The News Review:
- Memphis museum opens doors to rock’s birthplace
- The beat goes on
- Art: ngoing Art
- Playlist – Music – New York Times
- His glass runneth over at Haystack
Memphis museum opens doors to rock’s birthplace
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Jul 15, 2007
And that was the first rockabilly record out of Memphis. ” The museum credits Elvis Presley as a pacesetter but also touches upon a controversy yet to be settled. Did Elvis steal black music or did he merely bring it to broader audiences thereby allowing black musicians to profit with more song royalties and bookings?Sun and Stax Studios The marriage of hillbilly and blues music gave birth to more than Elvis. A recreation of the Sun Studio control room is here with the original control board intact. The engineer usually Sun owner Sam Phillips would often sit in the control room chair monitoring one of a myriad of recording artists. Phillips’s motto was “We Record Anything – Anything – Anywhere – Anytime. ” He meant that literally and Sun was one of the few recording studios in 1950s Memphis to record black artists such as B.
The beat goes on
Boston Globe – Jul 15, 2007
And there he was seated at the bar in a Hawaiian shirt sipping a glass of red wine. Eagle 48 explained that he wasn’t just a Kerouac fan he could quote chapter and verse. It turned out he has devoted his life to the jazz and blues music that provided the back beat for Kerouac and other writers. Eagle founded a music publishing company that borrowed a classic bit of dialogue between Paradise and Moriarty in its mission statement and he quoted the verse:”Sal we’ve got to go and never stop ’til we get there. “”Where are we going to go?”"I don’t know but we can’t stop ’til we get there. “Wondering whether this generation sees politics as “barren” I spotted campaign headquarters for Barack bama across the street and decided to talk with a few volunteers. Brian Van Riper 26 of Pembroke was working the phones in a small cubicle.
Art: ngoing Art
Memphis Magazine – Jul 15, 2007
Front entrance on Huling Memphis (South Main) 238-1543. Hosted by NewVo Blues.
Playlist – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Jul 15, 2007
The great British trad-rock guitarist Richard Thompson sometimes sits in and even when he doesn’t the melodies have a lean Celtic-rooted clarity. It’s no wonder the instrumentals held up on their own. Mem ShannonMem Shannon’s album “Live: A Night at Tipitina’s” (Northern Blues) is just another good club gig in New rleans which is to say it stirs together blues funk and rhythm-and-blues and slips a hardheaded attitude into the grooves. ” And if he’s a little sentimental in “All I Have” his song about debris and memories after Hurricane Katrina well he’s earned it. Tiny VipersJesy Fortino the songwriter who bills herself as Tiny Vipers has a deep ascetic streak… Fortino is no folkie. Her music is deliberately rudimentary yet other sounds creep in behind her lone guitar; in “Forest on Fire” gradually swelling distortion all but swallows her. She’s not telling stories; she’s after incantation and trance. “I dig my way through the dark” she sings and she’s willing to take her time. Bob BrozmanBob Brozman multiplies himself into the Bob Brozman rchestra on “Lumi?” (Riverboat Records). He’s the kind of musician who can apparently pick anything with strings and on this album he distills years of globe-hopping and style study into pan-ethnic pieces that are poised virtuosic and droll.
His glass runneth over at Haystack
MaineToday.com – Jul 15, 2007
To actually get to the man himself and to work with him is quite amazing to me. “The scene at the open-air hot shop reminds one of a loosely organized dance. There’s blues music playing on an iPod and a dozen or so glass blowers scurry among the blazing gas-fired furnaces. Their demeanor appears casual given the fiery hazards of their work. But their work is anything but casual. In fact it’s highly refined and well-orchestrated. At the center of it all is Tagliapietra a stocky grandfatherly figure dressed in a Ralph Lauren T-shirt loose pants and slip-on shoes.