The News Review:
- Music takes another trip down the scapegoat road
- Kurt Vonnegut and Grade 13 English
- What’s n seven day guide May 1 to May 7
- The Groanbox Boys: A multi-instrumental duo with a special rhythm…
- Marker to Note Blues’ Influence on Rodgers Music
- Four years after shooting Spector arrives in court to face the music
- Playing — and singing – the blues
Music takes another trip down the scapegoat road
Sydney Morning Herald – Apr 26, 2007
There has been little research into emo – no doubt it is notlong off – but a 1999 study claimed heavy metal fans were twice aslikely to have suicidal thoughts than non-fans. Last yearresearchers aligned followers of goth music and culture – alsocharacterised by black clothes and pale skin- with a higher rate ofself-harm and suicide. But suicide is not limited to those who wear black eyeliner andprefer their music played in darkened rooms. Even cowboys get theblues. US researchers claimed the amount of airtime devoted to countrymusic boosted the suicide rate of urban-dwelling white Americans. The same researchers also proposed the love-gone-wrong themes inblues music could attract people who were suicidal. As anyone who’s listened to the lyrics of Leonard Cohen theSmiths the Cure Billy Holiday or the 1930s “grandfather ofrock’n'roll” Robert Johnson – blues folklore says he sold his soulto the devil in exchange for guitar mastery – knows sad songs areoften the most cathartic.
Kurt Vonnegut and Grade 13 English
London Free Press – Apr 26, 2007
n Monday mornings he would tell us how he had gone over the previous week’s assignments while drinking several bottles of Labatt 50. That was his routine for marking. r he would describe an evening spent listening to blues music at one of the clubs on the old Talbot block here in town. Whenever he would distribute handouts to the class Pike would announce that the sheets had been punched with a three-hole punch for “easy insertion into students’ three-ring binders. ” Like a repeated line in a Vonnegut novel he would use this same phrasing every time. He never tired of it. nly someone with a taste for the absurd would act that way.
What’s n seven day guide May 1 to May 7
Bridgwater Mercury – Apr 26, 2007
With Tickets are £10 and concessions £7 from the box officeon 01823-283244. 8pm Little Toby Walker at the Bridgwater Arts Centre. The Piedmont and Delta influenced guitar player performs his blues music with storytelling and humour. Tickets are £9 concessions £8 andmembers £7 from the box office on 01278-422700. 10am – 5pm Bike Show South West at the Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet. Classic and custom bikes from all over the country on display live music educational displays and trade stands.
The Groanbox Boys: A multi-instrumental duo with a special rhythm…
Independent – Apr 26, 2007
Tied around Ward-Bergeman’s right shin is piece of cloth covered in small bells (which he calls “shackles”) that rattle like a tambourine when he brings his foot down hard on the beat. The overall effect is confusing at first – but soon becomes utterly enthralling. This is music that goes deep into the roots of popular music. Mixed in here is West African Griot songs Deep South blues Nashville harmonies Eastern European gypsy dances even a touch of English Morris Dancing. Yet perhaps the purest Groanbox Boys experience comes when they lay down their usual instruments and Ward-Bergeman grabs the “Freedom Boot”. This is the band’s percussive totem pole – a thick six foot pine stick with 420 bottle caps screwed loosely down its length and a dirty great boot at the end. Ward-Bergeman departs the stage heads into the audience stomping the boot as he goes and shaking the bottletops in an insistent rhythm.
Marker to Note Blues’ Influence on Rodgers Music
WTK – Apr 26, 2007
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Four years after shooting Spector arrives in court to face the music
Times nline – Apr 26, 2007
–>Chris Ayres in Los Angelesdiv#related-article-links p a div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}The morning of Lana Clarkson’s death began with her telling Phil Spector: “I’msorry sir you’re not on the list. ” It was 2am on a Monday. The place wasthe aptly-named House of Blues — a bar and music venue owned partly by theactor Dan Ackroyd on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The bar’s closed-circuit television captured Clarkson in fuzzy detail wearingthe outfit in which she would end her life: a short black shirt and fittedblazer blonde hair swept back over the shoulders. Three hours later after the B-movie actress and waitress had been told by hermanager to treat the celebrity record producer she had failed to recogniseat the door “like gold” and then accepted an invitation to have a drinkwith him at his “castle” the emergency services received a phone call fromMr Spector’s terrified driver. The eerie recording of the call was played to a Los Angeles court yesterday asMr Spector’s trial on murder charges finally began four years afterClarkson’s death.
Playing — and singing – the blues
MaineToday.com – Apr 26, 2007
:ap –>Thursday April 26 2007IF YU GKELLY JE PHELPSWHEN: 8 tonightWHERE: Chicky’s Fine Diner 3 Bridge St. WestbrookHW MUCH: $12TICKETS: Call 854-9555 lues slide and fingerstyle guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps has a reputation as being a master of his art. His blues guitar playing “left behind a trail of guitarists with wide eyes shaking heads and jaws bruised from hitting the floor” said Acoustic Guitar magazine. Phelps not only wows folks with his guitar playing. He is on tour in support of his new album “Tunesmith Retrofit” an album some critics claim is his strongest as a songwriter. He performs in Westbrook tonight at Chicky’s Fine Diner… For him a song worth singing has to be able to sustain Phelps’ passion for the subject of or the character in the song and he has to feel he’s “managed to capture the essence of the story or the character through the lyrics. “(The lyrics) are the foundation of the song” he said “which allows me to be creative with the music side of it. ” Instead of squeezing words into the music he can let the song “breathe from night to night” by being able to improvise the music around the words. Phelps 47 wasn’t always so devoted to lyrics. His early forays into the music business found him playing instrumental free jazz. Based in Portland re. Phelps grew up outside Seattle “fascinated by music in general.