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- Blues on the Bridges festival
- Wayne’s worlds – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Jake Einstein 90; Took Area Radio From Pop to Rock
- Theme cruises range from music to motorcycles
- Gill crosses boundaries with tour 4-disc album
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Blues on the Bridges festival
Capital News 9 – Sep 16, 2007
“The spirit of the music. It tells you a lot about yourself so I kind of like that” said Shawn Nordstrom a Johnson City resident. “Everything comes from the blues in American music. So that permeates all the music that we hear today. We played the Elvis song and Eric Clapton and everything else so it’s a base of foundation of everything that comes from that so that’s the spirit of the blues” said Brian Wahl a Ring of Fire band member. And judging from those happy faces it looks like that spirit caught on.
Wayne’s worlds – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Sep 16, 2007
Hehas every reason to be pleased with life. You may not have heard of Jeff Wayne but he has accumulated aCV as long as your arm working as a producer and musical director. He has toured with and recorded artists including the Who theMoody Blues and David Essex although he has also worked withclassical musicians seeking a contemporary edge. “Some saw me as more classically trained which I am whileothers saw me more as a rock’n'roller” he says. “I was beingtested all the time to do something different. ” Nothing would bequite so different however as his large-scale musical adaptationof H… rson Welles’ 1933 broadcast and a feature film made two yearsago set the story in contemporary US. Wayne who is American butmoved to Britain after college wanted to return it to his adoptedcountry. But he didn’t want to use any music of Wells’ era. “I was trying to write a contemporary piece. I wasn’t trying tobe a rose in the desert. I really did want to communicate with mymusic. The dominant beat is disco.
Jake Einstein 90; Took Area Radio From Pop to Rock
Washington Post – Sep 16, 2007
The station’s rock-and-roll DJs — who included Mr. Einstein’s sons David and Damian as well as Tom Grooms Adele Abrams and Josh Cerphe and Weasel — became known for their shrewd and esoteric musical selections drawn from the station’s 20000-volume record library. They explored the byways of rock blues jazz reggae and even classical music but seldom included tunes from the Top 40. “There were no restrictions” said Jonathan Gilbert who began broadcasting as Weasel on WHFS in 1972. “We would play everything from [experimental composer Karlheinz] Stockhausen to bluegrass — sometimes in the same set. “The station promoted local clubs and concerts and invited musicians to drop by for late-night interviews and impromptu performances. “Jerry Jeff Walker took his whole band to the studio” recalled Joshua Brooks who was part of the Spiritus Cheese trio and later broadcast as Josh.
Theme cruises range from music to motorcycles
chicagotribune.com – Sep 16, 2007
Kitts Barbados and the Virgin Islands he says and adds: “For motorcycle enthusiasts there’s no other way to see an island. We ride the roadways where the buses don’t go. ” Chocolate and culinary cruises are perennial favorites along with the Rusty Wallace NASCAR Caribbean cruise. Music-themed cruises from blues classical and country to jazz and rock ‘n’ roll also are popular. – - – 3 TYPES F SPECIAL CRUISES A primer on theme sailings from cruisecritic. com: Theme cruise: In its purest form a theme cruise is created by a cruise line onboard one of its ships — and all passengers are entitled to participate. nce fairly common on long ocean cruises but now with 2000-plus passengers on most ships and multiple port stops it isn’t always practical to turn an entire ship into a themed cruise.
Gill crosses boundaries with tour 4-disc album
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Sep 16, 2007
Thinking big Gill took the tracks to his record company MCA and instead of making him whittle them down label representatives encouraged him to record even more and add bluegrass to the mix. “I just think that all of that music is inside of me” Gill said. “More than me saying I want to be a pop artist and a blues artist that music is just also inside of me and this is an opportunity for me to let it out. ” In ctober Gill will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with Mel Tillis and Ralph Emery. He said he really isn’t sure what he’ll do come the new year. “I’m scared to make another record” he joked. “I’m scared after this record if I put out a regular record people will say ‘What’s with this guy? He’s cheating us!’ “.
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News Journal – The News Journal – Sep 16, 2007
country’s conscience with a DJ was startling. As for the music the new songs were strong especially his political tunes which he will always excel at as long as there’s a war for him to fight against. “Speaking of politics before playing “Rich Man’s War” he mentioned that he and others need to hold Sen. Barack bama’s recently announced plan to start withdrawing troops from Iraq immediately. “Not in six months not in a year but now” Earle said… Some of them required some acting. “Steve Earle’s setlist: Rex’s Blues Tom Ame’s Prayer Transcendental Blues Copperhead Road Tennessee Blues Satellite Radio xycontin Blues Down Here Below City of Immigrants Days Aren’t Long Enough Steve’s Hammer and Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waites).