The News Review:
- MUSIC: Getting Janiva Magness to the Upstage? No Problem
- this week with dolly
- Blues Society puts on Blue Sunday
- Music Review: Blues artist Derek Trucks lacks fire on new album
- ne Pin Short steals show at House of Blues
- Motown in black white and gay
- Blues and old-time country music concert scheduled at Dickson …
MUSIC: Getting Janiva Magness to the Upstage? No Problem
Kitsap Sun United States
“I’ll tell you what my problem is not” Magness added getting to the perspective part. “My problem is not ‘Is the cardboard box in the alley I’m sleeping in gonna keep me warm tonight?’ I don’t have that problem and for that I’m forever grateful. Magness who’s 50 now and one of the most highly regarded vocal stylists in blues music has been in that cardboard box. She’s been where her problems weren’t “When’s my next appointment?” but “Am I going to eat today?”Part of Magness is defined by the blues by the joyful noise that she and her band — guitarist Zack Zunis bassist Gary Davenport keybpoardist Benny Yee and drummer Vince Fossett — play live at as many as 200 gigs worldwide annually and occasionally commit to CD. But another part comes from her years as a street kid in Detroit or shuttling among more than a dozen foster homes after she lost both her parents to suicide before she was old enough to drive a car. So now even as a successful and critically acclaimed performer with a wide fan base perspective is not something Magness has to go looking for. “I’m not the kind of person who is hard-wired for accepting good things easily” she said.
this week with dolly
Seymour Herald TN
As was previously reported Dolly and Vince Gill perform the duet “Pretty Flowers” on the 15-song collection which will be available in other stores about three months later in April. Gina Sicilia who won the 2008 Best New Artist Award from the Blues Music Awards a few months back released a new CD “Hey Sugar” which features a country blues take on Dolly’s classic “Coat f Many Colors. ” There’s another Dolly appearance on CD that came out a few months ago but this one is interview-based. She’s among the musicians featured on a two-disc collection of interviews and music from the public radio series “American Routes” in the release “American Routes: Songs and Stories From the Road. ” thers on the show include Dave Brubeck Tom Waits and Jerry Garcia. Dolly’s music video for “Shinola” from “Backwoods Barbie” on Friday earned its 16th week on the Pure 12 Pack countdown on CMT’s digital music channel Pure Country.
Blues Society puts on Blue Sunday
Dayton Daily News H
Many came bearing guitar cases ready to take to the stage when it was their turn. In an era dominated by pop rap rock and hip-hop blues musicians have to work harder to get their music heard. But fans say the blues has a raw honesty that today’s highly polished music can’t match. “There’s a reality to blues music that a lot of music doesn’t have” society President Jeff Hill said. “When you listen to blues you can hear the truth in it. daytonbluessociety.
Music Review: Blues artist Derek Trucks lacks fire on new album
The Canadian Press
Trucks’ unassuming delivery renders this release toothless. Much of the blame here can be placed on soft songwriting and surprisingly sparse guitars solos from Trucks. Uptempo songs like “Something To Make You Happy” lay the groundwork for Trucks to soar yet he offers instead only a smattering of uncreative stabs and leads. When the pace slows down as on “Maybe This Time” Trucks smolders when he should have produced a raging fire of blues riffs.
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ne Pin Short steals show at House of Blues
UNLV The Rebel Yell NV
6 consisting of Reel Big Fish Streetlight Manifesto and local favorites ne Pin Short. The floor of the venue was packed in every sense of the word each person eager for a healthy dose of upbeat music. ne Pin Short opened the show with their own brand of reggae-influenced ska. Last June the group opened for Reel Big Fish to celebrate their first album release. Supposedly Aaron Barrett (vocalist of Reel Big Fish) was so impressed that he personally asked for the group to accompany Reel Big Fish on their recently completed eight-date mini tour of the West Coast. After viewing the group?s set it?s easy to see why they were given a personal invitation.
Motown in black white and gay
Telegraph.co.uk United Kingdom
He packaged the first Motown albums in sleeves that deliberately omitted photographs of the artists (the Marvelettes’ Please Mr Postman featured a picture of a mail-box; an Isley Brothers album a white couple on a beach). In Motown’s home-town of Detroit he circumvented the colour bar that prevented his artists performing at the Graystone Ballroom by buying it. Gordy’s achievement was such that between 1963 and 1965 Billboard actually discontinued their Rhythm and Blues charts on the grounds that Motown had effectively integrated the tastes of black and white audiences. (It was reinstated when ‘the British invasion’ renewed the divergence). But while Motown is primarily associated with black artists it is interesting to note the success that Gordy also had with white performers. Motown was not the first black owned label to release records by white artists. Vee-Jay a small independent label in Chicago that concentrated on blues and R&B released the first recordings by The Four Seasons and the first Beatles records in the United States through a licensing deal with EMI after Capitol had turned them down.
Blues and old-time country music concert scheduled at Dickson …
Canton Daily Ledger IL
The concert features D. Kolar on guitar Dobro slide guitar banjo and vocals and Pete Norman on guitar mandolin banjo ukulele and vocals The ld Time Country and Blues Review is just what it’s name implies; a delightful collection of blues old time and country music. DK and Pete both veteran performers in their own right started performing together in 2002 when their mutual love of picking and old music brought them together at Pete’s annual Post Christmas Blues Fest in Downer’s Grove Ill. Drawing on the musical pioneers of the past Pete and DK bring to life the songs that helped form our unique American musical heritage from Appalachian born songs of life fun and hard times to the blues of the South to original songs done with an old time twist. “It’s music that will get your toes tappin get you singing along and give you an appreciation of the heritage of much of today’s ‘modern’ music” says organizers. The Hickory Ridge Concert Series is hosted by singer-songwriter Chris Vallillo.