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5499 Lake RoadWINERY East • Geneva-on-the Lake, Ohio Restaurant & Tasting Room Open 7 days Noon to Midnight Live entertainment 7 days a week! Tasting Rooms Entertainment See inside back cover for listing. all weekend. (see ad on pg. 7) 1-800-Uncork-1 FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND Hours: EVENTS, SEE OUR AD ON PG. 7 Monday Closed Hours: Tues thru Thurs noon to 7 pm, Mon. 12-4 • Tues. Closed Fri and Sat noon to 11 pm, Wed. 12-7 • Thurs. 12-8 Sunday noon to 7 pm Fri. 12-9 • Sat. 12-10 • Sun. 12-5 834 South County Line Road 6451 N. RIVER RD., HARPERSIELD, OHIO 4573 Rt. 307 East, Harpersfield, Oh Harpersfield, Ohio 44041 WED. & THURS, 12 - 7, FRI. 12-9 440.415.0661 440.361.3049 SAT. 12- 9, SUN. 12-6 www.laurellovineyards.com www.bennyvinourbanwinery.com WWW.HUNDLEY CELLARS.COM [email protected] [email protected]

If you’re in the mood for a palate pleasing wine tasting accompanied by a delectable entree from our restaurant, Ferrante Winery and Ristorante is the place for you! Entertainment every weekend Hours see ad on pg. 6 Stop and try our New Menu! Tasting Room: Mon. & Tues. 10-5 1520 Harpersfield Road Wed. & Thurs. 10-8, Fri. & Sat. 10-10 Geneva • 440-466-1248 Sun. 1-6 Geneva Exit off I-90, S. on SR534 • 2/10 mile Hours: Sun-Thurs: 11:30-8pm • Fri & Restaurant: Wed. & Thurs. 12-8 Sat: 11:30-11pm Fri. & Sat. 12-10, Sun. 1-6 www.deersleapwine.com 5585 N. River W, Geneva, Ohio 44041 (440) 466-8466 • www.ferrantewinery.com Summer Hours Fall hours Open 7 days a week! Beginning Fri. Aug. 16th 636 State Route 534, Harpersfield Sunday - Thursday 12-6pm, Sun - Thurs 12-6pm, Fri. 12-8pm, Sat. 12-9pm 440.361.4573 Friday 12-10pm, Saturday 12-9pm kosicekvineyards.com

Music Entertainment Schedule We will be open Fri. Aug. 9th 7-10 pm Alex Bevan Sat. Aug 31st 5-8 pm Maria Petti 12-6 Labor Day, Sat. Aug. 10th 5-8 pm CC & Sandy Sat. Sept. 7th 5-8 pm Jimmy Mrozek Sat. Aug. 17th 5-8 pm Ron Yarman Duo Sat. Sept. 14th 5-8 pm Earnest T Band stop in for a quiet Sat. Aug. 24th 5-8 pm Face Value Duo Sat. Sept. 21st 5-8 pm Melissa and Mitch afternoon on the deck! Please follow us on Facebook! Estate Vineyards & Award-Winning Wines OHIO WINE COUNTRY WINERY GUIDE 2 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice

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August 9-11: CCVB Collection of One-Acts, Arlene's Broadway on Buffalo, 7:30 pm D-Day Re-Enactment Weekend August 15-17 Visit www.ddayohio.us for schedule of events. FREE PARKING • FREE ADMISSION • FIREWORKS SATURDAY Sat. Sept. 21 Sun. Sept. 22 August 31: Tour Rt 7 Fifty-Mile Yard Sale in Conneaut South to Kinsman Fri. Sept. 20 Saturday, Sept. 7: Outdoor Learning Center Discovery Day Live Music Live Music Gateway Blvd. 10a-3p Live Music “Julia Neville” “Good Question” Sept. 6, 7 & 8: Perch & Pilsner Festival • Conneaut Township Park, 1-5pm 1-4pm Fireworks on Saturday night, water skiers & more. “The Classic Car Cruise Visit Perch & Pilsner on Facebook. “The Caliber Band” 4-8pm Earthquakers” 6-10:00pm Thursdays: Lighthouse Cruisers Cruise-Ins • Conneaut Township Park 5pm “Radioactive” Fridays: Five Division Racing at Raceway Seven • 7pm 6:30-10pm FIREWORKS AT DUSK! 5-8pm Fridays & Saturdays Music at Buccia Vineyard 6-9pm Lake Shore Park • Ashtabula • lakeshoreparkashtabula.org www.visitconneautohio.com • FB: VisitConneautOhio North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 3 North Coast Voice Aug.7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 • VOLUME 19 • ISSUE 8 •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • TA K E II • • • We would like to thank all of our sponsors and encourage • CONTENTS • • Playing 50-60-70's • our readers to patronize the fine businesses appearing in • Favorites and Much More • the North Coast VOICE. • • •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Publisher CASK TASTING 6 CD REVIEW 19 Aug. 9: Deer's Leap Geneva, 7-10 pm LCS Communications Rolling Stones ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Aug. 15: Brierwood Golf Club 6:30-10:30PM, Broadview Hts Editorial Director ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ROOTSVILLE 8 Aug. 16: Johnny Malloys 7:30-11:00PM, Medina Sage Satori ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [email protected] Aug. 17: Greene Eagle 6:30 - 9:30PM, Cortland MOVIES 21 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Once Upon a Time in Holly- Aug. 18: Peter Allen Inn 12:30 -3:30PM, Kinsman Assistant Editor NOW WE’RE TALKIN 11 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Aug. 22: NEW! Charbenais Winery 5:30 -8:30PM, Warren Bob Moore Woodstock wood, Spider-Man Far From ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Aug. 23: Silver Cellars 7-10 PM, Garrettsville Home, The Lion King ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Advertising & Marketing Aug. 24: Goddess Wine House 7-9PM, Ashtabula Hunter ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sales/Social Media/Events & Promotions ON THE BEAT 13 Aug. 25: Benny Vino Winery. 2-5PM, Geneva ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 440-813-3336 QUICK CUTS 23 Aug. 26: Top Notch Car Show 5:00PM, Cortland [email protected] ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• CD reviews Aug. 30: Geauga County Fair 4:00 PM, Midway Lg. tent Trenda Jones BLUE SKY FOLK FEST 15 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Aug. 31: Dublin Down 7-10 PM, Ashtabula Mentor, Willoughby, Chardon area ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• STAY IN TUNE 25 Sept. 1: Winery at Spring Hill 2:30 - 5:30PM, Harpersfield Staff Writers ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MUSIC REVIEW 16 Sept. 6: Hartford Hill Winery 7-10PM, Hartford Sage Satori • Cat Lilly ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Patrick Podpadec • Helen Marketti Peter Laughner box set FOLK & IRISH JAMS 26 Sept. 7: Garrettsville Car Show 2:00 PM Film Critic Irish, Folk, & Old Time Music For booking call Ellie Westside Steve PEDESTRIAN RAMBLINGS 18 330-770-5613 www.westsidesteve.com KICKIN IT 27 www.takeii.com Contributing Writers Pete Roche • Bob Moore Donniella Winchell • Trenda Jones Alan Cliffe • James Onysko 2019 Lakefront John Stoker • Steve Madewell Circulation Summer Concert Bob Covert • Dan Gestwicki • Jim Ales Trenda Jones • Charleen Perry Series GOTL Outdoor Market Dates FREE Geneva Township Park • Geneva-on-the-Lake Concerts August 31st Every Tuesday at 7pm We’re Earn a looking T‐Shirt at August 13 3 GOTL Strip for Crawls! 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North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 5 North Coast Voice Uncork, Unwind & Enjoy the Music! Grand River Valley Wine Region to Host 8th Annual Cask, Corks & Forks Tasting The Premier Regional Food & Wine Tasting Event 6451 SR 307 Vineyard and Bed & Breakfast This Year to Feature Local Foods Harpersfield, Ohio 440-361-3088 SPA SUITE Call for Spa Suite The Winegrowers of the Grand River Val- during harvest season, it is highly likely ROOMS Room Reservations ley are pleased to announce their seventh that grape pickers will be in the fields annual tasting event, “Cask, Corks & and grapes being pressed at some of the Weekend Music 2-5pm WINERY TASTING ROOM Forks,” on September 7th from Noon-5 wineries. The smell of grapes is sure LIVE MUSIC 6-9PM! Sat. 8/10 – Susan Hagan p.m. Join Debonné Vineyards, Fer- to permeate your senses as you drive August 9 ...... Matt Carducci - 1 PM rante Winery & Ristorante, Grand River around to the different wineries. Sun. 8/11 - Face Value Duo Cellars Winery & Restaurant, Laurello August 10 ...... Tommy Link While visiting the area, the group Thu. 8/15 – Thomas Reed Smith 5-8pm Vineyards, and St. Joseph Vineyards for encourages travelers to take a mini-va- August 16 ...... SCC Jazz this drive-yourself tour. The wine tasting, Sat. 8/17 - L.T.D. cation and spend their weekend in wine August 17 ...... Ty’s Tunes which includes the limited release of the country. There are lots of shops to visit Sun. 8/18 – Jim Ales Cask 1019 red wine, will be paired with and beautiful covered bridges to check August 23 ...... Brooke Surgener appetizers that feature local meats, fruits, Sat. 8/24 – Fretless out in the area. We are also very close August 24 ...... Prodigal Sons and vegetables to compliment the wine to Amish country. For those looking for Sun. 8/25 – Silver String Band perfectly. August 30 ...... Josh Travis other things to do, contact the Ashtabula Sat. 8/31 - Madison Cummins The Cask project was a joint effort of the County Convention & Visitors Bureau August 31 ...... Ethan Legere Sun. 9/1 – Mitch Larson five different wineries to each purchase (www.visitashtabulacounty.com); the Sept 6...... Mitch Larson a 500-gallon cask barrel, using oak from Lake County Convention & Visitors Bu- Sat. 9/7 – Thomas Reed Smith Sept 7...... Rodger Montgomery different countries. Each location then reau (www.lakevisit.com); or Destina- Sun. 9/8 – Andrew Bonnis put only regional red wines from their tion Geauga at www.destinationgeauga. winery into the barrel, resulting in wines com. www.hundleycellars.com Follow us on Facebook for event details that are smooth, dry, and full of flavors. The Winegrowers of the Grand River Kitchen opens at Noon and closes 30 minutes 518 Gore Road • Conneaut • 440-593-5976 www.bucciavineyard.com The first vintage in the barrel was in Valley formed a group several years before the whole joint shuts down for the night. Tues-Thurs: Noon-7pm • Fri & Sat Noon-9pm 2010, a second vintage was added in ago when they began to realize how 2011, and the third in 2012. This year’s quickly their wine region was growing. blend was bottled in 2019, thus the name The Grand River Valley Wine Region is Cask 1019 - the year the project started one of the fastest growing wine regions (“10”) and the year the wine was bottled in the United States and has the quality (“19”). Each year, 100 gallons will be wines to prove why. Member wineries bottled from these amazing barrels, mak- have achieved national and international ing room for the next years’ harvest. recognition with award-winning wines. All five participating wineries are within These wineries must adhere to strict 10 minutes of each other, making this a standards. very convenient excursion for travelers. The Cask Tasting is just one of a series Each winery will feature their cask wine of events The Winegrowers of the Grand and another regional wine paired with an River Valley host each year. Other appetizer. The cost is only $6 per person events include the ever-popular Ice Wine at each winery. Festival and The Turkey Trot. “Cask, Corks & Forks is the premier Please join the following wineries for an tasting for the region”, states Cindy afternoon of wine sampling paired with Lindberg, owner of Grand River Cellars delicious appetizers: Winery & Restaurant. “It highlights the red wine production of the region and Debonné Vineyards now also highlights other regional varietal Ferrante Winery & Ristorante wines. We’ve seen our consumers’ wine palates change over the years, enjoying Grand River Cellars Winery & Restau- more sophisticated wines which is why rant the Cask wine is so popular. At the winery Laurello Vineyards we sell out way before the next vintage is bottled. This tasting gives you the op- St. Joseph Vineyards portunity to engage in that sophistication Patrons will visit each of the five winer- but in a very relaxed atmosphere at each ies in any order they choose. Each win- “The wine speaks for itself.” of the wineries. It’s a great experience to ery will provide samples of their wines taste the different oaks and the way they along with a delicious appetizer. Area 440-593-3197 | www.markko.com | [email protected] enhance the wines.” maps will be provided at all wineries to 4500 South Ridge Road | Conneaut, OH 44030 With the event being in mid-September, help patrons plan their trail. 6 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice Cask Tasting Menu - St. Joseph Vineyards - f f 4573 Rt. 307 East • Geneva (American Oak Barrel with French 440.415.0661 Oak Heads) - Debonne Vineyards - LaurelloVineyards.com (French Oak Barrel) Locally sourced black Angus beef brisket, slowly smoked over hickory, served on a Italian sausage, stuffed peppadew whole wheat baguette & accompanied by pepper with parmesan a chocolate sweet. Cure A Place Where Old Friends Gather And New Friends Meet! - Ferrante Winery & Ristorante - Cost is $6 per person at each winery Thursdays (French Oak Barrel) Price includes wine samples and hearty 8/9 ...... Holly’s Uncle 6-9 appetizers. 8/10 .... Bobby Hayes H20 Band 7-10 Join us every Thurday Wild mushroom, Dijon & sage puff 8/11 .... 2 Kings 2-5 from 4-7:30pm pastry pursette For more information about the Cask Tasting, call 440-466-3485 or go to www. 8/16 .... Uncharted Course 6-9 for a delicious dinner! -Grand River Cellars Winery & wggrv.com and click on the Events list- 8/17 .... Back Traxx Band 7-10 Restaurant- ing. 8/18 .... Kris Ferrell 2-5 Check out our (Hungarian Oak Barrel) 8/23 .... Rossi & Romano 6-9 website 8/24 .... Backsreet Blues 7-10 Cask 1019 Chocolate wine cake for Weekly topped with port-infused whipped 8/25 .... Jim Ales 2-5 “CURE” cream 8/30 .... Bobby Hayes H20 Band 6-9 8/31 .... Lost Sheep Band 7-10 meals. - Laurello Vineyards - 9/1 ...... Steve Howell 12-3 (Hungarian Oak Barrel with French Nia Covington 3-5 Oak Heads) 9/6 ..... Michelle Edwards 6-9 All proceeds go to Sliced local beef tenderloin on a 9/7 ...... 