The News Review:
- Pat Patten: Music producer.
- Vieux Farka Toure carries on father’s world-music tradition
- nce Thriving Post ffice Seeks New Life
- Mississippi native brings love of the blues to Janesville Wis.
Pat Patten: Music producer.
Free with registration – Columbus Ledger-Enquirer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 28, 2007
28–The stairs leading up to the Loft Recording Studio in Columbus are long and steep. Upon reaching the top Pat Patten — sporting jeans a black T-shirt and white Nikes — emerges from a dimly lit studio. The 51-year-old jazz and blues music producer has already been there for an hour or so that morning. Inside the studio Patten and affiliates from his record label Jammates Records have been hard at work on their latest project an extended play CD for Columbus-based roots and blues artist Marshall Ruffin. Lately LaGrange Ga. -based Patten has been spending every weekday at the cozy Columbus music laboratory to wrap things up. Typically Patten — a soft-spoken 6-foot-5-inch man sporting a white beard and long braid down his back — devotes eight to 14 hours a day to his craft.
Vieux Farka Toure carries on father’s world-music tradition
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 28, 2007
In its 2002 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” Rolling Stone magazine put Ali Farka Toure at No. 76 ahead of Neil Young Joan Jett the Doors’ Robby Krieger and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. In the West Ali Farka Toure stood out because his music reminded many people of American blues music. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese who profiled Toure for PBS’ 2003 series on the blues went so far as to say that Toure was “the DNA of the blues. ” n Vieux Farka Toure’s album which was released in February blues-like riffs and traditional Malian songs are prominent but Vieux 26 has done something his father never would have: He mixed in reggae on one track and rock ‘n’ roll on another. “The important thing is to always have one foot firmly in tradition and then you can work firmly without that” Vieux Farka Toure says by phone from South Africa where he performed before flying to the United States for a series of concerts. “The fact is I listen on my iPod to a little bit of everything so I carry that into my music.
nce Thriving Post ffice Seeks New Life
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
” ΒΆ”Best post office on earth! Stay open. ” Annette Barbour 48 stopped at the Hawleyville Post ffice on a recent afternoon her preschool nephew in tow to mail two packages flavored coffee and a chocolate walnut cake to her son at college. Blues music from the iPod of a clerk Rich Ruscitto played on the stereo. The other clerk Laura Smolen was finishing a call to a patron who left his keys in the lock of his P.
Mississippi native brings love of the blues to Janesville Wis.
Free with registration – Janesville Gazette – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 28, 2007
(28-CT-07) Janesville Gazette (Janesville WI). 28–JANESVILLE — When James Earl Tate moved here he brought not only his love of the blues music but also the Southern tradition of Blue Mondays. Tate 59 can be foun.