The News Review:
- The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: Music Lead :: Ian Moore
- Grant Already Making Sweet Music In The SEC
- RIP Hilly Kristal patriarch of punk
- Music Review | Tony Scherr
- ‘Across the Universe’: Turning Beatles songs upside down
- Dave ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards to be honored at Delta Blues & Heritage…
The Cleveland Free Times :: Music :: Music Lead :: Ian Moore
Cleveland Free Times – Sep 12, 2007
"It's the natural evolution of anyone with any artistic drive" says Moore via phone during his last days of vacation before heading back out on the road. "Nothing really moved me away [from the blues] other than touring and growing as a songwriter and a player. If you have any interest in songwriting you're going to eventually move beyond blues music. It depends on what your motivation is. Some people are really fulfilled playing those styles and they're beautiful musics but my attitude is that I love doing it but I don't know that I'm ever going to be able to add anything to it. I'm just retreading things that have been done probably better in the late '60s. You could make the argument that everything we do was done better in the late '60s.
Grant Already Making Sweet Music In The SEC
GamecockAnthem.com – Sep 12, 2007
But he redshirted the season after needing surgery on his right shoulder. It was a frustrating setback for him. And Grant said he didn’t find out he was going to be the Crimson Tide’s starting tailback this season until Saban released the depth chart prior to the first game. Grant has already made an impression especially on Arkansas coach Houston Nutt. “(He’s) a good back that’s very very quick. He’s strong” Nutt said. “We’ve got to do a great job of wrapping him up.
RIP Hilly Kristal patriarch of punk
The Villager – Sep 12, 2007
Two weeks ago Kristal who was 75 died after a battle with lung cancer. Kristal opened CBGB in the early 1970s when the Bowery was still very much “skid row. ” Although he planned to feature country bluegrass and blues music — which is what the club’s acronym stands for — he opened his doors to the neighborhood’s burgeoning new music scene and his club became that scene’s epicenter. A laid-back father figure with a kind and gravelly voice all he asked was that the rockers play original music. No cover charge and cheap beers helped keep the creativity flowing. The rest as they say is history. Bands and performers like Richard Hell Tom Verlaine the Ramones Patti Smith Group Blondie Talking Heads and The B-52’s all honed their sound and their personas at CBGB.
Music Review | Tony Scherr
New York Times – Sep 12, 2007
At first it’s clear how much specific knowledge he has learned from jazz and blues and country-music languages. After that it’s clear how much he has willed himself to forget it. Visually he’s a singer-songwriter in a bar band not a jazz musician. But his trio’s set on Monday night a regular gig at Marion’s Marquee Lounge on the Bowery with the bassist Rob Jost and the drummer Anton Fier included huge amounts of improvisation. Not just flat-out soloing but also improvising with melody lines and with the form of a song.
‘Across the Universe’: Turning Beatles songs upside down
International Herald Tribune – Sep 12, 2007
With the opening of Julie Taymor's new movie “Across the Universe” expect many of those brain cells to be all shook up. Call it a jukebox musical or a rock opera or a long-playing music video. All those labels fit – and don't. Taymor's essentially unclassifiable film which opens on Friday in the United States and in parts of Europe and Asia through the fall and winter puts Beatles' songs in the mouths and sometimes in the heads of newly invented characters just living their lives. A high school girl Lucy awaits her boyfriend's return from basic training and sings “It Won't Be Long. ” Her college student brother Max parties with Jude a new buddy from Liverpool to a rendition of “With a Little Help From My Friends… Where are the protest songs?” She knew from the start that Max would be drafted but she wasn't sure which tune to use. She was leaning toward “Hello Goodbye” when listening to “I Want You” she realized that it echoed the famous Uncle Sam recruitment poster. In recognition of the Beatles' debt to American rhythm and blues she created Jo-Jo the Jimi Hendrix-like guitarist and Sadie the Janis Joplin-like singer. Taymor began with the assumption that she would use 15 or 16 songs. But she kept finding more that fit her characters' emotional states ending up with 31 sung tunes (and two more that appear only in the scoring). “Why bother talking when they can sing it?” she said.
Dave ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards to be honored at Delta Blues & Heritage…
Picayune Item – Sep 12, 2007
“We recorded about three weeks ago” he said. The music is reminiscent of blues of the 1930s ’40s and ’50s. Frank said the album is to be released in November on his Earwig label. It is still in production. The title also revisits Edwards’ early career. “’Roamin’ and Ramblin’ which is what Honeyboy did from ’29 to about 1956” Frank said.