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- Dripping with blues
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George Hunt’s blues-inspired art on display at the UA
Arkansas Traveler – Arkansas Traveler (subscription) – Jan 16, 2008
substring(0 thispageresult. It isn’t the color blue that is the focus of his work but instead the blues music that has been a part of the painter’s life since he was a child growing up in the South. The Memphis-based artist born in rural Louisiana in 1940 and raised in Hot Springs began drawing when he was about 4 years old. His grandmother helped to spark his early interest in art. “As a small child I was a sickly child so I spent a lot of time with my grandmother” Hunt said. She provided him with crayons and paper to help him pass the time.
Ike Turner | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Jan 16, 2008
Handy Awards (the blues equivalent of the Grammys) and took honors for Comeback Album of the Year. Risin’ with the Blues released five years later was nominated for a Grammy in the same category. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
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Washington Post – Jan 16, 2008
You know you are being listened to. “Where else in the tri-state area is there music seven nights a week? Lorraine and the regulars at JV’s have made me feel at home from the first time the Polecats and I played there over three years ago. Lorraine even went so far as to name her meat loaf after me!”n Saturday Anson-Dross will do a full band show with Wicked Jezabel. A big (six players) bad (as in good) all-girl pop-rock party outfit Wicked Jezabel sprang from the popular now retired female band the utskirts of Town in 2004. Since then Wicked Jezabel has become a full-time working outfit and has been nominated in the 2007 Wammie category Best Female Rock Band. — MARIANNE MEYERJV’s Restaurant is at 6666 Arlington Blvd.
Music briefs for Jan. 16
phillyBurbs.com – Jan 16, 2008
Saturday features The Mississippi Pig Farmers a classic rock and blues band that likes to call their sound “electric roots music blues with a rock edge. Wasserman’s playing style has been defined as a mix of Dickey Betts and Toy Caldwell with a little jazz influence. In addition to his fiery guitar playing Glenn does most of the band’s vocals and has been described as “smooth. ” The band is rounded out by Arne Englund on guitar and vocals Jim Kleinmann on bass and newest member Rich Frikkers on drums. Guitardogs will open.
The Mars Volta – Music – Review – New York Times
New York Times – Jan 16, 2008
The guitar riffs are earthier and the vocal lines are shorter though for some reason Mr. Bixler-Zavala reaches up to his highest most piercing falsetto for many of the new songs. No one is likely to mistake the latest Mars Volta songs for pop ditties; the band’s new strategy is hardly a sellout. The story line of “The Bedlam in Goliath” has something to do with a haunted uija board and a demonic force demanding to be reincarnated and the music would still trip up anyone trying to clap along… The story line of “The Bedlam in Goliath” has something to do with a haunted uija board and a demonic force demanding to be reincarnated and the music would still trip up anyone trying to clap along. But the Mars Volta has stopped trying to trump the complexity of its previous efforts. It has untangled its music ever so slightly and it’s already braced for a reaction. Taking a rare breather between songs Mr. Bixler-Zavala dedicated “Drunkship of Lanterns” from the band’s first album to “all the people who don’t want us to keep writing the first two albums all over and over again. ” But that song’s barrage of long lines and convoluted ideas each knocking the last one newly askew was a glorious excess.
Dripping with blues
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Jan 16, 2008
making his acting debut as musical protagonist Sonny Blake can easily identify. Just 23 Clark was born in the aftermath of “Thriller” and had a vocal group at Covington Middle School in South Austin that was going to be the next Boyz II Men. But when he received an Ibanez RX-20 electric guitar for Christmas in 1996 he dove back into the blues. As Blake an itinerant freight train hopper who totes around a guitar and amplifier he made himself Clark just wants the opportunity to show what he’s got. He had the chance in real life at age 16 when he played an unbilled set before Bobby “Blue” Bland’s return to the Victory Grill in early 2001 that just destroyed the crowd. It’s a scene reprised at the end of “Honeydripper” when Clark leads the band on Roy Brown’s “Good Rockin’ Tonight” looking very much like the future of the blues… All three Clark-sung tracks are on the “Honeydripper” soundtrack CD which comes out Feb. The movie lines didn’t come quite as easily as the music scenes though director Sayles says Clark showed some real acting chops once he got comfortable. “The hardest part was getting Gary to be cocky because that’s not naturally the way he is” says Sayles who based the film his 16th on a short story he wrote years ago. Most of the cast which includes Danny Glover Charles Dutton and Yaya DaCosta as China Doll the Clark character’s love interest had no idea the lanky 6-foot-5 Austinite could play the guitar until the film’s big musical finale. While Glover aped the piano playing that had been pre-recorded by a Los Angeles musician Clark played his parts live on a clunky primitive contraption made for the movie by axsmith Ted Crocker. “ne of the young kids (in the opening scene) bet me that it wasn’t really me playing” Clark says with a laugh.
Who: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion When: 8 pm Saturday Where:…
Washington Post – Jan 16, 2008
“The last one could have been the two of us” Guthrie said “but it was something he just had to do to clear his palate. He’s constantly writing songs. ” She appears on two tracks adding harmony to “Brush Yr Teeth Blues #56″ a lullaby to the couple’s five-year-old daughter and with the Hedgspeth Family Singers for the gospel-style backing vocals of “Short Leash. The next CD will be a joint production. “We’re writing right now and doing some recording and demo-ing for the next record so we’re certainly going to be trying some stuff out on these upcoming shows” she said. Guthrie and Irion will appear in the District on Sunday night at the Mansion on Street and will be back in April for the Congressional Blues Festival at the Kennedy Center.
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