The News Review:
- Singing the blues about gap in Honors
- Local blues band returns to festival
- Watermelon Slim to perform at Stillwater Blues Fest
- Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan
- The Magi from Chicago brought Chicago Blues.
- ‘¢ Muskegon Heights native Bettye LaVette in Kennedy Center tribute
Singing the blues about gap in Honors
Los Angeles Times CA
By Robin Givhan December 26 2008 Reporting from Washington — The celebration of a famous life always poses a dilemma for storytellers because it means having to decide what is relevant and what can be left on the editing floor. For those who received the Kennedy Center Honors this month their lives are examined through their creative triumphs and they are given a national pat on the back for their contributions to the arts. When their stories are told it’s impossible not to walk away awe-struck. Some of the most inspiring musicians have been honored including jazz artist Ella Fitzgerald and opera soloist Marilyn Horne.
Local blues band returns to festival
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune IA
” He says it is the culmination of 13 years of songwriting labors. While live music is struggling in general the blues is eternal Gary feels. “I guess it is the history of the music partially and the stories it tells. Blues music isn’t really sad it actually tends to be up-tempo. Everybody has a different reason for liking it” he says. “Although people in northwest Iowa haven’t had a whole lot of contact with African American culture in the past people seem to be pretty happy with the music. ” Nearly everything in popular music today has its roots in blues he suggests – not just rock but also modern jazz country even hip hop.
Watermelon Slim to perform at Stillwater Blues Fest
Muskogee Daily Phoenix K
Tickets will be also be available at the door as space permits. Watermelon Slim and his band The Workers won two 2008 Blues Music Award Awards (Best Blues Album of the Year and Best Blues Band of the Year) for the CD release “The Wheel Man. ” Blues Fest coordinator Gloria Short said “This is will be a great show and it’s a wonderful way to support the arts. ” The Memphis Flyer led its terrific CD review with the question “Does anyone in modern pop music have a more intriguing biography than Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans?” Slim was born in Boston and raised in North Carolina listening to his maid sing John Lee Hooker and other blues songs around the house. His father was a progressive attorney and ex-freedom rider and his brother is now a classical musician. Slim dropped out of Middlebury College to enlist for Vietnam.
Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan
New York Times United States
Billboard reported that three-quarters of Santogold’s excellent album has already been licensed for commercials video games and soundtracks and Ms. White herself appears in advertisements singing for sneakers. She has clearly decided that linking her music to other mostly mercenary agendas is her most direct avenue to that “place up on the radar. ”I know — time for me to get over it. After all this is the reality of the 21st-century music business. Selling recordings to consumers as inexpensive artworks to be appreciated for their own sake is a much-diminished enterprise now that free copies multiply across the Web. While people still love music enough to track it down collect it argue over it and judge their.
The Magi from Chicago brought Chicago Blues.
Examiner.com
the reason for the season. The travelers from The Great Land of Chicago brought all manner of Chicago Blues in honor of the Baby Jesus. This music of the human condition and it’s triumph is key to the long life of this genre. This supposedly secular music is hardpressed to hide it’s sacred influences. I am suggesting therefore to continue the Christmas Season until The Feast of the Epiphany with total immersion in live Chicago Blues. This will prepare you for Dr.
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‘¢ Muskegon Heights native Bettye LaVette in Kennedy Center tribute
Muskegon Chronicle – MLive.com MI
‘” That was a reference to an autobiographical song LaVette wrote for her most recent CD “The Scene of the Crime. “I was so very flattered” LaVette said. LaVette who plans to begin working on her next CD in early 2009 has been nominated in the “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year” category for the Blues Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music Awards.