The News Review:
- Sunday Calendar
- Sunday ‘” December 30
- New Year’s Eve events | The Guide | PE.com | Southern California…
- In ‘Telephone Ringing’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words
- Guitar Zack looks to rock on bigger stage – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Top pop music events of 2007
Sunday Calendar
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) – Dec 30, 2007
SaturdayBenefit Concert: Singer-songwriter David wens and friends will celebrate the completion of wens’ upcoming CD ” ‘Delapo’ Luxury” in a benefit concert of contemporary folk country and blues music to support Charleston area after-school programs. pening for wens will be Ted McKee. Sponsored by the Unitarian Church. $10 adults $5 students.
Sunday ‘” December 30
NEWS.com.au – Dec 30, 2007
30 Para Pinoy Program. 9 Rhythm and Blues. Midnight Music Throughout The Night. 1 – 1am Fusion… Midnight Midnight Music vernight. RADI ADELAIDE: 101.
New Year’s Eve events | The Guide | PE.com | Southern California…
Press-Enterprise – Dec 30, 2007
Monday Wiens Family Cellars 35055 Via Del Ponte Temecula $160 888-989-4367. GLEN IVY RV PARK LDGE RESTAURANT NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY featuring live music by the Blues Crackers 9 p. Monday 24601 Glen Ivy Road Corona 951-277-2725.
In ‘Telephone Ringing’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 30, 2007
Still those looking for powerful declaratives ought to stick with her early work. r keep reading as “Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth” her latest volume seems to suggest she is bringing us full circle. Here Rich returns to the musical influences that encouraged her to start writing poetry at a very young age: music blues refrains improvisations and the sound of birdsong. Rich pays tribute to the word’s mysterious power in their terms: If the word gets out if the wordescapes if the wordflies if it diesit has its way of coming back The handwritings on the wallsare vast and coded the music blizzards past It’s very difficult to describe this kind of work. What makes it so good is the way Rich has refracted language to the point of elemental gesture. Just when the poem lures you into thinking it has a meaning or a narrative – aha an earnest reader thinks it’s a poem about escape! – Rich switches tacks and dives back into language’s occult music. Readers of Rich’s recent work will recognize some other familiar elements in “Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth.
Guitar Zack looks to rock on bigger stage – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Tribune Review – Dec 30, 2007
I had a little record player and I was learning Chet Atkins licks James Bond stuff. He had brushes with celebrity but was unfazed. After hearing him at the King of the Blues competition a VH-1 representative invited him to a “Save the Music” event where actors and musicians were scheduled to attend. Wiesinger forgot to go; he spent the evening working on his own projects. Another time Vai introduced him to John Frusciante the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “I didn’t even know who he was” Wiesinger says. “I feel bad about it.
Top pop music events of 2007
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 30, 2007
Top pop music events of 2007PKHIGH: Prince at the Super Bowl. LW: Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards. MVP: Alison Krauss TP PP “Killing the Blues” from “Raising Sand” by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. The duets album is probably the best.