Re: free web pages for bands...
Mike Hays writes: A search on the top 5 search engines turns up no references to the bystanders. That's 'cause we only want "cool" people to visit our website. Not just any Internet rabble! But seriously, it seems to get harder and harder these days to get search engines to pick you up. The de-democratizing of the 'net continues. Hell, I'll bet you can still get Mystery Dates and The Rent Boys (my previous bands) on the top 5 search engines (I haven't tried), since they were submitted years ago when $$$ wasn't an (or as much of) an issue to them "engineers." So please, kind P2 web masters, link us to your sites -- we'll link to you,too, we swear! Rob Np: The unreleased Radney Foster album ... in my head, at least (got to hear two great cuts from it on Shane's show last night -- some enterprising indie should pick that stuff up!). Rob Russell Johnson City, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listen.to/thebystanders
Re: Hidden Tracks: Crossposted
Old 97s - Write Me a Letter hidden on Hitchhike to Rhome Derailers - Raspberry Beret hidden on Reverb Deluxe Creeper Lagoon has one on their new record All for now, Chad -- Chad Hamilton University of Texas Graduate School of Business [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Swingin' Doors, 1/21/99
Kelly Willis - That's How I Got To Memphis What collection did this come from? Real:The Tom T. Hall Project. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
John Hiatt
John Hiatt's two shows at the Great American Music Hall have been cancelled - no reason given yet. I believe I read that John Hiatt is soon having throat surgery to remove nodules. Not thought to be life-threatening. John Holcomb
Old 97s in NYC
I know a number of New York P2ers are planning to see the Old 97s show at the Mercury Lounge next Saturday night (Amy H...Jeff J...Ross W probably...myself..abybody else? This is a good chance for catch up or meet up!) and some or all of those Buck Diaz boys are coming up from Phila. for the occasion and joining us.. .I'll be out in Silicon Valley Monday thru Thursday night, so if plans to meet beforehand ensue, I won't be able to respond aboit it till then. Any of you can let me know off-list where and when we'd meetI'd appreciate it. The other act that night--probably AFTER the 97s, by the way it's advertised, is "Sea of Cortez," about thich I know nothing... I'll aattempt to make sure I have a ticket beforehand. Barry M.
For Brad
SLACK-KEY PLAYERS BRINGING A BIT OF HAWAII TO TACOMA PAUL DE BARROS * 01/21/99 The Seattle Times (Copyright 1999) Last year, when Cyril Pahinui gave a workshop on Hawaiian slack-key guitar in Nashville, guitar guru Chet Atkins himself came up and asked what he was doing. " `Pops,' I said," Cyril recalled by phone from his home in Waimanolo, Hawaii, " `that's an open-C tuning.' " "An open C tuning?" replied Atkins. "What's that?" Now there isn't too much Chet Atkins doesn't know about guitars, so when he gets stumped, it's worth noticing. Hawaiians like Cyril - and his late father, the great Gabby Pahinui - have been fiddling with guitar tunings for over a hundred years now, developing personal styles that only recently have come to the attention of the rest of the world. The Hawaiian name for their music is Ki ho'alu, or slack-key, which refers to how the players loosen, or slacken, the strings of the instrument. If you've never heard slack-key, you should check it out. It's * a sweet, cleanly played folk music, featuring beautiful voices and quietly complex acoustic guitar sounds, a great antidote to the commercial hotel music relentlessly marketed as "Hawaiian." Pahinui and two other slack-key stars - George Kahumoku Jr., and the Reverend Dennis Kamakahi - will give an object lesson in just how beautiful their music is, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Tacoma's Rialto Theater. A discussion session at 6:30 p.m precedes the show. Pahinui, 48, has been playing slack-key since he started jamming with his father and friends at the age of 7. "I miss all that today," confessed Pahinui. "My father would say to one of us, `OK, brudda, take a solo!' It took some courage, but you played what you could play, and it was all right." There was a time when slack-key players guarded their tunings like family recipes. Today, they share more readily. Still, there is a limit to how much they'll tell you. "I can show you the tunings," says Cyril, notorious for his sophisticated, jazz-like chords, "but I won't tell you how to play." Can't other players just study his hands? "They don't have no chance to study," he answers cannily, "because they got to keep their mind on what they're playing, or I throw them off!" Pahinui records for Dancing Cat, a slack-key specialty label started in 1994 by New Age pianist George Winston. The company has sold more than 300,000 albums, and moved slack-key out of small clubs and into concert halls. This tour hits 18 U.S. cities, from Tacoma to New York. In spite of the fact that he has played Carnegie Hall, Pahinui still has a nine-to-five job, like most folk musicians. By day, he is a diesel-fuel truck driver for the city of Honolulu. He made his first slack-key album in 1966; his debut album for Dancing Cat, "6 12 String Slack Key," won a Hoku award, a sort of Hawaiian Grammy. His 1998 recording, "Night Moon," showcases his upbeat, aggressive style, particularly on 12-string guitar, which he can make sound like a whole band. His warm, hoarse baritone can be rousing on upbeat numbers, or high, gentle and sentimental on ballads. For tomorrow's show, Pahinui and fellow Dancing Cat artists Kahumoku and Kamakahi each play a solo set, then join for a jam. George sings pastoral songs in a high, nostalgic tenor. Kamakahi took over the slack-key spot held by Gabby Pahinui in a group called The Sons of Hawaii and has become one of the music's most important composers. Tacoma hula dancers Healani Kekela and Kanoelani Gliza will interpret some of the songs.
