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- Setting the standard
- Woodstock-Era Youth: Led Into The Unusual
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The Tribune-Democrat
He has been recording and touring solo since 1995 in addition to his work with The Clarks. The jazz group Scrapomatic features Mike Mattison and Paul lsen who began playing together in the mid-1990s. The duo has been schooled individually in jazz roots and blues music and has received Minnesota Music Award nominations for best R&B group and best male vocalist. Mattison also plays in The Derek Trucks Band. The Canadian group The Clumsy Lovers blends bluegrass Celtic and rock using a mandolin banjo fiddle harmonica guitar bass and percussion. “They’re described as bringing their own patented ‘fingerpicking mayhem’ ” Johansson said. “They should be so much fun live.
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All About Jazz
I light up and get into the crowd. That’s what I call ministering to the public. “Watkins’ appearance at WMRC is made possible by the Jazz Foundation of America’s Agnes Varis Jazz in the Schools Program which creates paid employment for elder notable jazz and blues artists with limited incomes and exposes younger generations of children to jazz and blues music and history. It also keeps hundreds of these pioneers from eviction and homelessness. “These national treasures all have amazing stories to tell. We consider it a privilege to be there for them after all the times their music has been there for us” says Wendy xenhorn Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation.
Playing their own kind of blues
Salina Journal
For the last 15 years he’s fronted his own band Jimmie Lewin and the Kingtones. The band has made a niche in the blues music scene by playing original songs combined with what Cannon called “obscure B-sides” of records by The Fabulous Thunderbirds Ronnie Earl Albert King and B. “A lot of B-sides of records were better than the A-sides” said Cannon 58. “People haven’t heard them on the radio much if at all.
Crooners sing the blues at music festival
Reno Gazette Journal
“This is my birthday present” said Johnson taking a break from dancing. “So far it’s been really great. “About 6000 attendees were expected at the fifth annual festival which continues today at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. Although event organizers said they were probably looking at a 20-percent dip in attendance from last year they called this year’s lineup the best ever and said everyone is having fun.
Setting the standard
Chicago Tribune
But it was the Les Paul that gave the electric guitar a voice so powerful it could lead bands instead of just chunking along on fat rhythm chords. It has always been a great blues guitar a commonly spotted rock guitar and even a jazz favorite for some because its neck and action can be tweaked to give the instrument lightning speed. Debates rage about who actually invented electric guitars back in the murky American music world of 1940 (or was it 1941?). Paul had deep roots. He was drafted into Armed Forces Radio and accompanied Rudy Vallee and Kate Smith. He toured later with the Andrews Sisters.
Woodstock-Era Youth: Led Into The Unusual
Tyler Morning Telegraph
“What kicked it off for me was Monterey” he said. “That’s when the world found out about Jimi Hendrix and saw the bands that made up the San Francisco scene. “Meanwhile on the underground FM radio — so called because it was largely noncommercial at the time — Fancher followed John Mayall and the Blues Breakers The Grateful Dead Santana the Paul Butterfield Blues Band Quicksilver (Messenger Ser-vice) and other Bay Area musicians. He planned to run away to “The City” he said and be a musician in the San Francisco scene. “I came from a very good home” he said. “That wasn’t the problem. It was the music and the freedom that seemed to go with it that I love.
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