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Creative Works Fri. Aug. 16 • 5:30-8:30 Luisa's ■■■ By Cat Lilly Sat. Aug. 17 • 7-10 • Halcyon Ashtabula Harbor w/Dick Dana I have been writing my Bluesville pow-wow, among others. Thurs. Aug. 22 • 7-9 column for almost fifteen years. I have Songs have always been a way for Rotary Pavilion, Geneva written about blues traditional and in- w/Homemade Handmade people to preserve their history and novative, classic and cutting edge. Pure the traditions of their ancestors. They Fri. Aug. 23 • 5-8 • Triangle Lounge and simple, complicated and fused. I sang in the galleys of the slave ships w/Homemade Handmade have written about blues icons and new- to ease the misery. Songs were sung comers, young and old, dead or alive. in churches, on front porches, in the Fri. Aug. 30 • 7-10 I have covered the blues scene locally, Deer's Leap w/Homemade Handmade fields and other workplaces, and to rock nationally, and worldwide - the famous the children to sleep, and passed down INSPIRED BY NATURE as well as the obscure. from parent to child. INTERPRETED THRU IMAGINATION Fri. Sept. 6 • 5:30-8:30 • Luisa's I remember looking in my grandmoth- In general, American roots music was ongoing create your own Sun. Sept. 8 • Old Mill er’s piano bench as a kid and finding Open Mic w/Dan Wagner a window into the everyday life of or- Enduring Expression a Reader’s Digest Family Songbook, dinary people, with all of its hopes and FUN FRIDAYS 10 a.m filled with standards, big band swing, sorrows. The songs of the poor - people and Broadway show tunes. I sat down $15/2 Sessions of many different ethnicities who Cat and played every song in the book but struggled against oppressive social and By appointment, visit our Showroom kept coming back to my two favorites economic conditions. Music gave them Call: 440.466.0702 – “Birth of the Blues” and “Blues in the a way to celebrate and give dignity to Lilly Night”. their identity. 764 South County Line Road For Bookings call When I was fourteen, my parents di- Harpersfield 440-466-4623 or 440-417-4199 At the beginning of the 20th century, vorced. My mother joined the Colum- “folk music” was described as music bia Record Club and let us kids choose made by poor whites of European an album every month to make us feel descent, often originating in the some- better. One of my first picks was Bes- what isolated rural south. As the cen- sie Smith. I had no idea who she was, tury progressed, that definition widened but liked the picture on the cover – the to include the song styles of southern smiling woman with the big round face. blacks as well – the blues. Over time, Once I heard her voice, against that music made by other groups – Native sparse accompaniment (sometimes just Americans, Mexicans, and Cajuns – all piano and cornet) - I was hooked for fell under the same umbrella. “Folk” life! became a cultural art form. Blues is and always will be my first Due largely to the efforts of song col- love, but it’s time to expand my hori- lector John Lomax, folk music began zons. Renaming the column “Roots- to spread from its regional roots in ville” allows me to write about so many small rural communities to wide and different genres that are all part of the diverse audiences. Middle-class and fabric of the great American tapestry elite white urban musicians, scholars, known as “roots” music. And the great and fans were drawn to music made part about it is the blues genre is an by disenfranchised African Americans, important part of roots music. whites and Latinos. The advent of radio What is “roots music”? exposed even more Americans to these The term is a little ambiguous and may diverse musical styles. require explanation. Roots music is Major historical events had signifi- technically defined as music springing cant impact on roots music. The Great from and identified with a particular Depression, the Dustbowl, and western culture. That is, music that is either expansion caused huge population native to or originated in that country. shifts from rural to urban, affecting Therefore, American roots music can the instrumentation and lyrics. Music be explained as a style incorporating performance was often a place where gospel, early blues, traditional country, whites and blacks could come together zydeco, tejano, and Native American and transcend the social limits imposed 8 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice by segregation. The styles of the com- The album, released on June 7th, is mon man – black, white, and multi- a collection of Frampton’s favorite ethnic - began to blend. blues tunes, and was recorded with Richmond Trolley, Limousine & Transportation In the 1950s, awareness of folk music his longtime touring band, made up of grew, popularized by singers like Adam Lester (guitar/vocals), Rob Ar- Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who thur (keyboards/guitar/vocals) and Dan traveled the country, pioneers of the Wojciechowski (drums). All Blues was intimate acoustic style, who used their recorded at Frampton’s home studio songs as a way to call attention to in Nashville, and features collabora- injustice. This is where the protest song tions with Kim Wilson, Larry Carlton, Leave the Driving to Us! was born. The spirituals of the Afro- Sonny Landreth and Steve Morse. Affordable and Trustworthy • Diverse Fleet of Vehicles American slaves, “union songs” sung “I have always loved to play the Jolly Trolley, White Stretch Limousine, Limousine Party Bus, by labor organizers, the anti-war songs blues,” Frampton explains. “When we of the sixties – all are a response to Wheelchair Accessible Van, and other vans to accommodate parties formed Humble Pie, the first material from small to large, simple to elaborate. cultural conflict. we played together was just that. For Roots music has long been a voice for the last two summers I had been play- CUSTOMIZE YOUR TRIP! 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Check out our • Bachelor & Bachelorette Parties Fruit” and Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Frampton kicked off Peter Frampton website at www.strike-a-pose-now.com for details. Goddamn”. The history of roots music • Corporate Events is linked to many dynamic movements Finale — the Farewell Tour presented If you haven't experienced Richmond Trolley & Limousine for change – the New Deal, the labor by SiriusXM — an approximately 50- movement, the Civil Rights movement, date run this summer and fall produced service yet, give us a try for any event and ENJOY the ride! the war on poverty, and the peace, by Live Nation. Frampton will retire environmental, Native American, Chi- from regular vigorous touring at the 2423 Deerfield Dr. • Ashtabula • 440-964-9403 cano, and women’s movements. end of this year due to his diagnosis of the autoimmune disease Inclusion www.richmondtrolleyandlimo.com Today, the term “roots music” encom- Body Myositis. IBM is a progres- passes an ever-expanding, broader sive muscle disorder characterized by range of American music. In this cur- muscle inflammation, weakness and rent era of globalization, roots music atrophy. The guitarist is currently be- evolves by synthesizing elements from ing treated at Johns Hopkins Medical disparate sources. While the “roots” Center in Baltimore. have been lifted from their native coun- try, the influence they exert on Ameri- “With this recording, we pay tribute can music sometimes creates a new to all the original artists who invented hybrid, and an ever-increasing spec- this incredible music,” says Framp- trum of Americans continue to relate to ton. “I hope you can hear and feel our this music of the working class, with enjoyment. I’m not sure if you can say its themes of freedom, justice, and hu- we had fun playing the blues. But we manity. The artists of roots music craft definitely did.” All Blues is a fitting tunes and ballads, hymns and protest capstone to an amazing career. songs as a means of reflecting on, and ALL BLUES TRACK LISTING sometimes promoting social change. 1. I Just Want To Make Love To You (featuring Kim Wilson) Peter Frampton 2. She Caught The Katy releases All Blues 3. Georgia On My Mind Despite a crushing 4. Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover diagnosis and a 5. Me And My Guitar looming farewell 6. All Blues (featuring Larry Carlton) tour, the thrill 7. The Thrill Is Gone (featuring Sonny is definitely not Landreth) gone for Peter 8. Going Down Slow (featuring Steve Frampton. B.B.’s Morse) classic is one 9. I’m A King Bee of the ten blues 10. Same Old Blues covers on his latest release, All Blues. Continued on page 10 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 9 North Coast Voice Continued from page 9 1935, and was converted into a winery ATM NETWORK Big Screen Sports! and restaurant in 1987. Upon approach, Blues, Burgers, Beers you are greeted by a quaint little antique Wings, BBQ Ribs, Pulled Pork & MORE! Saturday, August 17 fire truck at the front of the building, half the size of the ones today. “Old Betsy”, a Old Firehouse Winery 1926 Graham Brothers engine, represents Blues, Burgers, Beers is a long running the historical evolution of Old Firehouse festival held at The Landing Lakefront Winery. OPEN DAILY INCLUDING HOLIDAYS! Festival Plaza, adjacent to Old Firehouse Firehouse is Ohio’s largest lakefront Winery, at Geneva-on-the-Lake. Live winery, boasting an unparalleled view of Sat. Aug. 24 blues music plays all day, beginning at Lake Erie, fine wines, eclectic food, and Saturday, August 17th • Scavenger Hunt 6:00pm noon and ending at midnight. While you even their very own Ferris wheel. The are listening, you can visit the “Build historic Erieview Park Ferris Wheel (#5 Hosted by Bikers Creed MC Party on the River Your Own Burger Bar”, and sample the to benefit BBSP: a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing Hosted by S.M.M.C. Big Eli), made in 1956, is open for rides craft beer stations. and retraining dogs as service animals for Veterans and First and Grand River Manor nightly throughout the summer season. Indulge in a little bit of nostalgia as you Responders. $15 single rider $25 couple. Registration 10 am $20 donation. Free food Blues ALL DAY: Blues Meets Girl Noon - 4pm bask in the blues, and watch the sun set at Grand River Manor, 11 am first bike out, 5pm last bike in at while it last, drinks available for purchase, Powerful duo of bluesman Mr. Down- over the horizon! Paradise Bay in Roaming Shores w/music till 9. camping available. child and singer/song writer Kasimira $100 prizes, 50/50 Raffle, door prizes and more! Music by Burnt Vogel. Valves Poppa D & Aggravators 4 - 8pm Blues-rock power trio with special blend Every Friday! 8-Midnight TUESDAY WING NIGHT 60¢JUMBO WINGS of “D-blues”! DJ Rob Flying Pig & 65¢ BONELESS WINGS Geo & Tha Storm 8pm-midnight FRIDAYS OPEN MIC WITH Youngstown’s premiere funk band. QUEEN OF Entertainment JIMMY ALES • 7PM FRIDAYS HEARTS FREE Old Firehouse Winery is located on DRAWING PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS! JUKE BOX! GOTL’s entertainment strip. 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Plus, fundraising for the Anita In his recent book, “Woodstock 50th Obhof Foundation Scholarship Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm” Fund to benefit area students! (Krause Publications, 2019), Mike Wood Like/follow Dublin Down & Anita Obhof Greenblatt takes the reader on a journey Fire Grilled Foundation Facebook pages for more during a time when the counter-culture Pizzas! info. (This event is rain or shine) generation was not settled by any means, BE SURE TO LIKE & FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK but did come together for three days TO KEEP UP WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE AT DUBLIN DOWNS! of music and peace. The book contains interviews from many of the original artists who performed at Woodstock, Valentine Day Dinner For Two! such as Graham Nash, Carlos Santana, 2 Ribeyes, Shrimp Scampi Over Pasta, Salad, Rolls, and Country Joe McDonald. Readers will Dessert & Bottle of Wine, Only $45.00!!! enjoy first-hand accounts through Mike’s eyes as he relives the experience. “I didn’t realize at the time that I was part Author of a historical event. We were used to Mike Greenblatt seeing artists one at a time at a venue but with Woodstock, it was three days’ worth we got there. As it turned out, we should of seeing some great artists who were all have because we never made it back to there at the same time. We almost didn’t the car for those three days!” go, however. We were thinking about go- ing to see Led Zeppelin at Asbury Park.” He continues, “On the first night, we were playing Monopoly by flashlight. We had “I had bought tickets for Neil and I. For secured a spot very close to the stage all three days of Woodstock, the cost was and fell asleep. The next morning when I $17.50 per ticket. Woodstock officially woke up, I stretched, stood up and looked started on a Friday. Neil and I drove around and I couldn’t believe what I was to Bethel, New York on Thursday. The witnessing. I saw an endless sea of people event was held on Max Yasgur’s dairy everywhere I looked and everywhere I farm. Neil and I had tickets but no one turned. It was unbelievable. At this point was taking them so we threw them away! we had no idea where to find the car!” We were directed to a parking area that (laughs) was available. We were prepared to set up at Woodstock as though we were “We were so close to the stage that we camping. We brought a tent, sandwiches, could actually see the facial expressions water, a bag of pot and a change of of the artists,” said Mike. “It was some- clothes,” remembers Mike. “We decided thing to realize the enormity of this situ- to leave everything in the car, walk to ation. There were 500,000 people packed the site, find a spot, and then go back to together. There wasn’t enough food, not the car to get our stuff. We didn’t want enough water and not enough bathrooms. to carry everything with us as soon as Continued on page 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 11 North Coast Voice Continued from page 11 the counter-culture. We were brothers and The LYLE JAMES HEATH The weather was horrible. It gently rained sisters in arms who thought the same way. THE MULTI-INSTRUMENTAL, VERSATILE MUSICIAN It was a generational band together.” -Booking all types of gigs! off and on for the first couple of days then Porch Rockers -Will OPEN for bands at large venues on Sunday it poured, the wind blew, and Mike referred to a quote of dairy farmer, Band -Hire me for your band for the night it was cold. We were in the same clothes Max Yasgur, when asked what we have *EVERY SUNDAY (UNLESS OTHERWISE SCHEDULED) CLAY ST. GRILL 11AM-3PM (AUSTINBURG) all three days. My friend Neil stayed so- learned from Woodstock: *EVERY THURSDAY (UNLESS OTHERWISE SCHEDULED) ber the entire time while I was stoned out OLD FIREHOUSE WINERY 7-11PM (GOTL) of my mind for most of Woodstock.” “I’m a farmer. I don’t know how to --WED AUG. 7TH: OLD FIREHOUSE WINERY speak to 20 people at one time, let 7-11PM (GOTL) “There was no security, no police, no one alone a crowd like this. But I think you --FRI AUG. 9TH: YANKIES BAR GRILL 7-11PM of authority and yet everyone behaved people have proven something to the --WED AUG. 14TH: OLD FIREHOUSE WINERY themselves, enjoyed the music, and then world. Not only to the town of Bethel 7-11PM (GOTL) went home. Everything stayed peaceful, --THURS AUG. 15TH: FERRANTE WINERY or Sullivan County or New York State. Fri. 8/9...... 