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- Lady sings the blues | HeraldTribune.com | Southwest Florida’s…
- Alan Jackson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- New Chicago blues from Delmark
- Zydeco accordionist Curley Taylor tries to keep his music current
- ‘Devil Boy’ grows into role as frontman
- A Cowboy at Heart
Lady sings the blues | HeraldTribune.com | Southwest Florida’s…
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – May 22, 2008
I would be more noticed rather than if I had been a man. “Davies’ show at Ace’s will include songs off her 2007 album “Blues Blast” (Telarc Records) which featured guests Charlie Musselwhite Tab Benoit and Coco Montoya. The album garnered her another nomination for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist in the Blues Music Awards. In early May the award went to Bettye LaVette. Davies’ growing popularity keeps her on the road though rising gas prices are cutting into her expenses. “It’s just making everything even more difficult” she said. “It’s hard to play this kind of music and be anything but struggling.
Alan Jackson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – May 22, 2008
The number one smash “Chattahoochee” became another signature tune and Jackson also topped the charts with “She’s Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)” while scoring three more Top Five hits from the album — which became his first to top the country LP charts. In late 1993 Jackson released the stopgap holiday album Honky Tonk Christmas which actually avoided standards in favor of lesser-known material. He returned in 1994 with Who I Am his second straight number one country album which gave him a staggering four number one singles: a cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” the music-biz satire “Gone Country” (a dig at executives hopping on the commercial country bandwagon) “Livin’ on Love” and “I Don’t Even Know Your Name. ” In only his fifth year on the scene Jackson was able to issue The Greatest Hits Collection in 1995 and scored hits with three newly minted songs: a cover of George Jones’ “Tall Tall Trees” “I’ll Try” (both number one) and “Home. ” It took The Greatest Hits Collection only a year to sell over three million copies. And of course Jackson was far from done. 1996′s Everything I Love became his fourth straight release to top the country album charts and it gave him five Top Ten hits including the number ones “Little Bitty” (a Tom T.
New Chicago blues from Delmark
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 22, 2008
htm –>New Chicago blues from Delmark5. 08Thursday May 22 2008By Jim White Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTwo excellent new blues musical releases — a CD and a DVD — recently made their way from Chicago’s fine and historic Delmark label to the BlueNotes blues desk (yes Virginia Slim it does exist) and they’ve been gathering little dustballs there ever since. So let’s get them on… Lewis is hard to resist as one of those big-voiced blues singers who captures your attention chews it up and throws it back at you in songs that leave you short of breath. All thanks to Delmark for helping to keep this great music alive. Marcia Ball in concertAlligator Records has sent out a link to a Marcia Ball performance on a Web site called. This one comes in two parts and offers an excellent look at Marcia in concert plus songs from the album in the Highline Ballroom in New York.
Zydeco accordionist Curley Taylor tries to keep his music current
Providence Journal – May 22, 2008
Taylor is among the younger breed of zydeco players (he’s 37) who incorporates elements of soul and R&B into his zydeco. The title song of his first record 2004’s Country Boy is pure sleek soul with accordion and his latest last year’s Nothing Feels Like This includes covers of Ray Charles’s “Hallelujah I Love Her So” and James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World. ”He says that it’s part of the natural evolution of zydeco which follows the path of all kinds of music. Modern blues doesn’t sound like traditional blues he says; modern rock doesn’t sound like ’50s rock. “After you’ve heard ‘Deacon Jones’ or ‘Dog Hill’ 10 million times” Taylor says with a laugh “you can’t go back to the club and listen to it. ” It may seem like a tricky path to walk between the traditional and the new but Taylor says the realities of playing zydeco in Louisiana where they’ve already heard it all demand new sounds. “The thing is the people like the traditionalists who were listening to Clifton Chenier and Boozoo [Chavis] imagine how old they are.
‘Devil Boy’ grows into role as frontman
Rocky Mountain News – May 22, 2008
As for the Devil Boy nickname “I have a smart mouth. My mouth can get me into trouble. Colorado was a heavy-metal scene or country rock country and western. How did you fit in?”I’d always go to (the Denver Folklore Center) hang out see who was playing and what was going on.
A Cowboy at Heart
Washington Post – May 22, 2008
"I grew up in Mississippi man I listen to all music: blues country anything you can possibly find" Portis said. "Three weeks ago I actually bought Daughtry.