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Johnny Preston, Texas Singer. Dies at 71
BEAUMONT, Tex. (AP) — Johnny Preston, who had a No. 1 hit with the song “Running Bear” in 1960, died here on Friday. He was 71.
His death was confirmed by his son, Scott, who said Mr. Preston had bypass surgery late last year and suffered from lingering health problems.
Born Johnny Preston Courville in 1939, Mr. Preston spent most of his life in Port Arthur, Tex. He first performed in a group called the Shades at Lamar University, in Beaumont, in 1957 and was brought to the attention of Mercury Records by the disc jockey and singer J. P. Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper.
Mr. Richardson wrote “Running Bear,” which told the story of an ill-fated romance between Running Bear, an “Indian brave,” and Little White Dove, an “Indian maid.” It became a million-seller for Mr. Preston the year after Mr. Richardson died in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Mr. Preston’s follow-up single, “Cradle of Love,” reached No. 7 on the Billboard chart.
In addition to his son Scott, Mr. Preston is survived by his wife, Sharon; another son, Michael; two daughters, Leslie and Lisa; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Herman Ernest, longtime Dr. John drummer, dies of cancer
By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
Herman Ernest III, the longtime drummer in Dr. John’s Lower 911 band and a literal and figurative giant of New Orleans funk drumming, died Sunday of cancer at his home. He was 59.
Photo by Erika Goldring
Drummer Herman Ernest, right, with Dr. John, backstage at Tipitina's in February 2008.
Renowned for his larger-than-life personality, Mr. Ernest, known affectionately as Roscoe, was both a powerful percussionist and steadfast individual. He referred to his playing style as “diesel funk.”
He was featured on most Dr. John recordings going back at least 20 years, as well as on myriad albums by artists across the spectrum of New Orleans music. He starred in a 2004 New Orleans drumming instructional DVD alongside Herlin Riley, Johnny Vidacovich and Earl Palmer.
In 2009, jazz trumpeter Jeremy Davenport recruited Mr. Ernest to lay down the drums for “Mr. New Orleans,” a duet with Kermit Ruffins that appeared on Davenport’s album “We’ll Dance Til Dawn.” Davenport and co-producers Tracey Freeman and David Torkanowsky marveled at what Torkanowsky referred to as Mr. Ernest’s “proprietary groove.”
“Herman could play a trash can and it would sound like that,” Freeman said during the session, with admiration.
Most recently, Mr. Ernest cut tracks for “Nine Lives,” a forthcoming CD and musical based on Dan Baum’s book of the same title. Singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez recalled in a posting Sunday on the OffBeat message board how Mr. Ernest played through intense pain during the recording session.
The distinctly New Orleans hoodoo funk perpetuated by Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack was built on the sturdy foundation supplied by Mr. Ernest and bassist David Barard. On Rebennack’s 2006 Johnny Mercer tribute “Mercernary,” their seamless interplay was especially evident in the spooky opening of “Come Rain or Come Shine.”
Rebennack trusted Mr. Ernest implicitly, both on- and offstage. Mr. Ernest convinced him to rethink “Perdido,” a song on the 2000 Duke Ellington tribute “Duke Elegant.” “Whatever I was thinking for ‘Perdido’ would have been more dated sounding,” Rebennack said in 2000. “Herman turned it into a tribute to all the New Orleans drummers, like Smokey (Johnson) and Zig (Modeliste) and James Black and John Boudreaux, that era of New Orleans drummers. It was such a cool idea.”
Their rapport, honed over many years together and the result of a profound mutual respect, was obvious in Mr. Ernest’s humorous introductions and commentaries delivered from behind the drum kit. During a set at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, Mr. Ernest provided a play-by-play description of Rebennack’s zombie-like soft-shoe dance in “I Been Hoodooed.”
Mr. Ernest battled cancer off and on in recent years, and was hospitalized several times. Whenever he felt up to the task, he reoccupied the drum chair. Otherwise, Rebennack employed various substitutes. At the Howlin’ Wolf on Feb. 27, Herlin Riley filled in.
The band dedicated a Sunday night show in Massachusetts to Mr. Ernest’s memory.
“We played a beautiful gig last night with every note and beat played and sung in his honor,” guitarist John Fohl posted on OffBeat.com. Mr. Ernest “was a mentor, a teacher, a protector, a leader and a great friend. We all miss him dearly. Lucky for us we have thousands of stories and even more music to remember him with.”
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Bob Dylan Muse Dies At Age 67
Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s early girlfriend and the inspiration behind many of his early love songs, has died at the age of 67.
Bob and Suze were still teenagers when they started dating in 1961. She was the inspiration behind his song ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright’.
Suze was also the girl with Dylan on the cover of his iconic ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ (see image). After meeting her, Dylan described Suze in his book ‘Chronicles’ as “the most erotic thing I’d ever seen”.
The couple split in 1963 when stories of Dylan’s fling with Joan Baez gained momentum. For more than 40 years, Suze did not talk publically about Dylan until the 2005 Martin Scorsese doco ‘No Direction Home’.
After Dylan, Suze met and married film editor Enzo Bartoccioli. They had one son, Luca.
In 2009, she told more when she published her memoir ‘A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties’. Suze lived her entire life in The Village.
Dylan songs also inspired by Suze include ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’ and ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’.
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Suze Rotolo, a Face, With Bob Dylan, of ’60s Music, Is Dead at 67
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/arts/music/01rotolo.html
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Johnny Nitro - S.F. blues guitarist - dies
Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer
(SAN FRANCISCO -- Johnny Nitro's life ended like one of his gigs: in an old North Beach bar, on a recent Saturday night, surrounded by fans.
Mr. Nitro, whose raspy voice and low-down rhythm guitar made him a beloved fixture in the Bay Area blues scene, died Saturday evening in his apartment upstairs from the Saloon on Grant Avenue, where he performed regularly for decades.
"The paramedics came. It was chaos. But when they brought his body down wrapped in a white sheet, everyone just got quiet and started applauding. It was amazing," said Futoshi Morioka, a San Francisco guitarist who was playing at the Saloon when Mr. Nitro died.
"We finished the set because Johnny would have wanted that," Morioka said. "But then we played Bill Withers' 'Lean on Me' in his honor. I just played my heart out for him."
Mr. Nitro, 59, had been suffering from heart disease and diabetes for several years. In December, he collapsed onstage and was hospitalized for several days but was back performing the next weekend, said Burton Winn of San Anselmo, the bassist for Mr. Nitro's band, the Doorslammers.
"We've lost an institution," Winn said. "When he played, it was like he was in your living room, talking directly to you. He's irreplaceable."
Despite his health problems, Mr. Nitro was among the most tireless musicians in the Bay Area, his friends and colleagues said. He played several nights a week, taught at the Blue Bear School of Music at Fort Mason and mentored dozens of younger musicians.
"I'm 10 years younger than him, and he would wear my ass out," said Kathy Tejcka of Benicia, who played keyboard for the Doorslammers. "He rocked."
Mr. Nitro, whose real name was John Newton, grew up in Sacramento. When he was 13, he saved his lunch money and bought his first guitar from a pawn shop, teaching himself to play by listening to friends' B.B. King records.
A scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute brought him to North Beach in the 1970s, and, since then, he rarely left. He lived for a while in a 1947 panel truck and worked as a car mechanic to make ends meet.
For a short time, he worked at Sears Point and other raceways.
"I was the guy who mixed the fuel, so I was Nitro Man," he told The Chronicle in 2006, explaining the origins of his stage name.
Mr. Nitro performed with stars such as Albert Collins and Albert King, and released several albums. Collins covered one of Mr. Nitro's original songs, "Dirty Dishes."
Like most blues artists, Mr. Nitro loved to tell a good story. Onstage at the Saloon, he'd chat with the audience, flirt with women, tell jokes and keep the crowd - which typically included local regulars and tourists from around the world - dancing all night.
"His presence onstage was irresistible," Morioka said. "He could just stand there holding his guitar but had so much charisma."
Among Mr. Nitro's favorite quips, said Tejcka, was this: "Keep drinking triples till you're seeing double, feeling single and getting in trouble."
Mr. Nitro himself quit drinking and smoking several years ago, his friends said.
"He was really proud of that. He knew what it was like to have a second chance," Tejcka said. "He just referred to those years as 'back when I was really sick.' "
Mr. Nitro's last gig was Friday at the Saloon. He usually ended gigs with "Great Balls of Fire," but that night he veered from his routine, Tejcka said.
"Some guy in the audience called out for 'Johnny B. Goode,' " she said. "You know, 'Go, Johnny, go ...' He laughed, 'Well, you'd think I oughta know that one.' "
Mr. Nitro is survived by his wife, saxophonist Silvia Cicardini of Antioch, and a daughter, Kirsten Newton of San Francisco.
