The News Review:
- RI guitar great Paul Geremia is at home with the blues in a new DVD
- Tamar Valley Folk Festival starting Friday
- Teenage Girl Held in Death of Another
- Comedian Lord Carrett’s heroes range from Bugs Bunny to Engelbert
- It’s heavy on blues for this open mike night
RI guitar great Paul Geremia is at home with the blues in a new DVD
Providence Journal – Jan 17, 2008
Dollar-fifty admission. And some of the prettiest waitresses. ” A lot of people who say they don’t like blues music cite the plodding repetitive generic nature of the structures. In unskilled hands that’s true. But one of the things that leaps out about Geremia’s playing is the eccentricities he keeps in the music. The country blues or for that matter solo piano blues by the likes of Piano Red or Meade Lux Lewis is full of weird twists: an extra measure here a rubato passage there a one-line refrain a riff jammed into the middle of the form. Geremia keeps those in the music not just because he’s a natural traditionalist (“these are like classical music pieces” he says on the disc) but because they add interest… Certainly none of the musicians. ” So Geremia continues the process. And the informality of the network of country blues music is as it always was — another reason why the DVD isn’t a straight instructional video. “If somebody wants to know something I show them. Because it means they really want to learn. And for me to go up to Skip James and ask him the tuning that he used took a lot of nerve. I was always a shy kid and I didn’t want to bother anybody.
Tamar Valley Folk Festival starting Friday
abc.net.au – Jan 17, 2008
Included on the bill are UK folk singer Bob Fox a veteran performer on the folk circuit; Nick Charles who has just returned from the International Blues Challenge in Memphis; popular Australian duo Cloudstreet and award winning blues performer Phil Manning. Phil was born and bred in northern Tasmania and owes much of his early passion for blues to a visiting American basketball coach Ken Cole. “Ken had some amazing american blues music that he introduced me to and I just fell in love with it. The teenage Phil Manning went on to carve out a stellar career in blues music. “In the seventies there were so few people in Australia that were playing the blues. I got employed to do support acts for the people that I’d been listening to – BB King Muddy Waters John Mayall it was incredible” says Phil. Interestingly Ken Cole went on to become a dual lympian and one of Australia’s most successful basketball coaches!rganisers are expecting up to 400 people and warn that accommodation is filling up fast.
Teenage Girl Held in Death of Another
New York Times – Jan 17, 2008
For something like this to happen it’s devastating. Lightsey 41 prepared for his niece’s funeral scheduled for Friday he recalled that his niece was “a free-spirited outgoing kid” who was fond of photography rhythm and blues music videos and movies. “This is my worst nightmare” he said. Kareem Fahim contributed reporting.
Comedian Lord Carrett’s heroes range from Bugs Bunny to Engelbert
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 17, 2008
Concerned about the amount of conventional fuel it burned on its last tour the band plans to go “carbon neutral” by next fall hiring a Seattle alternative-fuel company Frybrid to equip its tour bus to run on vegetable oil. The band will bring its tour bus to the Tractor (actually just around the corner on Shilshole Avenue) from 6 to 6:30 for a show-and-tell with fans before the show. Blues vocalist Janiva Magness and her band perform music from her current album (“Do I Move You?”) Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.
It’s heavy on blues for this open mike night
Charleston Post Courier – Jan 17, 2008
“We also have some jazz and bluegrass folks in from time to time. We’ve also had a few sax players show up and jam with us for the past few months. All in all it provides a really great mix of blues-oriented music with all the various influences. “Wyatt Garey a young virtuoso along with his brother Ranny sit in every Tuesday either playing rhythm for whomever’s turn it may be or simply displaying their talent for the blues to warm up the crowd and inspire others to showcase their love for the blues. A Dough Re Mi’s Tuesday night Lowcountry Blues Club begins at 7 p. with dining and a sample listening to the artist of the week followed by jam sessions beginning around 8.