Review
this week's pop cd releases: H Indispensable Excellent HHH Good HH Mediocre H Appalling * 01/22/99 The Guardian Copyright (C) 1999 The Guardian; Source: World Reporter (TM) New Highway Return To Viva Americana * (Boka Discs) If you want country music these days you have to go looking for it with backpack and machete. . . or you could have it delivered to your door by the New Highway folks, who have compiled another treasurable compilation of American music. The 16 artists here include classics like Billy Swan, nearly-Nashville types like Tammy Rogers, a British expat in Chicago (Jon 'Mekons' Langford), some Irishmen and numerous American misfits. Slobberbone play arresting 'country grunge', Missouri's Nadine are both bluesy and soulful, and Canada's Neko Case could well be one of the voices of the millennium. It's the antidote to Garth.
Writhe and Fall
'Careless Love': The Writhe and Fall of Elvis Richard Harrington * 01/24/99 The Washington Post Copyright 1999, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved What started for Peter Guralnick as liner notes for the 1987 CD reissue of "The Complete Sun Sessions" has ended 12 years later with the publication of "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley." The new book, the second volume of Guralnick's massive biography, is a sobering follow-up to his 1994 critically acclaimed "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley." Like its predecessor, "Careless Love" is assiduously researched, meticulously assembled and beautifully written, equal parts Shakespearean tragedy and psychological mystery. The book delineates the decline and fall of an American icon with musical, social and psychological details that will appeal to both Presley die-hards and doubters. Guralnick says he never intended to write two books totaling more than 1,300 pages. But the more he investigated the parameters of Presley's life, the more apparent it became that the story was best told as a two-act drama in which an initial arc of triumph and invention gives way to musical diminution and social dissolution. According to Guralnick, those two distinct acts were separated by a curtain that fell in 1958, when Presley's beloved mother, Gladys, died, and he went into the Army for two years. It's at that crucial junction that "Last Train to Memphis" ends and "Careless Love" begins. "If you look at Elvis before he goes into the Army, he has a true belief in himself," Guralnick suggested on a recent book-signing stopover in Washington. "Things are falling into place in the way that they were meant to, in some mystical way, and then two things happen to really challenge that belief. One is Gladys dies, which is traumatic far beyond her being the person he was closest to in his lifetime. It challenges his belief in the justice of the universe. Elvis genuinely felt that all of his success was for a purpose and if his mother is taken away from him at the moment of his greatest success, what does that say about the purpose of his life?" At the same time, Guralnick adds, the poor boy born in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Miss., a cherished only child who spent hardly a night away from home until he started making records, suddenly finds himself alone, in the Army and overseas. "He's thrown into a world where he's in the company of strangers," Guralnick explains. "He recognizes that these strangers are waiting to see him fail, and is desperate to prove them wrong, desperate to prove himself. I believe at this point he creates the persona of Elvis and he's stuck with it." It's during his two-year stint with the 32nd Tank Battalion in Bremerhaven, Germany, that Presley begins to isolate himself within the nexus of family and friends that eventually came to be known as the Memphis Mafia. It's also in the Army that he is introduced to amphetamines--by a sergeant while on maneuvers. Guralnick notes that the pills left Presley "so full of energy he never had to slow down," but they also set the stage for a tragic finale in which an increasingly lazy, passive Presley succumbs to nightmares about being poor, alone and deserted. He numbs his paranoia and self-hatred with women, food and the drugs that finally left him dead on the floor of his Graceland bathroom, "his gold pajama bottoms down around his ankles, his face buried in a pool of vomit on the thick shag carpet." No fall from a throne was ever so dramatic, and Guralnick clearly feels that the story of Presley's failure is ultimately as worthy of exploration as the story of his success. The man who transformed popular culture was ultimately unable to transform himself, and according to Guralnick, "there is no sadder story." What's remarkable is how compassionately Guralnick tells it, with a depth and wealth of material that illuminate the complexity of that story. And as well known as the elements of that story are, Guralnick manages to maintain dramatic tension. "I wanted to establish a condition of suspense about what's going to happen next," Guralnick explains. "Not in the sense that we could ever forget or obliterate our knowledge of what was to come, but in the same sense that when you watch a movie that you love a second or third time, you're so caught up in the action that not only do you set aside what you know, you also hope that it's not going to happen." Guralnick's meticulously documented work aims not only to examine the complexities of Presley's life but also to reclaim his
Re: NEA
What are the dates of NEA? I was thinking Feb. 20 something but just saw Marie post a date for a band playing Feb. 13. Deb confused
Re: Review
.* 01/22/99 The Guardian Copyright (C) 1999 The Guardian; Source: World Reporter (TM) New Highway Return To Viva Americana . Canada's Neko Case could well be one of the voices of the millennium. It's the antidote to Garth. Indeed. When is the new Neko being released? Last I heard was Feb, which is just around the corner. Inquiring and obsessed minds must know.
Re: A couple more new shows in the SF area
Brad wrote: Friday February 12: Mark Eitzel, Box Set Duo, Chuck Prophet at Slim's (a benefit for the AIDS Ride) ok...who's gonna go to this show and make Carl Z. jealous that he's 2,564 miles away!! Paul np: Big Star - #1 Record
