Jonathan Mann has been writing a song-a-day -- many of them by request. Here's a political one:
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
March Tribute Band Madness in New York
First off, apologies (to Ben, in particular, who actually complained) for all of the silence here on Sound of Blackbirds. I've been busy working on a paper for a conference and so have been letting some posts stew in my head instead of getting them out into the world.
Now, I have a big place in my heart for bands with a theme -- for instance, I just saw The Zambonis, America's favorite hockey band, recently. And one of the subsets of that category is the tribute band, a band that plays the music of another, more well-known band. So I was pretty excited a few weeks ago to get to see three tribute bands in one week!
First, on St. Patrick's Day, Sarah and I made our first voyage out to the Bell House in Brooklyn. And (like some others who were at the show apparently) I really thought that the place was a great space. There's a very comfortable bar -- where many people were opting to spend the night without even seeing any music -- with decent Guinness on tap and pleasant barkeeps. And then the performance space is a good size with a few stools around tables, a bar off to the size on a raised platform and a solid sound system. The show was a benefit for freetheslaves.net (and apparently raised over $500); the benefit included a buffet dinner of corned beef and shepherd's pie, which are both things that I like.
The featured band was The Fauxges, a Pogues tribute band. They took the stage with a blast of hard-strummed banjo-ukelele and some intensely pounding rhythm guitar chops. The drummer knocked out a simple march beat for most songs over the course of the night. And these guys put their hearts into being a good Pogues tribute band by drinking lots of liquor and screaming loudly into the microphones on such classics as "Sally MacLennane," "Jesse James," "Greenland Whale Fisheries" and "Navigator." The band was having fun and so was the crowd -- although I would have liked to see a little more pushing and shoving down front, frankly. The accordion player, who was off to the side (and who went to college with Sarah, for the record), laid down some good sounds apart from the band, clatter and yell of the rest of the band. Not the greatest musical experience I've ever had, but a fun night nonetheless.
The Friday after St. Patrick's Day, David and I found ourselves at B.B. King's -- amazingly to me, this was David's first time at the venue. This show featured not one but two tribute bands: Ziggy Starlet and the Spiders from Venus, an all-female David Bowie act, and The Unforgettable Fire, the great New York-based U2 tribute act.
Ziggy Starlet came out looking hot: she was wearing a shiny black and gold-stiped body suit with circular holes cut at buttocks, waist, shoulder and wrist-level along one side. She was glammed out and ready to rock. The Spiders from Venus included guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. The guitarist had her chops down, getting the "Ziggy Stardust" riff right and letting loose a little bit of shred on some other songs. They totally rocked out on "Suffragette City" and did their best to do so on "Rebel, Rebel" and "The Jean Genie," too.
The group lacked most in the vocal department, I'm sad to say. Ziggy Starlet looked the part, but going woman-for-man with David Bowie on vocals proved a little less workable. Her struggling to hit some of the notes helped me to realize the exceptional quality of David Bowie's voice, which I'm sure was not exactly the intent of the performance, but it was my lesson for the evening.
When it came to The Unforgettable Fire, however, I am pleased to say that nothing was lacking.
Jessica Shaw and I tried to see these guys years ago -- 1999 or 2000 -- at the Continental, but the band had to cancel for health reasons, and we drank shots of Jagermeister while watching some Long Island teenagers do Frank Zappa covers instead. Well, almost 10 years later, I finally got to hear some faux-U2.
The Unforgettable Fire has its act down. They sound like U2: Tony Russo totally has the vocals down. They do their best to look like U2: Russo in Fly sunglasses; guitarist Mick Normoyle in a ski cap; bassist Craig Kiell with close-cropped, dyed-blonde hair and glasses; and drummer George Levesanos with, well, um, a pair of drumsticks... (Perhaps not coincidentally, Levesanos is the only remaining original member of the band, which formed in 1995.) And their show is like U2's: they tack on bits of popular songs at the end of the U2 songs; slogans get flashed on the projection screens (including "The More You Drink, The More I Look Like Him" -- I guess that's not exactly like U2); buffalo go jumping off cliffs during "One"; the band moves out to the middle of the audience (even at B.B. King's) in the middle of the set; Russo grabbed a spotlight during "Bullet the Blue Sky" and flashed it on and off Normoyle like in Rattle and Hum; he waved the Irish flag around during "Sunday Bloody Sunday." It was an amazing simulacrum.
