The News Review:
- Watermelon Slim eagerly returns to KC for two shows
- Living With Music: Madison Smartt Bell
- Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival
- Eyeballin’: Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin
- Sam Taylor famed LI blues singer-songwriter dies
- Sam Taylor Tucson blues king for a decade dies in NY at 74
- Blues Music
Watermelon Slim eagerly returns to KC for two shows
klahoma Gazette K
But it wasn?t until 2002 ? when he had an epiphany about his commitment to music in the wake of a heart attack ? that his career as a professional musician took off. PASSINATE INTENSITY The passionate intensity of his performances both solo and with a band brought him considerable attention quickly from both fellow musicians and the public netting the performer a total of 17 Blues Music Award nominations for him his band and his albums since 2005 and four more nominations pending for 2009. In 2008 Homans and his band The Workers received Blues Music Awards for Album of the Year and Band of the Year. In 2007 Homans also received the B. King International Entertainer Award one of the Maple Blues Awards presented by the Toronto Blues Society. Homans said that in his upcoming solo shows Saturday at The Blue Door and Sunday at Norman?s Performing Arts Studio and on a new album set for release next month fans may find a distinct shift in the nature of the music he will be playing.
Living With Music: Madison Smartt Bell
New York Times United States
And to know when those 400 years will be over you?d have to fix a date when they began. …8) True Blues the Last Poets. A bit of a detour this one … in some ways but in others not. The Last Poets are the ur-grandparents of rap (there?s even a phrase foreshadowing Wyclef?s ?President? in this lyric). Their purist approach using only voice and African drum patterns reappears in the most fundamental Misik Rasin tracks especially the use of voice as a percussive element. And in “True Blues” the Last Poets have a powerful take on the theme of Tosh?s “Four Hundred Years. ”9) Pè Eténél (Eternal Father) Emeline Michel.
Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival
JamBase CA
Drawing a crowd of over 3000 bluegrass and blues loving music fans the inaugural fest was not simply a celebration of the traditions of bluegrass and blues music but also an opportunity to examine how the forms have evolved since the days of Bill Monroe and Robert Johnson. It had been Raspatello’s dream for years – a festival dedicated to honoring the past present and future of two genres of music that have come to embody the true spirit of the American people. This is music that understands our struggles but also reminds us that there is always sunshine after the rain. Throwing a festival is no small task. It can be an intimidating venture; festies are high-risk endeavors that demand a serious commitment and willingness to face every one of the unexpected obstacles and challenges that will undoubtedly surface along the way.
Eyeballin’: Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin
Houston Press TX
The DVD does have a weakness in its unfortunate dearth of actual musical performance video. The absence of Zep songs and footage is understandable given the probable high cost of their licensing fees. But it’s curious that there’s so little – and then only snippets – of players like Son House Muddy Waters Howlin’ Wolf and Bukka White. Elvis’s guitar picker Scotty Moore also noted as a huge influence on Page doesn’t even appear in a photo.
Sam Taylor famed LI blues singer-songwriter dies
Newsday NY
Taylor was one of the first inductees into the. He built a stellar reputation in blues and R&B over nearly five decades of work as a solo performer and as a guitarist with. “He was one of the last of the great bluesmen” said his friend Richard L’Hommedieu co-founder of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
Sam Taylor Tucson blues king for a decade dies in NY at 74
Arizona Daily Star AZ
That was his creed. That this was church and you should come to church to feel better. " Taylor was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Kool said he would always invite Taylor onto his radio show whenever he came back to town and Taylor entrusted Kool to sell his CDs at Hear’s Music a now-defunct niche-music store. "Every time I saw him he gave me a big hug" Kool said. "He was part of the fabric of Tucson. I’m going to miss him.
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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.