Friends plan to play a show in his honor on March 30 at the Little Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City.
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Mark Tulin, Electric Prunes and Smashing Pumpkins Bassist, Dead at 62
http://www.spinner.com/2011/02/28/mark-tulin-electric-prunes-dies/
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Rick Coonce was the drummer of the Rob Grill/Warren Entner/Rick Coonce/Creed Bratton inception of the Grass Roots (right after the Bedouins abandoned the effort)
Ricky Coonce had a massive heart attack.
He was born in 1946 making him 65 years old this year.
Ricky lived in Victoria B. C.
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Country Hall of Famer Ferlin Husky hospitalized
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country Music Hall of Fame member Ferlin Husky is hospitalized in critical condition.
Husky's daughter, Alana Jackson, tells The Associated Press through a family spokesman that the 85-year-old's condition improved Monday and his doctors at Hendersonville Medical Center may soon move him out of the critical care unit.
Tracy Pitcox, president of Husky's record label, Heart of Texas Records, says Husky has been in and out of the hospital the last few weeks following surgery and began having trouble breathing over the weekend. Husky suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and has a history of cardiac problems.
Husky was inducted into the Country Hall of Fame last year. He helped bring country music to the masses with pioneering work in television. His hits include "Wings of a Dove" and "Gone."
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Veteran rocker Cliff Richard gets "soul-licious"
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British crooner Cliff Richard is teaming up with some of the biggest names in soul for a new album to be produced by Motown songwriting great Lamont Dozier.
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Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart eye radical blues album
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Guitarist Jeff Beck wants to make one more mind-blowing album with Rod Stewart before the singer becomes a fixture on the Las Vegas Strip.
The British rockers, both 66, recently discussed collaborating for the first time in more than 25 years, with hopes that the resulting project would pick up where their groundbreaking blues work from the late 1960s left off.
Beck recently told Reuters there is "some mileage" to be had in a reunion project that radically reworks old tunes by the likes of Muddy Waters and Elmore James.
But the ball's in Stewart's court.
"It all depends on how he delivers. He's gotta come across big-time, vocally," said Beck, who was confident Stewart still has the goods. "But until the fat lady -- uh -- the skinny geezer sings!"
The two old comrades met up in Los Angeles just before Christmas and excitedly laid the groundwork. Stewart the stadium crowd-pleaser would reclaim his title as the rightful successor of Sam Cooke, and Beck the infamous perfectionist would supply a powerful musical foundation of different keys and riffs.
Does Beck plan to rock the world Led Zeppelin-style?
"Oh we're gonna do that," Beck said without missing a beat. "It won't even see the light of day unless it does."
In fact, he promised to destroy the tapes if the project was aborted.
"I WOULD HAVE SPARED YOU 'MAGGIE MAY'"
Before he became a global pop idol, Stewart got his big break in the late 1960s singing gritty blues songs with the Jeff Beck Group, a short-lived combo that could have overshadowed Led Zeppelin.
Their two albums, "Truth" and "Beck-Ola," established "Rod the Mod" as one of England's greatest soul singers. But then the group fell apart. Stewart became a huge rock star and rarely stretched himself again. Beck remained a cult favorite.
"He should have stayed with me. I would have spared you 'Maggie May,'" Beck jokingly said of the 1971 chart-topper, Stewart's first big hit.
"There's nothing wrong with 'Maggie May,' but it would have been so much more powerful, I think, more strident, more futuristic. But who am I to say? Look at the results he got."
Beck and Stewart reunited in 1985 for an R&B cover of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready."
Beck promised to instill Stewart with the necessary confidence to step out of his comfort zone. He recalled that when the Jeff Beck Group played New York's Fillmore East in 1968, Stewart was so shy that he sang behind the curtain.
"He was so frightened," he said. "I don't blame him."
The big variable, of course, is Stewart, who became a father for the eighth time a few weeks ago. He and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks will kick off a North American tour on March 20. Beck also has a busy tour itinerary.
According to Rolling Stone, Stewart is also in talks to extend his recent stand at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace to multiple residencies over the next two years. He's also considering a stint at Carnegie Hall where he would perform songs from the hit "American Songbook" albums on which he crooned old standards, Frank Sinatra-style.
"He has a penchant for being Sinatra, like all singers do, end up in Vegas." Beck said. "And I think that's where he's gonna probably end up. Big band, stuff like that. So what? That's a good, gracious way to wind things up.
"This is a bit of a left-turn, isn't it this?. A bit of a thin-ice deal. But trust me, I won't let anything get out that shouldn't get out."
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PHIL COLLINS TALKS ABOUT HIS HEALTH PROBLEMS
Although Phil Collins recently told British magazine FHM that he is quitting music after his 40-year career because of his recent health issues, the singer’s rep informed People magazine that Phil is just taking a break and has no intention of retiring. As for those health problems, Collins reviewed some them with us.
(Cut #1) “I went to get an MRI and I found out I had three or four vertebra crushing my spinal cord. So I had an operation on that to screw them back in place and the surgeon said that should be okay now, just in a year or so time. And that year almost went and I just said it’s not getting any better, it’s getting worse. So I went back to the specialist and they said, ‘Oh, no, no, no, you’ve got another problem here.’ So another MRI, another MRI. They think they know what it is but whether it will come back or not is down to luck, really.”
It seems as though luck hasn’t been on Phil’s side as his issues got worse recently, as he explained.
(Cut #2) “I’ve got things happening with my hands and stuff, which is a pain because I can’t even write my name, let alone play drums. But, I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m not morose about not being able to play.”
Phil spoke more about his happiness to FHM, telling the mag that he “doesn’t belong” in the music industry today, saying, “I’m much happier to just write myself out of the script entirely.”
NEIL YOUNG ANNOUNCES TOUR
Neil Young has announced a spring tour. The trek kicks off on April 15th in Durham, North Carolina and runs through May 7th. During the jaunt, which focuses on the East Coast and Mid-West, Neil will perform classic tunes as well as new songs off his latest album, Le Noise. Get all the dates at NeilYoung.com.
SEE BILLY JOEL’S SHEA STADIUM SHOWS
Billy Joel – Live at Shea Stadium, the full-length concert film of the singer’s historic 2008 shows that closed down New York’s Shea Stadium, came out on CD, DVD and Blu-Ray today. The set features a bunch guest artists and Billy told us he was shocked so many of them came out to play with him.
(Cut #3) “Look, we had Mellencamp, we had Steven Tyler, Roger Daltrey, Garth Brooks, Tony Bennett, John Mayer. All these people showed up. I was stunned they actually all showed up. You know, rock and roll you never know.”
STEVEN TYLER TALKS ABOUT HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
On May 10th, Steven Tyler will release his long-awaited autobiography, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? and now, the Aerosmith singer has put out a video talking about the book. Head to StevenTyler.com to hear the rocker describe what it was like for him writing it and what it will be like to read.
• Steven was born Steven Victor Tallarico.
CONDOMS WITH KISS IMAGES ON THEM
Not sure what to get that Kiss-loving nymphomaniac in your life? Well you’re in luck! A new set of Kiss Kondoms are coming out and they include full-color images right on the latex. It’s all FDA-approved and you can pre-order yours now at Condomania.com.
• The use of condoms has been traced back several thousand years. It is believed that around 1000 BC, the ancient Egyptians used a linen sheath for protection against disease.
OUT THIS WEEK
Tuesday, March 8th
Billy Joel – Live at Shea Stadium
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now (Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith and more are featured on Collapse Into Now)
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water: 40th Anniversary Edition [CD/DVD]
Neil Diamond – The Bang Years
Heart – Night at Sky Church [DVD, Blu-ray]
Rainbow – Down to Earth: Deluxe Edition
Elvis Presley – Elvis is Back [Legacy Edition]
PAUL SIMON ANNOUNCES SPRING TOUR
Paul Simon has announced a spring tour to promote So Beautiful or So What, his first album in five years. The record comes out on April 12th and the trek kicks off three days later in Seattle. During the jaunt, which runs through June 1st, Paul will play new songs and some classics, as well as tunes that haven’t been performed live in many years. Get all the dates atPaulSimon.com.
HAGAR SCHEDULES BOOK SIGNINGS
On March 15th, Sammy Hagar will release his autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, and to promote it, he’ll be signing the book at stores across the continent. Sammy will be in New York, Toronto, St. Louis, L-A and elsewhere. Get all the dates at RedRocker.com.