Except that makes it a bit weird... Both David and I had to kind of scratch our heads. Here we were hearing music that sounded like U2, and the performance was like U2's. But how excited could we get? It wasn't really U2 at the end of the day. These guys didn't write the songs or come up with the show. And for David, this was intensified by the fact that they already had the songs from the new CD down and integrated into their set: "Three years in the making; three weeks in the faking," he suggested. Well, a lot of the crowd -- including Irish John and Double A from the Howard Stern Show, who were guzzling Coronas in front of us-- didn't have this existential dilemma -- they got into it, yelling and screaming and grabbing, snapping photographs, shouting out the lyrics. (OK, I definitely didn't shy from singing along to the lyrics. That's for sure.)
At the end of the day, I had a great time seeing The Unforgettable Fire, and I would go see them again in a second, and I think that all U2 fans would enjoy seeing these guys. But there is still some pause in the fact that they are so realistic as a tribute band... Someone should write a dissertation on it! (Oh, wait....)
The set list went like this:
"Van Diemen's Land"
"Sexy Boots"
"Bullet the Blue Sky"
"Beautiful Day"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
"I Will Follow"
"Elevation"
"Magnificent"
"Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
"Wild Honey"
"Angel of Harlem" with "My Girl" tag
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" --> "Please" --> "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"Pride"
"New Year's Day"
"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"
"All I Want is You"
"Where the Streets Have No Name"
"Mysterious Ways"
"One"
ENCORE: "Gloria"
"Vertigo"
"With or Without You"
Now, I have a big place in my heart for bands with a theme -- for instance, I just saw The Zambonis, America's favorite hockey band, recently. And one of the subsets of that category is the tribute band, a band that plays the music of another, more well-known band. So I was pretty excited a few weeks ago to get to see three tribute bands in one week!
First, on St. Patrick's Day, Sarah and I made our first voyage out to the Bell House in Brooklyn. And (like some others who were at the show apparently) I really thought that the place was a great space. There's a very comfortable bar -- where many people were opting to spend the night without even seeing any music -- with decent Guinness on tap and pleasant barkeeps. And then the performance space is a good size with a few stools around tables, a bar off to the size on a raised platform and a solid sound system. The show was a benefit for freetheslaves.net (and apparently raised over $500); the benefit included a buffet dinner of corned beef and shepherd's pie, which are both things that I like.The featured band was The Fauxges, a Pogues tribute band. They took the stage with a blast of hard-strummed banjo-ukelele and some intensely pounding rhythm guitar chops. The drummer knocked out a simple march beat for most songs over the course of the night. And these guys put their hearts into being a good Pogues tribute band by drinking lots of liquor and screaming loudly into the microphones on such classics as "Sally MacLennane," "Jesse James," "Greenland Whale Fisheries" and "Navigator." The band was having fun and so was the crowd -- although I would have liked to see a little more pushing and shoving down front, frankly. The accordion player, who was off to the side (and who went to college with Sarah, for the record), laid down some good sounds apart from the band, clatter and yell of the rest of the band. Not the greatest musical experience I've ever had, but a fun night nonetheless.
The Friday after St. Patrick's Day, David and I found ourselves at B.B. King's -- amazingly to me, this was David's first time at the venue. This show featured not one but two tribute bands: Ziggy Starlet and the Spiders from Venus, an all-female David Bowie act, and The Unforgettable Fire, the great New York-based U2 tribute act.
Ziggy Starlet came out looking hot: she was wearing a shiny black and gold-stiped body suit with circular holes cut at buttocks, waist, shoulder and wrist-level along one side. She was glammed out and ready to rock. The Spiders from Venus included guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. The guitarist had her chops down, getting the "Ziggy Stardust" riff right and letting loose a little bit of shred on some other songs. They totally rocked out on "Suffragette City" and did their best to do so on "Rebel, Rebel" and "The Jean Genie," too.
The group lacked most in the vocal department, I'm sad to say. Ziggy Starlet looked the part, but going woman-for-man with David Bowie on vocals proved a little less workable. Her struggling to hit some of the notes helped me to realize the exceptional quality of David Bowie's voice, which I'm sure was not exactly the intent of the performance, but it was my lesson for the evening.
When it came to The Unforgettable Fire, however, I am pleased to say that nothing was lacking.
