The News Review:
- Watermelon Slim is klahoma’s own blues legend
- BRIEFLY.(Entertainment)(Music SIDESHW)
- Music Box: Best concert album and song of 2007: Wilco
- Fate brought Miss. guitarist back to blues
Watermelon Slim is klahoma’s own blues legend
Tulsa World (subscription) – Dec 28, 2007
1Blues CD of 2007 by Mojo magazine. His newest album ?TheWheel Man? is so popular it?shard to find online or in stores. This year he also earned anear-record six 2007 Blues MusicAward nominations from theBlues Foundation including bandand album of the year nods. In fact Paste magazine recentlysaid ?Seeing his pictureyou might think you?re lookingat Tom Waits tricked out for theGrand l? pry. But nope that?sWatermelon Slim.
BRIEFLY.(Entertainment)(Music SIDESHW)
Free with registration – Register-Guard – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 28, 2007
(Entertainment)(Music SIDESHW) Byline: The Register-Guard Insomniacs are going places so see them now Now that the Portland good times blues band has been nominated for one of the top prizes in its genre band members have even more reasons to not get any sleep at night. The Insomniacs have been nominated.
Music Box: Best concert album and song of 2007: Wilco
highbeam.com – Dec 28, 2007
The sweat and grind has paid off now as the band recentlyreleased their major label debut on Universal. Look for some serioushard roots rock from this up-and-coming act. The New Year’s Eve show at Rams Head finds Pittsburgh native andlocal favorite Billy Price bringing down the house with his ownbrand of blue eyed soul and blues music. Think Delbert McClinton!Doors open at 6:45 p. and the show is slated to go well.
Fate brought Miss. guitarist back to blues
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) – Dec 28, 2007
“I’m from Mississippi and it seems like the blues is just in the air down there” says Harmon taking time out from recording in a Los Angeles studio. “The first music I heard was the blues. Every door that opened down there that was the music that came out from it. f course I got turned on to the rock and funk scene of the early 1970s but the blues was always there. ”Harmon made a career working behind the curtain in Los Angeles. He wrote and produced music for the ’Jays Freddie Jackson Alexander ’Neal Black Uhuru and other artists and composed music for films but at around the turn of the millennium Harmon returned to what he considers his roots.