DYLAN APPROVED TO PLAY IN CHINA
Last year, Bob Dylan was set to play in China but his concerts were cancelled because of the country’s Ministry of Culture. Now, the Ministry has approved a pair of shows that will take place in April. According to the AFP, the 69-year-old singer will play in Beijing on April 6th and in Shanghai on April 8th, marking his first ever shows in China. The gigs are timed to mark Dylan’s 50th year as a performer.
• A VIP ticket costs 1,961.411 yuan – a price that represents the date of Dylan’s first official New York gig on April 11th, 1961.
ASCAP TO HONOR ROD STEWART
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will honor Rod Stewart at the 28th annual Pop Music Awards. At the event, which takes place in L-A on April 27th, Rod will be given the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award, given to songwriters and composers who have made pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing fellow musicians. ASCAP.com has more info.
• Previous recipients of the award include Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Jackson Browne.
EARLY PHOTOS OF BAY AREA ROCKERS IN NEW BOOK
Plenty of amazing metal bands came out of the Bay Area and now, a new photo book will pay tribute to them. It’s called Murder in the Front Row: Bay Area Bangers and the Birth of Thrash Metal and its 300 pages boast some of the first shots of groups like Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The book will be out this fall and you can learn more at MurderInTheFrontRow.com.
DAVE GROHL TALKS NEW FOO DISC
Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl says that the track list to the band’s new disc, Wasting Light, is arranged as if it were a live set. Grohl dished to NME saying that he thinks their album’s arrangement makes perfect sense and that he loves to play the songs in that order. Wasting Light hits stores April 12th. The Foo Fighters play a couple U-S dates starting on May 21st. Check out FooFighters.com for more.
EXCLUSIVE: ALLMAN BROTHERS’ NEW FESTIVAL
For the past six years, the Allman Brothers Band have held an annual event in Florida called the Wanee Festival. It was the brainchild of drummer Butch Trucks and he revealed exclusively to us that the guys will be doing a similar festival in a different part of the country later this year.
(Cut #1) “I came up with the idea of doing four weekend festivals, one in the Southeast, one in the Northeast, one in the Mid-West and one on the West Coast. Now we got the Southeast going and now this year we’re going to add one of the others. I ain’t saying anything more about where it will be but it’s gonna be exactly the same. It’ll be three days with the same type of talent, in fact a lot of the same bands, but it’ll be in a different part of the country. And this next one is called Monty. And I’ll probably get in trouble for saying that.”
Butch said an official announcement is coming soon. In the meantime, this year’s Wanee Festival takes place in mid-April and includes sets from the Steve Miller Band, Robert Plant’s Band of Joy and others. Before then, the Allman Brothers will perform their annual residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre starting on Thursday.
• All of the band’s gigs are streamed live at stored at Moogis.com. Head there to sign up and watch the concerts.
CLAPTON DOES LAUNDRY AT LAUNDROMAT
Eric Clapton may be one of the greatest guitarists of all time but like everyone, he still needs to do laundry, and surprisingly, like many of us, he does it at a local Laundromat. TMZ found the rocker folding clothes at a public Laundromat in L-A. Check out video of Clapton and his clothes at TMZ.com.
RARE BOWIE DOCUMENTARY ONLINE
In January, 1975, the BBC aired a documentary about a very fragile David Bowie touring in America. It mixed concert footage with behind-the-scenes clips of the singer and now, the rare documentary is online. It’s called Cracked Actor and you can find it at Vimeo.com.
• DIRECT LINK:
http://vimeo.com/16974132
JAGGER WORKING ON SOLO ALBUM?
Is Mick Jagger working on new solo music? Yes, according to his brother, Chris. The younger Jagger told a Portuguese TV station that Mick is currently in L-A recording an album with producer Dave Stewart. If it’s true, it will be Mick’s first solo effort since 2001’s Goddess in the Doorway.
• Mick and Dave Stewart previously collaborated in 1987, when Dave wrote songs for Mick’s solo album, Primitive Cool. In 2004, the two also wrote three songs together for the soundtrack to the film Alfie.
HAGAR EXPECTS TO REUNITE WITH VAN HALEN
Chickenfoot singer Sammy Hagar says there is a “90 percent” chance that he’ll play in Van Halen again. The rocker told Rolling Stone that he would “love to make another record” with the band if Eddie Van Halen “was totally cool” and not like how he was the last time they were together. Hagar added that if he does reunite with the group, because of what he wrote about the guys in his upcoming autobiography, it won’t be for some time after the book comes out. That book, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, is due out on the 15th.
ELTON JOHN TO OPEN TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
Elton John will help open this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. During the event’s opening night, The Union, a Cameron Crowe documentary film about the making of Elton’s collaboration with Leon Russell, will screen and following the movie, the Rocket Man will perform. It all happens April 20th in New York City and you can learn more at TribecaFilm.com.
BEATLES STATUE COMING TO RUSSIA
The Beatles could be back in the U-S-S-R. That’s because according to Russia’s RiaNovosti news agency, a bronze monument memorializing the band will be built in the western Siberian city of Tomsk. The life-size statue will be of the Fab Four as they’re seen on the cover of Abbey Road.
LENNON’S NON-BEATLES MOVIE DEBUT ON DVD THIS MONTH
In 1967, John Lennon made his only non-Beatles theatrical performance in a film called How I Won the War. Now, the dark comedy about World War II is coming out as a limited-edition DVD. Learn about the absurdities of war by watching the disc, which also comes with a commemorative booklet featuring behind-the-scenes stills from the film’s production. It’s out on March 20th
ROLLING STONES MUSIC IN SUPER HIGH DEFINITION
If you feel the Rolling Stones songs you’re listening to don’t have enough quality to them, you’re in luck. For the first time ever, all of the band’s albums will soon be available as super high definition digital downloads. You’ll be able to get every studio, compilation and live record in sparkling fidelity Flac formats at HDTracks.com. Head to that site for more info.
THE MONKEES TO TOUR IN AMERICA
The Monkees recently revealed that to celebrate their 45th anniversary, they’ll be touring in the U-K and now, the band announced they’ll be touring here in the States too! Original members Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork will bring their An Evening with The Monkees show to America starting on June 3rd in Atlanta. They’ll perform in 30 cities before winding down on July 15th in L-A. It’s the group’s first live performances in a decade and you can learn more at Facebook.com/MonkeesTour. Tickets go on sale Friday.
RAY DAVIES CONSIDERING KINKS REUNION WITHOUT DAVE
Ray Davies of The Kinks has been hoping for a Kinks reunion for some time now but his brother, guitarist Dave Davies said a reunion would be like “a bad remake of Night of the Living Dead,” comparing Ray to a “toxic” “vampire” that “sucks [him] dry of ideas, emotions and creativity.” Well Ray told Q Magazine he might reunite the band without Dave. Read more at QTheMusic.com.
• If Ray does reunite The Kinks without Dave, because bassist Pete Quaife died last year, it would leave Ray and drummer Mick Avory as the only original members in the group.
ELTON JOHN TO HOST SNL
Elton John will be both the host and the musical guest on the April 2nd episode of Saturday Night Live. The Rocket Man will perform alongside Leon Russell, with whom he collaborated on his recent album, The Union. The last time Elton hosted SNL was in 1982.
HEATHER MILLS LIED ABOUT McCARTNEY?
Heather Mills is in the news again. According to TMZ, her former publicity firm is suing her, accusing her of lying and not paying them 168-thousand dollars in fees that she owes. In the suit, the firm claims Mills made up stories that her ex, Paul McCartney, abused her; stated she would only do Celebrity Apprentice if Donald Trump guaranteed she’d win; and only gave a portion of her Dancing with the Stars earnings to charity when she claimed she donated it all.
JEFF BECK’S FAVORITE RIFFS
Jeff Beck is one of the greatest guitarists ever, so what are some of his favorite riffs? He told MusicRadar.com that they include the riffs in Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” and “All Along the Watchtower,” Billy Haley & His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” and Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Blues.” Read more at MusicRadar.com.
ROCKERS LINE UP FOR TOMMY BOLIN TRIBUTE ALBUM
In his just 25-year-long life, guitarist Tommy Bolin spent time in Deep Purple, Zephyr and The James Gang before his untimely death in 1976. Now, a new Bolin tribute CD is coming out and it not only includes music from Tommy’s original, unreleased multi-track tapes but boasts some big named collaborators who’ve added their vocals or instruments to the tunes. Brad Whitford, Warren Haynes, Peter Frampton, Steve Morse, Joe Bonamassa, Myles Kennedy, Glenn Hughes, Steve Lukather and many others all contributed to the as-yet-unnamed set. No word yet on when it’s due out but you can see photos from recording sessions for it at TBolin.com.
• Tommy died of a drug overdose on December 4th, 1976, the day after opening a show for Jeff Beck.