Jessica Shaw and I tried to see these guys years ago -- 1999 or 2000 -- at the Continental, but the band had to cancel for health reasons, and we drank shots of Jagermeister while watching some Long Island teenagers do Frank Zappa covers instead. Well, almost 10 years later, I finally got to hear some faux-U2.The Unforgettable Fire has its act down. They sound like U2: Tony Russo totally has the vocals down. They do their best to look like U2: Russo in Fly sunglasses; guitarist Mick Normoyle in a ski cap; bassist Craig Kiell with close-cropped, dyed-blonde hair and glasses; and drummer George Levesanos with, well, um, a pair of drumsticks... (Perhaps not coincidentally, Levesanos is the only remaining original member of the band, which formed in 1995.) And their show is like U2's: they tack on bits of popular songs at the end of the U2 songs; slogans get flashed on the projection screens (including "The More You Drink, The More I Look Like Him" -- I guess that's not exactly like U2); buffalo go jumping off cliffs during "One"; the band moves out to the middle of the audience (even at B.B. King's) in the middle of the set; Russo grabbed a spotlight during "Bullet the Blue Sky" and flashed it on and off Normoyle like in Rattle and Hum; he waved the Irish flag around during "Sunday Bloody Sunday." It was an amazing simulacrum.
Except that makes it a bit weird... Both David and I had to kind of scratch our heads. Here we were hearing music that sounded like U2, and the performance was like U2's. But how excited could we get? It wasn't really U2 at the end of the day. These guys didn't write the songs or come up with the show. And for David, this was intensified by the fact that they already had the songs from the new CD down and integrated into their set: "Three years in the making; three weeks in the faking," he suggested. Well, a lot of the crowd -- including Irish John and Double A from the Howard Stern Show, who were guzzling Coronas in front of us-- didn't have this existential dilemma -- they got into it, yelling and screaming and grabbing, snapping photographs, shouting out the lyrics. (OK, I definitely didn't shy from singing along to the lyrics. That's for sure.)At the end of the day, I had a great time seeing The Unforgettable Fire, and I would go see them again in a second, and I think that all U2 fans would enjoy seeing these guys. But there is still some pause in the fact that they are so realistic as a tribute band... Someone should write a dissertation on it! (Oh, wait....)
The set list went like this:
"Van Diemen's Land"
"Sexy Boots"
"Bullet the Blue Sky"
"Beautiful Day"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
"I Will Follow"
"Elevation"
"Magnificent"
"Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
"Wild Honey"
"Angel of Harlem" with "My Girl" tag
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" --> "Please" --> "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"Pride"
"New Year's Day"
"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"
"All I Want is You"
"Where the Streets Have No Name"
"Mysterious Ways"
"One"
ENCORE: "Gloria"
"Vertigo"
"With or Without You"
Playlist: The Moonshine Show - 29 March 2009
On today's show, Vincent Cross joined us live in studio to talk about his CD Home Away from Home. We also played some music by Bruce Molsky in advance of his show on Friday night at Jalopy with the Whistlin' Wolves. Everyone should also note on their calendars that the Plunk Brothers will be at Jalopy on Saturday night, hosting a CD release party. (Check out Ken Ficara's review of those guys here from a show back in September.)
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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 29 March 2009 - 10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Hosts: Matt Winters and Logan Ledger
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; "Climbing Up the Mountain"; _Sacred Voices: An A Capella Gospel Collection_ (Sugar Hill)
Weary Hearts; "Power in the Blood"
Bill Evans with Suzanne Thomas; "Wondrous Love"
Both from _White Dove: The Bluegrass Gospel Collection_ (Rounder)
Larry Sparks with The Marshall Family; "I Need Jesus"; _40_ (Rebel)
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The Del McCoury Band; "Moneyland";
Patty Loveless; "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"
Both from _Moneyland_ (McCoury Music)
Dan Crary with Beppe Gambetta; "Foggy Mountain Special"; _Jammed If I Do_ (Sugar Hill)
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Bruce Molsky; "Let's Go to Huntin'," "Wake Up Susan & Durang's Hornpipe," "Green Grows the Laurel"; _Contented Must Be_ (Rounder)
Bruce Molsky; "Grigsby's Hornpipe"; _Poor Man's Trouble_ (Rounder)
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Flatt & Scruggs; "Flint Hill Special"; _Foggy Mountain Jamboree_ (Columbia/Legacy)
