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The Week in Music Blogs – June 23 to June 29, 2012
Tony Conley from Rock Guitar Daily reviewed Tilting, the upcoming (and really good) release from Johnny Hickman.
Josh Hathaway over on Blinded by Sound reviewed the new Norah Jones album, Little Broken Hearts and tossed a stream of the album up for listening.
Delarue from New York Music Daily reviewed the Haley Bowery and the Manimals/Hannah vs the Many concert at Webster Hall.
At Screamer Magazine, Richard Rosenthal interviewed Ron Young from Little Caesar.
Heading south to ninebullets.net territory, Romoesidvicious reviewed Nah, Death Ima Comin’ for You, the upcoming release from Michael Dean Damron, and streamed a preview track from the album. While you all are over there, check out the ninebullets radio show from this week. The show had tunes from Have Gun Will Travel, William Elliot Whitmore, Pawn Shop Saints and so many more good bands.
Rachel over at Adobe and Teardrops wrapped up Pride Month with her review of White Noise, the new EP from Sarah Walk. She also shared a link to download the EP for free or for a donation amount of your choice.
Also from the Adobe and Teardrops Facebook page, some Gary Clark, Jr.- Live from Bonnaroo -
Little Indie Blogs reviewed and provided a link to preview four songs from the Chapel Club upcoming release, Good Together.
The Steve Carlson / Jonah Dolan StageIt concert that had to be cancelled has been rescheduled for July 11th. Tickets are sold out now, but they usually release another bunch closer to show date.
Cameron Matthews over at Spinner previewed Hey Girl, a new single from Dig. Sow. Love. Grow., the upcoming (August 7th) album by the Buffalo Killers and offered it up as a free download.
Fire by Viv and the Revival is being used by NBC and Bud Light in their summer Olympics ads and promo spots. You all can see the first video on the band’s website and catch more over the next month.
The Young Electrics only need a couple more votes and they will be performing at the Olympics as part of the Emerging Icons. Pop over and click on the little star to help them. Seriously, how many times are you going to have the chance to say, “I picked one of the bands that played the Olympics“?
To finish out the list, bluesman Peter Parcek tossed out another in his series, Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar. This entry focused on Kid Ramos.
And that is it for me. As always, if I missed your blog post just leave a comment with the addy or shoot me a quick email.
I’ll leave you all with a cool little live vid of Peter with Willie Hayes, Jesse Hayes and Kevin Harvey doing Let The Good Times Roll.
Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – June 2 to June 8, 2012
There are still a few tickets left for the Steve Carlson and Jonah Dolan concert on StageIt tonight.
I missed this when I did the post yesterday so I’m tucking it in before the blog list. The Amends have their new EP, Signal up for two bucks on Bandcamp.
Monx from over on I Want 1000 Guitars reviewed Living with Scars by The Jo Wymer Band. I Want 1000 Guitars is also the home of Free Music Mondays so look around a little while you are there and pop some new stuff on your mp3 player.
Terry Gross from from NPR‘s Fresh Air interviewed Neil Young about Americana, the new album from Young and Crazy Horse.
Dora from Buzznet profiled the Young Electrics and streamed a track for listening. Jack Moore (Gypsy and the Wolf) is playing guitar for them (although not in the vid she has up).
Peter Parcek continues his Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar series with a piece on Andy Fairweather Low.
From Reader‘s Artist on Artist Johnny Burgin interviews Charlie Musselwhite.
Rachel from Adobe and Teardrops reviews Bear Creek from Brandi Carlile.
Debbie Davies is looking for some tremelo pedal recs. You can help her out on Twitter @DebDaviesBlues.
Gonna end this week with a video from the Americana Music Association Award Nominee Announcement, which was apparently a good excuse for lots of cool musicians to get on stage and play. This is Robert Ellis (with a little help from Jim Lauderdale, Don Was, Buddy Miller, Don Heffington and Greg Leisz on the pedal steel) performing Westbound Train.
- Kit
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Dreamin’ wide awake…
We are back from our holiday trip to Alabama and I may actually finish the unpacking by tomorrow. Yeah me. Anyway, we ate lots of holiday food and saw loads of family. There was porch-swinging and football-watching. The rumors that Dad-in-Law and I yelled rude things at LSU when they beat Arkansas are vicious lies. Really. Not that it matters since the only bowl game that means anything ( IRONBOWL!!! ) was played on Saturday and my team WON!!!
Ahem…
We made it home early Sunday morning so I was able to watch the Steve Carlson concert on StageIT later that evening. This is the third stageit show I seen with Steve so I am not exactly unbiased in my review. Even so, it was still awesome. Jonah Dolan joined him for the show and played various drums while Steve played guitar and sang. Steve opened with Pinata Novia, which has slowly become my favorite Steve Carlson song and also played Days Behind from the new-ish album. I wish he would play Break Me but maybe it doesn’t transition well to acoustic.
There was some discussion in the chat stream about his shirt being mostly unbuttoned until everyone remembered his mom was on chat and then we were all embarrassed to be discussing his chest in front of his mom. He would never have known except Danneel Harris told on us and he hurridly buttoned a couple of buttons and after a few sighs the chat swung back to discussing music.