SIMON KEEN TO PLAY LIVE AGAIN WITH GARFUNKEL
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had to scrap their summer tour last year because Art had an issue with his vocal chords and now, Paul is talking about how keen he is on rescheduling those gigs. The singer told England’s Daily Express that Art’s voice still hasn’t come back but, “if it’s still appropriate at some future time to sing a couple shows with Artie, I’d do that.” Read more atExpress.co.uk.
• Paul also told the paper he’s known Garfunkel since he was 11 and “there is no one else [he’s] known that long.”
TOM WAITS WORKING ON NEW ALBUM
Tom Waits will be pretty busy over the next few weeks. Not only is he getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14th, but according to the singer’s official Twitter account, he’s working on a new album. The record would be his first since 2006’s 56-song collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. No other details are known yet but you can stay up to date at Twitter.com/TomWaits.
BIG STAR TRIBUTE SHOW
Last year, Big Star singer Alex Chilton and bassist Andy Hummel both passed away, but the band’s music lives on. In fact, some of the group’s most prominent fans plan to play a tribute show by performing Big Star’s third album, 1978’s Third/Sister Lovers. Along with the only surviving band member, Jody Stephens, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, M. Ward, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and many others will perform. It takes place in New York City on March 26th and you can get tickets at TicketWeb.com.
CONCERT FOR GEORGE STREAMING ONLINE
George Harrison was born in the last minutes of February 24th, but most people celebrate his birthday today and one celebration that will take place all day is the worldwide streaming of the 2002 Concert for George tribute show. The event, which happened a year after the Beatle great died, was organized by his widow, Olivia, and Eric Clapton, and included performances from Eric, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Monty Python and more. See it all today at GeorgeHarrison.com.
• The Concert for George will also be out on Blu-ray and available for digital download for the first time on March 22nd.
CLARENCE CLEMENS TALKS ABOUT HIS HEALTH
At the end of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s 2009 world tour, saxophonist Clarence Clemens spent much of his time on stage seated. Now, the rocker is explaining why. He told Rolling Stone magazine that “that last tour was hell. Pure hell,” revealing that although he previously had his knees and hips replaced, he was still in pain and that while the trek was “wonderful musically,” he knew after it was over, he’d need more surgery. He’s since gotten his knees replaced again and had spinal fusion surgery and even though his hips are still bothering him, he says he’s stronger. He hasn’t heard anything official about a 2012 tour but stated that rumors about a trek next year “feel true.” Clemens went on to say, “As long as my mouth, hands and brain still work, I’ll be out there doing it. I’m going to keep going til I’m not there anymore.”
A GARY MOORE DOCUMENTARY
The world lost guitar great Gary Moore this month but later in the year, a new documentary is due out that will highlight the rocker’s career and his influence on others. The doc is called White Knuckles & Blue Moods and the filmmakers behind it have been working on it for several years. Along with various musicians, it includes contributions from Gary himself. Check out a trailer for it by searching YouTube for “Gary Moore Documentary.”
NEW ALBUM SPOTLIGHTS NEIL DIAMOND’S EARLY YEARS
This month is going to be a big one for Neil Diamond. Not only is the legendary singer getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the week before that March 14th ceremony, a compilation album of his songs is coming out. It’s called Neil Diamond The Bang Years 1966 – 1968 and includes 23 tracks from Neil’s early years as he was just becoming a rock star. The package includes tunes like “Cherry, Cherry,” “Solitary Man” and “Red, Red Wine.” It’s out on March 8th.
BEACH BOYS, BARRETT HAVE RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES
This year, Record Store Day is April 16th and on that day, fans will be able to pick up some pretty great vinyl. Along with 30th anniversary editions of Ozzy Osbourne’s solo records Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, music lovers can also pick up a limited-edition 78 RPM single set of The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and “Heroes and Villians” both as original mixes and alternate versions. A 180-gram Double Vinyl LP of An Introduction to Syd Barrett will also come out. Learn more at RecordStoreDay.com.
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced their 2011 inductees. Being honored this June in New York are Allen Toussaint, who has written and produced for the likes of Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Joe Cocker and more; Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly who’s songs have been sung by Chrissie Hynde, Madonna, Heart, Roy Orbison, Pat Benatar and Rod Stewart, among others; “Human Nature,” “Crazy For You” and 1988 Olympics theme song “One Moment in Time” scribe John Bettis; the number one selling solo artist in U-S history Garth Brooks; and recent Elton John collaborator Leon Russell. Learn more at SongwritersHallOfFame.com.
DALTREY TO GO FROM MUSIC TO PAINTING
Who singer Roger Daltrey says he probably won’t perform for more than another two or three years. The rocker told Music-News.com that he wants to “make the most” of his remaining time performing but once he retires, he plans to paint. Daltrey explained he paints a bit in his spare time now but when he starts taking it seriously, “there won’t be room for anything else.” Read more at Music-News.com.
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Emmylou set to release new album, 'Hard Bargain'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris is ready to release a new album.
"Hard Bargain" will be released April 26 and Harris is celebrating with shows in Austin, Texas, at South by Southwest and in New York and Los Angeles.
The new album includes 11 originals by the 12-time Grammy winner with two covers of songs by Ron Sexsmith and album producer Jay Joyce. Two of the songs look back at her time with friends Kate McGarrigle ("Darlin' Kate) and Gram Parsons ("The Road").
A deluxe version will include a DVD with six performances plus interviews. Fans who preorder now through the record label website will receive an exclusive manuscript lyric sheet of "The Road," some of which Harris will autograph.
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Bob Dylan from the recent telecast of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards with Harvey Mandel on electric guitar
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EXPERIENCE HENDRIX LLC & LEGACY RECORDINGS LAUNCHING THIRD WAVE OF RELEASES IN MONUMENTAL JIMI HENDRIX CATALOG PROJECT
WITH NEW CD EDITION OF POWER OF SOUL: A TRIBUTE TO JIMI HENDRIX, DEFINITIVE VERSIONS OF SOUTH SATURN DELTA AND GRAMMY WINNING JIMI HENDRIX: BAND OF GYPSYS (LIVE AT FILLMORE EAST), LIMITED EDITION "FIRE"/"TOUCH YOU" SINGLE & MORE
Available Everywhere Tuesday, April 12
Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings proudly announce the third wave of releases in the monumental Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, available everywhere Tuesday, April 12.
The next round of titles from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest guitarist of all time" will include the first Legacy edition of Power Of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, an all-star celebration bringing together 16 high octane performances of best-loved tracks from the Hendrix songbook performed by a who's who of classic and contemporary musicians.
The third wave of Legacy Hendrix reissues offers the definitive edition of the career-spanning posthumous album South Saturn Delta; a deluxe DVD edition of Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys (Live at Fillmore East), winner of the 1999 Best Long Form Music Video Grammy; and "Fire" coupled with "Touch You" a limited edition single available on 7" vinyl and CD (with a third unreleased track), struck in celebration of nationwide Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16.
"Fire" c/w "Touch You" (7" vinyl single and CD single)
The limited edition Jimi Hendrix Experience 7" vinyl single includes an unreleased alternate recording of "Fire" (taken from the West Coast Seattle Boy box set) coupled with "Touch You," a previously unreleased track recorded at London's Olympic Studios on December 20, 1967. The CD version of the single includes a third rare track, "Cat Talking To Me," recorded in June 1967.
Power Of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (CD)
The first Hendrix tribute album to be curated under the auspices of Experience Hendrix LLC, Power Of Soul includes interpretations of the master by Musiq Soulchild ("Are You Experienced?"), Santana ("Spanish Castle Magic"), Prince ("Purple House"), Sting ("The Wind Cries Mary"), Earth, Wind & Fire ("Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"), Bootsy Collins ("Power Of Soul"), Eric Clapton ("Burning of the Midnight Lamp"), Lenny Kravitz ("Have You Ever Been To (Electric Ladyland)"), Devoted Spirits ("Who Knows"), Robert Randolph ("Purple Haze"), Chaka Khan & Kenny Olson ("Little Wing"), Sounds of Blackness ("Castles Made of Sand"), Eric Gales ("May This Be Love"), Cee Lo Green ("Foxey Lady"), John Lee Hooker ("Red House") and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble ("Little Wing/3rd Stone From The Sun" (live)).
A special CD single comprised of three tracks -- "Foxey Lady" (Cee Lo Green) and "Spanish Castle Magic" (Carlos Santana) from the Legacy Recordings release Power of Soul: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix, coupled with a previously unreleased version of “Purple Haze” by Robert Randolph & The Slide Brothers recorded live at Atlanta’s Fox Theater during last year’s Experience Hendrix tour -- will also be available April 12 in conjunction with Record Store Day.
