The News Review:
- Deweyville songwriter gets national attention wins awards with his…
- Downtown Happenings For The Week f July 16
- Wolf Empire Book Signing at Howland Cultural Center
- Best of the Blues
- Music Review: Cole Deggs & the Lonesome
- PJ Harvey live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
Deweyville songwriter gets national attention wins awards with his…
Free with registration – Beaumont Enterprise – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 10, 2007
10–DEWEYVILLE — The unsung hurricane-inspired song in Charlie Wallace’s heart probably could have topped the world’s blues music charts. Hurricane Rita in September 20.
Downtown Happenings For The Week f July 16
The Chattanoogan – Jul 10, 2007
The Rhythm & Noon Concert Series continues its FREE lunchtime programs on the Miller Plaza Stage this Friday July 13th with acoustic artist Jerry Fordham from Noon to 1:00 PM. The Rhythm & Noon Series showcases a variety of local and regional artists presenting classical folk jazz choral pop gospel and blues music every Friday through August. The Rhythm & Noon concert series is presented by the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership and is sponsored by Northwest Georgia Bank Chattanooga Coca Cola Bottling Company WTCI TV45 and Sunny 92. Visit DowntownChattanooga.
Wolf Empire Book Signing at Howland Cultural Center
Putnam County News and Recorder – Putnam County News and Recorder… – Jul 10, 2007
The booksigning event will begin at 3pm and extend on into the evening. Barry will also be presenting a video program during the afternoon of his experiences with wolves. Following the book signing and video presentation Chris Ruhe and his Howland Wolves musicians will perform a complimentary program of old jazz and blues music at 7pm. The members of the Howland Wolves are Chris Ruhe vocals and guitar Chris Shann saxophone Allan Paul bass lu Akiwumi-Assani percussions Rafael Figueroa vocals and percussion and the latest performer to join the group Goldee Greene vocals and keyboard. Click ads belowfor larger version.
Best of the Blues
Hindu – Jul 10, 2007
The festival took shape at a small Blues club called The Loft at Royapettah. The club meets on the last Saturday of every month and has a following of Blues lovers young and old. The Loft has a wide range of musicians including studio artistes music teachers church-based musicians musicians from college bands hotel and bar players. The Blues evolved from Negro spirituals and later Jazz evolved from the Blues. The concert takes into account this whole musical progression. The Loft is probably Chennai’s only exclusive Blues and Jazz club. A chunk of the concert will be done by the bands that play at The Loft.
Music Review: Cole Deggs & the Lonesome
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 10, 2007
Meanwhile two other brothers keyboardist Jimmy Wallace and guitarist David Wallace come from Shreveport La. just across the border from where the Deggs’ began playing. The families hooked up after Cole Deggs and Jimmy Wallace met in Nashville but the blues and soul of Louisiana music also seeps into the grooves. At their best — on such colorfully detailed tunes as “Girl Next Door”"Huggin’ This Blacktop” and “The ne That Got Away” — the band tempers aggressive rock dynamics with sweet family harmonies and Nashville-style story songs. They sometimes strain metaphors as in the sad-sack drinking song “Twelve unces Deep. ” But “Cole Deggs & the Lonesome” is remarkably substantial for a debut country album and best of all the group doesn’t sound like anyone else on the country charts. CHECK THIS TRACK UT: “I Got More” shows off Deggs’ soulful believable voice as he boldly confronts a potential lover about how she underestimates him all set to an elliptically catchy arrangement that’s both tender and urgent.
PJ Harvey live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
Times nline – Jul 10, 2007
In a rare solo performance she switched betweenguitar piano drum machine and an array of exotic instruments. Resplendent in a spectacular Southern belle ballgown she also tempered hersignature brand of West Country gothic blues with a smattering of new songsand lush woozy ballads. Harvey a slight figure with a Mona Lisa smile possesses an elusive yetpotent charisma that can fill a cavernous space like the Bridgewater Hallwith ease. She confessed to being terrified several times during theevening and perhaps it was this high-wire intensity that made herperformance so magnetic. Between numbers her comments were nervous andalmost apologetically humble. But her more aggressive songs turned her fromJekyll to Hyde baring her fangs on the feral growl of Man Size and thevengeful Garden of Eden melodrama Snake.