The News Review:
- Studio 61 opens with three-day music festival
- Bobby Rush prompts Monroe bluesman to solo
- When rock ‘n’ roll’s fate was up in the air
- Muldaur brings blues to the Tecumseh Center for the Arts
- SUTHEAST TRAVEL CALENDAR
- For Morrissey new material and a new attitude
- Skater goes to rhythm to get over unemployment blues
Studio 61 opens with three-day music festival
Delta Democrat Times (subscription)
Playing Saturday are Port City Jazz Quartet Amalgamation Micky Rodgers Bill “Howl-n-Mad” Perry Guitar Mikey and The Real Thing and Jerry McCory and the Hammers. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 2 p.
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.
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When rock ‘n’ roll’s fate was up in the air
New York Daily News
Blues) Ladell on WHBI gave him 45 minutes a night on WNJR to play the likes of Amos Milburn and Speckled Red and soon found Mr. Blues was their most popular show. That mirrored a phenomenon happening around the country – like at WLAC in Nashville whose blowtorch signal sent hard-core rhythm-and-blues music to 22 states every night. What had previously been a dirty little secret – that both white and black folks liked this stuff – became a business plan. New York’s Atlantic Records which realized the value of working with emerging radio programs was one of the small indies that quickly developed an important national presence. Broven recounts the importance of New York jocks like Alan Freed Tommy (Dr. Jive) Smalls and Jocko Henderson.
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.
For Morrissey new material and a new attitude
Boston Globe
The more he ignores them the closer they get. It was surprising then and even heartwarming to watch him interact with them so candidly at the House of Blues on Sunday. In fact for a split second it seemed as if Saint Morrissey had descended from the heavens for earthly contact. An eager fan climbing over fellow concertgoers got close enough to hoist a vinyl copy of Morrissey’s new album Sharpie included. Morrissey looked down smiled (but just a little) and autographed it from the stage. See? Who says the man is only concerned with himself?”If I can bring one second of happiness to anyone.
Skater goes to rhythm to get over unemployment blues
Greenwich Time
He passed it along Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); to Jeb Fiorita the owner of Val’s Discount Wine & Liquor in Greenwich who he had become friendly with back when he could afford to buy a bottle of wine to have with dinner. Fiorita said he enjoyed the music. Inspired Watt started passing the CDs out at the Greenwich and Stamford railroad stations — thinking that since most people riding the trains were employed they could have job leads — but didn’t get a good response from weary commuters. Then a couple of weeks ago he started bringing CDs and handing them out when he went down to Greenwich Point to rollerblade. “I would do three to five loops for fun and exercise” Watt said. “It’s an easygoing way to accomplish two things at once.