I have the Blues
The News Review:
- I have the Blues
- She’s a black country singer so what?
- Tinariwen find meaning in the desert ‘blues’
- Music Review | Andy Bey
- Coodabeens Music Playlist 27th ctober
- The Next Great American Band: Episode 2
- Welcome to the Daily Dispatch
I have the Blues
Hindu – Oct 27, 2007
We’re not rich. But we’re rich musically. ” Sitting in a dimly lit Blues club appropriately called Haze Rudy of Soulmate describes his musical passions. Hailing from Shillong Soulmate is Blues-guitar player songwriter and singer Rudy vocalist Tipriti bass guitarist Ferdy and drummer Sam. This six-year-old group is often touted as the best Blues group of the country. Their first album “Shillong” did very well and now they are working on the second album. Some 15 songs have been readied for it.
She’s a black country singer so what?
Toronto Star – Oct 27, 2007
Getting some respect as a legitimate artist with a solid commitment to and grounding in country music is an old and apparently unending battle for the 26-year-old Pittsburgh-born and St. Louis-raised singer-songwriter whose self-titled debut CD hits the racks this week thanks to a deal with a feisty independent Nashville-based label whose bosses know they’re playing against a stacked deck. "Country music is something I grew up with" Palmer said in a phone interview from Chicago a couple of days before she was scheduled to do a televised performance on the Grand le pry in Nashville the epicentre of the country music universe. "My father and mother came from Georgia and they listened to a lot of country music when I was young. In fact Patsy Cline is probably my greatest influence along with Dolly Parton and Vince Gill. "Palmer who turned down a lucrative offer from a major pop label in 2000 to abandon her country ways for R&B and hip-hop understands she has chosen a particularly tough row to hoe given the demographics of the country music-buying audience (85 per cent white 60 per cent female according to Billboard) and traditional resistance to blacks in the country music field. "It’s not as if I’m the first black person to do this… "His face didn’t even appear on his first album cover" added Leblanc. Country music isn’t inherently racist he pointed out. Though descended from Scottish and Irish folk forms American hillbilly music absorbed the structural melodic and rhythmic influences of black "slave" music ? rudimentary blues and gospel ? long before it became a marketable commodity. Economic and geographical circumstances brought them together. Even so nary an eyebrow is raised when a white dude sings the blues but a black singer doing country songs.
Tinariwen find meaning in the desert ‘blues’
Aspen Times – Oct 27, 2007
1 at the Wheeler pera House in the Festival of the Desert concert that also features Vieux Farka Touré son of the late Ali Farka Touré. Following are excerpts from an e-mail Q&A with Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni a singer and guitarist with the band. Q: Your music is so much about the words the condition of the Touareg. Is it a concern that audiences won’t understand the songs?A: All good music – Dylan Bob Marley the Beatles – can work on different levels. There’s the purely abstract musical level which can cross any boundary. In the ’80s we all used to listen to Marley and Dylan without understanding a single word of what they were saying. But this didn’t mean the music was worthless to us… In the ’80s we all used to listen to Marley and Dylan without understanding a single word of what they were saying. But this didn’t mean the music was worthless to us. The same is true of our music now. If it only creates curiosity this is a valuable first step. It gives people a reason and desire to find out more. We realize we have to put a lot of effort into trying to explain what our songs are saying. All the lyrics are translated on the last two CDs.