8-11pm • Driftwood Point 5:30-8:00 (GENEVA) which probably would not happen today,” You’ve proven something to the world. --SUN AUG. 18TH: WINERY AT SPRING HILL said Mike. “Neil and I didn’t stay for the This is the largest group of people ever Sun. 8/11...... 2:30-5:30pm 2:30-5:30PM (GENEVA) remainder of Sunday. We missed seeing assembled in one place. We had no idea Debonne Vineyards --MON AUG. 19TH: SPORTSTERZ BAR AND GRILL Jimi Hendrix, Sha-Na-Na, and Crosby, that there would be this size group and 5PM-9PM (GOTL) Stills, Nash and Young. You have to re- --SAT AUG. 24TH: FERRANTE WINERY because of that, you had quite a few Thurs. 8/15...... 6-9pm 1:30-5:00PM (GENEVA) member we were still in the same clothes inconveniences as far as water and food Mr. Lee's Open Mic/Bike Nite --SUN AUG. 25TH: OLD MILL WINERY OPEN MIC since the first day. We were tired, cold, and so forth. Your producers have done 4:30-7:30PM (GENEVA) wet, hungry and had to use the bathroom. a mammoth job to see that you’re taken Sun. 8/18...... 1:30-5pm • Ferrante --SAT AUG. 31ST: OLD FIREHOUSE WINERY I wanted to stay but Neil had enough. It care of. They’d enjoy a vote of thanks. LYLE HEATH BAND 4PM-8PM (GOTL) was amazing to see Johnny Winter and Sat. 8/24...... 7:30-10:30pm --SUN SEPT. 1ST: HIGH TIDE TAVERN But above that, the important thing that HEATH BROS 8PM-12AM (GOTL) The Band. Out of 32 acts, we missed you’ve proven to the world is that a half a Grand River Cellars --MON SEPT. 2ND: DRIFTWOOD POINT three of them which isn’t too bad.” million kids, and I call you kids because LABOR DAY 5PM-8PM (MADISON) I have children older than you, a half Sat. 8/31...... 6-9:30pm • Ferrante --FRI SEPT. 6TH: HIGH TIDE TAVERN “Woodstock was a cosmic happening. HEATH BROS 8PM-12AM (GOTL) There wasn’t any violence. It was the million young people can get together Like us on Facebook: The Porch Rockers Band coming together of like-minded people. and have three days of fun and music and For bookings, call Subscribe to my YouTube Channel! Everyone that was there came for the have nothing but fun and music. And God bless you for it.” (Max Yasgur, 1969) 440.339.1069 or 440.339.9482 Call/text 440-381-3736 music and looking for people of the same or contact me on Facebook ilk. It was an iconic event in the history of

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Roasted Corn-on-the Cob • Thursday, Aug. 22 • 5-9pm Corn Dogs • Sausage • Pulled Pork Acoustic at Sportsterz Hot Dogs • Fresh Cut French Fries • Saturday, Aug. 24 Hamburgers • Nachos Acoustic at Cheese-on-a-Stick • Cheese Cakes Arts on Bridge Street Festival • 10am-7pm Rob Lundi FACEBOOK.COM/FLYINGPIGENTERTAINEMNT LOCATED ON THE STRIP GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE RESORT [email protected] 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice ON THE BEAT

Music Along the River Sunday’s main stage program includes: • 1 PM: Mr. Haney Old Time String Band Returns to Harpers- • 2:15 PM: Variety Show, with four field August 16-18th groups and performers Acoustic musicians and their fans will Sunday workshops: return to the Music Along the River Festival on Friday, August 16, from 7-9 • 11 AM: ‘How to Sing Better,’ led by PM, Saturday, August 17, and Sunday, Bruce Blair August 18, 2019, from 11 AM to 6 PM. • 12 PM: ‘An Introduction to Songwrit- Located on the banks of the Grand River ing,’ led by Betsy Wood and John Stoker at the Harpersfield Covered Bridge Workshops are suitable for beginning/ Metropark, this family-friendly festival intermediate skill levels. These programs celebrates ‘unplugged’ music of all types, will be held in the pavilions on the south from Native American-style drumming side of the river. and old time fiddling to jazz and con- Admission to the festival is free. This temporary original music. In addition event is made possible by donations from to live performances, visitors can enjoy music-loving individuals and organiza- free workshops on singing, songwriting, tions. Additional support comes from the fiddle playing, and more. Professional Ashtabula County Metroparks Board, the and amateur musicians are also invited to Ashtabula County Convention and Visi- join the formal and informal jam sessions tors Bureau, and the North Coast Voice. going on all weekend. Food is by Fat For more information, email MATR@ Papi’s. Primitive camping is offered to roadrunner.com or visit us on Facebook musicians on Friday and Saturday nights www.facebook.com/MusicAlongTheRiver on the north side of the river. The Harpersfield Covered Bridge Me- The festival opens Friday night with a tropark is located at 1225 Harpersfield drum circle in the north side pavilion, Rd., Harpersfield Twp., south of Geneva, beginning at 7 PM. Bring a drum or Ohio. other percussion instrument and join in! Bob Sabo will lead this event. Fourth Annual Art in Flying Pig Entertainment Saturday, the main stage in the Ellsworth Pavilion (south side) will the Alley Festival FULL BAND, ACOUSTIC, DJ/KARAOKE feature: September 7th • Every Friday • 1 PM: The Non-Trio The” Ashtabula Downtown Development DJ at Grand River Manor • 2:15 PM: Variety Show, with five Association (ADDA) is making plans for groups and performers its fourth annual Art in the Alley Festival. • Saturday, Aug. 10 • 4:45-6 PM: Open Stage, hosted by The event, featuring local and regional Bruce Blair artists, will take place September 7 from Sportsterz 5-9pm 2 to 10 p.m. in the alleys and parking lots with Oscar Gamble Trio Small South Pavilion: surrounding Dublin Down Irish Pub on • 4 PM: Celtic Jam, hosted by Laura Ashtabula’s Main Avenue, and is FREE • Thursday, Aug. 22 • 5-9pm Fidel to the public. It will be a show for artists North Pavilion: who create Photography, Painting, Draw- Acoustic at Sportsterz ing/Sketching, Three Dimensional, and • 4 PM: Old Time Jam, hosted by Joel Misc./Mixed Media. In addition to the • Saturday, Aug. 24 Specht artwork, the show will include a Wine Acoustic at The Saturday workshop schedule offers: Garden, Food Vendors, 3 sessions of Sip and Paint led by Chris Davis, Live Music, Arts on Bridge Street • 11 AM: ‘Old Time Work Tunes,’ led Artistic Culinary Demonstration by Liz Festival • 10am-7pm by Joel Specht, Andrej Debevc, and Jen Delgado (TV Personality), Live Radio Simpson Remote Broadcast featuring Mark Allen Rob Lundi • 12 PM: ‘Traditional Irish Fiddle for of Mix 97.1, and lots of “Hands-On” kids FACEBOOK.COM/FLYINGPIGENTERTAINEMNT the Intermediate Level Musician,’ led by and family friendly activities! [email protected] Pam Verity Continued on page 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 13 North Coast Voice

OPEN DAILY Breakfast: 7am-Noon • Lunch & Dinner: Noon-11:30pm Continued from page 13 built through constantly performing over 7am-2:30am Late Night Menu: 11:30pm-1am • Dine In/Carry Out! The Main Sponsor again this year is the years. He traveled the eastern part of Happy Hour...Mon-Thur. 3-7pm Ziegler Heating Company. Artists who the U.S. with both I-Tal and First Light, $1.50 Most Domestic Bottles & $1.75 Well Shots wish to participate must complete the his previous groups, and many of those 6 Bottle Bucket of Most Domestics Beers $12 All Day show application and send an example of fans are still on board with his current their work (jpeg) to show Chairman Chris group. MON: Pizza $12 or $2/Slice DiGiacomo from Framed on Main. The Daily TUE: Wing Night The Kickstarter campaign launched on Food WED: 2 Tiders or Hot Dogs & application, along with other details and August 1st, and will feature some inter- Onion Rings or Fries requirements, is on the ADDA website at esting incentives for those that are willing Specials! THUR: Taco Night www.downtownashtabula.com or www. to donate, with tiers as low as $10 and ashtabulaart.com. To have an application as high as $5000. One of the incentives DJ/VJ/KARAOKE mailed to you, or for more information, includes bringing in a number of fans *Every Friday & Saturday starting @ 8pm contact Chris DiGiacomo 440-536-4017 to do hand claps and crowd vocals on a Or Immediately After The Band Until 2am framedonmain.com . couple of the songs in an effort to make The participation fee for each artist will this somewhat of an interactive project. be a donation piece, in lieu of cash, to the The album is slated to be called “A New ADDA with a value of between $50 and Day”. A release date hasn’t been deter- Blues Weekend $100. Funds received from the sale of mined yet, but will be in the first half of these pieces along with a 50/50 raffle will 2020. You can see Jones’ video pitch at Fri. Aug. 16 • 8p-Midnight help to support the ADDA and its goal of the following link: downtown revitalization. TYRONE’S www.kickstarter.com/profile/anewday/ Artwork will be judged with prize money created of $75 for First Place in each category TUNES and a chance to win $125 “Best of Show Deep C Entertainment (DCE) is a Cleve- Winner.” land-based Artist Management Company Sat. Aug. 17 • 8-Midnight that represents Cleveland reggae icon, The ADDA is also seeking sponsors to Carlos Jones as well as the James Em- REMEMBER MAGNOLIA help offset the costs associated with stag- mett Band. DCE is a division of Cross ing the event. For more information, or Track Music, Inc., a full-service provider Fri. August 30 to become a sponsor, contact Larry Fargo 8p-Midnight of artist services, including management, at 440-997-2442 or larry@fargomachine. promotions, distribution (Little Fish N com Records), bookings, publishing, foreign athan licensing, mobile marketing (through its Henry Carlos Jones To Music America subsidiary), and video production. Launch Kickstarter Sat. Aug 31 • 8-11 Campaign State Ag Department Rhythm Connection Deep C Entertainment, the management Creates Hemp team for Cleveland reggae icon Carlos Jones, announced that they are launching Program Sun. Sept. 1• 8-11 a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for On July 30th Governor Mike DeWine an upcoming full-length album that Car- signed Senate Bill 57 into law, decrimi- The Heath Brothers los Jones & the PLUS Band have recently nalizing hemp and paving the way for started working on. This will be the first the development of a new hemp industry Sat. Sept. 7 time that Jones has used a crowd funding in our state. The Ohio Department of platform to subsidize one of his musical Agriculture (ODA) will administer the 8-Midnight releases. newly-created hemp program. Jones has been a performing musician Hemp is a cannabis plant that does not Larry, Daryl, Daryl & Sheryl for over 40 years with at least 10 record- produce intoxicating effects, grown for its many industrial uses. Hemp contains a Sat. Sept. 14 • 2-7:30PM ings to his credit. He has continued to Sun. Sept. 8 • 6-10p write more original songs that the band fiber, a grain, and oil that can be extracted Halloween Crawl has been performing, and as the band’s for CBD, which is now being used in TYRONE’S TUNES Adult Wagon Ride name indicates – PLUS, aka Peace Love food and dietary supplements. Unity Syndicate, he brings a message in The hemp program sets up a licensing VisitGenevaOnTheLake.com & VisitAshtabulaCounty.com his music that needs to be heard by as structure for farmers who are interested many people as possible. The economics in growing the crop and those inter- SEND US AN EMAIL TO RECEIVE OUR MAILINGS! of the music industry today, especially ested in processing it. It also allows for Two Facebook Pages: HighTide Tavern and Betty's HighTide Fun for independent artists that don’t have the universities to grow and cultivate the Email: [email protected] bankroll of a major record label, is such crop for research purposes. ODA will 5504 Lake Road East • On the Strip that it is difficult to recoup the expense also be testing CBD and hemp products involved in recording a full length album. Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio • (440)466-7990 Jones has a very loyal fan base that he has Continued on page 20 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice Blue Sky Folk Festival Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 North East Ohio Music Heritage Association (NEOMHA) presents the Blue Sky Folk Festival in Willoughby at its new location, The Fine Arts Association, 38660 Mentor Ave. (Route 20), Willoughby 44094. The Blue Sky Folk Festival celebrates its ninth year! – a gem of an event that brings musicians and folk music fans from all over Northeast Ohio to Willoughby for a day of jamming, perfor- mance and learning. This year the Blue Sky presents two separate events, a daytime program and an evening concert. Daytime Program Noon – 5 p.m. Enjoy 45-plus concerts, music workshops, jams and contra dances, featuring such popular and creative musicians as Hal Walker, Paul Kovac, Jim Volk, Sheela Das, Bob Yocum, Matt Harmon, Doug Unger, Charlie Mosbrook, dance caller Carol Kopp and a bunch more from noon to 5 p.m. There are scheduled jams in Old-Time, Western Swing and Old-Time Banjo led by professional musicians, plus popup jamming all over, all day, indoors and out. $10 admission, free under age 13. Bring an instrument to jam for $2 off admission. Gates open 11 a.m. Matt Watroba will emcee the daytime concerts as well as lead a community sing workshop. Contra Dance New to Festival This year for the first time there will be a Contra Dance track offered during the Day Program. No partners are necessary; the dancers form two long lines and change partners throughout to live Appalachian music. The dance is led by a caller who teaches the sequence of figures before the music starts. Callers at this year’s festival include Carol Kopp, Bill O’Connor and Kenny Wilson. Dinner Break - 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Head to the shops and restaurants in Downtown Willoughby, a 16-minute walk (three minutes by car) - or stay at the Fine Arts Association for more jam- ming, whether you play or just like to watch. There will be food vendors, plus beer, wine and our signature Blue Sky cocktail available all day. Evening Concert with Madison Violet Finish the day with an Evening Concert at 7:30 p.m. featuring the storytelling lyrics and close Friday 4:00 - Midnight harmonies of Madison Violet. The JUNO-nominated twosome is composed of singer-songwrit- Saturday 2:00 - Midnight ers Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac. The evening concert program fills out with original Sunday 2:00 - Dark and traditional folk music performances by two creative tunesters: emcee/musician Matt Watroba, who recently was named to the Folk Alliance International D.J. Hall of Fame, and Charlie Mosbrook with his beautiful bass voice and inventive lyrics. Charlie’s song “Remember Beach Bar & Grill! Who We Are” earned him 2nd place in the 2018 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting LAKE Best place to watch contest in Okemah, Oklahoma. Doors open 7 p.m., concert is 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20 online, $25 ERIE the sunset on the Lake. LAKE WALLEYE! at the door. Food, beer, wine and our signature Blue Sky cocktail will be available for purchase. ERIE Book us for your Special Event! Information (440) 417-2796 and at www.blueskyfolkfest.com PERCH! Bring the Kids - The Blue Sky is a family friendly affair. What better way to spend the day, FRI. AUG 9 ...... THE PORCH ROCKERS ...... 8:00 surrounded by music, community and sunshine. Children are welcome at the Blue Sky concerts, SAT. AUG 10...... HORSEFEATHERS ...... 8:00 workshops and jams as well as planned kids workshops. They are our future musicians! SUN. AUG 11 ...... ALEX BEVAN ...... 5:00 FRI. AUG 16 ...... ALAN GREENE BAND ...... 8:00 The Blue Sky Folk Festival emerged in 2011 from the cauldron of an Appreciative Inquiry SAT. AUG 17...... THE JILLETTES ...... 8:00 process at East Shore. In 2014 the event moved under the umbrella of an independent nonprofit SUN. AUG 18 ...... SPOON TOO SOON ...... 5:00 organization. We loved our founding location at East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in FRI. AUG 23 ...... THE WOODPECKERS ...... 8:00 Kirtland, but with increased popularity and attendance, the festival needs larger classrooms and SAT. AUG 24...... HORSEFEATHERS ...... 8:00 more parking. We’re excited about the change and look forward to welcoming the Fine Arts and SUN. AUG 25 ...... THOR PLATTER ...... 5:00 FRI. AUG 30 ...... ERNEST T. BAND...... 8:00 Willoughby communities to the festival. SAT. AUG 31...... THE STOWBILLIES ...... 8:00 The Blue Sky Folk Festival is brought to you by the Northeast Ohio Musical Heritage Associa- SUN. SEPT 1...... SUSAN HAGAN ...... 5:00 tion, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission is to provide venues and opportunities for MON. SEPT 2 ...... LYLE HEATH...... 5:00 FRI. SEPT 6...... MARIA PETTI ...... 8:00 the performance, sustenance and preservation of folk music in our region through the creation SAT. SEPT 7 ...... COLIN DUSSAULT BLUES PROJECT...... 8:00 of inspiring experiences that stimulate a personal love and appreciation of folk music. SUN. SEPT 8 ...... ALEX BEVAN ...... 5:00 The Blue Sky Folk Festival is funded in part by a grant from The Lake County Visitors Bureau Arts and Culture Fund to further participation in, and awareness of, arts and culture in Lake NEW MENU ITEMS! COME DINE WITH US ON THE LAKE! County, Ohio. It is also made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legisla- ture to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). 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zy - and that was when he wasn’t already music, Mauceri’s already issued titles by soaked in Jim Beam. Laughner contemporaries such as Thomas He may have regarded himself a failure / Ubu and Cheetah Chrome (Batusis), in his own life. But the cultural fuse along with an acclaimed series of Platters MUSIC REVIEW Peter had hoped to light was, in fact, du Cuyahoga (unearthed comps featuring ■■■ By Pete Roche already burning brightly by the time he Robert Bensick, Mr. Stress, X__X, The quit his mortal coil: The Ramones, The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade, Hy Maya, CD / LP Peter Laughner box set Clash, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and Allen Ravenstine). and Blondie all released now-classic But Peter Laughner is Smog Veil’s most Most professional musicians want not debut albums in 1976-77; The Sex ambitious, labor-intensive release to date only to make something of themselves, Pistols and Talking Heads were soon to - not to mention the most anticipated. but to proudly pin their hometown on the follow (and in turn be seceded by Joy Five discs deep in the largesse, Laughner map of cultural cool and become a cy- Division, Black Flag, The B-52s, etc.). himself comments that blues legend Rob- pher for the city, in the same way Brian Progressive rock was on the wane, and ert Johnson died at 22 “…leaving very Wilson hagio-graphed Hawthorne, Cali- “dinosaur” acts like The Rolling Stones few definitive recordings behind.” Of fornia and Bruce Springsteen elevated and Pink Floyd were suddenly passé. course, the “Crossroads” king has since Asbury Park, New Jersey. And some of the songwriters Laughner amassed countless posthumous recordings You may have some guitar chops and the had championed early on were now mar- under his name. requisite social skills - you dress hipper quee stars (Patti Smith dropped Horses Now it’s Peter’s turn. And your turn…to and talk smoother than the average Joe and Springsteen issued Born to Run). be a Raider of the Laughner Ark. - but at day’s end you’re still just a Bay Avant-garde rockers Television emerged Village nobody who takes classes at Tri- from the Big Apple, thanks “in part” to Were Peter himself tasked with picking C between gigs in The Flats. How much prescient Peter’s having booked their fifty-six premium musical peppers to of an impact can you make? around Renaissance man - lived precisely first out-of-state show (at The Piccadilly) represent the whole of his musical output - his entire life’s work - this hefty, hand- A lot, as it turns out. Just ask Peter that life, walking the walk (Zimmerman) in Cleveland. some coffee table trove would be that Laughner. and talking the talk (Bowie) a decade Along the way, Laughner rubbed elbows before succumbing to his vices in the proverbial peck. Mauceri and the gang Or rather, imagine asking Peter Laughner with dozens of movers and shakers on (Mary Ann Livchak, Andrew Russ, Derek (soundproofed) downstairs bedroom of the Northeast Ohio circuit (and at CBGS - who died in 1977 at age 24. his parents’ Wolf Road home. DePreton, Meredith Rutledge-Borger and in NYC), including members of Tin “Cheese” Borger, et. al.) considered the Laughner guitarist, songwriter, bandlead- Laughner surely never realized just how Huey, The Pagans, The Electric Eels, and er, poet, journalist, promoter, and all- highest quality recordings available, had big a splash he’d made. He probably The Dead Boys - who recorded the Peter them pre-mastered at AMH Productions never considered how many lives he’d songs “Ain’t It Fun” (written with Thom- in Milbrae, California, and then turned touched and shaped (for better or worse) as) and “Sonic Reducer” (coauthored by them over to Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice in between his dive-bar blowouts and Cheetah Chrome). for a final polish (using state-of-the-art scribbled reviews for music trades like Those recordings remain Laughner’s software we wouldn’t understand) at Organic Gluten-free/Dairy-Free Groceries Creem, Exit, and Zeppelin. most widely-known works; Guns ‘n’ Peerless Mastering in Boston. He started his first band, The Fifth Edi- Roses and Pearl Jam famously covered So what you’re hearing are little miracles, tion, when he was only 14, honed his them in the ‘90s. A bootleg compila- really, considering the age and lineage / chops in Mr. Charlie till the end of the tion of rare Peter performances (Take provenances of the miscellaneous cas- OPEN ‘60s, and stretched out with the Mr. Stress the Guitar Player for a Ride) surfaced in YEAR ACCEPTING settes and reel-to-reel masters. ROUND! EBT! Blues Band into the early ‘70s. Laughner 1993 and was supplanted by an autho- also tickled six-strings in the nascent rized compendium of live Rocket from The five Laughner discs / LPs boast indi- alt-rock / New Wave groups The Original the Tombs material in 2002, but there’d vidual titles, and each is chronologically Wolverines, Space Age Thrills, Cinderella never been an official, career-spanning - and somewhat thematically - arranged Backstreet, Cinderella’s Revenge, The Laughner collection or best-of to appease (electric vs. acoustic, solo vs. band, • CBD Products now available! Fins, and Friction throughout that decade. Laughner’s cult-like (but exponentially etc.). Time-wise, we’re talking the post- • Whole Foods • Vitamins, Teas, Snacks, expanding) fan base. Vietnam / energy crisis era between The But it was Laughner’s prickly partner- • Wraps & Sandwiches Godfather and Star Wars, that zeitgeist ship with David Thomas that cemented Until now. triggered by Nixon’s Watergate scandal • Salads & Smoothies him (middle name Ravenscroft) in the Painstakingly researched and meticu- and fizzling around the release of Garfun- • Jewelry & Unique Clothing annals of Cleveland culture: Peter played lously curated by Frank Mauceri and kel’s Watermark LP. with Thomas (then known as “Crocus • Lucky Bamboo & More! Nick Blakey for Florida-based Smog Put differently, everything heard here Behemoth”) in Rocket From the Tombs Veil Records, the five CD / LP Peter in 1974, then helped jump-start Pere Ubu transpired between David Bowie’s Hunky Laughner box set is an Alexandrian Dory and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Visit us at our Harmony Jade with the groundbreaking singles “30 Sec- library’s worth of mostly-unreleased store in Geneva-on-the-Lake! onds Over Tokyo” and “Final Solution” demo, stage, and studio recordings over The anthology’s first CD - Fat City Jive Earth’s Natural Treasures too... in 1975. ten years in the making. - gathers seventeen sundry live cuts per- 56 S. Broadway • Geneva Laughner didn’t last in Ubu: His creative formed by Peter and friends (Mike Sands Mauceri’s boutique label (founded in and Pete Sinks) at a pair of 1972 “Coffee 440-466-4368 drive demanded the sort of control only Northeast Ohio in 1991) has a thing for Hours: Mon-Weds 10am-6pm • Thurs - Sat 10am-7pm • Sun. 10am-5pm Break Concerts” for WMMS radio (with one’s own band (or a solo career) could excavating lost, forgotten, and over- www.EarthsNaturalTreasures.com provide. He also had a reputation for be- host Kid Leo). Original pieces include looked Cleveland music. A veritable “Solomon’s Mines” and “It’s Saturday [email protected] ing temperamental, difficult, and gun-cra- Indiana Jones of archival, vault-bound 16 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice Charlie) and ex-roommate Adele Bertei (The Wolves). Our preferred disc in the Peter Pentateuch FULL NEW BAR is the fifth, Nocturnal Digressions 1977, SERIVCE whose baker’s dozen tracks were re- GAMES! corded in a single sitting (on a Nakamichi tape machine) back where it all began for Peter - his bedroom at his parents’ house - in the predawn hours of June 21. Fueled by a six-pack of Genesee and who-knows-how-many Lucky Strikes, the scratchy-voiced Laughner regales no WIN one (and everyone) with a steel-string PRIZES! acoustic guitar on Van Morrison’s “Slim Slow Slider,” Jesse Winchester’s “Do It” CHECK IT OUT... and “Isn’t That So,” Lou Reed’s “Pale Blue Eyes,” The Rolling Stones’ “Wild WEDNESDAYS Horses,” Tom Verlaine’s “I See No Evil,” and his own “The Next Room in the Classic Video Dream” and a somber “Going to China.” Game Night Night,” but most entries are covers of “This is supposed to be played on piano,” Select 25¢ folk, blues, and cowpoke favorites by says Pete. “But this is the perfect time to games! auteurs like Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, do it.” OPEN Jimmie Rodgers, John Sebastian (Lovin’ 7 DAYS AT Spoonful), Lou Reed (Velvet Under- Hours later, Laughner was dead. NOON! ground), Lowell George (Little Feat), The accompanying book is packed with and Jackson Browne. reprints of concert flyers, adverts, and Records Two (One of the Boys 1973- ticket stubs; promo photos and live 1973) and Three (Pledging My Time shots by Janet Macoska and Anastasia 5483 Lake Rd E. • Geneva-on-the-Lake 1973-1977) survey Laughner’s boister- Pantsios; snapshots of young Laughner (440) 466-8650 ous shows with Cinderella Backstreet / (senior photo) with school friends and Revenge at various Ohio venues (The bandmates; letters to Creem; copies of Cellar in Sandusky, JB’s in Kent, Viking Peter’s concert reviews (Iggy Pop, Lou MITCH LARSON Saloon in Cleveland), quieter 4-track re- Reed) and album summaries (The Pin- LOST SHEEP BAND cordings made at home in East Cleveland Ups, New York Dolls, Mott the Hoople, or Cleveland Heights (when Peter attend- Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk, John Cale); ed Case Western Reserve University and and other published pieces submitted was - briefly - married). Standout tracks under Laughner nom de plume, Sam include then-new Laughner numbers Fade. Naturally, there’s a comprehensive Wed. Aug. 7 • 6-10 “I Must Have Been Out of My Mind,” rundown of all the songs - all dates, loca- Ashtabula County Fair “Down at the Bar” (with Deborah Smith tions, and personnel duly noted. Longtime for another WMMS broadcast), “Rain on friend Tim Joyce contributes a touching Fri. Aug. 9 • 7:30-10:30 Old Mill Winery Open Mic at the City,” and twists on Robert Johnson’s eulogy, while mentor / critic Lester Bangs Old Mill Winery “32-20 Blues” and Dylan’s “Pledging provides an affectionate in memoriam. 