The News Review:
- Blues Festival kicks off in Bloomington
- Music Lead Walter Trout
- Bob Maginnis Two states’ budget woes and other assorted topics
- The (Maryville Tennessee) Daily Times : Your source for news and…
- Black Stone Cherry has set its sights on bringing blues and Southern…
- BMI to Honor Willie Nelson As Music Icon
- Johnson cranks up the volume with his new bandmates
Blues Festival kicks off in Bloomington
Daily Vidette – Jul 11, 2007
net and Martin Brothers utdoor Power. Gate price for one day is $15 and children 12 and under may enter for free. Tickets can be bought online or at locations listed on nothinbutthebluesfestival. “You will not get better blues music for this ticket price anywhere in America” Hoffman said. Page 1 of 1Article ToolsShare:.
Music Lead Walter Trout
Cleveland Free Times – Jul 11, 2007
"The readers of Blueswax which is the biggest international blues publication voted it album of the year for 2006 and it was on the Billboard Blues Chart for 15 weeks" says Trout via phone from his California home. "It really did good for me and increased my profile here in the States. "In addition to Trout's deep and broad blues education his music is informed by a love of folk that goes back to his teenage years and his subsequent exposure to the Beatles the Rolling Stones and Crosby Stills & Nash in the '60s. Underlying Trout's extensive influences is an almost pathological need to be on the road an amazing work ethic that has served him well as he's endeavored to raise his profile in America to the level that he's enjoyed in Europe. "I'm really a hard-working fella. If you look at my schedule on my Web site it's almost stupid" says Trout. "Sometimes I go on there and look at last year or the year before and I think "How did we do that?'"A similar question could be posed concerning the stellar line-up on Full Circle which boasts guest appearances by Trout's former employer John Mayall the legendary Guitar Shorty and Coco Montoya relative newcomers Joe Bonamassa and Eric Sardinas Jeff Healy and Bernard Allison (son of blues icon Luther Allison) among many others.
Bob Maginnis Two states’ budget woes and other assorted topics
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Jul 11, 2007
3 billion budget shouldn’t be tough given the fiscal expertise all were claiming on Tuesday. · Civic activist Ted Bodnar and Hagerstown officials deserve more praise than they’ve received so far for the July 4 celebration at Fairgrounds Park. Rain threatened but held off long enough for a crowd of thousands to hear some good old rhythm-and-blues music from The House Band from Clinton Md. followed by a fireworks display that featured more than 15000 shells. People danced on the grass then oohed and aahed as the fireworks display lit up the night sky. · Washington County officials should pay close attention to the efforts by Maryland Gov. Martin ‘Malley’s effort to close a $1.
The (Maryville Tennessee) Daily Times : Your source for news and…
Maryville Daily Times – Jul 11, 2007
“What’s the deal with that?” asks a laughing Jane Stern who with her husband Michael chronicles American food culture. “The deal with that is that Southerners will fry anything that will fit in a pan. “While the South as a whole accounts for some serious pickle consumption it is the Mississippi Delta a region better known for its blues music that takes credit for first tossing pickles into Kool-Aid and the deep fryer. “The backdrop is that the South has always been a pickling culture. Pickled watermelon rind. Pickled peaches and fruits” says William Ferris a professor of Southern history and folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Black Stone Cherry has set its sights on bringing blues and Southern…
Metro Spirit – Jul 11, 2007
The Kentucky Headhunters who are related (dad and uncle) to Black Stone Cherry’s John Fred Young used the home for their rehearsals beginning in 1968. Decades of classic rock memorabilia plaster every inch of available square footage in the “rock house. ” Wells says the ambience made Black Stone Cherry feel as if they were already part of a rock scene. “The Headhunters gave us that practice house. All kinds of great bands’ albums and musicians decorated the walls. You couldn’t help but be influenced with guys like Hendrix looking out at you. It rubbed off on us and we owe a lot to that house.
BMI to Honor Willie Nelson As Music Icon
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 11, 2007
Before he became a star in the ’70s his songs were hits for Ray Price (“Night Life”) Patsy Cline (“Crazy”) Faron Young (“Hello Walls”) and Billy Walker (“Funny How Time Slips Away”). With pal Waylon Jennings he was part of country music’s outlaw movement that eschewed the conventions of Nashville’s Music Row. He incorporated rock pop jazz folk and blues into his music used unconventional phrasing as a singer and developed a distinct Latin-flavored guitar style. He’s widely credited with helping influence the new traditionalist and alternative country movements of the ’80s and ’90s. At 74 Nelson remains a prolific performer and recording artist. Earlier this year he released “Last of the Breed” with Merle Haggard and Price. He put out two albums in 2006: “You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker” and the Ryan Adams-produced “Songbird” which had him covering songs by the Grateful Dead Leonard Cohen and Fleetwood Mac.
Johnson cranks up the volume with his new bandmates
Canada.com – Jul 11, 2007
This may come as a surprise to those who have been watching Johnson’s career over the last decade or so. Although Big Sugar combined arena rock and dub reggae there was a definite blues influence and Johnson is known as a skilled acoustic-blues and jazz player. It would have made sense for him to return to coffeehouse blues after Big Sugar ran its course and Johnson moved to Austin Texas. In fact Grady’s first album though loud remained true to Johnson’s blues roots. But instead of mellowing out on the follow-up the Canadian guitar-slinger took a U-turn into punk and speed metal… So that kinda changed the sound of the band too. “Johnson has a long history with heavy rock — his first record was Black Sabbath’s Paranoid — and the influence of the diverse music scene in Austin helped bring it to the surface. Although it’s known as a roots-music capital bands of all genres find it a creatively inspiring city. “There’s a really vibrant underground music scene here which we’ve seen explode in the last couple of years” notes Johnson. “Really edgy stuff and lots of heavy metal punk rock stuff really challenging. And we’re as much a part of that scene as we are of the entire music scene so I guess it’s rubbed off on us a bit too. “ne thing that didn’t change from Grady’s first to second records was the location.