South Saturn Delta (CD and 12" vinyl)
Originally released in 1997, South Saturn Delta is a collection encompassing every incarnation of Jimi Hendrix's recording career -- including both versions of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, his expanded Woodstock ensemble Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, and the Band of Gypsys. The album brings together 15 distinct studio performances, 65 minutes of rare and previously unreleased music.
Alongside lost gems as "Tax Free," "Look Over Yonder," and "Pali Gap" stand previously unreleased recordings including "Here He Comes (Lover Man)," "Message To The Universe" and "Midnight Lightning." From demo recordings to finished masters, the guitarist’s wide embrace of blues, ballads, rock R&B and jazz is celebrated throughout the album which includes a 24 page full color booklet with rare photos, credits and comprehensive liner notes.
Providing new insights into Hendrix’s creative process and unique approach to recording, South Saturn Delta showcases the development of signature songs like "Little Wing," "All Along The Watchtower" and "Angel" while "Power of Soul" and the jazz-influenced title track, among others, represent the guitarist’s tantalizing first forays beyond the frontiers of jazz and funk.
South Saturn Delta will be available in a limited double 12" vinyl edition.
Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys (Live At Fillmore East) (DVD)
Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video (1999), the Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys (Live At Fillmore East) DVD includes an 83 minute documentary tracing the revolutionary impact Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys had on rock, R&B and funk. The story of this groundbreaking music is told in interviews with Jimi and, for the first time, all four of his band mates: Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding, Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Also contributing are Lenny Kravitz, Vernon Reid and Slash.
Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys (Live At Fillmore East) features the only known footage of the group in concert, including Jimi's stunning and devastating performance of "Machine Gun". In addition to the documentary footage, the new Legacy edition premieres exclusive bonus material not found on previous versions including black & white video footage as well as stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes of the group's historic Fillmore East performance on New Year's Day 1970. The bonus footage includes a killer "Foxey Lady" and rarely performed live versions of "Power Of Soul," "Stepping Stone" and "Who Knows."
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This year's edition of the Experience Hendrix concert tour, presented by Fender guitars, launches in May with an all-star lineup of musical greats paying homage to the abiding genius of Jimi Hendrix. This year's tour will include performances by Billy Cox, Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, David Hidalgo & Cesar Rosas [Los Lobos], Keb' Mo, Eric Johnson, North Mississippi All Stars, Brad Whitford [Aerosmith], Living Colour, Ernie Isley, Chris Layton [SRV & Double Trouble], Indigenous and many additional special guests to be announced.
Initial 2011 Experience Hendrix tour dates include:
5/20 Las Vegas, NV Hilton Theater
5/22 Dana Point, CA Doheny Festival
5/23 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center
5/24 Tucson, Arizona Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre
5/26 Santa Rosa, CA Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
5/27 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort
5/28 Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz Blues Festival
5/29 San Luis Obispo, CA Avila Beach Blues Festival
Massively popular with fans and critics alike, the 2010 Experience Hendrix tour inspired Larry Rodgers of the Arizona Republic to rave, "It was encouraging to see fans of all ages, from teens to baby boomers who witnessed Hendrix's career launch firsthand, in the Mesa crowd. The show and that crowd made it clear that Hendrix's magical music will never die."
Dan Durchholz, covering the tour for the St. Louis Post Dispatch marveled at how "...the Experience Hendrix tour showed just how pervasive (Hendrix's) influence continues to be. The three-hour show featured an all-star lineup from a variety of musical traditions, united by a collective debt to the iconic artist's songs, showmanship and trailblazing technique. Despite its creator's demise decades ago, Hendrix's music is still alive and well.”
Experience Hendrix bassist Billy Cox -- who first befriended Hendrix in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight -- is delighted to play a part in the current tour saying, "It's a thrill for me to play Jimi's music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s."
For more information, visit www.jimihendrix.com
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PBS will air a broadcast version of the concert film, "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock," during March Pledge Week. Originally released on VHS in 1994, "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock" was reissued last year in a special two-disc DVD package featuring all of the existing film footage from Jimi's unforgettable August 1969 Woodstock concert newly re-edited and presented uninterrupted and in its original performance sequence. Please check your local listings for more information on the PBS Pledge Week schedule.
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Legacy's first round of Jimi Hendrix releases opened with the release of Valleys of Neptune, a long-awaited album of previously unavailable Jimi Hendrix studio recordings, which debuted on the Billboard 200 best-selling albums chart at #4 while four additional Hendrix catalog titles -- Are You Experienced (#44), Electric Ladyland (#60), First Rays of the New Rising Sun (#63), and Axis: Bold As Love (#67) -- rocketed back into the Billboard 200 four decades after their original release dates. A testimony to the enduring vitality and importance of the trailblazing artist-guitarist-performer, Jimi Hendrix had five albums in America's Top 100 in March 2010.
The second wave of 2010 Jimi Hendrix titles culminated in the long awaited release of West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, a definitive career-spanning four CD box set tracking Hendrix’s remarkable journey from R&B sideman to international stardom. The deluxe set is filled with previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings plus demos, alternate takes and more. The newly curated and assembled Jimi Hendrix anthology will include a new Hendrix documentary directed by the Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings).
More than 1,000,000 Jimi Hendrix albums were sold in 2010 alone.
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The Lost Holy Grail of Music City
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HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS REMAIN TRUE TO DIY AESTHETIC WITH NEW ALBUM ‘NO HELP COMING’
Now based in Georgia backwoods, duo keeps it gritty and lo-fi even 20 years into Holly’s career. Album due April 26 on Transdreamer Records.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — No Help Coming is the fourth full-length release by Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, and the latest of nearly 30 albums on which the veteran indie icon is featured. But she’s quick to dismiss any suggestion that she’s refined her approach during her 20 years as a recording artist.
“I’m proud to say that I don’t think there’s been much development at all, really,” Golightly asserts. “I still only know the same chords I did when I was 14, and I still write songs about the same things. But I did get a tuner three years ago, which was monumental.”
Indeed, as much as her work has evolved over the years, the London-born, Georgia-based singer/guitarist has maintained a fierce fidelity to the same raw DIY musical principles that first established her as a seminal influence upon multiple generations of garage combos and lo-fi artists. Her current outfit, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, is a stripped-down duo that teams her with Texas-bred multi-instrumentalist and longtime collaborator Lawyer Dave, who contributes guitar, drums and backing vocals.
On No Help Coming, scheduled for release on April 26, 2011 on Transdreamer Records, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs continue to make music that’s spare and earthy yet unfailingly tuneful, drawing upon gritty blues, country and rockabilly influences while maintaining an unmistakable personal resonance. As Playboy.com commented, “Golightly’s songs are so fresh and timeless they could have been recorded yesterday or 40 years ago.”
The new 12-song set, recorded in the twosome’s adopted home state of Georgia, features such notable originals as “The Rest of Your Life,” “You’re Under Arrest,” “Get Out My House” and the swaggering title track, all of which pack as much of a musical and emotional punch as anything they’ve recorded. No Help Coming also continues Golightly’s longstanding tradition of putting her stamp on unexpected cover material, with personalized readings of country legend Bill Anderson’s “The Lord Knows We’re Drinking,” the mysterious Mr. Undertaker’s 1955 rhythm-and-blues cult classic “Here Lies My Love,” and Wendell Austin’s vintage psycho-country epic “L.S.D. Made a Wreck of Me.” The last tune features an appropriately impassioned lead vocal by Lawyer Dave.
Born in Kensington, London, in the same hospital that Jimi Hendrix died in, Holly Golightly grew up in a bohemian household, absorbing a musical diet of psychedelic rock and soul. Her performing debut came via her then-boyfriend Bruce Brand, drummer of the legendary Billy Childish-led combo Thee Headcoats. An impromptu guest spot singing with that band led to a long and productive run as a member of Thee Headcoats’ sister band, Thee Headcoatees, with whom she recorded.
In 1995, while still a member of Thee Headcoatees, Holly branched out into a solo career that quickly revealed a both a distinctive songwriting talent and a commanding stage presence. Her solo work also largely traded Thee Headcoatees’ three-chord girl-group garage rock for a rootsier approach drawing much of its inspiration from rural American styles. She’s been intensely prolific in the years since, releasing 20 solo albums as well as numerous singles and EPs for a variety of labels, including Damaged Goods, Kill Rock Stars, Super Electro and Sympathy for the Record Industry. She’s also recorded collaborations with the likes of the White Stripes, Mudhoney, the Greenhornes and Rocket from the Crypt.