6-8 Every Wednesday My Time.” “Sylvia Plath” is exquisite, as Sat. Aug. 10 • 7-11 The anthology wraps with a sixty-second Conneaut Moose 8/9 Mortals Key is the slide guitar instrumental “Lullaby” strain of Peter strumming noisily through (with Albert Dennis). w/ Melissa Harvey 6-9 Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues.” Sun. Aug. 11 • 4-8 Rock It Down 1974-1977 highlights “You didn’t think I’d leave you with that, Old Firehouse Winery 8/10 Bronzwood Golf Club Laughner’s live (and rehearsal) work didja?” he jokes after the slower, intro- w/Melissa 7-10 with Fins, Rocket from the Tomb, and spective “China.” Sat. Aug. 17 • 4-8 Friction at Pirate’s Cove and The Agora Sportsterz in GOTL 8/22 Mr. Lee’s Open Jam 6-9 in Cleveland - and at a bicentennial When the tape runs out mid-song, the jam in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There’s abrupt silence might as well be a slap to Sat. Aug. 24 • 3:30-7:30 8/29 Acoustic Thursday “Ain’t It Fun” and “Amphetamine” the face. Debonne Vineyards Old Mill 6-8 alongside Tom Verlaine’s (Television) So Peter Laughner wasn’t able to get it all earnest “Prove It.” Peter’s Halloween on celluloid…or compress a full, fruitful Sat. Aug. 31 • 7-10 8/30 Mr Lee’s 7-10 ’76 practice spin on “Pablo Picasso” (by life of musical fortune and glory into 24 Laurello Vineyards 9/1 Hundley Cellars 2-5 The Modern Lovers) is intriguing, while years. Fortunately, the guitarist left just Laughner mantra “Rock It Down” bullet- enough bread crumbs for friends, family, Sat. Sept. 7 • 7-10 9/6 Buccia w/Melissa 6-9 points the raspy-throated guitarist’s and aficionados to retrace his steps and Deer’s Leap Winery modus operandi. Notable guests here in- resurrect his early - and enduring - ge- 216-513-0529 for bookings clude childhood friend Don Harvey (Mr. nius. www.lostsheepband.com Facebook.com/MitchLarsonAcousticMusic North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 17 North Coast Voice

PEDESTRIAN RAMBLINGS ■■■ By Steve Madewell

I was taking a break during an outside cally increase, affecting game fish. The winery gig and sat down to catch up with dam has been a barrier for non-native sea local musician Jim Ales and Sage Satori lamprey, stopping them from reaching from the North Coast Voice. The weather ideal spawning habitat further upstream. Aug. 9 ...... Warrens Spirited Kitchen • Steve Madewell was perfect, with blue skies, low humid- Aug. 10...... Ridgewood Kitchen • Madewell Music & The Dive Kings Much like the economic impacts of the ity, and an ideal temperature. We were NEO winery/entertainment district, the Aug. 14...... Chalet Debonne • Steve Madewell marveling at just how beautiful it was. Grand River and several other streams Aug. 16...... Bass Lake Taverne • Madewell Music & the Dive Kings The grounds were immaculate and there have made a significant contribution to Aug. 17...... 1922 Coffee and Brew • Phil Madewell was a really good crowd there. Yes, it was our local economy and, since the time I a perfect midsummer Ohio evening. We moved north from Dayton, the area east Aug. 25...... Old Firehouse Winery • Steve Madewell began to talk about how the Northeast Aug. 30...... Malarky’s • Madewell Music of Cleveland between interstate 90 and Ohio wine district has blossomed over the St Rt 20 has become known across the Aug. 31...... Vinny’s • Phil Madewell past few decades. During our conversa- country as “Steelhead Alley.” Anglers Sept. 2 ...... Ft Rowdy • Madewell Music tion, it occurred to me that, just a few come from all across the nation, and from Sept. 4 ...... Chalet Debonne • Phil Madewell years ago, a night like this could have other countries as well, come to fish in the Sept. 7 ...... Ridgewood • Madewell Music & The Dive Kings been regarded as a successful weekend Grand River and other Steelhead Alley special event. I asked Jim if he remem- streams. Controlling, or at least suppress- Sept. 9-14...... Coffeyville Ks • Steve Madewell bered when Chalet Debonne first opened Sept. 14...... 1922 Coffee and Brew • Phil Madewell ing, sea lamprey predation and protecting and it was just an “A” frame? It is safe to Lake Erie’s game fish is a pretty big deal, madewellmusic.com [email protected] say, some things have changed. so much so, that this was the primary madewellmusic on Facebook I played a few gigs in Northeastern Ohio motivation to repair the dam. shortly before moving to the snow-belt in We couldn’t talk about fishing without 1986, and fell in love with this part of the talking about what is currently going on state. Since that time, there have been a in Lake Erie! Anybody who fishes, or has Available for senior remarkable number of vineyards planted a boat, is talking about the remarkable and wineries opened. The diversity of walleye harvest that is occurring this year, housing, private parties grapes and cultivars, and consequently and so far, the lake has been quite coop- the selection of wines, have also dra- erative. In spite of the record high water and special events matically expanded. As many of wineries levels, there have been many, many days have live music, there are so many more with waves of one foot or less, so folks Danny Pugliese performing musicians too! www.Abbeyrodeo.com with even a modest boat are out catching Sat. 8/10 • 2-6pm Creekside Inn Golf Outing, Orwell There is certainly a pretty good thing limits of fish. going on in our corner of Ohio. With a Sun. 8/11 • 11am-3pm Clay Street Inn, Austinburg This stream of conscious discussion Thursday, relatively new lodge and conference cen- ultimately led back to an earlier conver- Fri. 8/16 • 4-8pm Triangle Lounge, GOTL ter at the State Park, a growing number sation that Sage and I had, and before I Sun. 8/18 • 11am-3pm Clay Street Inn of B&B’s, a tremendous host of wineries, went back to work, I told Sage I would August 22nd and shuttles taking a steady stream of vis- Sat. 8/24 • 11am -3pm Clay Street Inn be happy to occasionally write a piece for itors from vineyard to vineyard, the NEO the “Voice.” There is no hard structure or Sat. 8/24 • 4:30-8:30 Triangle Lounge, GOTL WILLOUGHBY wine region is not only an agricultural format to the contributions, just grounded phenomenon but it has also expanded as observations made about our northeast- Sat. 8/31 • 11am-3pm Clay Street Inn an entertainment region. And without a Fri. 9/6 • 3-4pm Veterans Park, Ashtabula ern Ohio lifestyle and what makes it so GAZEBO doubt, it makes a tremendous contribution unique. As I already have an informal Sat. 9/7 • 11am-3pm Clay Street Inn to the local economy! blog on my website, it only seems fitting Sun. 9/8 • 4-8pm Triangle Lounge, GOTL 7:00-9:00 pm Our conversation drifted, no pun in- to call these musings “Pedestrian Ram- Willoughby, OH tended, to the Grand River, which is one blings”! Acoustic Vocal Sounds of the few streams in Ohio recognized as Catch you next time down the trail, on a from the Past and both a Wild and Scenic river. Jim asked Present. Sounds from the stream, or at a gig! Big Band Era, the 30s, me if I knew anything about the Harpers- the 60s, The Beatles to field dam project. As the aging dam has [email protected] the hits of today! Abbey Rodeo is: Jim Bonfonti, Chris Butcher, Verne McClelland, P. J. Philips, begun to fail, there has been a concern For more of Steve’s musings visit: For Bookings: Bob Yocum and Chuck Citraro. from the US Fish and Wildlife Service www.madewellmusic.com/pedestrian_ that if it were removed, the sea lamprey 440.812.1037 Check out the Abbey Rodeo video at: ramblings www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwWk_2hELk population in Lake Erie would dramati- 18 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice

Photo Credit DVD REVIEW Kevin Mazur ■■■ By Pete Roche The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Bremen Remember back in the ‘80s and ‘90s are adding Bridges to Bremen to their when The Rolling Stones would an- prolific live canon. nounce a new album or tour, and we’d all have a good laugh over how old they Filmed and recorded on the Bridges to Babylon tour Weserstadium in Bremen, were getting? (Eric Clapton, David Gilm- Germany in September 1998, this stun- Photo Credit our) mans the keyboards and It’s been said rock is a young man’s (or ning concert film / 2CD / 3LP showcase Paul Natkin Bobby Keys (George Harrison), woman’s) game, but The Stones (having finds Jagger, Richards, and the boys Lynyrd Skynyrd) wails on sax. outlasted The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bee spending the night together with 40,000 off midway through, and Black and Add background singers Lisa Fischer Gees, Genesis and most of their other friends under cover of night. Blue (1976) offering “Memory Motel” ‘60s contemporaries) eventually became (who shines on “Gimme Shelter”), The rockers were in their 50s back then is rendered thanks to a Bremen-specific Bernard Fowler, and Blondie Chaplin the case study in how gracefully (or not) audience poll. our favorite celebrity entertainers age. (you thought that was old), but you (yes, the former Beach Boy) to the mix, wouldn’t guess it from the attitude and Ron Woods strums, strokes, and swings and you’ve got a thick, Muscle Shoals- Today Mick Jagger is recovering from energy on at the Bundesliga soccer bowl. an assortment of guitars alongside Rich- inspired stew of classic rock, soul, and heart valve surgery—but there’s just The 97-date tour was the biggest its kind, ards, grinning and grinding (and chain- R&B. no stopping the dervish-like granddad: consisting of five legs of shows across smoking) to Charlie Watts’ ever-reliable Encore numbers include “Jumpin’ Jack Recuperation for the 76-year old still four continents. The Stones played to beats. Jagger manages to slow down just Flash,” “You Can’t Always Get What You consists of performing to sold-out arenas 4.5 million ticketholders, resulting in the long enough to play harmonica and tickle Want,” and the bawdy “Brown Sugar.” (on the band’s No Filter tour) around second-highest grossing roadshow ever a cherry-red Stratocaster guitar. Bonus footage (from Soldier Field in Chi- the globe, writhing and wriggling across (trailing their own Voodoo Lounge tour cago) provides “Under My Thumb,” “Let mile-wide stages like an over-caffeinated from ’95). Daryl Jones (Sting, Miles Davis) supplies ferret. And Keith Richards’ craggy coun- the bass grooves, while Chuck Leavell It Bleed,” and “Rock in a Hard Place.” tenance has been the subject of online Visually, the gents keep it interesting with immortality memes for years (Now is costume changes (pastel scarves, animal time to think about what kind of world prints, Technicolor trench coats, etc.) we’ll leave Keef). throughout the 155-minute extravaganza. But the true focal point here is the mas- So the joke’s on us. And all those jibes sive circular lighting array and backdrop, about Paleolithic pop icons and their “di- whose screen juxtaposes images of the nosaur rock” will continue to fall flat so Stones’ salacious tongue logo with live long as The Glimmer Twins keep churn- stage feeds and snippets of music videos. ing out records (like 2005’s A Bigger At the halfway point, a telescoping Bang, 2016’s Blue & Lonesome, and the walkway (a bridge, get it?) stretches from 2019 hits compilation Honk) and filling the main stage to a satellite stage in the stadiums to capacity for their colorful, middle of the crowd, who thrill to “inti- kinetic concert sets. mate” performances of “It’s Only Rock The time span between the Stones’ ‘n’ Roll,” “Got Me Rocking,” and “Like a studio releases has increased over the Rolling Stone.” decades, to be sure, but their half-century The remixed / remastered program starts of recording and touring has resulted with two of the menu’s oldest (but most in vast, Area 51-like warehouses of recognizable) numbers in “(I Can’t Get archive material they now parcel to fans No) Satisfaction” and “Let’s Spend on a semiannual basis. There were the the Night Together” before Jagger and best-of collections Forty Licks in 2002 Richards bust out the then-new “Flip the and GRRR! in 2012 and Blu-ray / DVD Switch.” Other Bridges entries include concert films Sweet Summer Sun (Hyde “Saint of Me,” “Out of Control,” and - Park, London 2013) and Havana Moon sung by Keef - “Thief in the Night.” (Cuba 2016), and “official bootlegs” Brussels Affair 1973, Some Girls: Live in The concert is otherwise peppered with Texas 1978, Live at Leeds 1982, and— tried-and-true Stones hits like “Paint It more recently—Live at the Marquee Black,” “Miss You,” “Sympathy for the Club 1971. Devil,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Honkytonk Women,” and “Start Me Up.” Undercover Now the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers (1983) cut “Wanna Hold You” is dusted

