Re: jerry curry vs. portland
i'd much rather be lurking, but can't let this one slide by. c'mon jerry.you are unable to find a single band or musician that meets your criteria in a town with a population of nearly 2 million people, especially in a town with a thriving and supportive music community such as portland? sorry, i don't buy it. it's the best place i've ever lived to watch bands develop and grow, and i'm proud to admit to being a fan of the music scene in portland. i love it here. elaine np: fernando *pacoima*
Re: jerry curry vs. portland
Um...Terry Robb Joni Harms! And, I do kinda like the Countripolitans, the Flatirons to a lesser extent. Little Sue is getting better all the time. Fernando, Bingo, Golden Delicious, and Pete Krebs, I just can't get into. Would love to hear 44 Long on record and outside of a "wall of noise" club environment. Let's see, no traditional country scene, that's particularly disappointing when I read about the stuff Honky Tonk Confidential is doing. Small bluegrass community. Horrible radio. Perhaps our Low Power FM project will help ease that Jones. Yes, I knowmove back East, East Tennessee boy. I hear ya. I do like it here though and really wasn't trying to slag the entire scene at all. The sheer number of quality clubs never ceases to amaze. Need an acoustic, singer-songwriter place to hang on though. I'd prefer being neck deep in the Nashville or Austin scene than up here. Those scenes just offer more opportunity to enjoy the kind of music I really enjoy than Portland. I'm most certainly NOT knocking Portland for developing musical directions that differ from my own interests. It's a truly wonderful area (to visit...g). And to live. Your truly from the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Done posting for the rest of the day Jerry On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c'mon jerry.you are unable to find a single band or musician that meets your criteria in a town with a population of nearly 2 million people, especially in a town with a thriving and supportive music community such as portland? sorry, i don't buy it. it's the best place i've ever lived to watch bands develop and grow, and i'm proud to admit to being a fan of the music scene in portland. i love it here. Jerry Curry - Spectre Booking Independence, Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. -- Art Linkletter
Re: jerry curry vs. portland
I've been off in some "never-never land" and have not been reading P2 for awhile, but I woke up long enough to notice this: At 02:53 PM 3/2/99 -0800, Jerry wrote: ... Let's see, no traditional country scene, that's particularly disappointing when I read about the stuff Honky Tonk Confidential is doing. Small bluegrass community. Horrible radio. Perhaps our Low Power FM project will help ease that Jones. Yes, I knowmove back East, East Tennessee boy. I hear ya. I do like it here though and really wasn't trying to slag the entire scene at all. The sheer number of quality clubs never ceases to amaze. Need an acoustic, singer-songwriter place to hang on though. I'd prefer being neck deep in the Nashville or Austin scene than up here. Those scenes just offer more opportunity to enjoy the kind of music I really enjoy than Portland. I'm most certainly NOT knocking Portland for developing musical directions that differ from my own interests. It's a truly wonderful area (to visit...g). And to live. Well, Jerry, I think you're partly right. The Portland music scene excels in other areas than P2-ish type of music, IMHO. I do believe the good stuff is there -- you just have to dig for it. (And I haven't done a huge amount of digging, I admit.) There's not much traditional country here. (I can give you a names a couple of traditional country bar bands that are reasonably decent, if that would be of interest to you.) If you're bored with the alt country music, why not try Portland's jazz? I've been working at KMHD about once a week, and I've got to tell you that there's some really great jazz stuff out there in Portland. (For example: Stan Boch is probably the best trombone player you'll've ever heard. I love it when he's on the show!) Last week there was no Home Grown Jazz live show, but the week before, it was a great group, Groove Revelation, that blended jazz and rock into a rather fascinating sound. The week before that was the Portland State University Jazz Band, and they were great. If you're interested, check out the schedule at http://www4.kmhd.org/kmhd/music/specialty.html (The show plays at 4 PM on Saturdays on 89.1 FM, or they simultaneously broadcast it on the web site via streaming audio. I'll try not to make any serious audio boo-boos this week!) But for something more country-ish, I suggest you check out Dave Carter Tracy Grammer. I heard them at PSA (Portland Songwriters Association) and again 6 weeks ago at the Greg Brown concert in Corvallis. I'd say they're sort of country-singersongwriter-folk blend. IMHO, their faults are that some of Dave's songs are too "redneck," and sometimes, too "new age" (in subject matter). But they have a real nice acoustic sound and their voices blend wonderfully. Tracy plays fiddle, mandolin and more, and she has a beautiful voice; and Dave does banjo and guitar and has an OK voice. I've got their cd if you want to hear it... Back to hibernating... Lianne
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer (was Re: jerry curry vs. portland)
Lianne recommends.. But for something more country-ish, I suggest you check out Dave Carter Tracy Grammer. I heard them at PSA (Portland Songwriters Association) and again 6 weeks ago at the Greg Brown concert in Corvallis. I'd say they're sort of country-singersongwriter-folk blend. IMHO, their faults are that some of Dave's songs are too "redneck," and sometimes, too "new age" (in subject matter). But they have a real nice acoustic sound and their voices blend wonderfully. Tracy plays fiddle, mandolin and more, and she has a beautiful voice; and Dave does banjo and guitar and has an OK voice. I've got their cd if you want to hear it... I'm gonna second Lianne's recommendation on this duo. I first heard them at Kerrville last summer and they stole the show in the New Folk contest (and were New Folk Winners). They've won many songwriter awards before that and since then. I lobbied hard for them to be included when we selected the Folk Alliance showcases, and although they apparently were both sick last weekend, they showcased well and had people talking. They've got a couple records--the most recent was rated pretty highly by the people on the FolkDJ list in their year end wrap up. Randi.
