The News Review:
- Bluesman Sean Costello dead
- Bill Frisell 858 Quartet Paints Outside the Usual Lines – New York…
- Best bet ‘¢ Alejandra Guzmán celebrating life
- The Rolling Stones and Jack White shine a light on the roots of their…
- The Raconteurs: Consolers Of The Lonely : Music Reviews : Rolling…
- Hartford Advocate: Music – True Blue
- Save music visit a record store Saturday | Lifestyle/Features |…
Bluesman Sean Costello dead
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer – Apr 17, 2008
King at the Columbus Civic Center in a benefit show for the restoration of the Ma Rainey house. His album “Cuttin’ In” released in 2000 earned him a W. Handy Blues award which is the highest honor shy of a Grammy for blues music. He also toured and recorded with Grammy-nominated blues artist Susan Tedeschi. His death is “a tragic loss not just to his friends family and fans but to the music community at large” said his manager Carol Peters in a statement.
Bill Frisell 858 Quartet Paints Outside the Usual Lines – New York…
New York Times – Apr 17, 2008
Frisell has cultivated it onstage a bit since then and the 858 Quartet has grown out of its original purpose into something else. At the Village Vanguard on Tuesday the band played a wickedly beautiful first set of the week. It wasn’t like the old record: it was more in line with Mr. Frisell’s other music with its mild sense of humor and its reflexive embrace of blues bop and country languages. But unlike some of Mr. Frisell’s other music it didn’t feel micromanaged or built as a reflection of his sonic image or beholden to his frequent improvising tics. The players’ individual personalities came out and infiltrated the songs.
Best bet ‘¢ Alejandra Guzmán celebrating life
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 17, 2008
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The Rolling Stones and Jack White shine a light on the roots of their…
Rolling Stone – Apr 17, 2008
I want it to be where we can bothget something out of it. The Stones have made concert movies since the Sixties. Did you see any great music films as a young manKeith?Richards: Jazz on a Summer’s Day [BertStern's 1960 film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival]. I think itwas in 1962. We were on the way to a gig and we stopped off at theHammersmith Odeon [in London] Brian [Jones] and me. We werecarrying our axes. There was some incredible jazz in that movie… Litfrom beneath he looked like a devil. Jack did you see Stones films like “Gimme Shelter” and”Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones” when you wereyoung?White: I saw Gimme Shelter. And at ahouse I lived in we had a grainy copy of CocksuckerBlues so we watched that a few times [laughs]. Isthere a nice copy of that movie? That’s what I want to know. Richards: Once we started getting into Shine aLight I got all the Stones movies from our office. I didn’twant to look at them. The only one I did watch was CocksuckerBlues.
The Raconteurs: Consolers Of The Lonely : Music Reviews : Rolling…
Rolling Stone – Apr 17, 2008
But it’s fun to watch White make things up as he goes along. On the album highlight “Carolina Drama” he sings a Dylanesque legend of a boy named Billy who has a vendetta against his mom’s boyfriend. The music builds from an ominous campfire song to a swirl of strings and ghostly la-la-las as White leads everything to its bloody conclusion: Billy kills the boyfriend with a milk bottle. But nothing is resolved — we finish with a mess of unexplained details (who is that milkman who delivered the bottle?). Don’t bother complaining — White warns you at the beginning that he’s not going to wrap anything up.
Hartford Advocate: Music – True Blue
Hartford Advocate – Apr 17, 2008
Manchester (860) 649-1195 Anthony Gomes lives his life the way he plays his music with a passion to connect the deepest part of his spirit with an audience. When you see Gomes perform live you see a fire that drives his songs and guitar solos. Gomes channels that same intensity when asked to give of himself to serious causes. Enter the Blue Star Connection. The organization connects musicians with children who are terminally ill with cancer… I'm playing with a new band and exploring a new sound and style. "Gomes' take-no-prisoners style can leave blues traditionalists unmoved yet guitar heads revel in his modernistic approach. Most artists record live for a string of nights in a row to get that perfect moment. Gomes' new record is a one-take triumph. Performing nearly 250 shows a year this Canadian-born Chicago blues-bred road warrior can mix hot blues and acid jazz or seamlessly dive into Zep's "Heartbreaker" which feature Gomes twisting whammy bar swoops and engineering feedback dives that revive the ghosts of the Fillmore circa 1967. By the end of the night Gomes has delivered a PhD.
Save music visit a record store Saturday | Lifestyle/Features |…
Houston Chronicle – Apr 17, 2008
'' He's trying to knit a community of album buyers from that. '' He's trying to knit a community of album buyers from that… “But I just didn’t have it yet. But Escalante is quick to order hard-to-find titles. A Japanese import by Houston blues artist Little Joe Washington wasn’t in stock on a recent Monday. But it was two days later. He too can’t compete on the Sheryl Crow front. But titles by Lightnin’ Hopkins and Flaco Jimenez are well stocked. Like Cactus Sig’s isn’t 100 percent reliant on music with assorted fashions and gifts also available.