The News Review:
- Young Man Blues
- MUSIC: Getting Janiva Magness to the Upstage? No Problem
- Slumdog Millionaire Music Review
- this week with dolly
- Music Review: Blues artist Derek Trucks lacks fire on new album
- Trad music ‘eases recession blues’
Young Man Blues
U Weekly H
You can catch this blistering up-and-coming blues rock band this Friday Jan. 16 at the House of Crave for a Blue Jackets after-game concert at 9 p. mUW: So how does somebody your age get into playing blues music?SB: Well my dad used to listen to bluegrass. You know Stanley Brothers Bill Monroe Larry Sparks those kind of guys. My grandpa was a bluegrass banjo player so my dad grew up around music. He would play Neil Young he was a huge Neil Young fan.
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.
Slumdog Millionaire Music Review
neindia India
With a hint of ‘Jai Ho’ to it it is a club track that you could play out loud and jive along with all the fancy lights surrounding you. ‘Gangsta Blues’ is a haunting yet intriguing number that reminds one of the soundtrack of lesser known film Snip which was made close to a decade back. However though not much is remembered of Snip today Rahman ensures that his ‘Gangsta Blues’ would be identified well by those who have been exposed to this genre of music courtesy MTV and Channel V! The concluding track ‘Dreams n Fire’ is a soft and sensitive number and Rahman shows once again that why he is a preferred choice for many international filmmakers!VCALSIt would certainly have been the Rahman factor that would have prompted Alka Yagnik to come behind the mike for a number like ‘Ringa Ringa’. Even though she has sworn off singing any number that has a hint of vulgarity to it Alka Yagnik doesn’t mind going ahead with ‘Ringa Ringa’ and comes up with good results all over again in company of her ‘Choli Ke Peeche’ partner Ila Arun. Sukhwinder Singh is energetic and effortlessly goes ahead rendering ‘Jai Ho’ where he is accompanied by Tanvi Shah Mahalaxmi Iyer and Vijay Prakash. The singer can comfortably add on another big chartbuster to his name. Rahman himself comes behind the mike for ‘ Saaya’ along with M.
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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.
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.
Trad music ‘eases recession blues’
The Press Association
The Hollywood star said trad was an essential part of Irish heritage that would entertain people through the economic downturn. Launching Temple Bar’s Trad Festival which opens later this month Rea described the style of music as Irish blues and added: “When we had nothing all we had was our music our culture it has always been a shining light through the dark times of the past. All rights reserved.