Vassar Clements with Ricky Skaggs; "Your Love is Like a Flower"; _Full Circle_ (OMS)
Dave Evans and River Bend; "Short Life of Trouble"; _The Best of the Vetco Years_ (Rebel)
The Roland White Band; "Hoping That You're Hoping"; _Jelly on My Tofu_ (Copper Creek)
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Vincent Cross LIVE in WKCR-FM Master Control
"Home Away from Home"
"I Ain't Got No Home"
"After Hours"
CD: "Down to Earth"
"Put Away All Childish Things"
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David Bromberg Quartet; "Sally Gooden/Old Joe Clark/Wheel Hoss"; _Live New York City 1982_ (Appleseed)
Laurel Canyon Ramblers; "Wait a Minute"; _Blue Rambler 2_ (Sugar Hill)
Blue Highway; "I Hung My Head"; _Celebration of Life_ (Skaggs Family)
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Blue Highway; "Where Did the Morning Go?"; _Through the Window of a Train_ (Rounder)
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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 29 March 2009 - 10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Hosts: Matt Winters and Logan Ledger
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; "Climbing Up the Mountain"; _Sacred Voices: An A Capella Gospel Collection_ (Sugar Hill)
Weary Hearts; "Power in the Blood"
Bill Evans with Suzanne Thomas; "Wondrous Love"
Both from _White Dove: The Bluegrass Gospel Collection_ (Rounder)
Larry Sparks with The Marshall Family; "I Need Jesus"; _40_ (Rebel)
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The Del McCoury Band; "Moneyland";
Patty Loveless; "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"
Both from _Moneyland_ (McCoury Music)
Dan Crary with Beppe Gambetta; "Foggy Mountain Special"; _Jammed If I Do_ (Sugar Hill)
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Bruce Molsky; "Let's Go to Huntin'," "Wake Up Susan & Durang's Hornpipe," "Green Grows the Laurel"; _Contented Must Be_ (Rounder)
Bruce Molsky; "Grigsby's Hornpipe"; _Poor Man's Trouble_ (Rounder)
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Flatt & Scruggs; "Flint Hill Special"; _Foggy Mountain Jamboree_ (Columbia/Legacy)
Vassar Clements with Ricky Skaggs; "Your Love is Like a Flower"; _Full Circle_ (OMS)
Dave Evans and River Bend; "Short Life of Trouble"; _The Best of the Vetco Years_ (Rebel)
The Roland White Band; "Hoping That You're Hoping"; _Jelly on My Tofu_ (Copper Creek)
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Vincent Cross LIVE in WKCR-FM Master Control
"Home Away from Home"
"I Ain't Got No Home"
"After Hours"
CD: "Down to Earth"
"Put Away All Childish Things"
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David Bromberg Quartet; "Sally Gooden/Old Joe Clark/Wheel Hoss"; _Live New York City 1982_ (Appleseed)
Laurel Canyon Ramblers; "Wait a Minute"; _Blue Rambler 2_ (Sugar Hill)
Blue Highway; "I Hung My Head"; _Celebration of Life_ (Skaggs Family)
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Blue Highway; "Where Did the Morning Go?"; _Through the Window of a Train_ (Rounder)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Playlist: Womenfolk (March 22, 2009)
This past Sunday Amanda Balagur sat in for me, bringing her special brand of indie-oriented acoustic music to the KFAI airwaves on Womenfolk. Meanwhile, I was in Austin, TX, wrapping things up at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival. To hear some new music I picked up there, tune in this Sunday to Womenfolk. I'll also be talking with singer-songwriter Edie Carey about her April 3rd show, her upcoming album and her recent trip on the star-studded Cayamo Cruise with Patty Griffin, Lyle Lovett and the Indigo Girls!
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WOMENFOLK (March 22, 2009)
Hosted by Amanda Balagur
Fresh Air Community Radio, KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul
Sunday 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song
**Kris Delmhorst / Everything Is Music / Strange Conversation / Signature Sounds
Goldfrapp / Clowns / The Seventh Tree / Mute
Dressy Bessy / Electrified / Electrified/ Transdreamer
Dar Williams / When I Was a Boy / The Honesty Room / Razor & Tie
*Now, Now Every Children / Have You Tried / Cars / Afternoon Records
*Laura Veirs / The Coo Coo Bird / Two Beers Veirs / Self-released
Heartless Bastards / I Swallowed a Dragonfly / All This Time / Fat Possum
[Womenfolk Find - Featured Artist of the Month]
Devon Spourle / Does the Day Feel Long? / Keep Your Silver Shined / City Salvage Records
Joan As Police Woman / Holiday / To Survive / Reveal
Shelby Lynne / Pretend / Just a Little Lovin’ / Lost Highway
Celebration / Heartbreak / The Modern Tribe / 4AD
Aimee Mann / Save Me / Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse / SuperEgo Records
*Nikka Costa / Can’t Please Everybody / Pebble to a Pearl / Stax
Jenny Lewis / See Fernando / Acid Tongue / Warner Bros.
