Folk music reclaims the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn
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- Folk music reclaims the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn
- ‘Super Mario’ Crossed With ‘Guitar Hero’ In GameFile…
- Guitar legend Bill Frisell’s diverse songbook defies his jazz…
- This Byrd has landed: Folk music reclaims Roger McGuinn
- Jack Johnson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
Folk music reclaims the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn
Houston Chronicle – Jan 29, 2008
“He brought his five-string banjo and he was so good at it —he did all this intricate picking and told great stories and the melodies of the songs were captivating. This was before the big folk boom and while I had heard Burl Ives and the Weavers on the radio I had never really listened to folk music before. His teacher steered the young McGuinn to Chicago’s newly opened ld Town School of Folk Music where he studied banjo and guitar and learned some of the old standards like “ld Paint” “Delia’s Gone” and “Mighty Day” which he much later went on to record for the Folk Den. When McGuinn was 17 he started hanging out at the Chicago folk nightclub the Gate of Horn. ne day he wandered in with his banjo and guitar and found Glenn Yarbrough and Alex Hassilev of the Limeliters jamming with actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel. They asked him to join in liked his playing invited him to an audition and a few months later flew the teenager to Los Angeles for an RCA recording session and a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl. McGuinn later played with the Chad Mitchell Trio Hoyt Axton the Irish Rovers and Judy Collins but it was pop singer Bobby Darin who in 1963 hired him as a backing musician and songwriter who persuaded McGuinn to not only attempt a solo career but to switch to rock ‘n’ roll.
‘Super Mario’ Crossed With ‘Guitar Hero’ In GameFile…
MTV.com – Jan 29, 2008
” It was on my list of games to judge during the IGF’s preliminary first round late last year. I was doing my judging at home where I also had a new copy of MTV’s “Rock Band. ” I took the MTV game’s guitar and plugged it into my computer. “Fret Nice” looks like a standard side-scrolling platform game but you make the game’s hero run right by pressing two of the fret buttons on the guitar left with the other two buttons. The guy jumps when you tilt the guitar. And he attacks enemies when you play riffs. At first I felt silly playing “Fret Nice… Physics games remain popular. There are a few in the finals including “Crayon Physics Deluxe” “Tri-Achnid” and “World of Goo. ” Music games are increasingly prevalent too. In the preliminary round two of my six games were music titles. In the final round there are three more including a game called “Audiosurf. ” That game generates rocket-car abstract highways that are shaped to match the contours of the sound of any MP3 you load into the game. Fast parts of a song are represented by downhill slopes.
Guitar legend Bill Frisell’s diverse songbook defies his jazz…
PopMatters – Jan 29, 2008
The better he got the more he avoided the showoff style of guitar gymnastics that flourished in the late `60s. “He has plenty of chops but he’s very comfortable in not using those chops to impress” says University of North Texas jazz professor Fred Hamilton a bandmate of Frisell when both attended the University of Northern Colorado. “His music is really honest. There’s no sense of ego. It just sounds like someone singing through the guitar. ”But as honest as he is he wasn’t always open-minded. After falling in love with jazz in the `70s he refused to listen to anything except Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk and other pure jazz artists.
This Byrd has landed: Folk music reclaims Roger McGuinn
PopMatters – Jan 29, 2008
“He brought his five-string banjo and he was so good at it _he did all this intricate picking and told great stories and the melodies of the songs were captivating. This was before the big folk boom and while I had heard Burl Ives and the Weavers on the radio I had never really listened to folk music before. ”His teacher steered the young McGuinn to Chicago’s newly opened ld Town School of Folk Music where he studied banjo and guitar and learned some of the old standards like “ld Paint” “Delia’s Gone” and “Mighty Day” which he much later went on to record for the Folk Den. When McGuinn was 17 he started hanging out at the Chicago folk nightclub the Gate of Horn. ne day he wandered in with his banjo and guitar and found Glenn Yarbrough and Alex Hassilev of the Limeliters jamming with actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel. They asked him to join in liked his playing invited him to an audition and a few months later flew the teenager to Los Angeles for an RCA recording session and a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl. McGuinn later played with the Chad Mitchell Trio Hoyt Axton the Irish Rovers and Judy Collins but it was pop singer Bobby Darin who in 1963 hired him as a backing musician and songwriter who persuaded McGuinn to not only attempt a solo career but to switch to rock `n’ roll.
Jack Johnson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Jan 29, 2008
His peers from the surf circuit praised his work and Thicker Than Water received props in Surfer magazine as 2000s Video of the Year. The follow-up surf flick The September Sessions also earned the Adobe Highlight Award at the ESPN Film Festival that same year. Still Johnson steered away from a blossoming pro sports career and stuck with music a move that would soon earn him additional honors. Love & Special Sauce quickly took notice of Johnson’s lazy blues stylings which also molded folk and hip-hop for a modern rock twist. ne of Johnson’s songs “Rodeo Clowns” found its way onto G… Love & Special Sauce quickly took notice of Johnson’s lazy blues stylings which also molded folk and hip-hop for a modern rock twist. ne of Johnson’s songs “Rodeo Clowns” found its way onto G. Love’s Philadelphonic in 1999 with Johnson contributing vocals and guitar licks to the track. Johnson’s four-track demo then caught the ears of. Plunier who opted to lend his production skills to Johnson’s sultry studio debut.
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