The News Review:
- Blues Music
- Watermelon Slim bringing the blues back to the Norman Depot Jan. 11
- Blues show kicks off an event-filled 2009
- Five questions with blues musician Corky Siegel Blues musician
- 2008 a good year for live music
- 2008 great year to sing blues
Blues Music
Boston Globe United States
Not with a bang nor a whimper but with a pair of uncharacteristic defensive penalties with a punt that bounced off safety Paul Anderson and ended up as a Vanderbilt touchdown and with a Dominique Davis pass for a game-ending interception. Throw the mix into the pot and you have a 16-14 Vanderbilt victory in yesterday’s Music City Bowl which produced two distinctly different reactions. For Jeff Jagodzinski’s Eagles it was the end of an eight-game bowl winning streak which had been tops in the nation and left a bitter taste despite a respectable nine-win season. For Vanderbilt playing before a partisan crowd on a 39-degree afternoon at LP Field it was the Commodores’ first winning season (7-6) since 1982 and their first bowl victory since the 1955 Gator Bowl. All of this unfolded in a bizarre sequence of events that turned the momentum against the Eagles (9-5) and their small group of fans among the crowd of 54250 when Vanderbilt’s Bryant Hahnfeldt booted a 45-yard field goal (his third of the game) with 3:12 remaining to give the Commodores a 16-14 lead. The Eagles lost despite holding the Commodores to no offensive touchdowns 200 total yards and 1 of 15 third-down conversions.
Watermelon Slim bringing the blues back to the Norman Depot Jan. 11
Norman Transcript K
Advance ticket purchase is recommended. Watermelon Slim’s 2006 self-titled release was ranked 1 in MJ Magazine’s 2006 Top Blues CDs won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Blues Album of the Year hit 1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart debuted at 13 on the Billboard Blues Radio Chart and won the Blues Critic Award for 2006 Album of the Year. Slim garnered a record-tying six 2007 Blues Music Award nominations for Artist Entertainer Album Band Song and Traditional Album of the Year. In April 2007 Watermelon Slim and The Workers released “The Wheel Man” his second for Northern Blues Music and his fourth album in five years. The CD hit 1 on the Living Blues Radio Charts 2 on the Roots Music Blues Charts and debuted in the Top 10 in Billboard’s Blues charts. At the Blues Music Awards in May Watermelon Slim and the Workers took home Band of the Year honors and Album of the Year for “The Wheel Man. “This year served up four Blues Music Award nominations which makes 17 nominations in four years since the debut of “Up Close — Personal” in 2004.
Blues show kicks off an event-filled 2009
San Angelo Standard Times tx
Blues man Rich DelGrosso will make his second trip to San Angelo. Last year he backed up Pinetop Perkins in a sold-out show. Nominated for a 2006 Blues Music Award in the Best Instrumentalist category DelGrosso knows his way around a mandolin. His music has opened doors and minds but is rooted in history. In fact Rich’s passion is the history of the blues. A former schoolteacher Rich has developed a curriculum on blues history. While in San Angelo he will conduct a workshop for high school musicians.
Five questions with blues musician Corky Siegel Blues musician
Detroit Free Press United States
This has been a particularly busy year for me. I wrote a symphonic work based on some of my Chamber Blues pieces and it was performed numerous times. I did a concert in Doha Qatar with the violinist L. Subramaniam where I brought the blues to Indian music. I also played with a student symphony in Mantes-la-Jolie France which was one of the highlights of my whole life. Plus I performed a bit with the Chicago Blues Reunion and of course I played in Siegel-Schwall and Chamber Blues.
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2008 a good year for live music
Danville News PA
Each show is a bargain at $6. I don’t have much information about music anywhere this weekend except that Black and Blues a hard-driving Williamsport outfit will be at the Elk Creek Cafe and Ale Works on Route 45 in Millheim on Saturday night at 8. It’s well-worth the trip for good food good brew and some fine blues music. n Local musicians and venues are encouraged to tell me about upcoming shows. E-mail to wlaepple@dailyitem. com by noon Tuesday to be included in next week’s listing.
2008 great year to sing blues
Timmins Daily Press Canada
I don’t blame her I can only dig so much Barry Manilow. Having said that I’m not a hard core delta blues person. I pick and choose but I like the interaction between musicians. Why? Well I grew up watching various pop bands like The Kinks The Who The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan so it was always a band thing.