The News Review:
- DEATH F A BLUESMAN:Popular Blues musician dies in 2-car crash
- Interracial Love in 1920 Evoking Modern Blues
- Enjoy this performance of Portuguese blues music
- Tattoos blues on ‘Animals in the Dark’
- Zach Prather teams up with Willie Dixon’s legacy at Dixon Landing …
DEATH F A BLUESMAN:Popular Blues musician dies in 2-car crash
Helena Daily World
25 and his death can only be called a tragic loss for the blues and the Arkansas Delta. Blues musician and loyal supporter Mark Sallings 56 was killed in a two-vehicle accident in Crittenden County on Feb. 25 a tragic loss to Arkansas Delta and Blues music. Many called Sallings their friend and others called him the greatest blues harpist in the world. Sallings born near Helena was an integral part of the blues and the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival playing at the festival many times and also playing at the funeral of many blues artist greats. Rayne Gordon Sonny Boy Blues Society president said that Sallings was a “huge” supporter of the festival playing his harp at memorials and events for Blues Aid. He began playing professionally at age 14.
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Interracial Love in 1920 Evoking Modern Blues
New York Times
n Friday night at the school’s inviting performance space on St. Nicholas Avenue “Strange Fruit” was presented in concert with a gifted cast of young professional singers conducted by Steven Gross. Though scored for a chamber orchestra the work was performed with piano accompaniment by Marijo Newman so it would be unfair to assess the music fully. The opera tells of Nonnie an idealistic young black woman and her secret affair with Tracy an earnest young white man who feels disaffected from his bigoted neighbors. “Strange Fruit” contends with roiling societal shifts that threatened the status quo of Georgia in 1920. Black workers have taken over mill jobs from unskilled whites including Tracy who served in the war. Nonnie’s hotheaded brother Ed living in Washington returns to persuade his family to head north.
Enjoy this performance of Portuguese blues music
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Tattoos blues on ‘Animals in the Dark’
The Reflector online
The song “ld Devils” mirrors raspy Delta Blues noise and holds a rhythm suiting the event of bad guys getting away in a ’50s gangster movie. In the song Whitmore manages to amalgamate swaying blues and toe-tapping punk rock with immense ease. Growing up and working as a horse farmer on the banks of the Mississippi River must have influenced Whitmore to sing blues-infected songs but his experiences and involvement with punk bands add a universality to his music making his career successful. With a splatter of instruments on the album desperation and redemption bleed through in the songs “Diggin’ My Grave” and “There’s Hope For You. ” These songs along with many of his others have an earthy low synonymous with gospel songs of old Southern churches from way back when. ther songs on the album featuring banjo playing are more traditional but never let listeners forget they are listening to Whitmore sing. Although songs from this album could easily ring from wooden shack churches this is not the music your typical Southern Baptist grandmother would enjoy.
Zach Prather teams up with Willie Dixon’s legacy at Dixon Landing …
1888 Press Release (press release)
However it was not the local Blues players that influenced Prather then rather the British invasion groups such as the Rolling Stones the Kinks Small Faces and The Who. By teaming up with the Dixon legacy the two are sure to generate a great buzz for Zach’s music. “It’s a breath of fresh air for the music industry. It turns the corner for the direction of blues music” says Alex Dixon on Zach’s CD “FREAK”. “We are very happy to be working with him and look forward to great things to come. “FREAK” is available for download on several digital sites including iTunes and Amazon. For information about other releases and upcoming projects on Dixon Landing Music please visit the website.