The News Review:
- Get your summer groove on at free concerts at local parks
- Arts Council ready for busy weekend
- MiddletownJournal: Dayton hio news and information
- Let there be lightin’: how Sam Hopkins lived the blues.(Biography)
- Po Better Blues
Get your summer groove on at free concerts at local parks
Mail Tribune – Jun 1, 2007
a Northern California band that plays soulful rock. July 8 — The Rhythm Kings with swing R&B and Memphis-style blues. There will be a pre-concert event: The Colgate Country Music Showdown competition. July 15 — Ben Rice and the Youth of Blues a young quintet playing contemporary blues. July 22 — Bluesdusters presenting “a groovy fresh harvest of blues music. “July 29 — The Retrofits pop-rock quintet.
Arts Council ready for busy weekend
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat – Jun 1, 2007
at the Wacker Park band shell. Headlining Saturday night’s concert will be the rockabilly group from klahoma City The JuJu Beans. The group specializes in 50s and 60s rhythm and blues music. They take songs from many of the blues and country and western greats such as Muddy Waters John Lee Hooker Bo Diddley Chuck Berry Hank Williams Elmore James Johnny Cash Willie Dixon and many others. The Ju Ju Beans play these songs minus any of the pedantic or lifeless connotations of the copier or imitator while adding possibly even more verve and spirit than the originals. Along with the entertainment Saturday night there will be plenty of food provided by area civic organizations.
MiddletownJournal: Dayton hio news and information
Middletown Journal – Jun 1, 2007
In one of her outfits she combines a sari bodice of Indian silk with a short tiered suede skirt with fringe then adds cowboy boots bolo tie and wide belt for the finishing touches. “Design excellence is all in the details” says Berlin. Amy Knowlton of Springfield is a senior who says her collection of women’s wear incorporates touches from blues music — a vest is embellished with a beaded image of B. King’s guitar “Lucille. ” Another garment includes an image of legendary singer Billie Holiday. ther area students whose work is being showcased include:Junior Amy Longo of akwood who will show off her “James Dean” jacket and a reversible sweater dress that can be worn for daytime then turned inside out for a more dramatic evening look.
Let there be lightin’: how Sam Hopkins lived the blues.(Biography)
Free with registration – Texas Monthly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 1, 2007
He looked like a fabulous old pimp. He played a Fender Stratocaster in front of a rhythm section that included bass player Ron Wilson a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Lightnin’ had been playing live music for almost sixty years though his performances the previous decade had been rather unpredictable-flashes of brilliance competing with the age-related tendency toward sloth and crankiness. This show was no different: great riffing uninspired noodling blues cliches bizarre stage patter and angry glares at the bass player who gamely tried to keep up with the impulsive chord changes. The moment came halfway through “Ain’t No Cadillac” when after doing some soloing Lightnin’ decided to do some more. For some reason he had a wah-wah pedal and he either stomped it too hard or it had been turned up way too high because his amplifier let out a high-pitched squeal-aloud intense and not unpleasant sound that lasted about three seconds. At first he appeared taken aback but he kept playing and a satisfied smile crossed his face… He played a Fender Stratocaster in front of a rhythm section that included bass player Ron Wilson a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Lightnin’ had been playing live music for almost sixty years though his performances the previous decade had been rather unpredictable-flashes of brilliance competing with the age-related tendency toward sloth and crankiness. This show was no different: great riffing uninspired noodling blues cliches bizarre stage patter and angry glares at the bass player who gamely tried to keep up with the impulsive chord changes. The moment came halfway through “Ain’t No Cadillac” when after doing some soloing Lightnin’ decided to do some more. For some reason he had a wah-wah pedal and he either stomped it too hard or it had been turned up way too high because his amplifier let out a high-pitched squeal-aloud intense and not unpleasant sound that lasted about three seconds. At first he appeared taken aback but he kept playing and a satisfied smile crossed his face. This late in his career there were very few surprises.
Po Better Blues
Chronogram – Jun 1, 2007
In most instances the situation is usually one of overreaching of we scribes letting our enthusiasm get the better of us in order to grab the reader?s attention and make us feel like we?re doing our jobs. But in the case of Poughkeepsie multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee any such advocacies are rooted in pure documented fact. McPhee 68 is widely revered as one of the most important avant-jazz musicians to take the 1960s ?new thing? ideas of icons like John Coltrane Albert Ayler Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders to the next level. His incendiary early albums Underground Railroad (1969) Nation Time (1970) and Black Magic Man (1970) burn with radical political themes their rousing often funk-fueled sound a preternatural balance of aggressive experimentalism and melodic sensibility… And he?s a veritable god in Europe where he tours multiple times each year. ?I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee?s records as some of the most important records ever made? says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett curator of Atavistic Records? Unheard Music Series which has re-released several of the artist?s earliest titles. ?He can find the music in any situation. There can be the most insane noisy stuff going on around him on stage and he?s able to pull the music out of it and not in a way that?s predictable or cloying. Joe is just so deeply musical in everything he does. Just his way of being in the world is musical.