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He will Thelma's Sharon, Pa reluctantly take some rolls in spaghetti Has it occurred to anybody out there westerns, from a somewhat shifty agent that they are making a new Spider-Man SUMMER P-I-B STYLE PARTY Once Upon played by Al Pacino, unfortunately they movie almost every couple years? There September 6, 7, 8 a Time in are more along the lines of the Terence have been at least eight since 2002, The Keys Put-in-Bay Hill series (MY NAME IS NOBODY) none a whole lot different than the rest. Hollywood than Clint Eastwood’s. This story is set Except for the origin where a young Fri. 7-10, Sat.y 2-4 and 8-11, Sun. 1-4 Sony|R|165 min against a backdrop of 60’s music, TV com- Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive I’m going to issue a spoiler alert here oh, mercials and pop culture but with a much spider and receives his Spidey senses Saturday 14 • 8:00 PM if you’re a fan of QT, I’m hoping you will more sinister sub story. During his down and superpowers. Of course there will be Old Firehouse Winery see this film before you read anybody’s time Booth makes the acquaintance of an different super bad guys to fight but that Geneva-on-the-Lake attractive hippie girl who leads him to a reviews. I did and the surprises make it all really is secondary to the entire idea of To purchase Westside Steve Simmons the better. commune on the outskirts of Hollywood. Spider-Man which is that he’s basically a newest CD A Pirates Life visit Even though the cult leader is mostly www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons Friends, Quentin Tarantino is a weird son kid faced with many of the struggles and referred to by others rather than on screen anxieties that all high school kids have of a bitch. He came out of the gate like a it’s apparent that this is the Manson family, runaway train almost 30 years ago with to deal with. The supervillains are just an and Rick and Cliff inadvertently wind up extra pain in his ass. That means that the RESERVOIR DOGS and it seems like on their bad side. every film has gotten a little bit stranger differences between the films boil down and a little bit more outrageous, but just Now don’t forget I issued a spoiler alert to who the latest kid is playing the hero about every time completely riveting. so I hope you aren’t reading this until you oh, and this time it’s Tom Holland who He frequently steps way over the two have left the theater. This is where ONCE looks about 12 but is apparently in his hour line but almost never gives you a UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD shows twenties. chance to look at your watch. Frankly, a similarity to INGLORIOUS BAS- AgeLess Band TARDS. I’ve heard people complaining So this particular SPIDER-MAN has a agelessband.com it’s no longer sacrilegious to mention his lot in common with SAVED BY THE name in the same sentence with the great about continuity and historic accuracy. Formerly Whooz Playin' directors of all time. As a matter of fact And while Tarantino loves to show old BELL and it’s obviously aimed at pre- he’s probably the premier (besides the commercials and play old music we know teens. Peter Parker and his high school Coen brothers) living director that gets he doesn’t really care that much about buddies are about to embark on a field me in line for a ticket no matter what the spot-on historical fact. Here members of trip to Europe. Recently the people at Friday, subject matter or the cast might be. On my the Manson family actually wind up at Marvel have been trying to incorporate way in to the earliest show I had a quick Rick’s house and the plan to murder the SPIDER-MAN into another successful August 16 chat with one of my friends at the Regal movie producers and starlets sort of takes a franchise The AVENGERS and Nick Montrose who gave me his basic take, wrong turn finding no one at home except Fury, the rest are a little bit on the fence no actual details, but a general thought. the very formidable Booth who will…. as to whether a very young SPIDER- 7-10:00PM After I watched ONCE UPON A TIME Well, I’m not going to tell you everything MAN belongs in that impressive group IN HOLLYWOOD I believe he was right. but you won’t find it in any textbooks. of Heroes. Apparently Tony Stark AKA What you may ask? Well, we both agreed Like so much of Tarantino’s work this is Iron Man wanted Peter Parker to be at Deer's Leap this is probably Quentin Tarantino’s most compelling and extremely entertaining. the recipient of some kind of fantastic mature film. Unlike some of his other work it’s not powered suit. Iron Man himself has sort Winery Rather than rely on complete craziness nearly as gratuitously violet and it leans of been put on hold because Marvel is plot tricks, jumping around the timeline, a lot less toward shock and awe. It’s a having problems finding enough money and Ultra violence, this is more of an in- left-of-center buddy film and again I issue to get Robert Downey Jr. back in the depth study of two friends, Rick Dalton Quentin Tarantino an A. fold, but that’s another story. Downey To Book: 440-796-3057 (Leonardo DiCaprio) a fading Hollywood A has made that role his unlike SPIDER- www.agelessband.com star holding on to his last bit of fame and WSS Continued on page 22 Check out our videos! North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 21 North Coast Voice Continued from page 21 cartoon images now computer graphics MAN who can apparently be played by have made it possible for this to look anybody. So as Nick Fury contemplates like it’s actual animals in the jungle. adding Parker to The AVENGERS all It is truly incredible. Still once you’ve hell breaks loose in Europe with giant been properly stunned by how great it monsters smashing up a lot of stuff. This looks the voice characterizations are looks like a job for SPIDER-MAN! Or almost equally perfect. This time more is it? Enter Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) African Americans are cast, not every a hero apparently right out of Central cast member of course, but being that it Casting to save the day. It’s beginning to is set in Africa it does make sense. look like he has the inside track and end- The story itself remains the same. ing up as the recipient of Starks magic Mufasa (James Earl Jones, who else?) suit. But can he be trusted? is the king of the beasts, the one that Added to the core plot, Parker versus rules the entire jungle and is charged Mysterio, we have some subplots which with protecting everyone while keeping are just your basic teenage romance the nasty hyenas at bay. Unfortunately stuff, Ned (Jason Batalon) plays Parker’s not everyone in the jungle reveres new best pal and comic relief. (Also I the king, as a matter of fact his own think the producers wanted somebody brother Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is bitter dorkier than Holland to make him seem and resentful and scheming to stage a cool by comparison.) But there you have coup with those hyenas as his unsavory it, the teenagers are on vacation and allies. Scars envy intensifies when the there’s a lot of noise and blowing stuff King has a son, Simba, who will be the up. I think the target audience for this heir to the throne. Scar will eventu- one is probably right around 6th grade ally lead Simba into temptation and get give or take a year. I didn’t love it but it him in a great deal of trouble making wasn’t aimed at me. him believe he’s responsible for the death of Mufasa. Simba (JD McCrary C+ and Donald Glover) enters a kind of WSS self-imposed banishment living on the outskirts and living off the land with a couple of non-traditional friends, a More Country GUARANTEED! warthog and lemur who don’t take life all that seriously. But as we remember push will eventually come to shove and it will be time for Simba to stand up to his villainous uncle and recapture the throne. There is a lot to love about the new LION KING not only are the voice characterizations brilliant, with Seth Rogen perfectly cast as Pumba the The Lion warthog, singer Beyonce and political King satirist John Oliver also have roles. Disney|PG|118 min One thing I did notice, and I would Quite honestly the have to go back and check, but it seems 1994 the cartoon this version is a little less centered version of Lion King was wonder- around the music of the original. The ful and the CGI animation version is music of course is great but I didn’t even more wonderful. I was a little bit particularly mind the truncated version. shocked to find out that the original And the computer graphic animation is was 25 years ago. What with the stage just amazing. It looks like real animals MORNINGS 5-10am play making the rounds and the fact that but… Disney films are often timeless it seems Another home run for Disney this is somehow more recent. Still that’s a fun exciting touching and exhilarating. good thing because now there’s a spe- cial treat for an entirely new generation. A 983TheBull.com Both of these versions are animated but WSS the original was closer to your standard 22 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice skimp on the surf rock sass and throwback punk / funk energy that made us pay atten- tion in the first place. QUICK CUTS https://hellobleached.com ■■■ By Pete Roche The Rick Ray Band - Dark Matter Halo disco throb (courtesy a ridiculously buoyant Voice readers Bleached - Don’t You bass line) and crisp, pseudo-ska rhythm know Rick Ray Think You’ve Had guitar. Jennifer’s aforementioned whistling as our resident is extra icing on an already creamy cake. cartoonist, whose Enough? kooky one-panels “Catch me if you can,” she purrs, boldly, routinely depict Sisters Jenni- invitingly. bizarre humanoid fer and Jessica Busy bass and chirping chop-socky guitars characters with Clavin have been likewise electrify the athletic, aural anime alien morpholo- rocking together of “Kiss You Goodbye,” whose lyrics swear gies. For instance, all their lives. off the indiscretions of youth and embrace a it would be perfectly normal to find a They made a sense of “feelin’ so alive.” grandfather clock with a human face in splash in the Ray’s panels, or a politician’s head with Echo Park / L.A. scene as Mika Miko, then The Clavins don’t dwell on the past, but pistol-toting hands protruding from the - rebranded as Bleached - issued the lus- there’s still room to reflect on false friend- scalp (or lawn care tools jutting out where ciously lo-fi garage-rock albums Ride Your ships and broken romances. “Somebody limbs should be). Heart (2013) and Welcome the Worms Dial 911” assesses the vulnerability (gull- But did you know that the sketch sorcerer is (2016). We were impressed by their open- ibility, even) we all experience when love also a guitar hero? ing set for The Damned at House of Blues thrusts its blinders upon us. “Awkward a couple years back, so we followed the Phase,” “Valley to L.A.” and “Silly Girl” The Perry-based Ray has been rocking loud group on social media and waited out the (whose lyric provides the album title) pro- and proud for forty-something years now, gals’ next creative gambit. vide a sizzling score for valley girl growing his virtuosic guitar licks earning coveted pains; they’re a musical celebration of life’s Continued on page 24 The Clavins’ third full-length for Dead teachable moments--those little mistakes, Oceans Records finds the siblings kicking missteps, and miscues that bring oppor- out the jams clean and sober. Written and tunities for self-improvement. Add some performed without the drink and drugs Ronnie Spector vocal inflections to the that might’ve informed their earlier work, mischievous mix, and you’ve got a winning the aptly-named Don’t You Think You’ve recipe. Had Enough is a brisk, bright offering that laces the ladies’ gritty guitars with rugged Jennifer name-checks former beaus (Travis, rhythms and memorable vocal hooks that Billy, Tony) on “Rebound City,” a confi- practically dare you to not sing along. dent, Joan Jett-influenced rocker whereon the singer / guitarist apologizes for breaking Having flushed their pharmaceuticals and hearts…without begging anyone’s forgive- terminated their toxic relationships with ness (she saves that for “Real Life,” but ne’er-do-wells, Jennifer and Jessica were simultaneously reserves the right to keep better able to analyze the past, self-actual- doing “all the stupid things that make me ize their present, and anticipate the future me”). with clear heads and solid spirits. Indeed, Listen To Bleached mark their newfound do-or-die Jessica rattles a steel string on acoustic ‘tude with a trebly triangle ting, clackety album-closer “Shitty Ballet” as Jennifer cowbell, and a wickedly infectious whistle. renounces past foibles and purges guilt a final time before the electric guitars rage “I was lost, I was found…they dug me up their catharsis. from the underground,” reflects Jennifer on grungy gatekeeper “Heartbeat Away,” Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough has whose verses acknowledge that she sis Jess a slicker sheen than earlier Bleached out- are just “a slip in the mud” removed from ings, thanks to producer Shane Stoneback and have a six-pack on us! lapsing back into horrible habits and a self- (Vampire Weekend). The guitar chords are destructive lifestyle. thick and crunchy, the leads ninja sharp and crisp as a mouth-ravaging breakfast cereal. But rather than hang their heads in shame These melodies are frisky and fun, and the Make requests at and serve up a disc’s worth of somber dirg- grooves feisty, seductive, and accessible (if es steeped in regret and angst, the Clavins not flat-out irresistible). The album boasts go chin-up, pumping fists of affirmation. more hooks than an ocean-side bait ‘n’ Facebook.com/WFXJTheFox Vivacious “Hard to Kill” packs a pulsating tackle shop, but thankfully Clavins don’t North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 23 North Coast Voice Continued from page 23 Aerosmith-esque “On the Take” targets seasoned prog listener guessing where the role / perspective on the Freudian numbers opening slots for fellow gunslingers Al- charlatan salesmen who shake hands guys will go next. involving breakups, makeups, and other lan Holdsworth, Robin Trower, Michael and smile to seal the deal, only to break https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/therickrayband relationship shake-ups (“Love Me Now,” Schenker, Gary