The Lovell Sisters / Just a Promise / When Forever Rolls Around / Self
The Weepies / Take It From Me / Say I Am You / Nettwerk
CeU / Malemolencia / CeU / Fontana
School of Seven Bells / Half Asleep / Alpinisms / Ghostly International
Dean & Britta / You Turned My Head Around / Back Numbers / Zoe
*Tizzy Bac / Heather / If I See Hell, I Won’t Fear the Devil / Wonder Music
*Neko Case / This Tornado Loves You / Middle Cyclone / Anti
KaiserCartel / Okay / March Forth / Megaforce
Gillian Welch / My First Lover / Time (The Revelator) / Acony
Lykke Li / Little Bit / Youth Novels / LL
The Knife / Neverland / Silent Shout / Rabid Records
*Jolie Holland / Your Big Hands / The Living and the Dead / Anti
Laura Marling / My Manic and I / Alas I Cannot Swim / Virgin
The Bird and the Bee / I Hate Camera / The Bird and the Bee / Metro Blue
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WOMENFOLK (March 22, 2009)
Hosted by Amanda Balagur
Fresh Air Community Radio, KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul
Sunday 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song
**Kris Delmhorst / Everything Is Music / Strange Conversation / Signature Sounds
Goldfrapp / Clowns / The Seventh Tree / Mute
Dressy Bessy / Electrified / Electrified/ Transdreamer
Dar Williams / When I Was a Boy / The Honesty Room / Razor & Tie
*Now, Now Every Children / Have You Tried / Cars / Afternoon Records
*Laura Veirs / The Coo Coo Bird / Two Beers Veirs / Self-released
Heartless Bastards / I Swallowed a Dragonfly / All This Time / Fat Possum
[Womenfolk Find - Featured Artist of the Month]
Devon Spourle / Does the Day Feel Long? / Keep Your Silver Shined / City Salvage Records
Joan As Police Woman / Holiday / To Survive / Reveal
Shelby Lynne / Pretend / Just a Little Lovin’ / Lost Highway
Celebration / Heartbreak / The Modern Tribe / 4AD
Aimee Mann / Save Me / Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse / SuperEgo Records
*Nikka Costa / Can’t Please Everybody / Pebble to a Pearl / Stax
Jenny Lewis / See Fernando / Acid Tongue / Warner Bros.
The Lovell Sisters / Just a Promise / When Forever Rolls Around / Self
The Weepies / Take It From Me / Say I Am You / Nettwerk
CeU / Malemolencia / CeU / Fontana
School of Seven Bells / Half Asleep / Alpinisms / Ghostly International
Dean & Britta / You Turned My Head Around / Back Numbers / Zoe
*Tizzy Bac / Heather / If I See Hell, I Won’t Fear the Devil / Wonder Music
*Neko Case / This Tornado Loves You / Middle Cyclone / Anti
KaiserCartel / Okay / March Forth / Megaforce
Gillian Welch / My First Lover / Time (The Revelator) / Acony
Lykke Li / Little Bit / Youth Novels / LL
The Knife / Neverland / Silent Shout / Rabid Records
*Jolie Holland / Your Big Hands / The Living and the Dead / Anti
Laura Marling / My Manic and I / Alas I Cannot Swim / Virgin
The Bird and the Bee / I Hate Camera / The Bird and the Bee / Metro Blue
Friday, March 20, 2009
Two Man Music in Northampton
Sarah and I are on our way up to Northampton tomorrow to celebrate Sandro's 30th birthday, but it sounds like we missed a good one a week ago today at the Iron Horse. Luckily, Nick has posted a nice review of last Friday's Two Man Gentlemen Band show on his blog.
Some highlights:
Some highlights:
In between songs, the rapport between the two consisted of quietly homoerotic gestures by way of Mr. Bean, who would reach out and stroke The Councilman's bass and touch his fingers, as he spoke affectionately of his bandmate and their life on the road together. The Councilman responded by looking nervous. The 2G were dressed in lovely suits and hats, and The Council wore a spiffy bowtie.
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Andy played lead kazoo and The Councilman played back-up kazoo ("tenor kazoo," he protested, when Andy Bean introduced him, prompting him to make the correction).
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
County Sligo Fiddling in New York
The New York Times had an appropriate article for St. Patrick's Day in yesterday's paper.
In 1971, 10-year-old Brian Conway hunted up 58-year-old Martin Wynne, who was working at the James A. Farley Post Office and not playing much music at all. Wynne taught Conway to fiddle, such that Brian Conway is now regarded as one of the top traditional Irish fiddlers in the world.
In 1971, 10-year-old Brian Conway hunted up 58-year-old Martin Wynne, who was working at the James A. Farley Post Office and not playing much music at all. Wynne taught Conway to fiddle, such that Brian Conway is now regarded as one of the top traditional Irish fiddlers in the world.
