The News Review:
- Music venue to replace Lefty’s
- Dallas businessman brings the blues to classrooms
- Bettye LaVette has powerful effect on Kennedy Center audience
- Four cents a song makes SlotRadio hard to ignore
Music venue to replace Lefty’s
Statesman Journal R
1 in the old Lefty’s location 1230 State St. said Jeff Schutt who will open the club with business partner Russell Moenich. Roxxy will feature live rock and blues music specialty pizzas “pizza beer and a movie” nights along with live band karaoke and more said Schutt an Arizona-based businessman. Schutt and Moenich leased the space after first seeing it in June. They applied for the liquor permit Dec. 4; there should be a decision Jan.
Dallas businessman brings the blues to classrooms
Reuters
But the Blue Shoe Project a Dallas-based nonprofit aimed at educating school kids about the blues isn’t kidding around. Co-founder Jeff Dyson describes himself as “not really a musician or a music business person but just a huge fan of the blues. ” The telecom executive says he started the Blue Shoe Project with his son Michael when he realized that blues legends were dying off taking with them stories that would be lost if young people didn’t learn about them. In 2004 the Dysons produced a concert in Dallas featuring acclaimed Mississippi Delta bluesmen Pinetop Perkins Henry James Townsend David “Honeyboy” Edwards and Robert Lockwood Jr. The event the first that father and son had ever produced came with a catch: The audience was limited to local college students who were required to write an essay on the history of the blues in order to gain admission. In addition to performing their songs the musicians took questions from the audience and told the stories behind their songs.
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Bettye LaVette has powerful effect on Kennedy Center audience
MLive.com MI
A Muskegon Heights native LaVette has received numerous accolades and awards in recent years. She was a 2008 Grammmy Award nominee for blues record of the year. Most recently she was nominated in the “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year” category for the Blues Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music Awards. In a recent interview LaVette told The Chronicle that she is heading into the studio later this month to begin work on her next CD. LaVette is signed with Anti-Records.
Four cents a song makes SlotRadio hard to ignore
CNET News CA
r heck go a little further and hire musicians to curate the collections: imagine Keith Richards’ favorite blues songs or an. You might expect that music nuts–the kinds of people who care about Sublime Frequencies–wouldn’t relinquish control of their playlists but at four cents a song I’d be happy to save myself the trouble of ripping or downloading 1000 tracks and let somebody else drive for a while. As long as it’s a driver I trust.
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