The News Review:
- Bobby Rush prompts Monroe bluesman to solo
- Muldaur brings blues to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts
- SUTHEAST TRAVEL CALENDAR
- Prince Prince Prince: n the scene for his three-show night in LA
- Lunch with the Elephants
- Fresh thoughts on new music
Bobby Rush prompts Monroe bluesman to solo
Fort Mills Times
It’s been a long journey from the gospel of his youth to the often risqué double entendre-laden brand of roadhouse blues that Brian Sivils pumps out. “I don’t remember not singing” said Sivils who released his first solo CD “nce Upon a Time in the Delta” late last year – partly thanks to encouragement and help from Blues Music Award winner Bobby Rush. “My family have been gospel singers forever” Sivils continued. “As a matter of fact my father and his brothers had a gospel radio show coming out of Bastrop in 1949 so I remember singing gospel harmony as long as I can remember being alive. “He performed classical music opera and oratorio while pursuing a music degree. Then he spent 20 years as an Air Force Band singer always working with another band on the side.
Muldaur brings blues to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts
Adrian Daily Telegram
- To Maria Muldaur blues music is as honest as it gets when it comes to telling the story of life. “It’s an authentic spontaneous expression of the human condition” she said. “It’s not ‘wishful thinking’ music” — music where the lyrics speak of wishing life was different or wishing someone loved you more or something like that — “it’s ‘this is the way it really is. ’ … it’s everything that speaks to what’s real. ”Muldaur brings a program of classic blues music like that heard on her recent album “Naughty Bawdy & Blue” to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.
SUTHEAST TRAVEL CALENDAR
Atlanta Journal Constitution
pensacolawinefestival. Jacksonville Beach —- The three-day Springing the Blues April 3-5 offers free blues music from Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band the Legendary JC’s Roger “Hurricane” Wilson and more. Art shows and movie also scheduled. 904-247-6100 springingtheblues. Fort Lauderdale —- The FGRA Sunshine Stampede Rodeo April 3-5 is one of the largest gay rodeos in the country and this year features a rodeo school.
Prince Prince Prince: n the scene for his three-show night in LA
Entertainment Weekly
Then he whips off his sunglasses. The ladies go wild. 7:48 Prince stops the music then starts it again but does not change songs. Realize we may be in for long night. 7:50 “Say one word: ‘Lotusflow3r!’” Prince tells the crowd then begins soundchecking the kick drum and complaining about the “side fills. ” “Despite it all I’m gonna do my best” he tells the room “How bout y’all?” The backup singers leave the stage.
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Lunch with the Elephants
Baltimore City Paper
and Barnum & Bailey elephants come to town. This is not that event which is invite only sorry. Nope this meal features the world’s largest vegetarian buffet for the big gray guys RB and B&B clowns and live blues music by Blues Unchained. Lunch at the Lex is always an adventure no? Catch the elephants and the rest of the circus under the big top at the 1st Mariner Arena through April 5.
Fresh thoughts on new music
Detroit Free Press
McBride strikes a deep groove Garrett’s hot-and-sour alto caterwauls McLaughlin’s crunchy guitar rocks out and Colaiuta’s drums are more focused than elsewhere. Mostly however individual passages come off better than the wandering extended performances where the payoffs don’t always justify the journey. The many rhythmic and textural shifts on Jackie McLean’s blues “Dr. Jackle” descend into pastiche though Garrett still blows up an expressive bebop storm. Corea’s ambitious 28-minute sci-fi suite “Hymn to Andromeda” includes stimulating interplay between Corea and McBride but the elaborate rigging turns a bit nerdy in spots. (2 of 3)After its first flush of creativity one wing of ’70s fusion got trapped in the cul-de-sac of hyperdrive attitude and warp-speed chops. Those issues don’t saturate the music here but neither are they totally absent.