Every Friday night, the Conways would pick up Mr. Wynne at his apartment building and drive him to the family’s home for sessions that would sometimes last until midnight or 1 a.m.
“I used to bake a cake, make some tea, and they sat in the living room and played and played,” said Mr. Conway’s mother, Rose. Afterward, she said, she would drive Mr. Wynne back home, often with Brian asleep in the back seat.
Mr. Wynne’s knowledge of Sligo fiddling — which Mr. Conway describes as between the “bite and edge” of the Donegal style and the “mellower, smoother” tones of Clare and Galway — was unmatched. He could show how a particular tune was played by four or five different players back in Ireland, providing examples of improvisations considered acceptable within the parameters of the style.
And he communicated a reverence for the artistry of Michael Coleman, universally acclaimed as the greatest Sligo fiddler, who emigrated from County Sligo in 1914, when he was 23. Mr. Coleman, who died in 1945, is buried in St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx.
“Martin would talk about Michael Coleman the way Catholics talk about Jesus; he would almost bow his head,” said Mr. Conway, who recalled listening to a cassette of Mr. Coleman’s fiddling while eating his Sugar Pops before school in the morning.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Toto Check-In
Allan draws our attention to the fact that other folks are as concerned about Toto's Africa as we are.
Most important is the revelation here:
No wonder those lyrics are so tough to figure out!
(This all started here last May.)
Most important is the revelation here:
[Group members] mentioned that if you listen close enough during the lyrics "catch some waves," some group members were singing "catch some rays."
No wonder those lyrics are so tough to figure out!
(This all started here last May.)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Playlist: Womenfolk (March 15, 2009)
Today local singer-songwriter Sarah Pray stopped by to play live on Womenfolk and talk about her Linda Ronstadt Tribute at 400 Bar that happens every Sunday. We also enjoyed some Irish tunes to prep for you for St. Patty's Day and some banjo-inspired songs. You can hear it on the KFAI archives here. Also, photographer Elli Rader stopped by to take some photos so hopefully I'll have some nice pics to share soon!
I'll be out of town next Sunday as I attend South By Southwest (SXSW), but tune in for a special edition of Womenfolk, hosted by Amanda Balagur. I'll of course post news from the fray down in Austin!
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WOMENFOLK (March 15, 2009)
Hosted by Ellen Stanley.
Fresh Air Community Radio, KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song
**Kris Delmhorst / Everything Is Music / Strange Conversation / Signature Sounds
*Liz Olds / Waiting for Nancy/Sadie at the Back Door / You Could Put Your Eye Out With That Thing / Self
The Lonesome Sisters / Oh Sleeper / The Lonesome Sisters with Riley Baugus / Tin Halo Music
Eliza Gilkyson / Sleeper / Going Driftless / Red House
Tracy Grammer / April Come She Will / Book of Sparrows / Self
*Madison Violet / Lauralee / No Fool For Trying / Self
*Romi Mayes / Hard Road / Achin In Yer Bones / Self
Nanci Griffith / This Old town / Other Voices, Other Rooms / Elektra
[Womenfolk Find - Featured Artist of the Month]
Devon Sproule / Old Virginia Block / Keep Your Silver Shined / Waterbug
*Molly Maher/ Chicken / Beaner’s Central - One Week Live Volume VII / Self
Kris Delmhorst / Cluck Old Hen / Five Stories / Signature Sounds
*Shannon & Matt Heaton / Where the Moorcocks Crow / Lover’s Well / Eats Records
*Liz Carroll & John Doyle / Lament for Tommy Maken/Within a Hen’s Kick/The Slippery Slope / Double Play / Compass
Karan Casey / The Jute-Mill Song / Distant Shore / Shanachie
[Behind Women’s Calendar]
Grada / Lazy Sunday Morning / Lazy Sunday Morning / Cloudy Day Navigation / Compass
Dolly Parton / In the Sweet By and By / Little Sparrow / Sugar Hill
[Live in the Studio: Sarah Pray]
Sarah Pray / One Night Stand
Sarah Pray / Thank God
Sarah Pray / Blue Bayou
*Emmylou Harris / How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower / All I Intended to Be / Nonesuch
Lucy Kaplansky / Ring of Fire / Over the Hills / Red House
Kasey Chambers / Wayward Angel / Wayward Angel / Warner Bros.
Indigo Girls / Southland in the Springtime / Nomads Indians Saints / Epic
I'll be out of town next Sunday as I attend South By Southwest (SXSW), but tune in for a special edition of Womenfolk, hosted by Amanda Balagur. I'll of course post news from the fray down in Austin!
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WOMENFOLK (March 15, 2009)
Hosted by Ellen Stanley.
