The News Review:
- At Harpin’ Help musicians will be blowin’ blues for a cause
- utdoors and Indoors Blessings to the Blues
- This weekend it’s Springing the Blues at the beach
- Music review: Kristofferson fans Haggard flame
At Harpin’ Help musicians will be blowin’ blues for a cause
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Rob Paparozzi a mainstay of the Jersey club scene who is currently singing and playing harmonica for jazz-rock band Blood Sweat and Tears will headline with his Hudson River Rats Big Band. Steve Guyger a Philadelphia-based bluesman who will present the second-to-last set is a nominee in the harmonica category of the Memphis-based Blues Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music Awards which will be given out May 7. Formerly known as the W. Handy Awards the Blues Music Awards are generally regarded as the blues world’s most important honor. Mack who has been putting Harpin’ Help together throughout its eight- to 10-year history (he’s not sure exactly when he started it) is himself a harmonica player though he’s not planning to play at this year’s show. Some of his harmonica students though will open the event billed as the Mack Jammers.
utdoors and Indoors Blessings to the Blues
New York Times
PAUL’S CHAPEL (Episcopal) 209 Broadway between Fulton and Vesey Streets Lower Manhattan. At noon “Blues for Good Friday” with a performance by the Gateway Band. readings music and veneration of the Cross.
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This weekend it’s Springing the Blues at the beach
Florida Times-Union
Just past halfway through that century I was born and grew up in the Deep South residing in six Southern states in a family that were leaders in the desegregation movement all of which fortunately broadened my exposure. "Early on I loved rock ‘n’ roll music was particularly drawn to Chuck Berry and was interested in where the music came from. I believe it mostly came from the blues. By the end of my teens I was in Memphis. At that time you had to search out blues music. And drawn to its emotion and rhythm I did search it out and found many of the old musicians still playing in Blues Alley where they allowed me to sit in. "Why blues? For me blues is the heart and the soul of all popular music from the mid 20th century on.
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Music review: Kristofferson fans Haggard flame
San Francisco Chronicle
Kristofferson was almost giddy. He could barely contain himself and when he sang in fact he threatened to break character at the end of almost every line. Haggard warmed to his chore and by the time he threw down an unexpected version of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” his 16-year-old son Ben nailing the Luther Perkins guitar part Hag was cruising. There was no set list. Set list? There was no plan whatsoever. Kristofferson opened the show with a song on his own Haggard walked out in the middle of Kristofferson’s introduction and the program tumbled along from there. Kristofferson would sing a song.
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