In 2007, Holly teamed with Lawyer Dave to form Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs. They purchased a parcel of rural land near Athens, Georgia, where they raise horses, dogs, chickens, geese and goats. Recording and performing as a duo, with Dave playing guitar with his hands and drums with his feet, they developed a loose, twangy sound that’s perfectly suited to their lyrical explorations of such quintessentially American themes as whiskey, religion and guns.
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs’ 2007 debut album You Can’t Buy a Gun When You’re Crying won considerable attention from critics and fans alike. The pair continued to expand their audience with 2008’s acclaimed Dirt Don’t Hurt, their first release on the Transdreamer label. It was followed by the similarly well-received EP Devil Do and album Medicine County, released in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Now, No Help Coming adds a compelling new chapter to Holly Golightly’s massively influential body of work. “I think I’m still doing exactly what I’ve always done, in that I’ve managed to keep making music I like,” she observes. “Perhaps some people don’t stick at it for as long because they didn’t really like what they were doing in the first place. I think the trick is to just do what you like, and not aim to use every switch in the studio just because it’s there.”
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CONCORD MUSIC GROUP SPOTLIGHTS
MILES DAVIS, BILL EVANS, AND ALBERT KING
IN THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO ITS DEFINITIVE SERIES
Two-disc sets capture some of the finest jazz and blues of the past six decades
All three collections to be released on April 5, 2011
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group has assembled three new titles in its ongoing Definitive series, one of which marks the series’ initial foray into CMG’s vast blues catalog. The Definitive Miles Davis on Prestige;The Definitive Bill Evans on Riverside and Fantasy; and The Definitive Albert King on Stax span a total of 60 years and include the music of two monumental figures in jazz and an equally influential figure in the blues. Each of the two-CD collections is set for release on April 5, 2011.
The two dozen tracks of The Definitive Miles Davis on Prestige follow the creative evolution of the most revered trumpeter in the annals of jazz. Spanning the first half of the 1950s, the collection captures Miles at the beginning of his breakthrough to mainstream appeal, according to the liner notes by music journalist and historian Ashley Kahn.
“The purpose of this collection is to deliver a full, definitive overview of that very special period in Miles’s career,” says Kahn. “Its focus covers the nearly six-year period when the trumpeter was signed exclusively to Prestige. Disc 1 offers the best of his 1951 to ’56 sessions primarily as a leader of various ad hoc all-star ensembles. Disc 2 provides a generous sampling of Miles the bandleader, in ’55 and ’56, at the helm of one of the most groundbreaking groups of the day.”
The collection also chronicles Miles’s dramatic artistic growth over a relatively short time, says Nick Phillips, Concord Music Group’s Vice President of Jazz and Catalog A&R and the producer of the collection. “The years between 1951 and 1956 are not a huge amount of time, but the development by Miles — as a musician and as a bandleader — is pretty astonishing in this period,” says Phillips. “This culminates in what ended up being one of the most legendary groups in jazz, the Miles Davis Quintet, featuring John Coltrane.”
The Definitive Bill Evans on Riverside and Fantasy tracks more than two decades of recordings by a highly influential figure in jazz piano. “It would be difficult to think of a major jazz pianist emerging after 1960 who did not take Bill Evans as a model,” says jazz journalist Doug Ramsey, who wrote the liner notes for the 25-song collection that begins in the mid-1950s and ends in 1977. “Indeed, many seasoned pianists who preceded Evans altered their styles after hearing him.”
What’s more, “Evans had a profound effect on how musicians play jazz and how listeners hear it,” says Ramsey. “He is so much a part of the jazz atmosphere that many musicians — regardless of instrument — who came of age in the 21st century are not conscious that his concepts helped form them.”
The collection also gives proper attention on the second disc to Evans’s Fantasy-era recordings of the mid-1970s, says Phillips, who also produced the Evans collection. “Because the Riverside sessions are so acclaimed and so legendary, the Fantasy tracks are often overshadowed,” he says. “But in listening to this collection, you realize that Evans was still creating some amazing recordings throughout the Fantasy period with some high-caliber musicians, like Eddie Gomez, Kenny Burrell, Lee Konitz, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, and Philly Joe Jones.”
The Definitive Albert King on Stax follows 15 years worth of recordings — from 1961 to 1975, plus a final track from 1984 — by a bluesman who’d spent the early part of his career playing to an African-American fan base in the roadhouses and theaters of the chitlin’ circuit. But by the latter half of the 1960s, the genre “was now attracting the rapt interest of young white listeners, their sensibilities opened wide by the muscular, in-your-face blues rock of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and Jimi Hendrix,” says roots music historian Bill Dahl in his liner notes for the collection. “These new converts were gravitating to the best the idiom had to offer. No single blues guitarist made a more stunning impact during that tumultuous timeframe than Albert King.”
“For as paradoxical as it might sound, you could make the case that Albert King was a cheery blues guy,” says Chris Clough, Concord’s manager of catalog development and producer of the Albert King collection. “He had that wry smile, and he often smoked a pipe. He was always well dressed and dapper. He was genuinely interested in putting on a show for his audience, and that sensibility comes through on these tracks.”
Dahl suggests that the years between 1966 and 1975 were a “Golden Decade” for King. “He was with Stax that entire time,” he says, “right up to the Memphis label’s unfortunate demise, cutting one enduring blues classic after another as he scaled the charts over and over again. In the process, King deeply influenced countless up-and-coming blues axemen, even though the ringing licks he coaxed out of his futuristic Gibson Flying V were all but impossible to accurately recreate.”
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CONCORD MUSIC GROUP REISSUES BRILLIANT LIVE RECORDING BY RAY CHARLES
‘Ray Charles Live in Concert’ captures The Genius at the height of his crossover powers in 1964
First CD release of the acclaimed live concert recording
In the half-century between his earliest recordings in the 1950s and his death in 2004, Ray Charles ascended to icon status by leaving his mark on virtually every form of American popular music that emerged in the latter half of the 20th century. Nowhere was this more evident than in his live performances, where one was likely to hear shades of blues, soul, R&B, jazz, gospel, country, and more in a single evening — indeed, sometimes in a single song. To put it simply, the Right Reverend did it all.
All of these subtle shades and styles are evident in Concord Music Group’s April 5, 2011, reissue of Ray Charles Live in Concert. Originally released as a 12-song LP on ABC-Paramount in early 1965, Live in Concert captured Ray at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in September 1964. More than four decades later, the CD reissue brings additional depth and perspective to the 1964 recording with the help of 24-bit remastering, seven previously unreleased tracks and extensive new liner notes that provide additional historical context to what is already considered a pivotal recording in Ray’s overall body of work.
“There could be no more uplifting live musical experience than digging Ray Charles and his mighty orchestra in their prime,” says roots music historian Bill Dahl in his new liner notes. Indeed, the 15-piece orchestra backing Ray on this date — assembled just a few years earlier in 1961 — boasted no less than a dozen horns, including formidable saxophonists David “Fathead” Newman, Hank Crawford, and Leroy “Hog” Cooper, all of whom had been with Ray since his days as a leader of smaller combos. “This amazing aggregation,” says Dahl, “was every bit as conversant with the intricacies of modern jazz as with the gospel-blues synthesis that Brother Ray pioneered during the mid-1950s, when he began accruing serious cred as the father of what would soon become known as soul music.”
Chris Clough, Concord’s manager of catalog development and producer of the Live in Concert reissue, notes that the Shrine Auditorium performance took place at a transitional moment in Ray’s career, just as he was transcending the confines of R&B and entering the mainstream by demonstrating a firm grasp of various other genres. “He’d made his ascendance in the early ’60s, and he had the world at his feet by this time,” says Clough. “He’d basically invented soul, he’d done R&B, he’d conquered country and he was on his way to becoming an American icon.”
In the span of 19 songs, Live in Concert illuminates the route to that destination. Ray wastes no time taking his audience on a ride from jazzy big band groove of “Swing a Little Taste” to the Latin-flavored “One Mint Julep” to the blues-gospel hybrid of his classic “I Got a Woman.” Although his live rendition of “Georgia On My Mind” on this date didn’t make the cut on the original LP, the song is a standout track on the reissue, thanks to his complex organ runs and the flute lines moving in counterpoint with his rich vocals.
Clough considers the yearning “You Don’t Know Me” and the previously unreleased “That Lucky Old Sun” to be among the high points of the recording. “It sounds like he’s really baring his soul on those two tracks, and they just sound incredible,” says Clough, noting that Ray was unaware that tape was rolling during this performance. “This particular date was at the end of their tour, and the performance seems a little loose as a result — in a good way, and in a less slick way.”
