The News Review:
- Raining Blues Awards
- Fairfax Community Events July 5-12 2007
- Mississippi pickles pack a punch
- Blues bluegrass reggae and more
- Blues legend lets music do the talking
Raining Blues Awards
Pique newsmagazine – Jul 5, 2007
Raining Blues Awards Watermelon Slim and the Workers may have only been making blues music for a little over a year but already the four-member bona fide blues group has earned six Blues Music Association nominations including Band of the Year and Album of the Year. Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homas roots his music in the Mississippi Delta Blues and he is coming to Whistler Friday July 6 to perform at the Garibaldi Lift Company. Advance $12 tickets are available at the GLC.
Fairfax Community Events July 5-12 2007
Washington Post – Jul 5, 2007
Kingstowne Towne Center 5955 Kingstowne Blvd. VIENNA FAMILY SKATE NIGHT indoors bring roller skates or in-line skates and safety equipment.
Mississippi pickles pack a punch
USA Today – Jul 5, 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.
Blues bluegrass reggae and more
Canada.com – Jul 5, 2007
“This is his first Canadian performance and nobody knows him. “Watermelon Slim is another superstar flying somewhat under the radar here. He was nominated for six 2007 Blues Music Awards for artist entertainer album band song and traditional album of the year and is “the only guy besides B. King Buddy Guy and Robert Cray to do that. “Slim was raised in North Carolina listening to blues sung by the family maid. He dropped out of college to enlist for the Vietnam War and while bed-ridden there he taught himself to play a slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a coffee can lid as a pick and his Zippo lighter as the slide.
Blues legend lets music do the talking
Canada.com – Jul 5, 2007
inc–>Blues legend lets music do the talkingLynn SaxbergThe ttawa CitizenPublished: Thursday July 05 2007Van Morrison showed little of his curmudgeonly streak as he breezed through a crowd-pleasing set on opening night of the ttawa Bluesfest. It was a glorious christening for the spacious new site on the grounds of the Canadian War Museum at LeBreton Flats. The audience spanned acres from the hordes of lawnchairs packed tightly together in front of the sound board all the way back to open grassy patches where hippie moms danced with their children. Though he said few words to the audience and kept his eyes closed through most of his performance which are often two signs of a shy performer Morrison expressed himself through his music the song selection letting us know he was pleased to be back in the nation’s capital after something like 40 years.