Hoey, Steve Morse, and their promises later. Lightning-fast guitar “High School,” “The Same”). http://www.rickray.net/ Peter Frampton. In the last twenty years hammer-ons and pull-offs underscore the The program begins with a signpost warning alone he’s released over thirty studio (or Machiavellian innuendo, the “engine room” in song form: “Back It Up” finds Bradley stage) albums on his own private Neurosis rhythms of Snodgrass and Volans lending Noble Bodies - Two issuing a caveat to a prospective paramour Records label (named for his ‘70s band, percussive voice to the treachery and deceit to “slow it down…don’t waste your heart on Neurotic) as a soloist, band member (Riot wherein people become pawns in a crooked Voices You could call the me.” She’s older and wiser, but still unsure Act), and group namesake (The Rick Ray chess match. if what she feels is real (and, if so, whether Band). music on Noble The chilling “Do You Know Who You Bodies’ new Two to pursue or abandon it). “Love Me Now” The Rick Ray Band’s newest offering, Are” recounts John Lennon’s final mo- Voices “experi- takes the opposite approach by suggesting Dark Matter Halo, catches Ray and friends ments “bleeding out in the back seat” of a mental,” but that that one accept “the gift” of love rather than in top form on ten sprawling, adventurous New York police car after being shot by a would imply that question its sudden appearance. It also con- tracks (average length is about six minutes deranged stalker. “Into the Past” bemoans the Provo, Utah- ducts a cost / benefit analysis of the human per song) that showcase Ray’s pyroclastic the rapid flow of time from one season to based band didn’t body’s part in making love easier - or harder plectrum prowess and inventive vocals another (Fall! Winter! Summer! Spring!) know exactly what they were doing…every - to exchange. alongside jaw-dropping contributions by and the concomitant depletion of memory step of the way. The tick-tick of Bradley’s sticks introduces bassist Dave “Shaggy” Snodgrass, reeds / over the years. Somersaulting guitar riffs the grunge glory of “Beauty Needs Eyes,” sax man Rick “Sarge” Schultz, and drum- coalesce with nimble bass tugs and snare The auspicious three-piece started rocking in the early 2000s (as Another Statistic) but on which Taylor’s atmospheric guitar flour- mer Kip Volans. You could say go so far shots, not unlike the passage of minutes ishes dart and dance over Bennet’s billowy as to say Ray himself is but one of four and hours in a day. Ray and the boys revisit splintered after drummer Elaine Bradley found commercial success with Neon Trees bass. There’s lots of talk about the objectifi- talented soloists in a democratic, close- this theme later, on “48 Hour Day,” whose cation of love, of putting people on ped- knit psychedelic progressive-rock quartet lyrics address mortality…but advocate an (“Animal,” “Everybody Talks”) and guitarist Bryce Taylor left to finish his doctorate (then estals or behind protective (or preventive) whose division of labor is equal…and optimistic, seize-the-day mentality. security glass. But said shards might also incandescent. teach at Brigham Young And Utah Valley “Whatever you decide to do, don’t let any- Universities). constitute mirrors, in which one becomes Fans of Rush, King Crimson, Blue Oyster one destroy your groove,” says Rick. “Aim lost in his or her own vanity. Fast-forward a dozen years: Bradley is in- Cult, and Van Halen will marvel at the the best you can and take your shot.” Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder… group’s penchant for unsettling time sig- vited to play drums on Late Night With Seth A woman is subjected to high voltage at Meyers but needs a sparring partner. Neon but Sting said if you love someone, set them natures, audacious stop-start instrumental a sanitarium on “Electroshock,” whose free. breaks, and fleet-fingered solo performanc- Trees were on hiatus at the time - guitarist measures build menacingly before the Chris Allen and bassist Branden Campbell The point is well-taken: When nobody’s es. When you plunk down your hard- vocals kick in. Later - during the middle earned for an RRB disc or concert ticket, were enjoying some well-deserved family looking at you (and - by implication - judg- jam section - we’re sure we hear handclaps time (and singer Tyler Glenn dropped a solo ing you), you’re neither lovely nor ugly. You you’re guaranteed more than a few guitar and a bottle / jug being huffed into beneath fireworks or wacky woodwind excursions: disc and starred in Kinky Boots). simply are. There’s no scale or spectrum on Ray’s staccato notes and Snodgrass’s wind- which to assign a rating. And Noble Bodies It’s riffage galore, with each note (or blaz- ing rhythms. So Bradley called Taylor to jam. Before ing 16th note flurry) bolstered by Volans’ long, they were cooking up new tunes. (Re) thinks that’s okay. karate drums and Snodgrass’s strident bass. “Abandoned Morality” lambasts the cul- enter Taylor’s old high school pal Chris Ben- Taylor recalls first picking up his dad’s gui- tural acceptance of arrogance and narcis- net on bass, and Noble Bodies were fully tar (“Release”) and experiencing a creative Opening cut “Dark Matter Halo” finds Ray sism (particularly in the political arena) and his fellow cosmonauts launching into operational once more. awakening. Now, having saved his pennies as acceptable new norms (“Everything for an axe (and gear) of his own, he’s able to the ether to explore the building blocks of is vanity…where is the sanity?”), but Picking up where the 2017 EP It’s OK, the cosmos itself, a la Pink Floyd’s “As- It’s Hell (and 2018 digi-single “Take Me continue stoking his imagination to achieve mellower “Autumn Wind” relaxes under catharsis. tronomy Domine,” Rush’s “Cygnus X-1,” cloudy skies…and takes comfort in the Down”) wrapped up, Two Voices catches and Yes’s “Starship Trooper” (or “Astral yellowing of leaves in the Fall. Snodgrass’ these domesticated, academic, ex-missionary “You’ll never gather dust,” he tells the Traveler”). robust bass undulates beneath Volans’ big rock stars doing what they do best: Spewing instrument, whose amplified cacophony “I’m on my way where there is no day,” beats, carving out pockets for ebullient lead spitfire lyrics and weaving vocal harmonies sounds not unlike that of Kim Thayil’s sings Ray. “Cruisin’ along at light speed, work by Ray and Schultz. “As the Room over aggressive (but intricate) instrumental growling guitar maelstroms in Soundgarden. I’m alone…no time zone.” Went Dark” packs heavy-duty riffing and passages within cerebral, impassioned songs Bradley echoes the sentiment - that triumph rapid-fire electric guitar finger-work - at that don’t necessarily adhere to pop’s verse- “Society of Strangers” commences with of creation over destruction, and of and least until the titular power outage, at which chorus-verse blueprint. purity over dilution - by recounting her own pretty, clean guitar arpeggios before point Ray and co. cleverly revert to acoustic exploding into an aggressive, stuttering six- Underscoring the band’s body / mind dichot- youth: “I wish I were just a child again, instruments for a delicate, bluegrass and omy is that two-person vocal dynamic (ergo playing in my room,” she coos. string examination of the dangers of ano- flamenco-tinged outro (think Paco de Lucia, nymity in an online world. Like many of the album title): Elaine and Bryce share lead On “Keep It Down” Bryce leaves home and Mason Williams, Django Reinhardt, or Van singer duties on the eleven cuts, but more us, Ray concedes he doesn’t even know the Halen’s “Spanish Fly”). ventures West…only to return (emotionally people right next door…and he’s not at all often than not they trade on-and-off within and financially broke) to his mom’s place surprised when authorities interrogate the In one sense, each song on Dark Matter the same tune or combine pipes to create later for a recharge (“I don’t want to get a “quiet” neighbor with the well-kept lawn… Halo is a suite consisting of separate, sty- intense harmonies. They’re both competent, job and polish my shoes”). On the staccato and discover bodies in his garbage can. listically distinct mini-movements: There’s ear-pleasing crooners, and while having two “Socrates is Dead,” his peers (possibly his no overstating Ray’s sizzle, speed, or soul - of ‘em pass the baton (microphone) certainly college students) torment him (“I assume “They’re hiding in plain sight,” he sur- and the dynamic shifts, tempo changes, and enhances the dynamic, the shared workload mises. they’ll respond constructively”) for his soaring saxophones will keep even the most also allows the two to assume their own Continued on page 28 24 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice

STAY IN TUNE “Home of Smoking Hot Guitars” If You Can Dream It, I Can Build It. ■■■ By Luthier Patrick Podpadec Custom Designs Hello fellow Voice Readers! I would like Guitars amount less . Please give me Basses to start off with my deepest apologies a call at 440-474-2141 if you Acoustic for missing my article last month. There are interested. Electric have been many new developments in Mandolins my life lately and my management of I also have been blessed with Double Necks time has been a little off. I’m not trying a steady amount of standard Harp Guitars

to make excuses, but I will assure you setups on many nice guitars Major Repairs Fast, Reliable Turnover Reliable Fast, like Taylor’s, Martins, some Musicians Working for Restorations that I will do everything I can, not to “The Dreamcaster” older Yamaha’s and a whole Refinishing Custom built repeat that blunder. for Brian Henke host of other guitars and Refretting Well, it’s the beginning of Aug and the Intonation Adjustments different types of repairs. Acoustic Pickup Installs weather has finally started cooperating Another instrument I’ve been in our favor. We’ve had over a week of working on restoring is an SUMMER SPECIAL beautiful temperatures in the 80’s and older American Standard $10 OFF very little rain. A great time to get out- upright bass. This one has ANY REPAIR With mention of door projects finished. I’ve been trying been a challenge due to the this ad. to rebuild a 1987 camper trailer that I put neck being removed from the out in the back part of a friend of mine’s as late as the 70’s, tends to shrink over a body before it came into the Patrick Podpadec property. It’s been a little slow going, but 20 to 30 year period and will either crack shop. It had a considerable amount of Luthier I hope to be spending a lot of time camp- and crumble or pull itself away from the work that had to be done to the male end 440.474-2141 ing in it in September and October. guitar sides . Some of you may have seen of the dovetail on the neck and also some Getting back to reality and all of the this problem occur on older tuning ma- repairs need to be done to the female [email protected] things I’m supposed to be doing, a fair chines with the plastic buttons that seem pocket in the body before a good union of www.liamguitars.com share of good work has come into my to just crumble off of the shaft. On this the two could be performed. shop. A few things have been around a guitar in particular, the binding configura- It’s finally time to start using my CNC bit longer than normal and I have had tion was from the outside to inside was machine that you have heard me talk an opportunity to start playing catch up .090 white .040 black and .040 white on about in the past. I put it on the back on many of my repairs. One such repair the top, and just .110 white on the back. burner for a while because I was having is the rebinding of a 1956 Guild A375, I could not find .110 white from my sup- a mental block with the learning curve of this is a large full sized, fat body, electric plier so I opted to use .90 white .10 black the file formats and the g-code software Jazz guitar with an arched top and back, and .10 white for the back. It actually has and all that stuff. Thankfully my friend cutaway, and maple back and sides. It a classier look to it and I don’t believe I that was my computer “Wizard” has just has 3 humbucker pickups with a really hurt the “vintage” value of the instrument. recently moved back into the area and cool retro look to the control switches. It might of actually increased it due to its the guy that had originally drew up the There is a small panel of 6 push button now “custom” restoration. This guitar is cad files for my “Smoking hot Guitars” switches labeled “T” for treble, “TM” for going to be up for sale when it’s finished has just retired and offered to come and treble and middle, “MB” for middle & and is expected to be in the 3 to 4,000.00 help me also . This I believe will be the bass, etc. It is very cool looking. range. It is a rare and beautiful, has origi- beginning of a very productive fall and nal restoration and is worth every penny winter for Liam Guitars and Smoking I removed the panel to see the condition and more. of the switches and as expected there Hot Guitars. I hope to expand my CNC was a large amount of accumulated dust As I speak of valuable instruments I have abilities into other woodworking projects, which often times plays havoc with the to mention this instrument I came across so if anyone has some ideas of things to electrical connections giving the switch- that I think could be the find of the de- build I’m always interested in trying new es a crackling sound or even allowing cade. This is a total original 1969 Cherry things. I always believed that a person the connection to cut out. I spent some Red Gibson 335 in MINT+ condition. I could never die from having too much quality time brushing and blowing out all would be willing to bet that it does not knowledge. of the dust and using an electrical spray have more than 50 hours of play time on Again, I want to thank my faithful readers designed to clean the contacts so that it. The case is just as nice as the guitar. If and