June 24, 2008Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf, Janiva Magness, Sean Costello
Annie Leibovitz/Hubert Sumlin This isn't really a random thought, but it's not music news, either. I don't want to make a category called etc., or something stupid like that. But when it's over, it will explain why I didn't go to the Gemini Fest shindig last weekend. Last week, it was all about Hubert Sumlin. The 76-year-old, Mississippi-born, Arkansas-bred, Chicago-schooled longtime lead guitarist for Chester "The Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, is the subject of my story on the Extra front today. But first, check out this page -- myspace.com/theseancostellofoundationforbipolarresearch. And listen to the music while you're there. Continue reading "Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf, Janiva Magness, Sean Costello" » June 23, 2008Yacht Rock!!Apparently, these videos have been around for a while. I had missed the boat -- har har. June 9, 2008Remembering The IroquoisThe Iroquois will never be forgotten. April 4, 2008Their Great Outdoors is Better than OursThe e-mails come almost daily: Needless to say, these e-mails are not promoting shows coming to the greater Roanoke Valley. These concerts will be in Virginia Beach and Charlottesville. Those places have amphitheatres. Continue reading "Their Great Outdoors is Better than Ours" » February 29, 2008How would Putin rock?As you surely know, Russian President Vladimir Putin is moving on, so to speak. His heir apparent in the race to replace him is one Dmitry Medvedev. So what of Medvedev? February 27, 2008Hall of Fame presentersThe Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame will soon be welcoming in a new bunch of musicians. I think it's interesting to see who is inducting them March 10. Courtesy of a news release, here they are ... February 21, 2008Big music day in Big LickIt's not everyday that we music fans here in Ro-noke, Vuh-jin-ya, can say that the announcement of a Steve Earle concert in the Star City is NOT the biggest music news of the day. February 18, 2008The best of the best-sellersInspired by all the coverage of the 25th anniversary of "Thriller" (which actually occurred a couple months ago, but Sony's just now realized it), features staffer Pete Dybdahl looked up the list of the best-selling albums of all-time. Pete's observations: February 13, 2008The not-dead DeadMan, did I write an error into Wednesday's paper! It's killing me, if you'll pardon the expression. I won't pretend to be a Deadhead. Never have. But I like the band OK, and I particularly like acts that have sprung from the Grateful Dead -- particularly Mickey Hart's the Rhythm Devils, as well as Phil Lesh and Friends. Some of my favorite guitarists, including Robben Ford and Jimmy Herring, have played with Lesh. So I know that Hart and Lesh are alive. But some how, some way, I managed to drop this little nugget on an unsuspecting public, in a blurb about New Riders of the Purple Sage's appearance tonight at Roanoke's 202 Market: > New Riders of the Purple Sage began in 1969, with Jerry Garcia on steel guitar. Other now-deceased members -- Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh -- and the Jefferson Airplane's Spencer Dryden, spent time with the New Riders. The band opened shows for the Dead, and traveled with Trans-Canadian Festival Express, a glorious mess of a tour immortalized in the documentary "Festival Express."< The line about Hart and Lesh couldn't be more incorrect. Read on to see how it happened ... January 23, 2008Thirty years ago today ...OK, so it's another Flashback Friday for Riffs. Just deal with it. While crafting this week's epistle, I stumbled upon this 1970s Fun Fact: From mid 1977 until mid 1978, only five different albums topped the Billboard chart. |
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