Further in, the rousing “Hallelujah, I Love Her So” is driven by a gospel groove and embellished with a sax solo by Newman that closely mirrors the original 1957 recording. The result is a familiar hit for an audience that’s more than ready to reinforce Ray’s foot-stomping beat with handclaps.
The sly and swaggering “Makin’ Whoopee” is delivered completely off the cuff, with drummer Wilbert Hogan, bassist Edgar Willis, and guitarist Sonny Forriest improvising an accompaniment behind what Dahl calls “Ray’s luxurious piano and breathy, supremely knowing vocals.” By all accounts, Ray spontaneously inserted the song into the set in response to the negative press he’d received overseas about his private life.
In the home stretch, Ray introduces the Raeletts, the female backing vocalists who served as his foil for some of his biggest hits. Together they work their way through “Don’t Set Me Free” (with Lillian Fort stepping forward for a duet with Ray), the comical “Two Ton Tessie” and the torchy “My Baby” before climaxing with the churning “What’d I Say,” a song tailor-made to stoke any room to a fever pitch.
A huge piece of the Ray Charles legacy is his mastery of any style he touched, and his ability to make it his own in a way that no other artist could — powers that can only come from an innate sense of adventure and spontaneity that are fully evident in Ray Charles Live in Concert.
“Few performers were less predictable onstage than Ray Charles,” says Dahl. “And nobody did it better.”
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SAM COOKE ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY AT GRAMMY MUSEUM®
CELEBRATING LEGENDARY SINGER’S 80TH AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH
A “pod” (display case) filled with artifacts associated with the life and career of the late Sam Cooke is now on display at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles in recognition of what would have been the late artist’s 80th birthday. Museum staff gathered the artifacts, a number of which were loaned by Jody Klein, ABKCO Music and Records CEO, to launch the display in conjunction with Black History Month. It is expected that the Sam Cooke “pod” will be on view for the remainder of this year.
Its contents include an original pressing (on the Keen label) of Cooke’s big initial breakthrough hit “You Send Me,” the publishing contract for “A Change Is Gonna Come,” one of his stage outfits, a mailer heralding his epochal run at New York’s Copacabana, an original LP of Sam Cooke at the Copa and a first pressing of Ain't That Good News, the first album release from Cooke’s Tracey Records, one of the first Black artist-owned labels.
In 1986, 25 years after his passing, Cooke was among the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, alongside Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. His transition from gospel music to R&B and rock ‘n’ roll was the template followed by soul/urban performers for the past 60 years.
Cooke’s songwriting has stood the test of time with versions of his classic repertoire performed and released over the years by such notable artists as John Lennon, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Seal, The Animals, Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Luther Vandross, Bobby Womack, R. Kelly and countless others.
Aretha Franklin noted, “Sam was a singer’s singer who strongly influenced many male vocalists. He was loved, respected and revered by artists in the pop and gospel field of music, as well as by his audience, as a unique and extraordinary artist and human being.”
“Sam Cooke is somebody other singers have to measure themselves against, and most of them go back to pumping gas!” quipped Keith Richards while Muhammad Ali succinctly stated, “Sam Cooke was the world’s greatest rock-and-roll singer…the greatest singer in the world!”
Rod Stewart recently told Rolling Stone, “To explain what Sam Cooke meant to me, it would take a couple of hours just to scratch the surface. The man basically introduced me to soul music. The first time I heard him, his music hit me like a thunderbolt and just slapped me around the head. I was 15 years old, and he changed my life."
Perhaps, Sam Cooke’s most influential song is “A Change Is Gonna Come” which eloquently decried racial discrimination. On the night he was elected President, Barack Obama, clearly was profoundly aware of the song when he invoked its central theme stating, “It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.”
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Thanks to Mark Pucci
AL BASILE DELIVERS THE GOODS ON NEW CD COMING MARCH 5
FROM SWEETSPOT RECORDS
SINGER/SONGWRITER’S STRONGEST COLLECTION YET OF BLUES, SOUL, R&B AND GOSPEL FEATURES SPECIAL GUESTS,
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
RUMFORD, RI – Sweetspot Records announces a March 15 release date for The Goods, the latest collection of blues, soul, R&B and gospel music from singer, songwriter and cornetist Al Basile, with national distribution by City Hall Records. The 2010 Blues Music Award nominee’s new album was produced by Duke Robillard, whose band also backs Al Basile on The Goods, along with saxman extraordinaire Doug James. Basile, Robillard and James were all original members of Roomful of Blues. Special guests are five time Grammy Award and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, The Blind Boys of Alabama, who provide backing vocals on the inspirational gospel song, “Lie Down in Darkness (Raise Up in Light”).
The Goods is Al Basile’s eighth album, and continues along the path he forged with his very first release of merging scintillating lyrics to the music of the blues, soul, R&B and gospel. Basile is a frequently published poet, making him that rare songwriter who writes formal verse that’s also respected by the literary establishment. Dubbed “the bard of the blues” for his storytelling prowess, Basile presents his strongest collection yet of tales about memorable characters thrust into unique situations, with twists and turns that would make Raymond Chandler proud. This “blues noir” style of writing informs many of the songs on the new album: a bank robber being chased by the police, complete with screeching tires, wailing sirens and gunfire (“1.843 Million”); a guy who wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t stop scratching (“The Itch’); a man whose girlfriend learned about sex from watching porn (“Reality Show”); and a poor soul who laments to the man who invented the telephone about why he hates it (“Mr. Graham Bell”).
The music throughout The Goods is laced with blues, soul and gospel influences from Memphis, Muscle Shoals and New Orleans on songs like the bouncy opening track, “The Price (I Got to Pay);” the pleading ballad, “Time Can Wait;” the grooving “I Want to Put It There” and “She’s a Taker;” and the powerful gospel track, “Pealing Bells,” that recalls “St. James Infirmary” with Basile’s cornet solo. Al Basile’s 2010 Blues Music Award nomination was for his cornet playing, and he uses his horn to full advantage on these tracks, crafting stark, pungent horn solos that perfectly complement his smoky, soulful vocals. With the in-the-pocket backing of the musicians, in particular Duke Robillard, who coaxes his best Steve Cropper-like rhythm playing throughout, as well as some of his most inventive lead guitar work, and the soulful horns of Doug James, who plays just the right groove for each song, The Goods delivers – in spades.
“When it comes to the world of words, Al Basile is a Renaissance man,” writes freelance journalist Ken Franckling in the album’s liner notes. “He’s fashioned a lifetime of work from them and around them. Poems, short stories, plays and much more. And, of course, songs. He has evolved into a master of two particular forms – poetry and the blues. And in his hands, horn and voice, the words and music intersect in a fascinating way.”
For more information, visit www.albasile.com
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“At The Mardi Gras” Single Released
Zigaboo Modeliste, legendary drummer, is pleased to present his new single, “At the Mardi Gras,” as an illustration of one of the many excellent, energetic, and funky new tunes featured on Zigaboo’s upcoming original CD release titled “New Life.” The CD was written, produced, and published through his personal label, JZM Records, and will be released April 2011.
“At the Mardi Gras” is a fun, dynamic song with all the genius drum grooves and beats of the original Zigaboo Modeliste sound. “At the Mardi Gras” is a song guaranteed to make New Orleans proud of its musical tradition and expresses the happy, passionate, carefree festiveness of the Big Easy!
“At the Mardi Gras” features drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, bassist Mark Pero, guitarist Shane Theriot, and keyboardist Kurt Brunus. Horns were arranged by Wardell Querzeque and are played by saxophonist Joe Salsbury, baritone saxophonist Carl Blouin, and on Trumpet are Tracy Griffin and Kurt Brunus. This rich track also includes the talents of organist Joe Krown, percussionist Bill Summers, and background singers Denon Smith, Toney Smith, and Lee Anthony Bailey.
"At the Mardi Gras" is digitally available on line at
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/JosephZigabooModeliste
http://www.facebook.com/zigaboomodeliste?v=app_96687436973&nns_c=7763
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From the proof before you post column!
Must be Ralph's son...obviously not Ralph himself!!
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Dave
How could Ralph Gleason have found that 1963 Dylan tape last year?
Mike
WOW MIKE....now that escaped me....must be his son Toby that found it.......??? Perhaps.....
Dave
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• Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph Gleason found the concert tape in his archives. He had forgotten about it and only found it last year while cleaning following the death of his mom.
Dave, How is this possible? Ralph has been dead since '75. Has he emerged from the tomb, pipe clenched in teeth and tweed coat unruffled?
David Mahler
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*** PUNMASTER'S TRIVIA CORNER ***
The trivia question from the last MusicWire was:
His name was misspelled on his birth certificate.
He spent ten years playing guitar in another legend's band before deciding to try to re-ignite his solo career.
