The News Review:
- Latvia’s folk festival takes on a global look
- Paul McCartney: Ram : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- The Billboard Q&A: Charlie Daniels
Latvia’s folk festival takes on a global look
Baltic Times – Oct 24, 2007
The feature film entitled ?As ld as My Tongue? tells the amazing life story of Bi Kidude a native of Zanzibar who has rubbed shoulders with Sultans Presidents and Kings. Now 93 years old Kidude still spends her time out on the town drinking smoking and flirting with boys. ther films at the festival include a documentary about the origins of Portuguese blues music a film that highlights the hauntingly beautiful music of Sufi Muslims and a movie that delves into the varied musical traditions of Vietnam. The festival is scheduled to run from Nov. 7 – 10 with most of the shows to be held at Riga?s Liela Gilde (Great Guild). Some events will also be held at the Music Academy Andrejsala?s Pulkvedis and the gre Cultural Center. Porta Music Festival Nov.
Paul McCartney: Ram : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Oct 24, 2007
For myself I hear two good things on this record: “Eat At Home” a pleasant if minor evocation of the music of Buddy Holly (with some very nice updating) and “Sitting in the Back Seat of My Car” the album’s production number. The album’s genre music–blues and old rock–is unbearably inept. n “Three Legs” they do strange and pointless things to the sound of the voice to liven it up; it doesn’t work. “Smile Away” is sung with that exaggerated voice he used for the rock & roll medley in Let It Be: it is unpleasant. And “Monkberry Moon Delight” is the bore to end all bores: Paul repeats a riff for five and a half minutes to no apparent purpose. The lowest point on the album and the one that most clearly indicates its failures is “Heart of the Country.
The Billboard Q&A: Charlie Daniels
Billboard – Oct 24, 2007
I’m not as concerned about that but I think as time goes along I think probably we will see a big change in that direction. Some people including Wyclef Jean credit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” with being one of the pioneering rap songs. Do you think of it that way? That goes way back to an old form of music called “talking blues” that had been around forever. Instead of singing the lyrics people talk them. I’ve been hearing it all my life. There was a guy Robert Lunn on the Grand le pry that used to do that. He would be using some comedy sort of thing something he’d sing and there was a little punch line involved.