The News Review:
- Community provides the rays to help peration Sunshine
- Music to Revive Eastern Market
- Pittsburgh Blues Festival: The Saturday Edition
- A LIFE F THE BLUES
- A sound check along the Memphis-to-Nashville ‘Music Highway’
Community provides the rays to help peration Sunshine
Utica bserver Dispatch – Jul 22, 2007
This was a first-time partnership for us and it wasn’t really a partnership. They did all the work. It began with an e-mail from a gentleman who said essentially we love blues music we want to have a festival and we’d like to help peration Sunshine. No request for advertising space. No request for coverage. Just periodic e-mails updating us on their progress leading up to an awesome incredibly fun day and evening of music at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds. Along the way we realized that it was in our best interests as stewards of peration Sunshine to promote the festival and so we provided advertising support.
Music to Revive Eastern Market
Washington Post – Jul 22, 2007
The free concerts start tomorrow with Rick Franklin Mike Baytop and the Resonators playing blues music beginning 10:30 a. Next Sunday it’s more blues from Daryl Davis and the duo of Warner Williams and Jay Summerour. Acts are scheduled through September. Seventh Street and North Carolina Avenue SE.
Pittsburgh Blues Festival: The Saturday Edition
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 22, 2007
This being said I am of the opinion that in order to really appreciate the blues songs from the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson II Big Walter Horton Little Walter Jacobs Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters (with George “Harmonica”Smith) and others must be featured. The fore fathers of the harmonica playing blues cannot be forgotten. People will argue that Stevie Ray Vaughn’s music was great blues and he never used a harmonica player. Both statements are true to a point and his music is more popular now than when he was alive. The issue is maybe one in 20 of his songs were actually true blues songs as opposed to “blues like” songs. Stevie chose to showcase his guitar playing talents which left little fill room for a harmonica player to sneak in some riffs. The exception is BB King.
A LIFE F THE BLUES
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 22, 2007
Basically it’s survival music. ” The blues came in handy she says in the mid-’50s. In 1949 she had married and moved with her husband Rolf Cahn to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. They met at Wayne State College in Detroit where Cahn was a member of the Communist Party. So Dane says “I went right down and joined too. ” By 1951 both had been expelled from the party over an allegation that Cahn had made a threat of violence.
A sound check along the Memphis-to-Nashville ‘Music Highway’
Los Angeles Times – Jul 22, 2007
It sounded pretty good. I was still humming the song as we headed for our primary Nashville stop — the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum which offers a superb overview of the sound that has often been called the “white man’s blues. The downtown location opened just six years ago and stretches for a city block without losing the down-home charm of the music… When I heard a lonesome train whistle just before midnight I figured it had to be a recording a good-natured tip of the hat to the station’s tradition. But when I looked out my window an actual freight train was moving on down the line. Honky-tonkin’After all the hours in museums we had a craving for some live music. The most famous show in town remains the Grand le pry so we caught a Saturday-night edition at its new home in the massive pryland resort and shopping complex about 20 minutes from downtown. It was pleasant enough watching veterans Porter Wagoner and Little Jimmy Dickens alongside current bestseller Brad Paisley but I kept wishing it were at the Ryman where the history of the room would have made everything feel so much more soulful. Purists note: The pry has returned to the Ryman for a few weeks in the winter. Afterward we headed back to Broadway where the bars and honky-tonks serve as Nashville’s version of Beale Street.