The News Review:
- Vancouver Island Music Festival Courtenay Exhibition Grounds
- The Cash Box Kings talk blues and beer
- Ex-adman pushes to put Pittsburgh blues on the map
- Shore fun for 7/6/07
- Think funk – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Journal-News: Dayton hio news and information
Vancouver Island Music Festival Courtenay Exhibition Grounds
Canada.com – Jul 6, 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 bedridden 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.
The Cash Box Kings talk blues and beer
Isthmus – Jul 6, 2007
We?ve been playing there about once a month ever since. This past February we were fortunate to be given a headlining show there on a Friday night and we also played a big showcase event there during the Chicago Blues Fest last month. As a bunch of young guys playing old (and sometimes obscure) blues music do you ever feel like you don’t get respect from older bluesmen? Boeger: No. In fact when we play places like Buddy’s or when we have been able to play with some of these older guys they are happy to hear blues being played this way. Nosek: Actually all of the older blues musicians we’ve played with have been very supportive of what we’re doing. We’ve been backing up some of the legendary older blues musicians like Hubert Sumlin Billy Boy Arnold Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Lurrie Bell and they’ve really embraced us and treated us like peers. Buddy Guy usually checks us out whenever we play his club and he always has really kind and encouraging things to say to us.
Ex-adman pushes to put Pittsburgh blues on the map
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 6, 2007
And he is indeed making a documentary film about the Pittsburgh blues scene. For years local musicians fans young people on their way out of the city and just about anybody with a microphone have been telling us that the Pittsburgh music scene isn’t worth the parchment it’s written on. But Pittsburgh blues bands do seem to be different. Like the music they play the bands seem to survive if not always thrive. They’re pushed by musicians who don’t seem to be looking for a big break or big crowds but who just love the music and want to express themselves in bent notes and blue feelings. The South Side resident who jumped into Pittsburgh and its blues scene with both feet and with both hands firmly on one of the many treasured guitars he owns seems to sense that. “I was completely blown away by what I found” Underwood says.
Shore fun for 7/6/07
phillyBurbs.com – Jul 6, 2007
comJuly brings fun food and festivals to the shore. Special events include Surrealism in the form of Salvador Dal plenty of music and theater performances for the whole family and celebrations of some of the finest foods the area has to offer. Wine and music lovers will enjoy Red Wine and Blues at the Tuckerton Seaport Route 9 in Tuckerton on July 14 from 3 to 8 p. It’s a late afternoon wine tasting with food crafts and blues music against the beautiful backdrop of the seaport. Crafters musicians and food vendors will also be on hand. Admission is $20 per person and includes a souvenir glass and wine tastings; (609) 296-8868.
Think funk – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Jul 6, 2007
“Instead of just putting pen on paper and sitting at the pianotrying to work out what that’s going to be you can just sing mostof the stuff” he says. And it’s his singing that has taken him around the world. Percival who likens his vocal work to mimicking toured with JamesMorrison for seven years including a performance for PresidentBill Clinton studied with Bobby McFerrin of Don’t Worry BeHappy fame and also supported Russell Crowe on his 2006 tourincluding a gig at LA’s House of Blues. So what was it like opening for Rusty? “I’ve never been heckledmore ferociously I don’t think” he laughs. “There were lots ofhousewives and young ladies who were very keen to see Russell andnot me. Mr Percival performs at Bennetts Lane tonight and conducts aworkshop there tomorrow from 1pm-3pm. ut of the Loop is outthrough Vitamin Records.
Journal-News: Dayton hio news and information
Hamilton Journal News – Hamilton Journal News (subscription) – Jul 6, 2007
Trenton (513) 988-2549. WILD BILL’S NEW AMERICAN GRILL: Blues music 9 p. to midnight Fridays; Them Bones with II Juicy & Ceryl Renee July 13; Taylor Farley & Blue Rock July 20.