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- Hard Candye
- Marty Stuart’s Pack Rat Habit Pays ff
- Globe South listings
- ld Time Fair coming together
- John Hammond live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
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Hard Candye
Now Toronto – Jul 12, 2007
You’d think anyone familiar with the music of Bessie Smith Big Mama Thornton or even Dinah Washington would appreciate that Candye Kane’s boisterously bawdy side is precisely what connects her to the long line of badass blues women of the past. But apparently many are not amused by Candye Kane classics like the heavily downloaded Masturbation Blues. utside of her San Diego home base (where Kane’s snagged the best-blues- band hardware at the San Diego Music Awards seven times) the singer gets no props from many of the self-styled keepers of the blues tradition. The Blues Foundation has never presented her with a W. “I’ve actually never even been nominated for a Blues Foundation award not once” clarifies Kane before a show in Idaho “And that’s after touring for 15 years and releasing eight albums while artists like Javina Magness and Ana Popovic have put out one or maybe two records and won awards.
Marty Stuart’s Pack Rat Habit Pays ff
Washington Post – Jul 12, 2007
“At 48 Stuart is no longer the young rebel out to shake up Nashville or the country hitmaker of the early ’90s (“Hillbilly Rock” “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’”) though he still has that pile of spiky hair like a rooster caught in the rain. He’s been on a creative roll recently releasing four albums and a book of photography since 2005. His records touch on gospel bluegrass blues rockabilly even Native American music. His latest “Compadres” is an anthology of duets with the likes of Cash B. King Merle Haggard the Staple Singers Loretta Lynn and Steve Earle. As he browsed the exhibit one afternoon he’d latch onto an artifact and launch into another story.
Globe South listings
Boston Globe – Jul 12, 2007
Cedarville: The British Beer Company 2294 State Road. Live music Thursday-Saturday.
ld Time Fair coming together
West Linn Tidings – Jul 12, 2007
on Friday with a flag ceremony and sky divers followed by the queen coronation ceremony. The ceremony will include remarks from Jorgenson and Mayor Norm King and entertainment by the Maralee Dancers leading into a night of dancing to a DJ at the main stage and blues music from J. Sims in the beer garden. Saturday starts bright and early with a 6:30 a.
John Hammond live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
Times nline – Jul 12, 2007
Eyesrolling veins bulging he took off at the Jazz Café with a Little Waltersong Just Your Fool as if he had a whole pack of hellhounds on his trail. With hismane of silver hair he now looks like a leaner craggier version of BillClinton while his haunted howl of a voice is deeply etched with thecontours of experience. But despite the long history Hammond is still on a learning curve. His newalbum Push Comes to Shove released this week was produced by thePhiladelphia hip hop-bluesman G Love and features five of Hammond’scompositions. He has only recently taken up songwriting and he announcednumbers such as Eyes Behind Your Head and You Know That’s Coldwith a mixture of pride and mild incredulity.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Washington Post – Jul 12, 2007
A party with music by the Big Blues Band hosted by the Tau Pi Chapter of the mega Psi Phi Fraternity; lunch available for a donation. Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way Columbia. Free; reservations required. PHILANTHRPY MIXER– 5:30-7 p.