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- Eddie Van Halen Thanks God for Sobriety and Guitar Riffs
- Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun …
- Late blues great Koko Taylor gets musical sendoff
- Encouraging imagination
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times
20090611(Petrusich)ALEJANDR ESCVED (Thursday) Alejandro Escovedo was a member of pioneering punk-country groups like Rank and File and the True Believers. He often sings now about how to endure loss: with stoic clarity steadfast guitar chords and a weary determination. With the singer and songwriter Joseph Arthur. City Winery 155 Varick Street near Spring Street South Village (212) 608-0555.
Music City Hosting Blues Fest Next week
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Louis Blues star – Marquis Knox. The free concert also presents Gregg Wright and Guitar Shorty. Guitar Shorty performed with T-Bone Walker in his youth and is a recipient of multiple honors from the Blues Music Awards. David “Honeyboy” Edwards Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Nicholson who will perform as “Whitey Johnson” for the festival all will take the stage. The lineup is rounded out by a group of regional blues bands that includes a number of International Blues Competition bands: The Bluebirds Betty Lewis and the Executives Bobbie liver & Jam City Revue TuTu Jones and Joe Jonas Band Bernie Pearl 19th Street Red and Kayla Reeves. The festival will also feature a “Guitar Hero” competition scheduled for 3 p.
Eddie Van Halen Thanks God for Sobriety and Guitar Riffs
Spinner
1 single and believe it or not I built my studio to put that song on our record ’cause everyone hated it same with the song ‘Right Now. ‘ Alex and I tracked the whole thing certain people didn’t want to be a part of it then it wins a Grammy and a MTV Award for Video of the Year and all of a sudden it’s like “Hey yeah great!” But it was like pulling teeth to get the person to sing the damn song. And there are certain things that I fight for because I do write all the music so I think I have a little bit of say in how things should go. I’m not a tyrant as a lot of people think. I just expect other people if you’re in this band to work as hard as I do. How did not taking lessons influence you as a guitarist?I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun …
Philadelphia Inquirer
plusEric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Clapton’s been reconnecting like crazy with his past – Cream reunions Yardbirds-like gigs with Jeff Beck and Blind Faith (and more!) collaborations with Winwood who reportedly keeps up pretty well with the guitar god and wows ‘em on the Hammond B3. Who says you can’t find your way home? Wachovia Center 3601 S. 8 tonight $65-$150 800-298-4200.
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Late blues great Koko Taylor gets musical sendoff
The Associated Press
“I would hear different records and things by Muddy Waters Bessie Smith Memphis Minnie Sonnyboy Williams and all these people you know which I just loved. “Although her father encouraged her to sing only gospel music Cora and her siblings would sneak out back with their homemade instruments and play the blues. With one brother accompanying on a guitar made out of bailing wire and nails and one brother on a fife made out of a corncob she began on the path to blues woman. rphaned at 11 Koko — a nickname she earned because of an early love of chocolate — moved to Chicago at age 18 with her soon-to-be-husband the late Robert “Pops” Taylor in search for work. He would later be her manager. While Taylor didn’t have widespread mainstream success her career spanned more than five decades and she was beloved by blues aficionados. Her work included the best-selling song “Wang Dang Doodle” and tunes such as “What Kind of Man is This” and “I Got What It Takes.
Encouraging imagination
Salina Journal
It’s a point Salinan Joey Quinley took to heart. “I learned if you have a drive you should do it no matter what happens” said Joey 10 a student at Meadowlark Ridge Elementary School. Rodriguez then introduced the children to blues guitar music and invited each one to the front of the room to improvise his or her own “blues” song. Many of the kids were shy at first but after a few brave performers stood and sang about everything from dogs to hamsters to peanut butter (to Rodriguez’s guitar accompaniment) nearly every child shot up his or her hand and begged for a turn. “I like the blues and I like singing” said Jada Burse 10 a student from the Lenexa school district. “When I grow up I should be an actress. Jada’s brother JaVon who sang a blues riff about how annoying his brothers and sisters could be said he has a new appreciation for blues music after listening to Teatro de la Rosa.
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