The News Review:
- Radio review
- Student chooses music over school
- Liars Cat Power – Music – Review – New York Times
- Music Review: Paisley makes his show a happy homecoming
- THE LEBLANC NEWSLETTER ISSUE #3 (SEPT. 17 2007)
- From Moog To Mac – Electronic Music by Herbert Deutsch
- Gordo Live
Radio review
Stage – Sep 17, 2007
However that didn’t stop Coward envying Novello’s effortless production of romantic ballads. Apparently the sweet but sentimental I’ll See You Again was one of his proudest achievements. Julian Clary master of the double entendre was a good choice to present King Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women an amusing look at the sexually implicit blues music of the late twenties and thirties. Black artists like Alberta Hunter and Bessie Smith were leading exponents of this popular musical genre probably best exemplified by the title Drill Drill Drill Daddy which Clary decided was the rudest of them all. The songs frequently made culinary references to jelly roll cracking nuts pans boiling over and the like. Clary was intrigued by the provenance of one title Does Anyone Here Want To Try My Cabbage which put even his wild imagination to the test. If you’re over 50 and you like music the chances are you will have come across The Swingle Singers who were the guests of Aled Jones on The Choir.
Student chooses music over school
Towerlight – Sep 17, 2007
And of course I got the ‘why are you dropping out of school you need to go back to school’ reaction” he said. “I still get that now and it probably won’t end any time soon. But with the support of his family friends and fellow musicians Minissale is pursuing a love of music specifically blues and folk that seems to have been engrained in him since he was young. A guitar and harmonica player since age 14 Minissale grew up listening to blues and folk musicians including Bob Dylan who he lists as one of his main inspirations. “I’ve been singing Bob Dylan songs since I was little. I think my first words were probably from a Bob Dylan song because I’ve always listened to it” he said. Now Minissale continues his career with a schedule busy enough to match any students’ back at Towson.
Liars Cat Power – Music – Review – New York Times
New York Times – Sep 17, 2007
Interpol stays determinedly glum and portentous. It’s easy to understand why the narrator has so much trouble holding on to a lover. Luckily Interpol’s music has pop instincts. Drones give way to melodic choruses crescendos surge and new material often appears well into a song. ” The band started its set playing behind a scrim with oversize shadows projected on white fabric and then had brief technical trouble getting the scrim removed. But even with the fabric out of the way Interpol stayed remote: better at displaying formal elegance than showing much heart… ” Chan Marshall who performs as Cat Power sang a skittish set. Her current band leans toward bluesy 1960’s rock and she led it mostly in radically shifted covers like a version of “New York New York” that turned it into a minor-key blues and an upbeat.
Music Review: Paisley makes his show a happy homecoming
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Sep 17, 2007
“Whiskey Lullaby” offered gravity and the sonorous vocal contributions of Alison Krauss — even if only in a pre-taped video. Finally “Ticks” and “Alcohol” represented Paisley at his witty best. Paisley and his six-piece band zipped through “Gonna Miss Her” and reveled in the Johnny Cash classic “Folsom Prison Blues” as an encore. Seventeen-year-old opener Taylor Swift enjoyed a homecoming-of-sorts too the Reading native stating her pleasure at returning to her home state. She played many of the same songs as when she opened for George Strait at Mellon Arena in February but added two new touches. She adventurously opened with a snippet of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and also included a sing-songy new original song “Permanent Marker. ” Her hits “Should’ve Said No” and “Tim McGraw” inspired long ovations afterward which clearly moved and energized the poised young singer-songwriter.
THE LEBLANC NEWSLETTER ISSUE #3 (SEPT. 17 2007)
eJazzNews – Sep 17, 2007
The same day Young releases "Chrome Dreams II" followed by an 8-week North American tour which sees him returning to Massey Hall in Toronto Nov 26-27. Distributed by Universal Music in Canada ?Borrowed Tunes Two? features Canadian artists performing their favourite Neil Young song. Selected tracks will be featured on Sirius Canada?s Iceberg channel 95. The first ?Borrowed Tunes? was a two-CD 36-track album in 1994 co-produced by Roth and Gary Furniss. It raised over $200000 for charity and included such Canadian acts as Jann Arden the Waltons Colin Linden Crash Vegas Junkhouse Randy Bachman and Art Bergman… The Modern label was formed in 1945 in Los Angeles by Saul and Jules Bihari. The label recorded R&B country & western jazz popular blues and gospel. The subsidiary label RPM was formed in 1950 and released blues jazz R&B and rock & roll. King Roscoe Gordon Elmore James Lightnin’ Hopkins Jimmy Witherspoon and John Lee Hooker; and in the rock & roll field with the vocal groups the Cadets Marvin and Johnny the Jacks and the Teen Queens and such singers as Jesse Belvin Etta James Richard Berry and Shirley Gunter. Anka convinced his uncle to drive him to Modern.
From Moog To Mac – Electronic Music by Herbert Deutsch
Synthtopia – Sep 17, 2007
It’s worth the price just to hear this excerpt. Bob’s personality shows thru in this fascinating piece. Jazz Images A Worksong and Blues – The first piece of music composed on a Moog!Prologue To King Richard III – 1971 piece for Minimoog trumpet and voice. A Little Night Music The Ithaca Journal Aug 6 1965 – Headlines Comics News Articles and Moog. From the historic 1965 Moog Music Workshop in Trumansburg NY. Longing – For Piano and Theremin. Circling (But You Did Not Know) – For Piano and Theremin.
Gordo Live
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Sep 17, 2007
Louis for a couple of weeks now that the Springfield Cardinals are out of the playoffs?Jeff Gordon: At this point with the team in descent it’s better to get him ready for fall ball. That is his next step in development. Tom: Jeff I was wondering why do the Blues keep tweaking the game music for? Last month they put a poll on their site asking fans to vote for a goal song. the choice was between the traditional Blues go Marching in and some horrible rock song everyone hated. Why doesn’t new ownership understand Blues tradition it seems?ThanksTomJeff Gordon: The owners respect tradition but they are also trying to create new excitement and fill the building again. They are looking at every aspect of the event presenation.