The News Review:
- The Godfather and the King
- This week at the casinos
- San Francisco’s divey blues bars may be dying slowly from the…
- Battles – Calle 13 – Feist – Iron and Wine – Lupe Fiasco – Panda Bear…
- Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic
The Godfather and the King
Augusta Chronicle – Augusta Chronicle (subscription) – Dec 23, 2007
They hired Jack Soden a Kansas City Mo. investment counselor in late 1981 to work toward that goal and Graceland was opened to the public for tours on June 7 1982. thers point out that Graceland was able to attract a large number of tourists immediately with Memphis already being a tourist destination as a blues music center and with Graceland being extremely visible and already known worldwide to Presley fans. However museums to other artists in towns far smaller than Augusta do continue to attract fans of those artists so it is not far fetched that Brown fans would find their way to Brown Land Soul Land or whatever it may be called. It actually originally was called Jaydee Ranch after J. and the first of Brown’s wives to live on the estate Deidre “Dee Dee” Brown.
This week at the casinos
New York Daily News – Dec 23, 2007
At Showboat (1-800-736-1420) Dec. 29: Rufus Wainwright brings his solo tour to the House of Blues’ Music Hall at 8 p. 29: An Eric Clapton retrospective by the Craig Thatcher Band in the Club Harlem Ballroom at 8 p.
San Francisco’s divey blues bars may be dying slowly from the…
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 23, 2007
In the afternoon the double doors are wide open the room dark and narrow and vaguely smoky 10 years after the ban. He’d spread out his papers on the bar top next to the waiter station and was able to concentrate best on his work when the electric guitars and wailing harp and horns were the loudest. “The music and the chatter was the perfect white noise” he says. As it happened his time spent in the bar outlasted his time spent on the book. “It’s surprisingly friendly particularly during the day” he says. “It’s the same faces. ” These faces belong to the kinds of people who are not planning their budgets with private-school tuition in mind… “A musical form that is intended to communicate pain and tragedy actually makes me smile the minute I hear the first note” he says. He has been shooting at the Saloon since 1995 and he’ll probably be there this afternoon with 75 pounds of gear. His favorite band Blues Power featuring Applejack has a standing gig starting at 4 p. The project is open-ended. There is no urgency. His overhead is low.
Battles – Calle 13 – Feist – Iron and Wine – Lupe Fiasco – Panda Bear…
New York Times – Dec 23, 2007
RBERT PLANT AND ALISN KRAUSS: ‘RAISING SAND’ (Rounder). Robert Plant brings blues and rockabilly while Alison Krauss brings high-mountain purity to their album of duets. She taps his Celtic side; he nudges her toward swing and sass… BATTLES: ‘MIRRRED’ (Warp). ne aspect of Battles’ music boils down to numbers; the patterns and propulsion of interlocking lines and odd meters. But that would just be progressive rock revived and renamed math rock. Battles’ 21st-century extrapolation is to trade the high seriousness of prog rock for something more loose-limbed and less controlled — maybe even a little nutty. PANDA BEAR: ‘PERSN PITCH’ (Paw Tracks).
Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic
New York Times – Dec 23, 2007
Both doing something quite different from what they’re known for — Mr. Plant singing quietly and in harmony Ms. Krauss singing blues — these two can make sense of and even melt themselves into the foggy gothic-Americana atmosphere of. BILL MCHENRY: ‘RSES’ (Sunnyside).