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- ‘Sita’ fuses style humor and music
- Pupy Costello & His Big City Honky Tonk Cash Box Kings with Joel …
- Shane Dwight’s happy with the blues …
- My music story: Part 1
‘Sita’ fuses style humor and music
Deseret News
But “Sita Sings the Blues” uses the supposed “handicap” and”limitations” of traditional animation to its advantage. Even more bizarrely entrancing is the film’s use of old blues music. This creates unique “musical numbers” that have to be seen to bebelieved. As you might guess from its title “Sita” retells stories in Hindumythology — which mirrored events in Paley’s own life during theearly part of the decade. In particular the film examines her rocky relationship with herthen-husband who was sent to India for his job. Story continues belowPaley had to decide whether to join him there and whether she shouldabandon her life in San Francisco.
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Pupy Costello & His Big City Honky Tonk Cash Box Kings with Joel …
Isthmus
Washington Ave 9 PM. It should be a wild night of classic country blues and rockabilly. Pupy Costello and his band make real foot-stompin’ country music the kind that’s fit for both a honky-tonk barn dance and a bar full of rascals. It channels not only the sounds of classic country and blues — Hank Williams Johnny Paycheck and the Memphis Jug Band to name a few – but their spirits. The Cash Box Kings are a group of young blues players from around the Midwest who are dedicated to carrying on the spirit of the 1940′s and 50′s post-war Chicago blues sound as well as the delta blues music of the 20’s and 30’s. The band pays homage to a lot of Chess and Sun Records luminaries like Little Walter Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers along with lesser-known musicians like Dr.
Shane Dwight’s happy with the blues …
Sacramento Bee
In addition to “Plays the Blues” which is a collection of solid blues tunes – some classic some original but all built upon standard blues rhythms – R-Tist Records will simultaneously release “Gimme Back My Money” a dozen original tunes (some previously released on regional recordings but all remixed and remastered) that range from alt-country Americana to urban R&B. “I’ve always loved all kinds of music” Dwight said recently as he pulled out of traffic and into a Nashville-area Walmart parking lot to talk. “Blues became a kind of addiction of mine” he said. “For about four years I became just obsessed with blues music. “He formed his first band in 2001 and “in the beginning it was absolutely stone-cold nothing but the blues. “”I still love playing the blues” he said “but to be true to myself which is that I love all kinds of music I really feel like I have to play it all. “Dwight recently moved to Nashville because it’s closer to his new business interests he explained.
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My music story: Part 1
Knoxville News Sentinel
That IS literally true. I never met so many people that can sing and play an instrument anywhere else. Everywhere you turn big heaping servings of bluegrass country and blues music abound. n top of that an eclectic mix of genres which includes rock jazz techno rap progressive grunge etc. The list of musicians from Tennessee that made it in the “big time” is extensive. — Everly Brothers Tina Turner Dolly Parton Justin Timberlake Aretha Franklin Carl Perkins Roy Acuff Chet Atkins Duane Allman Miley Cyrus Kenny Chesney Dave Loggins.