Jun 24 2009
Saxman Elan Trotman hittin' his groove Boston Herald, United States “Growing up on the islands I played gospel music in church, and also reggae and calypso,” he said. “My mentor, Arturo Tappin, also went to Berklee and showed me how to fuse those sounds with jazz. Then when I came to the United States, I was exposed to ...
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Jun 24 2009
Taste of Chicago preview: Rating the music menu Chicago Tribune, United States A day devoted to the riches in the Bloodshot Records artist roster kicks off with the loose, lascivious, completely unpredictable Williams, followed by sets from the Deadstring Brothers, Dollar Store, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir and the Waco Brothers. ...
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Jun 19 2009
New York Times Music Review | Toby Keith A Rebel Who's Learning to Relax New York Times, United States Here, Mr. Adkins stood next to his backing troupe of six gospel -influenced singers, as if taking the side of good while his band, spread across the rest of the stage, worked through evil. In this case, the Devil seemed to be having more fun. ...
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Jun 18 2009
New York Times Rafa Rivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images New York Times, United States (Chinen) BRIAN BLADE (Wednesday) Mr. Blade, the most imaginatively supple drummer in jazz, has often incorporated folk and gospel music in his own projects, but never to the degree found on “Mama Rosa” (Verve Forecast), his new singer-songwriter album. ...
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Jun 14 2009
Seattle Post Intelligencer Generations Mingle at This Year's Bonnaroo New York Times, United States TV on the Radio leaned on the funk, gospel and hard-rock underpinnings of its art-rock; Dirty Projectors (joined for one song by Mr. Byrne) turned African guitar filigrees, zigzag melodies and pinpoint staccato vocals into cerebral but effervescent ... Review: Phish, Springsteen blow out Bonnaroo Daily Camera all 97 news articles
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Jun 14 2009
CMT.com In Online Music Era, Country Fans Lack a Connection Washington Post, United States The Oak Ridge Boys, some of whose members have been with the country and gospel outfit since 1965, recently launched MySpace and Facebook pages to promote their cover of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" to a younger audience. ... Last Night's CMA Music Fest: Boys vs. Girls as Trace Adkins ... Examiner.com all 94 news articles
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In Online Music Era, Country Fans Lack a Connection - Washington Post
Jun 14 2009
New York Times Christopher Berkey for The New York Times New York Times, United States TV on the Radio leaned on the funk, gospel and hard-rock underpinnings of its art-rock; Dirty Projectors (joined for one song by Mr. Byrne) turned African guitar filigrees, zigzag melodies and pinpoint staccato vocals into cerebral but effervescent ...
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Jun 13 2009
Stand by Them New York Times, United States Not taking a side on the issue of credit, Emerson writes that King drew on old gospel music “to compose” the song, but he also refers to “Stand by Me” as “Leiber, Stoller and King's.” In another recent book, “1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and ...
Jun 13 2009
Washington Times Bonnaroo: An Afternoon of Rhythm and Vertigo New York Times, United States TV on the Radio, whose albums are surfaced with dissonance and noise like coats of lacquer, got down to the funk, punk and gospel foundations of their songs. Santigold — weirdly scheduled at exactly the same time as the very similar Yeah Yeah Yeahs ... Ani DiFranco and More Rock 2009 Bonnaroo Fest Day 2 AceShowbiz all 86 news articles
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Bonnaroo: An Afternoon of Rhythm and Vertigo - New York Times
Jun 12 2009
New York Times Gospel Singer's Discovery Was 60 Years in the Making New York Times, United States For the 20ish audiences that hear Mrs. Shelton and her group, the Gospel Queens, at Manhattan clubs like Joe's Pub and the Fat Cat, her music arrives with a deceptive sense of newness. Deceptive because it is more like a time capsule from gospel's ...
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