The News Review:
- Dave Lavender: 2008 starting off hot with top music tours hitting the…
- The Mountain Times nline
- E-cigarette trial seeks smokers
- A moment with: Alice Stuart / blues musician
- Lupe’s music icons
Dave Lavender: 2008 starting off hot with top music tours hitting the…
Huntington Herald Dispatch – Jan 10, 2008
You might want to make a weekend of it in Prestonsburg since nearby Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is starting back its Elk Tours on Saturday morning. To order tickets or for more information call the box office toll free at (888) MAC-ARTS (622-2787). Speaking of road trips to see music folks often ask me where they can see good blues music and I always say the annual River City hio Blues Competition. This year it takes place Friday and Saturday Feb. 15-16 at the historic Lafayette Hotel on the hio River in Marietta. The competition has gotten so big it has to be broken into a Friday night competition and the Saturday afternoon competition (noon to 6 p.
The Mountain Times nline
Boone Mountain Times – Jan 10, 2008
” The Taj Mahal Trio will perform at Farthing Auditorium on Friday February 15th at 8 p. The Carolina Chocolate Drops will open up the show. The New York Times raved “In his long career Taj Mahal has worked with bands that play reggae New rleans rhythm-and-blues and other African diaspora styles but he has never moved far from the blues. (He) has lived with the tradition for so long he has stopped worrying about staying close to his sources. He does better than that: he keeps the spirit of the songs. ” The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a talented trio of young African-American stringband musicians who specialize in the dance and blues music of the Carolina Piedmont.
E-cigarette trial seeks smokers
stuff.co.nz – Jan 10, 2008
"Researchers hope to have the study completed by March. Meanwhile another research project – a joint study with the Auckland University of Technology – will examine smokers' signature "rasps" and whether they improve after quitting. While that husky gravelly sound is beloved by aficionados of blues music many smokers hate the way smoking deepens and thickens their voices. "If researchers can detect a change in voice quality they may also be able to use this technology to monitor the outcome of stop-smoking studies making it easier to test new ways to help smokers quit.
A moment with: Alice Stuart / blues musician
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 10, 2008
While growing up in Chelan Stuart wrote songs and learned to play guitar singing along to records by the Platters the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly. After graduating from high school she moved to Seattle and picked up a gig at the Pamir House a popular University District club playing folk songs on a baritone ukulele. Stuart moved to California in the mid-’60s and before long was performing with Joan Baez Doc Watson and Mississippi John Hurt who became a close pal. In 1965 after touring the East Coast she met Frank Zappa and played with his blues band for a few months… It’s my hometown and I get a lot of support here. But now it’s time to do the national thing again. n recording “Freedom”:”I was trying to record the kind of music that Alice & the Formerlys play at a concert. We play many different genres of music. We play a little rock a little country and a little blues.
Lupe’s music icons
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 10, 2008
This helps explain why he cites “Sesame Street” as a songwriting influence and hopes to record with members of Pink Floyd. Here are two of his all-time favorites:Artist: Billie Holiday. nly 44 when she died in 1959 she left behind a remarkable body of work that included myriad solo albums and collaborations with such icons as Count Basie Duke Ellington Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. A hard-living woman who battled depression abusive relationships and debilitating drug and alcohol habits she was able to channel her personal pain into a series of exquisitely moving records. Classic songs: “Strange Fruit” “Lover Man” and “God Bless the Child. ”Fiasco: “She's one of my heroes my icons.