The News Review:
- Country music taps into recession blues
- Blues Music Awards winners headed to Maine
- MUSIC SCENE: Los Straitjackets a proud throwback
- Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival draws dozens of performers aids …
- Fort Worth music world goes silent for Stephen Bruton
Country music taps into recession blues
msnbc.com
John Rich’s blue collar-anthem “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” peaked at No. 12 last month and a couple of other songs about the economy are getting attention. In “Red White and Pink Slip Blues” Hank Williams Jr. sings about a mill foreman who loses his job and is about to lose his house and his pickup too. “I paid my bills I paid my dues. I paid my share of taxes too. Now I can’t buy my baby shoes” Williams growls.
Blues Music Awards winners headed to Maine
knox.VillageSoup.com
(May 8):The 2009 Blues Music Award winners were announced May 7 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. A number of winners have performed on the Midcoast at the North Atlantic Blues Festival Time ut Pub and Strand Theatre in Rockland; and the Strom Auditorium in Rockport.
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MUSIC SCENE: Los Straitjackets a proud throwback
The Patriot Ledger
We had remarked on how distinctive Freese’s drumming is and remarkable for its high-tuned snare and in concert Pedicone really captured that style and took it to another level. The rest of Rossdale’s road band is everyone from the studio group and since he never introduced anyone we would never have known if Pedicone hadn’t emailed. The excellent CD took Album of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year while Guy was named Blues Artist of the Year. meanwhile sensitive songwriter Matt Nathanson the Lexington native we stumbled upon when he was surrounded by college girls at a Providence show just had his single “Come n Get Higher” certified platinum after more than a million sales by downloads alone.
Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival draws dozens of performers aids …
Baltimore Sun
“It’s just a gorgeous setting – right on the bay with a view of the Bay Bridge” he said. Hooker a blues fanatic who worked in computer sales had never put on a festival – or concert of any kind – before. But his love of blues music and sheer determination led him to organize the first. It was an explosive hit bringing more than 13000 people to the park over the course of two days even though it rained. Since then it has become one of the biggest music festivals in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Fort Worth music world goes silent for Stephen Bruton
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Burnett played a recording made by Bruton just a few weeks before his death. Musician Bonnie Raitt with whom Bruton once toured also attended though she came and went via a side entrance and did not speak. Bruton’s relatives including mother Kathleen wife Mary and brother Sumter Bruton III were joined by more than 500 people forming a veritable who’s who of Dallas-Fort Worth’s blues music scene. The crowd also included Anson Funderburgh Rob Roy Parnell Bugs Henderson Linda Waring Mike Buck and Monty McClinton. Among the pallbearers were James Pennebaker Glen Clark Dave Millsap and Donnie Wade. Writer and musician Mike Price who has a music partnership with Sumter Bruton said he appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with Stephen Bruton over the years. “Sumter and I stayed put in our hometown while Stephen sought to broaden his range though he never sought stardom simply for the sake of it” Price said.