Cool sounds hot time: Summertime Blues Festival brings music food…
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- Cool sounds hot time: Summertime Blues Festival brings music food…
- White Stripes back to hard-rocking blues
- … PIEDMNT BLUES DU KEEPS TRADITIN ALIVE CEPHAS AND WIGGINS…
- Talkeetna healer among two killed in Parks Highway crash
Cool sounds hot time: Summertime Blues Festival brings music food…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 21, 2007
“We have a following” said Linda Noll the museum’s executive director. “People look forward to the festival every year. ” Blues music is the festival’s main ingredient. Baltimore blues staple Mary Lou and the Untouchables are headlining the festival. The eight-piece band has been playing around the.
White Stripes back to hard-rocking blues
USA Today – Jun 21, 2007
The pseudo-siblings deliver again on the sixth “Icky Thump” — a raucous foot-stomping record that makes a satisfying follow-up to 2005’s folk-tinged “Get Behind Me Satan. Where “Satan” was subdued “Thump” stands up and demands attention. The slide guitar is snarly and unforgiving on “Catch Hell Blues. ” “Little Cream Soda” is fueled by a driving bassline and heavy-metal riffs. The playful “Rag and Bone” is good ol’ rocking blues and “Bone Broke” is so stripped down it could have been on the band’s first album. The Stripes always inject their music with a shot of unpredictability: they change tempo mid-song punctuate acoustic tracks with episodes of heavy distortion and fearlessly sample from a range of influences and instruments. They turn to tango trumpets for a Latin-flavored cover of Patti Page’s “Conquest” and weave bagpipes and mandolin through the Celtic-inspired “A Prickly Thorn But Sweetly Worn… ” “Little Cream Soda” is fueled by a driving bassline and heavy-metal riffs. The playful “Rag and Bone” is good ol’ rocking blues and “Bone Broke” is so stripped down it could have been on the band’s first album. The Stripes always inject their music with a shot of unpredictability: they change tempo mid-song punctuate acoustic tracks with episodes of heavy distortion and fearlessly sample from a range of influences and instruments. They turn to tango trumpets for a Latin-flavored cover of Patti Page’s “Conquest” and weave bagpipes and mandolin through the Celtic-inspired “A Prickly Thorn But Sweetly Worn. Jack White shows his Zeppelin roots on “I’m Slowly Turning Into You” and “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)” channeling Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on chops and vocals. But he keeps on reaching for something fresh making new Stripes’ music — and by extension rock ‘n’ roll — something to be excited about. CHECK THIS UT: The title track gives a taste of what the album is about: hard rock with thumping drums and slithery guitar solos with a defiant Jack White getting down.
… PIEDMNT BLUES DU KEEPS TRADITIN ALIVE CEPHAS AND WIGGINS…
Free Lance-Star – The Free Lance-Star – Jun 21, 2007
“It’s a special honor to be able to play there” Cephas said. They will perform as part of the festival’s “Roots of Virginia Culture” portion. Celebrated for being one of the last bastions of Piedmont blues music Cephas and Wiggins are in the midst of touring after releasing their latest album “Shoulder to Shoulder” about this time last year. The duo also will perform at Ashland Coffee & Tea on Saturday. Born in Washington in 1930 Cephas chose to settle in Caroline County in the late ’60s. “That’s where my family roots were in Caroline County and I guess I kind of had a linking for the country type of living” he said. ” And that’s where I live today although it’s changing… Wiggins also was born in Washington and he now lives in Maryland. Cephas and Wiggins’ Piedmont blues which is characterized by its alternating thumb and finger guitar picking style grew out of the kind of country atmosphere that Cephas loves. He was first exposed to gospel music by his mother but it was the blues that grabbed him. Although Cephas said there’s not much difference between the two genres–they just focus on different things. #storynav a{ font-size: 14px; }.
Talkeetna healer among two killed in Parks Highway crash
Frontiersman (subscription) – Jun 21, 2007
Stevens was the primary caregiver for many of the area's youth including Fairview Inn manager Mike Lindgren's child. Lindgren is close friends with the family and worked at KTNA public radio for years along with Stevens' husband station manager Robert Ambrose. The station's news staff was in his bar to hear blues music. “She was probably the busiest and one of the most active people in this area” Lindgren said of Stevens. Like most of Stevens friends Lindgren could find few words. Many were too upset to talk. Aside from being a popular physician's assistant and maintaining a large caseload at the clinic she was active in the Denali Arts Council and recently assisted with the council's long-term planning.
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