Fresh Air Community Radio, KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song
**Kris Delmhorst / Everything Is Music / Strange Conversation / Signature Sounds
*Liz Olds / Waiting for Nancy/Sadie at the Back Door / You Could Put Your Eye Out With That Thing / Self
The Lonesome Sisters / Oh Sleeper / The Lonesome Sisters with Riley Baugus / Tin Halo Music
Eliza Gilkyson / Sleeper / Going Driftless / Red House
Tracy Grammer / April Come She Will / Book of Sparrows / Self
*Madison Violet / Lauralee / No Fool For Trying / Self
*Romi Mayes / Hard Road / Achin In Yer Bones / Self
Nanci Griffith / This Old town / Other Voices, Other Rooms / Elektra
[Womenfolk Find - Featured Artist of the Month]
Devon Sproule / Old Virginia Block / Keep Your Silver Shined / Waterbug
*Molly Maher/ Chicken / Beaner’s Central - One Week Live Volume VII / Self
Kris Delmhorst / Cluck Old Hen / Five Stories / Signature Sounds
*Shannon & Matt Heaton / Where the Moorcocks Crow / Lover’s Well / Eats Records
*Liz Carroll & John Doyle / Lament for Tommy Maken/Within a Hen’s Kick/The Slippery Slope / Double Play / Compass
Karan Casey / The Jute-Mill Song / Distant Shore / Shanachie
[Behind Women’s Calendar]
Grada / Lazy Sunday Morning / Lazy Sunday Morning / Cloudy Day Navigation / Compass
Dolly Parton / In the Sweet By and By / Little Sparrow / Sugar Hill
[Live in the Studio: Sarah Pray]
Sarah Pray / One Night Stand
Sarah Pray / Thank God
Sarah Pray / Blue Bayou
*Emmylou Harris / How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower / All I Intended to Be / Nonesuch
Lucy Kaplansky / Ring of Fire / Over the Hills / Red House
Kasey Chambers / Wayward Angel / Wayward Angel / Warner Bros.
Indigo Girls / Southland in the Springtime / Nomads Indians Saints / Epic
M Shanghai String Band on Moonshine Show
As promised, here are some photos from this morning's show. First, the band warming up, and then two action shots.
That's Richard Morris on mandolin, Matthew Schickele on guitar, Philippa Thompson on violin, Austin Hughes on the resonator guitar, Patty Hughes on banjo and Shaky Dave Pollack on harmonica.
Thanks to Jeff Kandel for taking the photographs and for coiling up all the cables after the performance -- particularly for the cable-coiling.
That's Richard Morris on mandolin, Matthew Schickele on guitar, Philippa Thompson on violin, Austin Hughes on the resonator guitar, Patty Hughes on banjo and Shaky Dave Pollack on harmonica.
Thanks to Jeff Kandel for taking the photographs and for coiling up all the cables after the performance -- particularly for the cable-coiling.
Playlist: The Moonshine Show - 15 March 2009
The M Shanghai String Band visited us on the program this morning to talk about their new CD The Mapmaker's Daughter. (There will be a CD release party at Joe's Pub on April 7th.) I'll get some photos up later in the day.
We also paid tribute to the late Citizen Kafka, Richie Shulberg, who passed away yesterday at the age of 61. And we also tipped our verbal hat -- but were unfortunately unable to play any music -- to Bob Guida of the Otis Brothers who passed away on Wednesday.
