Joe Henry gives his own tone to the blues
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- Joe Henry gives his own tone to the blues
- Concert review: Sugar Ray and Fastball at House of Blues
- King of the blues still reigns supreme
- » Retiring barkeep to hit open road
- What Blues Means to Nat Dove
- Lyle Lovett maps fall headlining shows
- heritage center announces fall music series
Joe Henry gives his own tone to the blues
Los Angeles Times
“I typically come to things late” Henry said. “I was too busy with Leadbelly when the Clash happened. These days the easygoing musician is venturing back to some of the most harrowing music in the American canon: The tormented country blues of Son House Robert Johnson and Skip James. “To me it’s like reading Keats or Blake” he said during a recent interview in his basement studio. “It’s about engaging in the idea of mortality. It takes God sex love and death and puts them all in the same room — and grapples. It’s not all answered but it’s all engaged.
Concert review: Sugar Ray and Fastball at House of Blues
Dallas Morning News
And truly a big part of maintaining that momentum – and at least a reasonable bill-paying measure of the whole fame ‘n’ fortune thing — is to keep on keepin’ on which both acts have done releasing new albums this year. Austin’s Fastball was supporting Little White Lies and songs from that album like “Always Never” went over well but the more resonant tunes seemed to be of an older vintage like 1999’s song of romantic imbalance “ut of My Head” or the (once) ubiquitous “The Way. ” Frontman Miles Zuniga and his Les Paul did a good job of leading the band and the music was punchy and direct. Sugar Ray was next and – like Fastball – their alt-rock formula is basically the same as it was in the late 90s with a punk-pop sound augmented by the turntable stylings of Craig “DJ Homicide” Bullock. Their new album is Music for Cougars. Their sound is a bit more reggae inflected a fact they referenced with their invocation of another earlier artist who used Caribbean rhythms to mark his music – their 2003 cover of Joe Jackson’s “Is She Really Going ut With Him?” If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like when you grab pop music’s brass ring and hang on for a little bit – long enough to forgo ramen noodles but a tad shy of Bentleys and private jets Sunday night at the House of Blues you got your answer.
King of the blues still reigns supreme
Boston Globe
“I don’t like the way some blues singers rappers and hip-hoppers have been saying bad things about the ladies’’ he said before leading his eight-piece backing band in a bluesy take of “You Are My Sunshine. ’’The music – ah yes. After the George Gritzbach Band opened the concert with a six-song set of electric blues King started with the old standby “I Need You So’’ masterfully transforming the word “I’’ into an elongated “aaarrrggghhhhhh. ’’ Naturally he closed with “The Thrill Is Gone’’ but some of the other selections were not so obvious. With a heavy dose of self-deprecating humor he tore through “ne Kind Favor’’ whose narrator asks the listener to keep his grave clean. There was a splendid moment in his guitar solo when he took one note shook it full of vibrato then held it and bent it slightly until it sounded right to him. It is this mix of supreme musicianship and audience engagement that keeps King magnetic and makes each concert an event.
» Retiring barkeep to hit open road
maha World-Herald
He currently owns and operates Murphy’s Lounge and the rustic ski-oriented Lift both near 96th and L Streets and Bar Fly the 114th Street and West Dodge Road party spot. His previous establishments include Paddy Murphy’s the Wooly Bully the Sound Asylum and the riginal 18th Amendment Saloon. He used to run Fremont Street Reggae and Blues a live music venue in Las Vegas. ’Halloran an animated fun-loving guy recently sold his house and moved in with his 87-year-old father who was in poor health. “I want to take a mini-retirement to spend more time with my dad” he said a couple weeks ago. That plan was cut short when his father Ray died Aug.
What Blues Means to Nat Dove
The Santa Barbara Independent
He came at the request of Black Studies Department professor Clyde Woods. The lecture lasted for roughly an hour which Dove spent showing film photos and other images from the early days of blues music and demonstrating the musical differences between his craft and the music of the time. Dove was also greeted in Woods? classroom by some prominent members of the Santa Barbara Blues Society which has deep roots in the community and much recognition abroad. ?I think the Santa Barbara Blues Society is the oldest blues society in the world? Dove said.
Lyle Lovett maps fall headlining shows
LiveDaily.com
The 12-track set–which features the performer’s Large Band on a variety of country blues folk jazz and gospel songs–peaked at No. 18 on The Billboard 200. “We’ve always done arrangements that border on blues music that border on jazz arrangements that border on what folks might think of as ‘big band’ but we don’t really play big band music” Lovett said of the album’s title in a promotional video clip posted at Amazon. “But we’ve always had a lot of people in the band so that’s why I call the band the ‘Large Band’ and not the ‘Big Band. ‘ But invariably people refer to the band as the ‘Big Band’ and.
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heritage center announces fall music series
Seymour Herald
She was soon performing on stage with legends like George Jones and Jerry Lee Lewis. Then in 1995 she heard a tape of Koko Taylor an astonishing voice that left a lasting impression. As a result her musical career took a dramatic turn toward the blues. Kight's music now crosses many borders that tastefully incorporate blues jazz country southern rock gospel and funk. Labron Lazenby & LA3 can lay claim to being the #1 blues and boogie band in East Tennessee. They represented the Smoky Mountain Blues Society at this year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis and made it all the way to the semi-finals. An electrifying blues guitarist Labron Lazenby (whose nickname is "LA") is unique in that he is also a master of the difficult thumb and finger-picking style made famous by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis.
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