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Shooter Jennings to open Charlie Daniels’ Volunteer Jam
Charlie Daniels has invited Shooter Jennings to open a series of Daniels’ Volunteer Jam concerts this year. April 11-12 in Harris, Mich. the bill also features .38 Special (which includes Donnie Van Zant, of the country duo Van Zant.)
The origial Volunteer Jam took place in 1972 was suppose to a one-off showcase of Daniel’s friend’s which just happed to be the best Southern Rock bands of the time which including the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall Tucker Band.
Joe Whyte at Rockwood Music Hall – Tuesday, March 11
If your in the 5 boroughs next Tuesday head on over to the Rockwood Music Hall to catch singer/songwriter Joe Whyte and his band. Whyte won’t be playing these parts until May so ya’ll head on over!
Tuesday, March 11
Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen St., NYC
8pm
FREE!!
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New York Times on the City’s Growing Roots Music Scene
The New York Times has a nice piece on something I’ve seen first hand. the rising popularity of Roots Music here in New York. The city that gave you the smoky Greenwich Village folk clubs from the 60’s seems posed to offer the same proving ground for roots and Americana music.
From the article: “There’s another generation of people who want to hear music that’s accessible, that’s not a prefab product, that’s lyric based but not preachy,†said Adam Levy, a guitarist and singer-songwriter who has played on all of Ms. (Norah) Jones’s albums. “If there’s a roots movement in New York now, I think of it in those terms.â€
Tom Russell – Tonight We Ride
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Tom Russell Gallery Showing At Austin’s Yard Dog Gallery
Austin’s Yard Dog Gallery will host a showing by El Paso resident and renowned singer/songwriter and painter, Tom Russell.
The majority of the paintings in the show pay tribute to a group of jazz musicians from Juarez, Mexico. They were premier musicians who played in the top night spots of Juarez in its heyday, even backed Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, but lost their lives when their bus went off a cliff in 1953.
Opening reception is Friday February 15th 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Tom will play a few songs at the opening. Afterward, he will be playing at the Cactus Café.
Yard Dog
1510 S Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78704
512.912.1613
Grammys Wrap Up
Okay, so the Grammys didn’t completely blow, just about 97% did. There were some greats – Aretha, Tina, John Fogerty, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, some damn good – Foo Fighters, The Time, some suprises (Amy Winehouse was good and seemed SOBER!) And then there was the crap, well that would make my hand cramp to write it. Some stand outs for me:
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Steve Earle – Washington Square Serenade [New West Records]
Best Traditional Folk Album: Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer [Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records]
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs & The Whites – Salt Of The Earth [Skaggs Family Records]
Best Bluegrass Album: Jim Lauderdale – The Bluegrass Diaries [Yep Roc Records]
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley – Throttleneck from: 5th Gear [Arista Nashville]
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Willie Nelson & Ray Price – Lost Highway from: Last Of The Breed [Lost Highway Records]
Best Country Album (and best on camera slam of Kanye West!): Vince Gill – These Days [MCA Nashville]
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) [Rounder Records]
Best Historical Album: Woody Guthrie – The Live Wire [Woody Guthrie Publications]
And Uncle Tony, you were robbed! Next year, man….
Review – Twilight Hotel – “Highway Prayer”
If you like your music nice and neat and fitting within a particular predictable genre or style, then stay far, far away
from Canadian roots-rock duo Twilight Hotel.
Brandy Zdan (vocals, electric/acoustic guitar, accordion) and Dave Quanbury (vocals, electric/acoustic guitar) hail from Winnipeg on the Eastern edge of the prairie region of Western Canada (eight hours north of Minneapolis via 9513). I don’t know much about the region, but if Twilight Hotel’s new release “Highway Prayer” is any cultural barometer of the area, it seems to be chilly, desolate albeit fertile terrain.
Twilight Hotel are no newcomers to the game. After recording their first self-titled LP in 2003, Zdan and Quanbury have been a hot item in Canadian roots circles and have played more than 200 North American dates in 2007.
Highway Prayer finds Zdan and Quanbury putting all those dues paid on full display as they artfully craft a pan-American
world placed somewhere between Andrew Bird’s jazz-gypsy-folk and and Johnny and June’s soulful-earthy duets. Halfway between the cafe’ and the roadhouse. The stories on “Highway Prayer” unfold like a dark map of the heart and carries on the fine folk/country tradition of storytelling from the point of view of those inflicting or bearing hardships.Recorded in Nashville, TN, Highway Prayer, features noable guest musicians including the late Richard Bell (Janis Joplin, The Band), Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits), and Dave Roe (Johnny Cash).
Things blasts to life with “Viva la Vinyl,” a rave-up-scat-duet ode to the joy of analog music recordings which sounds as joyous and as impromptu porch jam session with plenty of sour mash being passed and hoisted.
On “No Place for a Woman” MS. Zdan belts out a reverb-draped lament about a family’s rough life in the coal mine. “Impatient Love” is a yearning duet that highlights the couples harmony and shimmers in it’s beauty. The title cut takes us out to the dark, desolate dirt roads made familiar by Neko Case and is made even more forbidding by Richard Bell organ work.
Slumber Queen is a a hard-coiled cha–cha in the gypsy-jazz vein of Andrew Bird and Iowalta Morningside follows hot on it’s trail with a chilly night-life narrative that Nick Cave would be proud of. On Shadow of a Man Zdan moves us into the gritty junk yard baroque jazz were Tom Waits reigns supreme and she does a fine job of marking her territory.
As mentioned before Richard Bell, the Canadian musician perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band, lent his considerable talent to what was to be his last work and “Highway Prayer” is made even more spectacular because of it. The last track Best Buds showcases Bell and dobro player Colin Linden is a great testament to the man and his talent.
 Twilight Hotel- Viva la Vinyl
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First U.S. Plant/Krauss tour dates revealed
Looking for something to pass the time while you wait on that Led Zeppelin reunion tour? No Depression reports that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are taking their deliriously wonderful Raising Sand collaboration on the road beginning April 20 with a handful of dates in the mid-South.
Producer T Bone Burnett is set to lead their band, which is to include guitarist Buddy Miller. The rest of the band has not been announced. Sets will include material from their sole album together, and from their respective careers. CMT is airing a preview of sorts on February 11 as part of their “Crossroads” series.
Tickets go on sale January 25 for the four U.S. dates below. It is followed by an 11-date tour of Europe (no specifics yet), with further U.S. dates to be announced for June and July.
The tour begins here:
April 20 (Sunday) Louisville, KY (Palace Theatre)
April 22 (Tuesday) Knoxville, TN (Knoxville Civic Coliseum)
April 23 (Wednesday) Chattanooga, TN (Memorial Auditorium)
April 26 (Saturday) Birmingham, AL (BJCC Arena)
Ticket prices have not been announced.