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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 15 March 2009 - 10 a.m. to Noon
Host: Matt Winters
Sam Bush; "Eight More Miles to Louisville"; _King of My World_ (Sugar Hill)
Bobby Osborne & Jesse McReynolds; "Cotton Patch Rag"; _Masters of the Mandolin_ (Pinecastle)
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press; "Sunday Morning Coming Down"; _Try a Little Kindness_ (Rounder)
Old and In the Way; "I'm on My Way Back to the Old Home"; _That High Lonesome Sound_ (Acoustic Disc)
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[Richard Shulberg (November 1947 - 14 March 2009)]
The Wretched Refuse String Band; "Bucking Mule," "Angeline the Baker," "Gold Rush," "Those Wheels of Karma"; _The Wretched Refuse String Band_ (Beet LP)
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David Grisman; "You're the Girl of My Dreams" (with Mac Wiseman), "Unwanted Love" (with The Del McCoury Band); _Life of Sorrow_ (Acoustic Disc)
Jorma Kaukonen; "Red River Blues"; _Blue Country Heart_ (Columbia)
Ralph Stanley; "Gold Watch and Chain" (with Gillian Welch), "Thy Burdens are Greater Than Mine" (with Ralph Stanley II); _Clinch Mountain Country_ (Rebel)
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M Shanghai String Band LIVE in WKCR-FM Master Control
"Meteor Storm"
"Windsor County"
"No Home in This World"
"Cookie Jar"
"Angel Full of Bourbon"
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M Shanghai String Band; "Groundhog's Day"; _The Mapmaker's Daughter_ (Red Parlor)
Crooked Still; "Flora"; _Hop High_ (Signature Sounds)
Chris Thile; "Wayside (Back in Time)"; _How to Grow a Woman from the Ground_ (Sugar Hill)
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Rob Ickes with Blue Highway; "Machine Gun Kelly"; _Big Time_ (Rounder)
Blue Highway; "Blues on Blues"; _Through the Window of a Train_ (Rounder)
The Gibson Brothers; "Angry Man"; _Iron & Diamonds_ (Sugar Hill)
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper; "Leavin' Town"; _Leavin' Town_ (Rounder)
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Alan Munde & Country Gazette; "Pretty Boy Floyd"; _Keep on Pushing_ (Flying Fish)
Alan Munde; "Bill Cheatham"; _Festival Favorites Revisited_ (Rounder)
Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends; "Bound in Jail All Night Long"; _The Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman_ (Rounder)
Ernie Thacker; "The Ballad of Charlie Dill," "Word of Mouth"; _The Hangman_ (Pinecastle)
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Country Gentlemen; "The Fields Have Turned Brown"; _On the Road (and More)_ (Smithsonian Folkways)
We also paid tribute to the late Citizen Kafka, Richie Shulberg, who passed away yesterday at the age of 61. And we also tipped our verbal hat -- but were unfortunately unable to play any music -- to Bob Guida of the Otis Brothers who passed away on Wednesday.
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The Moonshine Show - 89.9 WKCR-FM, NYC
Sunday 15 March 2009 - 10 a.m. to Noon
Host: Matt Winters
Sam Bush; "Eight More Miles to Louisville"; _King of My World_ (Sugar Hill)
Bobby Osborne & Jesse McReynolds; "Cotton Patch Rag"; _Masters of the Mandolin_ (Pinecastle)
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press; "Sunday Morning Coming Down"; _Try a Little Kindness_ (Rounder)
Old and In the Way; "I'm on My Way Back to the Old Home"; _That High Lonesome Sound_ (Acoustic Disc)
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[Richard Shulberg (November 1947 - 14 March 2009)]
The Wretched Refuse String Band; "Bucking Mule," "Angeline the Baker," "Gold Rush," "Those Wheels of Karma"; _The Wretched Refuse String Band_ (Beet LP)
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David Grisman; "You're the Girl of My Dreams" (with Mac Wiseman), "Unwanted Love" (with The Del McCoury Band); _Life of Sorrow_ (Acoustic Disc)
Jorma Kaukonen; "Red River Blues"; _Blue Country Heart_ (Columbia)
Ralph Stanley; "Gold Watch and Chain" (with Gillian Welch), "Thy Burdens are Greater Than Mine" (with Ralph Stanley II); _Clinch Mountain Country_ (Rebel)
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M Shanghai String Band LIVE in WKCR-FM Master Control
"Meteor Storm"
"Windsor County"
"No Home in This World"
"Cookie Jar"
"Angel Full of Bourbon"
-----
M Shanghai String Band; "Groundhog's Day"; _The Mapmaker's Daughter_ (Red Parlor)
Crooked Still; "Flora"; _Hop High_ (Signature Sounds)
Chris Thile; "Wayside (Back in Time)"; _How to Grow a Woman from the Ground_ (Sugar Hill)
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Rob Ickes with Blue Highway; "Machine Gun Kelly"; _Big Time_ (Rounder)
Blue Highway; "Blues on Blues"; _Through the Window of a Train_ (Rounder)
The Gibson Brothers; "Angry Man"; _Iron & Diamonds_ (Sugar Hill)
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper; "Leavin' Town"; _Leavin' Town_ (Rounder)
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Alan Munde & Country Gazette; "Pretty Boy Floyd"; _Keep on Pushing_ (Flying Fish)
Alan Munde; "Bill Cheatham"; _Festival Favorites Revisited_ (Rounder)
Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends; "Bound in Jail All Night Long"; _The Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman_ (Rounder)
Ernie Thacker; "The Ballad of Charlie Dill," "Word of Mouth"; _The Hangman_ (Pinecastle)
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Country Gentlemen; "The Fields Have Turned Brown"; _On the Road (and More)_ (Smithsonian Folkways)
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