Music Review | Andy Bey
New York Times – Oct 27, 2007
So the songs from the new album are also songs from an old gig when fewer people were clamoring to make requests. Bey was just beginning to receive his due a decade ago after the sleeper success of a marvelous album called “Ballads Blues & Bey. ” Now rightly understood as one of the great jazz singers of our time he was then emerging from a long obscurity and embarking on a bright new era. He hasn’t changed much as he illustrated on Thursday by performing the first four tracks of “Ain’t Necessarily So” in sequence. His voice is still an extraordinary instrument capable of foggy depths penetrating highs and a sort of mezzo-falsetto that stretches his supple baritone into the alto range. He has an equally broad command of timbre and gives himself a lot of space to work with often slowing tempos to a crawl… ” Performing unaccompanied he took his time phrasing in the fluctuating cadence of an internal monologue. Perhaps it wasn’t on the set list but the song felt just right: a dose of naked vulnerability that doubled as a triumph. Andy Bey performs a free lunchtime concert on Tuesday at J&R Music World 23 Park Row across from City Hall Park Lower Manhattan; (212) 238-9000 jr.
Coodabeens Music Playlist 27th ctober
abc.net.au – Oct 27, 2007
Spinning in the track Walking and Whistling Blues it wasn’t long before listeners were puckering up and sharing their skills with the boys on air. Richo Covey and Bax are now fearful of Champs turning up next week with a mouth trumpet disc! Billy had another trumpet to offer however as he spun in the following discs:Dog Trumpet – Made f WoodBrothers Peter and Chris ‘Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa) formed Dog Trumpet after their exit from Mental As Anything and have released several CDs of wistful playful and catchy original tunes. This is from the 1991 release Two Heads ne Brain and features Pete on lead vocal. Brenton Wood – Gimme Little SignA perfect slice of soul pop from 1967 Woods double-tracked vocal and the out of the blue organ break mid-song has seen the track endure in the intervening years. In the same year he released another hit – the ogum Boogum song – and Wood continues to tour on the strength of the affection held for both his Top 10 hits.
The Next Great American Band: Episode 2
TV Squad – Oct 27, 2007
With such diversity and so many bands who excel in their own genre I’ll have to stick around to who wins in the end. I suppose I should make a bit of a disclaimer before I get into the performances and the bands. Y’see I’m kind of old school when it comes to my music. Now I’m not a total Bob Dylan purist but I started collecting his works on vinyl. I realize that I’m probably not typical of many who will be voting for bands on the show even though I’m planning on watching it each week. I watched last week and was a bit disappointed in the manner in which they presented the auditions. I felt much better about the way they presented the bands tonight… are you ready to rock?Denver and the Mile High rchestrakay we’re talking a big band. Are big bands always necessarily swing bands? I don’t think it’s dictated that the must be swing especially if they’re doing a blues song. They could have had such potential to offer a solid blues cover of Dylan’s “Freight Train Blues” but instead turned it into a jitterbug or something. Why oh why?They’re good in their genre though. Their original song “ne Time Show” fit their talents perfectly. Unlike Dicko I actually liked the red “clown” suit on the front man. I can see this band doing well in smaller venues in Vegas or something.
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Dispatch nline – Oct 27, 2007
The song that so many couples view as their special love song was actually written in “anger and frustration” Clapton writes in his new autobiography. The woman he was addressing was Pattie Boyd ex-wife of George Harrison. As music buffs know she was the inspiration of two other classic songs: Something Harrison’s lilting tribute to her and Layla Clapton’s anguished howl from the time when he was secretly in love with his good friend’s wife. In the final verse of Wonderful Tonight though the singer has his wife drive him home from a party and put him to bed. And that seems to be inspired by an even more important thread that runs through Clapton: His debilitating years of addiction first with heroin then with alcohol. While he did play high for many years he can’t even remember playing the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 he also was such a mess that he spent a couple of years in the 70s just hiding at home watching TV and shooting up heroin. The first part of the book is splendid and Clapton shows a keen eye for detail… The first part of the book is splendid and Clapton shows a keen eye for detail. Born illegitimate in 1945 he was abandoned by his biological mother and raised by his grandparents whom he thought were his parents in post-war poverty. He taught himself guitar at 14 listening first to rockabilly then to the blues greats particularly Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson. f his first electric guitar he explains it was “a double-cutaway semi-acoustic. cut away on both sides of the neck to allow easy access up the neck to the higher frets.
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