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- Bluesman a contemporary traditionalist
- Introspection pays: Sad folk ballads of J. Tillman
- Soulful survivor
- Music sends a message to America
- Without hesitation
Bluesman a contemporary traditionalist
South Bend Tribune (subscription) IN
He wanted to make a statement Skoller says with the remix a reminder that “hip-hop comes directly out of the blues. “The people who record blues music and book it at clubs and festivals “the blues power brokers” Skoller says approve of rock’s crossover into the blues but not other forms of music. “Any time a musician and they’re usually black musicians wants to crossover soul R&B or God forbid hip-hop to the blues they’re banished from the blues scene” he says. “Consequently they’ve done a great disservice to the music. I’ve seen a lot of heirs to the throne have to go into other genres of music because they were using elements of hip-hop or funk.
Introspection pays: Sad folk ballads of J. Tillman
Los Angeles Times CA
Tillman isn?t going to ring any bells for most people but the 27-year-old songwriter ? with little fanfare no managers and no major label ? has recorded five devastatingly introspective albums over the course of as many years. With his newest "Vacilando Territory Blues" out Tuesday from. His 2008 tour of Europe and Australia as the new drummer for the critically flaunted. Asked to join the band in the spring after Nicholas Peterson?s departure Tillman also filled the opening slot for the European leg of the tour.
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Soulful survivor
Corvallis Gazette Times R
Soulful survivorBy Nancy RaskauskasThe EntertainerFresh off the release of ‘What Love Will Do’ and four Blues Music Award nominations Magness to headline ‘Blues at the Venetian’ALBANY — “I don’t really look at all like my story” Janiva Magness said. “And that’s a really good thing. ”Magness a rising star on the blues scene who will perform during the second night of the Winter Blues Festival at the Venetian Theater on Saturday recently earned an impressive four nominations for the 2009 Blues Music Awards including nominations for Album f The Year and Contemporary Blues Album f The Year for her new CD “What Love Will Do” as well as for the B. King Entertainer f The Year and Contemporary Blues Female Artist f The Year award. She’s already a two-time winner of Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year among other accolades. “Still I’m always surprised” Magness said.
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Music sends a message to America
Los Angeles Times CA
The concert also was an example of how Aaron Copland — a gay Jewish New Yorker — has become the composer who provides the soundtrack for many serious occasions in America. His “Fanfare for the Common Man” opened the week’s festivities and his “Lincoln Portrait” — the spoken parts movingly read by Hollywood favorite Tom Hanks — was one of last Sunday’s emotional high points because it connected the crowd with Lincoln the emancipator. Music was everywhere this week in Washington including the Jonas Brothers playing for young audiences as well as blues sessions at hole-in-the-wall bars — such as the Black Cat. Maroon 5 wowed a crowd at Norman Lear’s Declare Yourself bash and Anita Baker and Joss Stone crooned for the crowd at the BET Honors. But among some Washington visitors the musicians who bring the most history to their music are those who play jazz the first authentic American music whose roots are planted firmly in the African American experience. n hand to provide that music Monday at a Kennedy Center concert — organized by Wynton Marsalis — was Dave Brubeck Béla Fleck and others. Fleck who cut short a trip to Scotland to perform in D.
Without hesitation
Taunton Daily Gazette USA
Although he attended Tulane to become an anthropologist he was drawn to a career as a musician. His biggest influences were early blues musicians Lightnin’ (Sam) Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt. But New rleans wasn’t the ideal place to make a career of Smither’s type of old blues music — even though he argued it to be cutting edge. He recalls the feedback on his folk-music repertoire from those at the clubs in his hometown “That’s interesting Chris. Now what are you going to do for a living?”“They were right” he says. “It’s not a folk-oriented kind of place. ”When he turned 23 Smither relocated to Massachusetts where Club 47 in Cambridge lured him to live the life of a musician.