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- Playing the guitar: Brendon Benson on the blues | Life and style |…
- Phil Keaggy’s music lifts hearts and spirits
- Music festival also celebrates region’s coal heritage
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- … Dish n Dylan Lennon Sunday Morning: They Loved These…
How to the play the guitar: part two an instrument for beginners |…
Guardian Unlimited – May 11, 2008
The logical next step is to fool around with a few chords until you come up with your own tune. Chances are it will be pretty much identical to thousands of tunes already out there but what the hell? That never stopped asis. There are good reasons why the guitar is the key instrument of modern music. It’s cheap portable easy to learn and despite the best efforts by Dire Straits to make it otherwise cool. Keith Richards wouldn’t have become such a potent symbol of rebellion if he had belted out Jumping Jack Flash on say a recorder. It has also survived the onslaught of technology. You can make any kind of music imaginable through digital software now but when most of us spend our working lives staring blankly at computer screens who wants to do that?There’s a reason why guitars are still selling in their millions: they’re fun; they take you on an adventure.
Music Issue | Next Stop Stockholm Is More Than Abba’s Town
New York Times – May 11, 2008
The popularity of the events has led the store to an across-the-street offspring Pet Sounds Bar a restaurant and club where the live shows in the basement Mr. Ejheden said are “always free. ” Pet Sounds is a major part of the thriving music scene on Sodermalm a formerly down-at-heels area that has transformed into something like the Park Slope of the Swedish capital. At its main square Medborgarplatsen old and young soak up the summer sun in outdoor cafes. Nearby teenagers and young mothers watch children — and possibly some fathers — carve and grind in a skatepark. verlooking everything is Debaser Medis the area’s biggest concert venue where an overhead ticker counts off a stream of coming performances from Nisse Hellberg the Tindersticks A-Trak and Sebadoh. “There’s always something going on every night of the week especially on Soder” said Darren Hamlin a D.
Playing the guitar: Brendon Benson on the blues | Life and style |…
Guardian Unlimited – May 11, 2008
Learning blues guitar taught me the value of that. I also picked up from blues this other quality that was scuffed scruffy flappy. It’s hearing a person actually play guitar. Not like rock music where if someone’s performing a scale you can hear they’re thinking it not playing it. They say that in order to play the blues you have to sell your soul to the devil or be down and out which is kind of true. It’s the hardest thing to maintain that naivety and that soul. Even the great blues players got worse as they got older as they got more money.
Phil Keaggy’s music lifts hearts and spirits
Akron Beacon Journal – May 11, 2008
His mother’s car was hit head-on on Valentine’s Day and she died several days later. During that time of anguish his sister Mary Ellen led him to Christ. It was an experience that transformed his life and his music. Keaggy found himself on the vanguard of the emerging Christian rock movement. He left Glass Harp in 1972 to pursue a solo career that has resulted in more than 50 albums including the one considered his masterpiece The Master and the Musician. That all-instrumental album from 1978 described in his press materials as ”worshipful without lyrics” is being celebrated with a 30th anniversary tour that stops at Akron’s E… He started by learning the surfing music popularized by the Beach Boys he said but his interests changed when the Beatles burst into prominence. He described his own music as still ”Beatlesque” and fondly recalled jamming with Paul McCartney after the wedding of McCartney’s sister-in-law (Keaggy sang at the wedding and the former Beatle was a groomsman). Today Keaggy is praised as a great among guitar players despite losing half the middle finger of his right hand in a childhood accident. Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix — or in other versions of the story Eric Clapton or Eddie Van Halen — once proclaimed Keaggy to be the greatest guitarist of all time but he dismisses that as rumor. Still he chuckled at the story. ”Who knows? It might get me some gigs in the future” he said. Keaggy’s faith is central to his music.
Music festival also celebrates region’s coal heritage
pittsburghlive.com – May 11, 2008
Betters and his quartet have played many top spots throughout the country and for 15 years he was the featured performer at the Encore in Pittsburgh. Also on the playlist is Fred Adams who has entertained audiences throughout the tri-state area since the early 1960s. He performs all styles of music on the guitar and has played long-term engagements at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Mt. Summit Inn Christian Klay Winery and other local venues. The Fabulous Softwinds will join the lineup performing doo-wop oldies and classic Motown. They have performed at Seven Springs Mountain Resort Heinz Field PNC Park and other regional venues. FiddleKicks will perform Appalachian clogging to live music by singers and instrumentalists playing fiddle banjo guitar bass concertina flute accordion piano bodhran (Irish drum) and harmonica… Lisa Yvonne Ferraro a jazz vocalist known for her original style and for her original compositions. She has released five CDs featuring original compositions and standards. The Ferla-Marcinizyn Guitar Duo which plays music from five centuries that includes tunes by traditional and contemporary composers as well as folk jazz and popular arrangements. More musicians will be booked. In addition to music visitors can sample a variety of ethnic foods crafts and visual arts at a festival that will celebrate the Connellsville Coke Region and its regional and national impact on modern society. Coal and its by-product coke fueled the steel boom in Pittsburgh and played a critical role in industrialization. sagie said he hopes the festival will encourage area residents to appreciate the gifts they have inherited from the coal and coke culture.
Music Issue | Cultured Traveler An Indie Scene That Comes With a…
New York Times – May 11, 2008
” Actually the band is ensconced in the dingy storage room next door which they have turned into a makeshift shrine to the 1970s patchouli incense wood paneling and vintage vinyl that befits their retro three-guitar sound. “We really wanted to create this warmth and ascetic vibe that matched our music right down to the curtains” said Eric Pulido Midlake’s lanky guitarist. The band was meticulously recording their much-anticipated third studio album though it was hard to tell on this recent Friday afternoon. The room was littered with empty beer cans and the recording equipment looked as cheap as a pawnshop special. “We’re definitely not gear heads” added Tim Smith the fuzzy-bearded front man… The room was littered with empty beer cans and the recording equipment looked as cheap as a pawnshop special. “We’re definitely not gear heads” added Tim Smith the fuzzy-bearded front man. Midlake may be the current poster boys for Denton’s indie music scene with gushy write-ups in Rolling Stone and cameos among its members for trendy causes like.
… Dish n Dylan Lennon Sunday Morning: They Loved These…
CBS News – May 11, 2008
“And the photographer said ‘Bob sit here. Pick up your guitar. Put down the guitar. ‘ And then he said ‘Suze get in the picture. ‘” “You had no idea?” Altschul asked… ‘”John Lennon died later that year. Pang says his legend – and that of The Beatles – will always remain. “They changed the world not of only music but they changed the world of how we dress how we look how we talk” she said. As for Suze Rotolo she is now a visual artist exhibiting her work at a Manhattan gallery. Married with a grown son she says she tries to avoid nostalgia about Bob Dylan. But it’s hard not to look back and reflect on a decade of such profound cultural change. “It was a very fruitful period in all the arts” Rotolo said.
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