Buddy Guy leads Chicago blues tour
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- Zen and the art of saxophone playing
- All wrapped up in love and affection
- ‘Solid Ice’ from Jimmy Thackery
Buddy Guy leads Chicago blues tour
go.com – May 22, 2007
“They will tell you when they first heard it they wanted to come here and find out what it was. ” Narrated by Guy the new Chicago Blues Enhanced Audio Tour brings the Chicago blues scene to life like never before as guests are guided to 10 of Chicago’s historic blues sites including Maxwell Street Record Row and the former home of Muddy Waters. Featuring over 50 minutes of conversation and music the tour explores the history of Chicago blues and how the city’s musical tradition forever changed popular music and American culture. The Chicago Blues Tour is free and can be downloaded at www. downloadchicagotours. It is available in five languages: English German Japanese Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
… Sparks Fame Runs In The Family – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – May 22, 2007
“It’s helped a lot as far as being in this music business now I’d definitely say that” Paris said of her mom and grandma’s expertise. “We’re kind of on our own once we [leave 'Idol']. Nikko SmithFamous Family Member: Dad zzie Smith was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 for his 18 years on the field. How It Helped: Paula Abdul dubbed Nikko “The Comeback Kid” in season four after he got a second chance on the “Idol” stage. When early front-runner Mario Vazquez dropped out of the competition unexpectedly (see… “I guess [Jordin and I] had a better idea of how to handle ourselves in different situations that other people might not have had. Sundance HeadFamous Family Member: Dad Roy Head reached high on the pop and R&B charts in 1965 with the song “Treat Her Right. How It Helped: Sundance wowed the judges with his soulful take on the blues song “Stormy Monday” at his first audition but wound up falling victim to season six’s Sanjaya effect just missing the top-12 cut (see. And if it weren’t for his dad’s advice Sundance might not have even made it past the Hollywood round where he botched the words to his song just before the final cut. “My dad had told me ‘Son if you get up and you can’t remember your lyrics whatever you do don’t stop singing. The words that come out might be the ones you were supposed to be singing’ ” Sundance told MTV News laughing.
Zen and the art of saxophone playing
Telegraph.co.uk – May 22, 2007
The notes I was making sounded the way I play today. He was born in 1930 in Fort Worth Texas. “There were so many different kinds of music there – Irish country and western blues sacred. ” The young Coleman absorbed all of these. But his conclusion was that fundamentally these were all just music: “It was being played by the same people with the same notes. ” In the same way he left the segregated Deep South with a profound sense that people like musical genres were essentially similar. “Every human being is made in exactly the same way – eyes nose hands – it’s pretty weird that people don’t realise that.
All wrapped up in love and affection
Telegraph.co.uk – May 22, 2007
No pretence at inappropriate girlishness from the 57-year-old singer-songwriter. The music of this woman from St Kitts by way of Birmingham has always walked its own uncompromising path right from the mid-’70s when she first appeared on our television screens in a homely afro holding her 12-string acoustic guitar and spelling out exactly what she wanted in a relationship in the song that’s still her signature: Love and Affection. Tonight her performance of Love and Affection which still sends shivers up the spine is the only acoustic moment in a set swaggering with the electric blues of her new album Into the Blues. It’s darker and rockier than previous recordings and it works better live than on the stereo where its adherence to genre traditions can cause the songs to drift together. As the only female musician to have her guitar exhibited in Harrods recent electric guitar exhibition Armatrading knows her way around a Fender. Her technique is idiosyncratically crisp economical and unshowy… And although Armatrading is justifiably concerned that her musicianship be recognised it’s still that voice in which her songs find their force. Deep and definite it never lets you doubt a word she sings although on a couple of the rockier numbers the Albert Hall’s acoustics struggle to hang onto the vocals in the flurry of feedback. In the blues tradition the lyrics are based around simple repeated phrases that build their heat slowly. And it certainly makes me doubt that Armatrading is the sort of woman to wear pyjamas.
‘Solid Ice’ from Jimmy Thackery
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 22, 2007
htm –>’Solid Ice’ from Jimmy Thackery5. 07Tuesday May 22 2007Jimmy Thackery has just about always been referred to as a blues guitarist but his albums have ranged from shoulder to shoulder on the blues highway from tough rocking blues to sensitive acoustic ensembles… ]It’s followed by the instrumental “Daze in May” a Latin-flavored jazz-like turn. Then for three tracks music plus words about various modes of love and lust: The countryish lament of lost love “Blue Tears”; the randy marital excess of “XXX Wife” and “ne or the ther” an eight-minute plea for a woman to make up her mind. Then come three more instrumentals: A steely cool “Solid Ice” a wordlessly haunting “Blue Tears” and a fiery “Who Knows” from Jimi Hendrix the only non-Thackery cut on the album. It may not be your daddy’s blues album. But it is Jimmy Thackery’s album. In the liner notes Thackery says: “This is not groundbreaking but it is heartfelt and sincere.
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