopMatters – Apr 24, 2007
Authors of such rock `n’ roll greats as “Hound Dog” “Jailhouse Rock” “Yakity Yak” “Kansas City” and Peggy Lee’s “Is that All There Is?” Leiber and Stoller have worked together 57 years. The secret to their success they say is “arguments. ” “This is the oldest running argument in the history of the music business” says Leiber the lyricist seated next to his partner here. “ut of that has come work that is probably better than it would’ve been without the arguments even though some of them have been brutal” adds Stoller the composer of the duo. Some of the most brutal days were their years at Atlantic Records when they worked for Ahmet Ertegun serving as the nation’s first independent producers who not only wrote the music and lyrics but oversaw every facet of the production. PBS will examine that creative period when it offers Atlantic Records: the House that Ahmet Built on American Masters airing May 2 (check local listings). Leiber was still in high school when he began jotting down song lyrics with a partner who had to quit to help support his family… “I saw a line of lyrics a line of ditto marks and a line that rhymed with the first line. I said `These are not the songs I thought you meant. These are blues these are 12-bar blues. I love the blues!”“He realized they were blues” says Leiber “and I didn’t. I wrote them automatically. ”“He was right they WERE songs” says Stoller who grew up in New York. “To me this was a very elevated kind of song.
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | New music
salon.com – Apr 24, 2007
Songwriter Alex Turner has been rightly praised for that album’s acutely detailed lyrics which seem to honestly convey the feeling of being a regular young English kid out looking for a good time. But what happens when that regular kid turns into a star? The answer at least judging from the Arctic Monkeys’ new album “Favourite Worst Nightmare” is that his music gets a little sharper and his words get a little snarkier. Lean propulsive numbers like the adulterer’s tale of “Fluorescent Adolescent” and the hometown blues of “ld Yellow Bricks” showcase the warmer side of Turner’s way with a character sketch but scattered through the album are tracks like “Teddy Picker” and “Brianstorm” where the 21-year-old Sheffield native spits putdowns at uninvited backstage guests and music biz flacks. For someone who’s capable of highly empathetic songwriting taking potshots at such easy targets seems unfortunately cynical. More welcome developments can be found in the Arctic Monkeys’ music — two years of touring has turned the quartet into a tighter and more resourceful musical ensemble than they were on their debut. Whether it’s the melancholy guitar haze of “nly nes You Know” or the skittering rhythms of “This House Is a Circus” “Nightmare” is the sound of a band building on its musical strengths in intelligent original ways. Let’s hope the musical maturity spills over into the lyrics next time around… Lean propulsive numbers like the adulterer’s tale of “Fluorescent Adolescent” and the hometown blues of “ld Yellow Bricks” showcase the warmer side of Turner’s way with a character sketch but scattered through the album are tracks like “Teddy Picker” and “Brianstorm” where the 21-year-old Sheffield native spits putdowns at uninvited backstage guests and music biz flacks. For someone who’s capable of highly empathetic songwriting taking potshots at such easy targets seems unfortunately cynical. More welcome developments can be found in the Arctic Monkeys’ music — two years of touring has turned the quartet into a tighter and more resourceful musical ensemble than they were on their debut. Whether it’s the melancholy guitar haze of “nly nes You Know” or the skittering rhythms of “This House Is a Circus” “Nightmare” is the sound of a band building on its musical strengths in intelligent original ways. Let’s hope the musical maturity spills over into the lyrics next time around. Favorite track: “Fluorescent Adolescent” “Twelve” Patti Smith.
Calvin Johnson and the Sons of the Soil
PopMatters – Apr 24, 2007
The group name with or without Johnson’s biblical explanation of it furthers that imagery of earth and toil of mythic rock and rollers emerging from the ground to wander the earth with their instruments and songs forever. In the admittedly small world of indie-label pop music Calvin Johnson can already be considered a larger-than-life figure a results of his days in Beat Happening and the influence of that band’s DIY style; of K Records and its connections to so much attention-getting music of the past decade or two; of his distinctive low voice itself an icon in some way. Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil builds off that legacy to a degree. Its basic premise is Johnson revisiting songs of his past with a cracker-jack rock-soul-blues band made of three other K Records notables: Jason Anderson Adam Forkner and Kyle Field. His work outside of and since Beat Happening is more varied in style and quality… It gets so low it threatens disappearance. That fits the ‘soil’ theme I suppose but not as well as Johnson’s trio of musicians who offer all of the spark the album has by lending his songs a dirty-blues dirty-funk dirty-rock vibe with snake-like guitar solos and a relentless rhythm section. Listen to how well they replicate the sweaty stomp of the Blues Explosion on that Dub Narcotic track “Banana Meltdown” for just one example. This primitive earthy side complements the album’s theme but it’s also in line with Johnson’s songs as a whole. There were undercurrents of sex and death to even many of the cutest Beat Happening songs and since then the mortality theme has especially grown in his songwriting. It’s the subject of this album’s final song the title number from the What Was Me album. More precisely the song’s subject is how songs last after the songwriter dies how songs are the legacy the songwriter leaves behind.
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