The News Review:
- What’s Happening
- Like a Boyd on a Wire
- The man who cured Gibson’s blues
- Fairfax Community Events Aug. 2-9 2007
- ne jam-packed day of fun
What’s Happening
Washington Post – Aug 2, 2007
SWING AND BLUES MUSIC– Noon Wednesday. Alan resky and Esther Haynes perform. Willow Garden outside the Bethesda Gateway Building 7201 Wisconsin Ave… The Cyd Cassone Band and Siobhan Quinn and. Vic’s Music Corner at ‘Brien’s BBQ 387 E.
Like a Boyd on a Wire
PopMatters – Aug 2, 2007
“It’s very difficult for someone from a working class culture to be nostalgic to look backwards. The black community in America the mass audience of African Americans wanted the latest thing. In the Blues boom of the ‘60s black music with roots in an earlier era was something white people listened to” Boyd said. The same was true for folk. “The whole notion of folk music and an appreciation of things that are more rural and more traditional and more rustic than our lives are now is the privilege of the middle class. ”In Appalachia Doc Watson didn’t play in folk clubs. It wasn’t until he learned about it when he went to New York… He never would of thought of his music or conceived of it as folk music. For him it was just the music of his culture. ” He said that the audience for both folk and blues music at the time came from the same pool of people.
The man who cured Gibson’s blues
guardian.co.uk – Aug 2, 2007
“But we are not really pushing the mid-life crisis agenda. “In recent years the guitar market has been undergoing something of a boom. According to Music Trades Magazine the market in the United States alone has trebled since 1998 from 1. 1m units to a peak of 3. 3m guitars sold in 2005 at a value of more than $1. The US accounts for about 45% of world guitar sales… After riding a guitar boom of the 1970s the company was in steep decline losing 20% of sales a year – a time when the Japanese were entering the market aggressively and the ‘new wave’ preferred keyboards. They paid just $5m for the company. “Management had no absolutely no clue how to run a music business. They were what I call golf club executives – they looked good smiled good but that was pretty basically it. They were making instruments there that no one in the company knew how to play you know. ‘Do you guys think that’s a problem?’” he yells laughing.
Fairfax Community Events Aug. 2-9 2007
Washington Post – Aug 2, 2007
PIEDMNT BLUES HERITAGE NIGHT performers from the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation perform music influenced by ragtime country string bands traveling medicine shows and popular songs of the early 20th century. ssian Hall Park 7900 Heritage Dr.
ne jam-packed day of fun
Southwest Community Connection – Aug 2, 2007
when Southwest Capitol Highway will reopen for traffic. Sip D’ Vine’s wine and beer garden will be open late with live blues music from Rick Welter from 6 to 10 p. Welter an artist who has toured extensively with Charlie Musselwhite and shared the stage with many of the biggest names in blues including B. King Paul Delay Big Walter Horton and Junior Watson.