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News-Review – The News-Review – Jan 6, 2008
To date he has recorded 17 albums including 2004′s “Touch the Sky. “Baaba Maal leads the following show June 27 returning for his second Roseburg appearance. He is also known as “The Nightingale” because of his clear high-pitched voice. Born in Senegal Maal sings in Pulaar the language of the nomadic Fula ethnic group. Taking the stage the next week is Little Feat. The band formed in 1969 and will rock the stage as part of Roseburg’s Fourth of July celebration. Little Feat’s music is described as a freewheeling fusion of Californian rock and Dixie-inflected funk-boogie.
Southbound music festival January 6 2008
NEWS.com.au – Jan 6, 2008
article-tools –> Jay Hanna January 07 2008 11:12am THE sun the dirt the sweaty bodies and the music. Southbound Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton Saturday Jan 6. Review: Jay Hanna Festival season was back with all the highs and lows that comes with sharing a sandy oval with 20000 music lovers. For the first hit of the year the destination was Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton. Fluoro-wearing teens aging rockers and the odd lizard on stilts mingled in the dust and sun as more than 40 acts and djs entertained the masses. f course there were obligatory touches of festival kookiness most notable was a troupe of friends wearing all-in-one clown-style pyjamas complete with pom-pom buttons… Hailing for San Francisco Black Rebel Motorcycle Club delivered a blistering set of swampy blues rock on the main stage. The trio were as tight as Cher’s skin as they confronted the summer heat in black denim and leather. Despite the discrepancy in sound between 2005′s acoustic blues sounds of Howl and their latest rocking effort Baby 81 the band easily flitted between high energy rock moments and slower gospel tinged blues numbers. It looked like the festival might belong to them but then came Kings of Leon. The genetically blessed Deep South brothers and cousin combo are adored on record but tend to disappoint live. So while many were anticipating hearing their favourite tunes from the 2003 debut Youth and Young Manhood last year’s album of the year contender Because of the Times and 2005′s brilliant Aha Shake Heartbreak those who have seen Kings of Leon before were not without their reservations. Sometimes expectation can work in your favour thankfully this was one of those times.
Jazz and Blues: 2008-01-06
Arkansas Leader – Jan 6, 2008
Now there?s only Holmes who at 59 is the youngest of the bluesmen under review. He?s keeping the Bentonia sound alive and could if we?re lucky pass on this rare art form to a new generation of musicians. Another small label Bluesland Productions has issued a remarkable CD called ?The Last of the Jelly Roll Kings? by two Arkansans the drummer Sam Carr and the late harmonica player Frank Frost. They hung out together near Helena for many years with Big Jack Johnson of Clarksdale. (Carr the son of blues legend Robert Nighthawk still lives on a farm near the casino in Lula Miss. ) Frost and Carr were recorded for this CD in Helena in 1993 in 1997 including several tracks at the King Biscuit Festival. This is Arkansas blues at its best: Frost was a great harmonica player (he also played guitar and organ) and Carr before he suffered a stroke a few years ago was the best drummer in the Delta.
BB King Review – Music Reviews-Recently Reviewed Entertainment -…
Variety (subscription) – Jan 6, 2008
King’s latest go-round — it’s likely he’ll play 150 shows this year — a signal that the material at King concerts just don’t change that much over the decades. King 82 and certainly the most recorded blues artist ever is keen on familiarity and that extends from the material to the delivery to the way he treats an audience. The gospel timbre of his voice and the piercing sting of guitar lines are in tact it’s a pleasure to note even as King makes his concerts more like family gatherings than a show. He’s there to tell stories and crack jokes talk about his health issues and the thrill of feeling loved; the fact that he entertains too has become almost secondary. The voice has impressively retained its warmth and purity and he never sounds stale on his chestnuts (“The Thrill is Gone” “Everyday I Have the Blues”) but he provides no indication that his years as an octogenarian have been filled with projects above and beyond concert dates. He has an album his 150th apparently produced by T Bone Burnett on tap for the fall; his 80th was marked with an album of mostly impressive duets; and a museum dedicated to King will open in his hometown of Indianola Miss.
Golden Page of Led Zeppelin
deccanherald.com – Jan 6, 2008
And these guys had attitude and long hair. It was great! Even now decades later I put on those old albums and the music still hits the spot; although back in the 70s it seemed tailor-made for frustrated teenage boys. Jimmy Page’s music drew from many genres including American blues and English folk often fused with Indian influences. The tabla can be heard on Led Zeppelin’s first album alongside a guitar simulated to sound like a sitar and the influence of the subcontinent is often heard throughout the music that followed.