Tragically, both of his brothers would die young.
He only had one number one hit single, which was written on an old potato sack.
Name this artist to win!
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ANSWER: The great Carl Perkins......the King of Rockabilly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79CJON8fv6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s6Kn20lADQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBx_D42opkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFspshhFfJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGF6WPuSpM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1Y1ekHhF8
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the winners are... (in order of appearance)
Todd Everett
Kenny Weissberg
Barbecue Dave
Art Fein
kaanii powell cleaver
Bob Putignano
Lynda Stewart
Tim Bernett
Jon Rochmis
Jeff “Mr. Sunshine” Hughson
064 Freeman
Derk Richardson
Rog (in Scotland)
Pete Cartwright
J.C. Flyer
William McCoy
Terry Hansen
Bryan Thomas
Randy Remote
Don Mennie
Gregg Geller
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Got to be Carl Perkins. And of course it was Johnny Cash's band he played in after drying out and while getting his stuff together.
Todd Everett
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CARL PERKINS.
"Blue Suede Shoes" actually may never have made it to #1. According to Joel Whitburn, it was #2 for four weeks in '56. Perkins toured with Johnny Cash from '65-'75 before venturing out under his own moniker again. Always love watching the Japanese couple argue about Carl Perkins vs. Elvis in Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train."
--Kenny Weissberg
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Gotta be Carl Perkins . Let`s all get dixie fried !
Barbecue Dave -
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Quiz
That was "Pa Gerkins," from the Flying Saucer record.
His hit was "Shoes."
Art Fein
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I'm gonna go with the first thing that flew into my skull. Carl Perkins? That's right, Biff. I am saying Carl Perkins for the Buick Skylark.
kaanii powell cleaver
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Would this person be Carl Perkins?
Bob Putignano
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My answer is Carl "Blue Suede Shoes," Perkins
Lynda Stewart
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That would have to be Mr. Carl Perkins.
Tim Bernett
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Hi David,
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes.
Jon Rochmis
San Francisco.
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answer to triva Gregg Allman
Leslie Butts
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Wayne Cochran?
Larry Weinberg
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Hello Mr. Punmaster,
Why your easy bake trivia question sounds like rockabilly legend Mr. Carl Lee Perkins.
Jeff “Mr. Sunshine” Hughson
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Hey Dave
Re "Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph Gleason found the concert tape in his archives. He had forgotten about it and only found it last year while cleaning following the death of his mom."
Uhhm, that's a good trick since Ralph Gleason died in 1975.
Re. Billy Preston: Nicky Hopkins also recorded with both the Stones & Beatles (single version of Revolution)
Trivia question: Carl Perkins
-064 Freeman
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That would be Carl ("Perkings") Perkins, and "Blue Suede Shoes."
Be sure to check out his autobiography, Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, the King of Rockabilly written with the superb music journalist David McGee.
Derk Richardson
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Sounds like Carl Perkins!
Rog (in Scotland)
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Carl Perkins?
Pete Cartwright
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Carl Perkins..what a legend!
Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Honey Don't, and Daddy Sang Bass ~ all classic tunes penned this an original Sun Records artist and killer guitar player.
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Your Pal,
J.C. Flyer
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The artist = CARL PERKINS
Boppin' The Blues,
William McCoy
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David, Carl Perkins
Terry Hansen
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Punmaster's MusicWire - 2/21/11I believe this was Carl Perkins --
Bryan Thomas
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Sounds like Carl Perkins, who played with Johnny Cash for
many years.
Randy Remote
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This is none other than the great Carl Perkins whose only number-one hit, “Blue Suede Shoes,” was written on an old potato sack and helped put SUN records on the pop music map. The B-side, "Honey, Don't," is arguably an even better song. It was remade by the Beatles in the mid-1960s with Ringo doing the lead vocals.
Don Mennie
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Carl Perkins, The Rockin' Guitar Man
--Gregg Geller
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CARL PERKINS
-Matthew Bolin
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Iggy Pop
Phil Collins
Paul McCartney
Tiny Tim
Elliot Easton
Ringo Starr
Slim Whitman
Ornette Coleman
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY - MARCH 8
In 1970…In Framingham, Massachusetts, Diana Ross performed her first-ever solo concert.
In 1971…Radio Hanoi played Jimi Hendrix’s interpretation of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to the troops after receiving the tape from activist Abbie Hoffman.
In 1973…Paul McCartney pleaded guilty to having grown marijuana on his Scottish farm. He was fined the British equivalent of 240 dollars.
In 1973…Grateful Dead’s Ron “Pigpen” McKernan died of a stomach hemorrhage in Corte Madera, California. He was 27.
In 1974…In Newcastle, England, Bad Company played their first gig.
In 1974…John Denver recorded “Annie’s Song” and “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.”
In 1987…Bob Seger called it a day at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, saying it would be his last tour.
In 1994…Kurt Cobain was discharged from the Rome American Hospital in Italy, where he was recovering from an overdose of prescription drugs and champagne.
In 2005…Former Fleshtones saxophonist and harmonica player Gordon Spaeth died in New York’s Prince Gordon Hotel. He was 53.
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VIDEO CLIPS OF THE WEEK
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Thanks to EP
When Alfred Hitchock met... James Brown?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfWwijZZEU
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Thanks to Mike Hart
Aretha Franklin- 'Mockingbird'
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=y0URYw27qd0
Mama Cass, Mary Travers & Joni Mitchell - I Shall Be Released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYAUE6is7I
Snappy Tunes - Sissle and Blake (1923)
I didn't even know talkies existed in 1923, but this "talkie" was made in 1923 by pioneer film maker Lee DeForest, utilizing his new prosses which allowed moving pictures to have a sound track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FppMg0AsBLc
Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=4sAbW0ONRBU
Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGeQ0zSifc
Tina Turner - Ooh-Poo-Pah-Do (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6V3z7049qo
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Thanks to Pal Joey
Finally some E-lectric music I still really like!
Y Jaco Pastorius, John Scofield and Kenwood Dennard - The Chicken (Studio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhkPSEXs1Q
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Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZL10oxPwY
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You Can Quote Me On That...
I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers."
- Keith Richards (from his new autobiography, "Life")
"Mick needs to know what he's going to do tomorrow. Me, I'm just happy to wake up and see who's hanging around. Mick's rock, I'm roll." -Keith Richards
"I don't know anything about music, In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Bo Diddley
"The only Maybelline I knew was the name of a cow." - Chuck Berry
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B." - Fats Domino
"It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves." - Little Richard
"Hippies? Why, I'm the original." - Jerry Lee Lewis
"The older I get, the harder to get around....gravity's got me down." - Barry Goldberg
“I'm one of those regular weird people.” - Janis Joplin
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." - Frank Zappa
"I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart." - Waylon Jennings
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about -- filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows." - Jimi Hendrix
"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." - James Brown
"David Gross (Punmaster's MusicWire) is the Arianna Huffington of music news!" - Barry "The Fish" Melton
"The older you get, the better you were!" - Leslie West
"It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ..." - Jerry Garcia
"Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues" - B.B. King
"More bass." - Jerry Wexler
"I'm as country as a dozen eggs." - Elvin Bishop
"I liked the first sixties better...." - Al Kooper
"I still have all my vinyl. You can’t roll a joint on an iPod.” - Shelby Lynne
"I think I just killed somebody." - Phil Spector
"The problem with history is, the folks who were there ain't talking. And the ones who weren't there, you can't shut 'em up." - Tom Waits
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
"I want my more money & I want my more fame" - Chubby Checker
"When you don't know where you're going, you have to stick together just in case someone gets there." - Ken Kesey
"I smash guitars because I like them." - Pete Townshend
"It's a good thing I had a bag of marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be dead by now." - Willie Nelson
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read." - Frank Zappa
"You can learn something, both good or bad, watching any guitar player. You learn what to do or what not to do. Over the years I've learned things from Carlos, Mike Bloomfield, Clapton, George, Garcia, Knopfler and let's not forget Robbie Robertson." - Bob Dylan, 2002
"There 'is' a difference between rock and rock and roll; beware of inferior imitations (avoid contact with any musician who doesn't know how to play Chuck Berry music)." - Cub Koda
"This heah is Rufus Thomas....I'm young and loose and full of juice. I got the goose, so what's the use." - Rufus Thomas
"Mike Love, not war." - Scott Mathews
"I have outlived my dick" - Willie Nelson (2008)
"Anybody with a trade can work as long as they want. A welder, a carpenter, an electrician. They don't necessarily need to retire...Every man should learn a trade. It's different than a job. My music wasn't made to take me from one place to another so I can retire early." -Bob Dylan
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