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- The White Stripes | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
- Music Review | Arlo Guthrie
- Making sweet music the smarter way
- Loud Music Will Make All f Us Deaf By 2016
- Blues Groups Give ‘Solid’ Performance
- Jackson’s Trumpet Records added to Mississippi Blues Trail.(Strict…
- Focus on my music not my hair: Joss Stone
The White Stripes | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
MTV.com – Nov 26, 2007
getRhapRssFeed(610526 “artist” getRhapTracksRSS); Full BiographyDetroit minimalist rock duo (specifically southwest Detroit minimalist rock duo) the White Stripes — Jack White guitar and vocals Meg White drums — formed in 1997 (Bastille Day to be precise) with the idea of making simple rock & roll music. From the red-and-white peppermint candy motif of their debut singles self-titled album and stage show to their on-the-surface rudimentary style they succeeded wildly and immediately with that mission. Their first recordings were a mix of garage rock blues and the occasional show tune. In frontman Jack (a former drummer for Detroit country outfit Goober & the Peas) the White Stripes have a formidable songwriter guitar player and vocalist capable of both morphing between styles and changing the musical styles themselves; ranging from the folk blues of Blind Willie McTell to soaring. In drummer Meg the White Stripes have a minimalist percussionist who seems to sense intuitively exactly when to not play. The White Stripes are grounded in punk and blues but the undercurrent to all of their work has been the aforementioned striving for simplicity a love of American folk music and a careful approach to intriguing emotional and evocative lyrics not found anywhere else in the modern punk or garage rock (or among postmodern “blues” practitioners such as Jon Spencer for that matter).
Music Review | Arlo Guthrie
New York Times – Nov 26, 2007
That isn’t to say they’re unattractive. James Infirmary” a blues standard Mr. Burton added trumpet and clarinet lines that evoke albeit at a distance the jazzy spirit of the… He also supplied a lovely string score with a singing oboe line for Mr. Guthrie’s ruminative “Epilogue” and a lush backing for Mr. Guthrie’s account of “You Are the Song” a sentimental piece with music by. Guthrie has never been anyone’s idea of a virtuoso singer and the Chaplin song as well as a cover of the old.
Making sweet music the smarter way
Toronto Star – Nov 26, 2007
Since graduating from the University of Toronto last year Dinah Thorpe 25 has been rediscovering a passion for music latent since high school. The singer-songwriter whose focus has been acoustic folk finds dance music to be a growing preoccupation. A decade after the disbanding of his trio the Bel-Vistas Mark Toejicick 50 who goes by the stage name Mark Ripp is still making a mishmash of roots blues and rock in his basement studio. Anthony Richards 25 has his own clothing line: Tony Rich. Designer entrepreneur and producer Richards knows how to lay down beats. The trick is making sure other people hear them while maintaining control of his product. If these three students in Centennial College’s recording arts program have anything in common it’s their unwillingness to mimic music that’s already on the market and their desire to remain in control of their creations… If the popularity of TV shows such as Canadian Idol is fuelling dreams of overnight stardom this program’s emphasis is on long-term skills people in the industry need on and offstage says program supervisor Seán Savage. A producer and engineer himself Savage has worked with many top artists including the Black Eyed Peas and Madonna. Next term Centennial is adding a course on the business of music which will teach students about subjects that don’t make good TV: contracts finding material signing artists and making a demo tape. "The good thing for me and for (the students) is it’s night school" says Savage. "I wanted to keep the price down so this costs $3000 rather than $30000 (the cost of some private recording schools). "The program may be geared to recording production work but the information is invaluable to performers as well says Thorpe who sings and plays guitar. She began performing with her sister at high school coffee houses and is using the program to take her artistry to the next level.
Loud Music Will Make All f Us Deaf By 2016
Mmegi – Nov 26, 2007
They created Motown Diana Ross The Temptations Michael Jackson to create an alternative sound for the ‘discos nightclubs motor vehicles and social functions. Needless to say James Brown Wilson Picket and Tiny Tim had already been at it for years. Motown expounded on that and it has now become a dominant – rather than a minority niche – in the popular music of the United States and the world filtering out into Rhythmn and Blues or R&B Rap and other idioms that were nurtured under the difficult environs of inner city America. North America is a very big and populous place with a market large enough to support most works of excellence and junk. Perhaps because Botswana is comparatively such a small market the artists are vulnerable to the temptation to borrow from the junk end of American music – and even African music in some instances – to capture the tiny and gullible clientele that visits the stadia nightclubs and so-called festivals where noise-making is the order of the day. Hopefully when the ‘juke box’ generation passes another shall be born that will tune its ear to the plentiful acoustic semi-acoustic and other varieties of cultured music.
Blues Groups Give ‘Solid’ Performance
UConn Daily Campus – UConn Daily Campus (subscription) – Nov 26, 2007
Happy music makes you feel happy. This is pretty intuitive and surprises no one. But surprisingly sad music can make you feel happy too. It takes a special kind of spirit to do this but the audience at Jorgensen on Nov. 16 had that type of spirit. “Solid Blues” was a group effort combining newcomers to the blues scene with established greats and achieving a result considerably greater than the sum of its parts. The night which was a dinner cabaret in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts featured four stellar acts: New rleans boogie pianist Joe Krown the young and edgy North Mississippi All-Stars “the world’s greatest living blues harmonica player” Charlie Musselwhite and legendary soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples… It takes a special kind of spirit to do this but the audience at Jorgensen on Nov. 16 had that type of spirit. “Solid Blues” was a group effort combining newcomers to the blues scene with established greats and achieving a result considerably greater than the sum of its parts. The night which was a dinner cabaret in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts featured four stellar acts: New rleans boogie pianist Joe Krown the young and edgy North Mississippi All-Stars “the world’s greatest living blues harmonica player” Charlie Musselwhite and legendary soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples. As the lights went down Joe Krown came out to start the show. “My name is Joe Krown” he said “And I am from New rleans.
Jackson’s Trumpet Records added to Mississippi Blues Trail.(Strict…
Free with registration – Mississippi Business Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 26, 2007
Jackson’s Trumpet Records added to Mississippi Blues Trail. (26-NV-07) Mississippi Business Journal.
Focus on my music not my hair: Joss Stone
Earthtimes – Nov 26, 2007
The 20-year-old blues singer-songwriter said she dyes her hair herself and wants the media to stop paying attention to it and focus on her music contactmusic. She said ‘The reason I keep changing the colour is to make the point that I sound the same whether I’m blonde or purple or blue. I sound the same whether I’m fat or thin or tall or short. It’s funny it made people really angry when I changed my hair colour.