He did a great job covering Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight and then I am embarrassed to say I don’t even know what the last song played was because Jonah moved to play the keyboard, Steve picked up his mandolin and Jensen Ackles pulled up a chair behind them and joined in on guitar and MY BRAIN BROKE. I was pretty much worthless after that.
So basically the concert was awesome and once again I wonder why can’t Steve stand in my sunroom and play guitar all day?
I went to another StageIT concert last night. I hadn’t planned to see another show so soon but the link to a vid by The White Buffalo came across my twitter feed and while the video was okay the sound was just amazing. Jake Smith has this gorgeous, powerful voice and I was so impressed I popped over to stageit and bought my ticket as soon as the video ended.
Jake was set up in a studio so the sound was very clear. This was my first time to hear any of his music and I was just blown away. He opened with Into the Sun and followed with Wrong, which has some great guitar sections. I think the next song was One Long Lone Night with the poetic line, “dreamin’ wide awake”, followed by a rowdy drinking-type song. Then he played Everynight, Everyday from his upcoming EP and the beautiful Love Song #1 he wrote for his wife.
Yes, you all can pause for a quick “awwww, how sweet” before we move on.
I am not sure what the next two songs were called but they were good. He ended the show with Pilot, which I liked and everyone else went wild over. The show finished up and I just sat there because a) it was an amazing show and b) why didn’t anyone TELL ME about him?
Jake’s new EP, The Lost and Found comes out on December 6th and in the interest of full disclosure I have to mention I WON a signed copy of the new EP after the show!! Once it gets here I will review it for you guys, after you know, I stop dancing around gleefully.
You can find Jake on his website where you can also download a free mp3 of Pilot or over on his facebook page.
- Kit
edit: thanks to Penny from Unison Music for the song title correction
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You up and left me wanting more…
So last night, after steak sandwiches from The Rib Hut, (a local barbecue place with actual steak sandwiches – they slap a steak on a toasted bun – so very good) I had a shower, straightened up the house a bit, made a pot of coffee, propped up my feet and turned my laptop on. Then I went to see Steve Carlson in concert.
Yes, on my computer. Through a website called StageIt, musicians can perform streaming concerts for their fans. You log in to the site, buy a ticket for the concert you want to see and when it is time for the concert you just follow the performer and enjoy the show.
The show started about 10 pm in Steve’s living room. (It’s nice to know Kahuna and I are not the only ones who hang our guitars on the wall.) Jonah Dolan joined Steve and played drums.
Steve opened the show with Days Behind, then moved on to cover Be My Baby by the Ronettes. For this Jonah played the cajon drum and it gave a really cool beat to the song.
I think the next song was Chloe Bowed Her Head. I have mainly listened to Steve’s newer stuff so I am not as familiar with his older songs. The next song was Pinata Novia. I have decided every version of this song is my favorite. It is beautiful when he and Christian perform it together or when he sings it alone.
I said the strength of my affection
Has taken all my time
Like an hourglass, my heart fills up
But I’m losing my mind over you
The next song was The One I Want. It was my least favorite of the set but that may be because it came between Pinata Novia and Steve’s gorgeous cover of Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight. Not my favorite Clapton song either but I love Steve’s take on the song.
On the next song Steve played mandolin and Jonah moved over to the keyboard. It was a great song but I have no clue which one it was. (My twitter-fu reveals it may have been Running on Empty but I am not completely sure) Then they did Fade Away as the last song of the set, with Jonah back on drums.
One Thing was first song of the encore. Steve mentioned a new live album coming out in October (yea!) and then moved on to Wasted Jamie.
At that point the chat bar EXPLODED. Seriously, the typed clapping, screaming and “Yes! Wasted Jamie” comments scrolled by so fast they were almost unreadable. (The song was awesome as well.) The final song of the show was Dynamite, both in name and in actuality. 
After that the show was over except for the screaming and squeeing on the chat bar. That continued on for a while after the concert and spilled over onto Twitter as well. The concert was pretty awesome and while I can’t speak for everyone I had a great time. It sounded like the other people attending had fun as well.
Some thoughts on the process:
The audio was pretty good. I used my headphones and got a very clear and clean sound. The video – not so much. It was a little blurred or grainy from time to time. I don’t know if I needed more muscle on my laptop or if it was just the limitations of the software and equipment at StageIt, but the video could have been much better.
Steve and Jonah seemed a little disappointed they couldn’t hear the fans watching the show. Part of playing live is the feedback from the audience so I can see where playing to a video camera would be a little awkward. Even so they did an amazing job. Maybe in the future StageIt could put together some kind of applause meter that flashed words or something at the performers to show how much feedback was actually being typed.
Before the show I had an error with my notes. Notes are the currency used on StageIt to buy tickets and tip the musicians and my note reserve said “0″ even after adding money to the account. Kristen and Tyler from tech support were able to fix it up for me by the time the show started so I was able to put money in the tip jar.
To wrap it all up, I like watching concerts online. While streaming online will never match the energy and excitement of a live performance, it is a nice alternative for people who can’t get out to see a show or for musicians to reach audiences in areas they don’t tour. I am looking forward to watching more concerts this way.
Jammin' in Steve's living room
A special shout out to all the people I met during the show and joined up with on Twitter afterward. It was awesome to see and hear Steve live but meeting other fans was great as well.
- Kit
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