my apologies to you for being A-Wall they work as intended. This cleaned them anyone out there is looking into buying a last month. As always, please remember up quite well. The other main concern highly prized collectible guitar for a good to Stay in Tune! with the instrument was the fact that the collection this would be a good place to binding had come loose in many areas of start. I saw one on E bay last week that Keep Smiling! the body, especially in the inner bouts. the owner was asking $9,000.00 for and Patrick from Liam Guitar/ Smoking Hot This type of celluloid plastic that was this one is in a lot better shape than that Guitars used in the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s and even one was and will sell for a considerable North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 25 North Coast Voice Jams and Events Off The Wooden Spool Irish, Folk, & Old Time Music an Etsy shop By Laura Fidel Unique quilted gifts There are Big musical doin’s in August: summer sessions, 1st Wednesdays, 7 pm Blue Sky Folk Fest, Raccoon County Music until it’s too dark to see, at the gazebo in Festival and, of course, Music Along the Point Park in Downtown Willoughby. This from the heart River 2019. Lots to choose from, so come session is cancelled if bad weather occurs. on out and play! • All Things Coffee House Old Time Jam. Visit my shop for information and pricing. Regularly Scheduled: The venue is located at 3075 Creek Rd. • Ukelele Club: Monday evenings at Perry just off Rt. 193 in Kingsville, north of I-90. Public Library from 7-8:45PM. The library Intermediate skill level and no bones or is located at 3753 Main St., Perry, 440-259- spoons, please. Call 440-224-3069 for 3300. Contact Gary at penswift@yahoo. summer dates and times. com for more info. Beginners are welcome • Drum Circle second Friday at Relaxation and bring your own instrument. Note: This for Health & Center for Growth, 6:30- event may be cancelled if the library is 8:30PM, 2049 W. Prospect, Ashtabula, closed for a Monday holiday. OH., 44004. For the summer months, drum • Irish Jam, 1st Saturday of the month at circles at Walnut Beach on the third Friday, Briquettes Smokehouse in the historic 7-9PM. See NEO United Facebook for Ashtabula Harbor, 2-4PM. Briquettes is lo- more information. cated behind Harbor Perk at 405 Morton Dr. • Raccoon County Music Festival: Sat- • Cancelled for the summer, resuming in urday, August 10th, Noon - 7 pm, Geauga September: Old Time Jam, 2nd Saturday of County Historical Society Century Village the month, led by Joel Specht at the Harbor Museum, 14653 East Park Street (South end of Burton Square, Rt. 168 & Rt. 87) Vandy Linhart [email protected] Etsy shop - offthewoodenspool Perk, 1025 Bridge St., Ashtabula, OH, 440-964-9277, from 4-6:30PM. Old time in- Burton, Ohio 44021, 440 834 1492. Admis- struments and repertoire, intermediate skill sion: $10 for 13 years and older, $5 for 6 level. Bring your own chair. - 12 years, free for 5 years and under. For a full schedule of activities, visit https:// • Magic Tree Irish Jam, 3rd Sunday at Mag- www.raccooncountymusicfestival.com/. ic Tree Pub, 7463 South Ave., Boardman, OH (1/4 mile south of Rt. 224), 6-8PM. • Blue Sky Folk Festival: Saturday August Contact Frank Krygowski at frkrygow@ 17th, Day Program Noon – 5pm (gates yahoo.com for more information. open 11am). Concerts all day, old-time and bluegrass jams, contra dancing and contra • Open Jam, 4th Saturday of the month, led dance workshops, workshops in banjo, gui- Jeremy James by Andrej Debevc at Scribbler’s Coffee Co., tar, fiddle, songwriting, community singing, 388 S. Broadway, Geneva, 440-466-2233, more. Admission $10; pay at the gate or and from 2-4:30PM. All instruments and styles order online. Bring instrument to jam for welcome. $2 off. Under 13 free. Evening concert Mark Allen • Erie Irish Jam, 2nd Sunday of the month, begins at 7:30 PM. $20 presale online, $25 For nearly 5 years 2-4PM at the Tap House Bar, 333 State St., day of show while they last. Willoughby Fine Arts Association, 38660 Mentor Ave., Mark and Jeremy Erie, PA. Traditional Irish tunes, instru- ments and percussion, please! Willoughby, OH 44094, Phone: 440-951- teamed up on 97.1 WREO. 7500. More info see pg. 15 and for a full The stars have • Old-Time Jam, MT Glass, Cleveland schedule of festival events, visit Hts., 13443 Cedar Rd. (just west of Melt), https://neomha.org/blue-sky-folk-festival now aligned to present Cleveland Heights, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7 p.m. • Music Along the River: August 16th- Mark and Jeremy 18th at the Harpersfield Covered Bridge Together Again! • Irish Session, Saturday, August 24th 2:40- Metropark, 1225 Harpersfield Rd. Harpers- Join "Mark & Jer" weekday 4:30 PM at Willoughby Fine Arts Associa- field Twp., just south of Geneva, OH. Drum tion Gallery, 38660 Mentor Ave., Willough- Circle Friday night from 7-9PM, work- mornings from 5:30 til 10am by, OH 44094, Phone: 440-951-7500. shops Saturday and Sunday from 11AM- as they start your day • Tune Traders open session ...fourth Thurs- 1PM. Main Stage acts begin at 1PM both day of the month at 7PM at West Woods/ days. Formal and informal jams all day, so Geauga Park in Geauga County...off Rt. 87. bring your instrument! Food by Fat Papis Enjoy Great Savings With “Discount Deals” and Kona Shaved Ice. Free admission. For Special Events, etc. more information, see pg. 13 or visit Online: www.mix971FM.com • Willoughby Scottish and Irish Session www.facebook.com/MusicAlongTheRiver 26 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 North Coast Voice

the artists and fans that is unique among radio and later television impacted the all other musical genres.” art form. The series also tells the story of The documentary uncovers the roots of how Nashville came to be not only the the music, including ballads, minstrel epicenter of the country music industry, KICKIN’ IT music, hymns and the blues, and its early but Music City USA. years in the 1920s, when it was called The narrative ends in the mid-1990s as “hillbilly music,” and was recorded Brooks emerges from a small venue in for the first time and played across the Nashville to achieve phenomenal success, airwaves on radio station barn dances. brings country music to an entirely new It explores how Hollywood B movies level of popularity, and yet shows up to instituted the fad of singing cowboys like sign autographs for more than 20 hours Gene Autry and shows how the rise of at the Country Music Association’s Fan juke joints after World War II changed Fair. the musical style by bringing electric and Duncan, Burns and Dunfey spent eight pedal steel guitars to the forefront. years researching and producing the film, The film includes the rise of bluegrass conducting interviews with more than music with Bill Monroe and reveals how 100 people, including 40 members of one of country music’s offspring - rocka- the Country Music Hall of Fame (17 of billy - evolved into rock and roll in Mem- those interviewed have since passed on). phis. The documentary focuses on the Among them historian Bill Malone and a constant tug of war between the desire to wide range of country artists such as Gill, Burns’ “Country Music” doc coming in September make country as mainstream as possible Yoakam, Harris, Rosanne Cash, Merle Director Ken Burns’ “Country Music,” a 30 markets across the country leading and the periodic reflexes to bring it back Haggard, Marty Stuart, Dolly Parton, massive 16-hour documentary about the up to the film’s premiere. Kicking off the to its roots. Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and promotional roadshow is a country bus history of country, will air in mid-Sep- Burns and Duncan connect the history Naomi and Wynonna Judd. tour along Tennessee Music Pathways tember on PBS, it was announced today. of country music to the larger story of This fall, Sony Legacy Recordings with stops and events with local stations America, looking at how artists and will release a comprehensive suite of The eight-part series, produced by Burns and other partners in Cookeville, Bristol, songwriting reflected periods of depres- soundtrack music products timed to the and his long-time collaborators Dayton Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville, with sion, war and cultural upheaval, and how broadcast. Duncan and Julie Dunfey, premieres a special concert at Ryman Auditorium Sunday, Sept. 15 through Wednesday, that will be recorded for broadcast later Sept. 18, and Sunday, Sept. 22 through this year. Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 8-10 p.m. eastern. Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Rod- The documentary, written by Duncan, ney Crowell, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince who also wrote the illustrated compan- Gill, Brenda Lee, Kathy Mattea, Ketch ion book (coming from Alfred A. Knopf Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show, on Sept. 10), chronicles the highs and Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Asleep at lows of country music’s early days, from the Wheel, Holly Williams and Dwight southern Appalachia’s songs of struggle, Yoakam will appear in concert. heartbreak and faith to the rollicking Western swing of Texas, California’s “At the heart of every great country honky-tonks and Nashville’s Grand Ole music song is a story,” said Burns. “As Opry. The film follows the evolution the songwriter Harlan Howard said, ‘It’s of country music over the course of the three chords and the truth.’ The common 20th century as it eventually emerges to experiences and human emotions speak to become “America’s music.” each of us about love and loss, about hard times and the chance of redemption. As The documentary explores questions, an art form, country music is also forever such as “What is country music?” and revisiting its history, sharing and updat- “Where did it come from?”-- while ing old classics and celebrating its roots, focusing on the biographies of the trail- which are, in many ways, foundational to blazers who created and shaped it - from our country itself.” the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, “We discovered that country music isn’t Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Merle Hag- - and never was - one type of music; it gard, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie actually is many styles,” said Duncan. “It Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, sprang from diverse roots, and it sprouted Garth Brooks and many more - and the many branches. What unites them all times in which they lived. is the way the music connects personal stories and elemental experiences with A national campaign exploring the his- universal themes that every person can tory and music through screenings and relate to. And as it evolved, from the bot- discussions will take place in more than tom up, it created a special bond between North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | August 7, 2019 - Sept. 11, 2019 27 North Coast Voice Continued from page 24 until a volunteer at Asian Man Records (in Mayer and (perhaps more immediately) John views on “this comical world.” Likewise, Santa Clara, Ca.) brought the Crush kids to Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Felton Elaine laments the grind of everyday life the attention of proprietor / punk icon Mike and de Bourbon have their jazzy, augmented on “Wants / Needs” (traveling’s got her Park (Ogikubo Station, Bruce Lee Band, and sustained chords nailed (“B Song,” down) and the groovy, sinuous “That’s Why Chinkees) that the fledgling quartet could “Freshman Year,” “Snake Eyes”), and they’re I’m Dying” (she wants to defeat envy and finally wax a hot one for the masses. adept at sliding and bending the strings for nurture love). That disc - the eponymous Small Crush maximum emo (“Scary”). Jagged, jarring, and thoughtful, the Ni- - brilliantly captures not only the band’s It bears mentioning that not only are these etzsche rock on Two Voices comprises the skills as singers and instrumentalists, but kids alright, they’re also skilled enough to next movement in the soundtrack to your also preserves the humor, fun, and (yes) fear swap instruments on a whim (Hammond existential crisis. that colors their (and any young person’s) plays guitar, and de Bourbon’s no slouch on aesthetic. Front woman bassist / singer Ham- bass), so it’s not always easy to tell just who Yow! mond has presided over large audiences in exactly is whittling on which parts (outside www.noblebodies.com/band assorted East Bay clubs (San Francisco, Sac- Hammond’s vox and Scherer’s sticks). ramento, Berkeley), but now she can curl up Word-wise, Logan’s a romantic. Her verses Small Crush in listeners’ ear canals at home, pickling their see her walking with her grandpa and spill- They’re indie pop brains and tickling their heartstrings with her ing soup on her shirt, and braving the usual from San Lean- voice memo musings (and the gang’s reverb- daily foibles, but she also touches on loftier dro (Oakland). anointed surf-guitar seventh chords) until we themes like love, uncertainty, anxiety, newbie They’re barely out just can’t stand the cuteness any longer. “adulting,” codependence (or lack of self- of high school. Most of the fare is sugary sweet. That’s sufficiency), and awareness of one’s own They’re Small because Small Crush are a refreshingly “up,” immaturity (or insignificance) in a bigger Crush, and they’re optimistic ensemble, which makes sense world: Key admissions and observations in- just de-frickin’- given their ages: You’ve experienced only clude “I’m scared for what’s ahead,” “I never lightful. so much heartache and loss (if any) when knew how hard it could be to…say what you you’re eighteen. You’ve probably never been really mean,” and “I can never really know Guitarists Jackson Felton and Thomas de fired or divorced before, so you can only be exactly what I want.” Bourbon churned out a couple downloadable so jaded, relative to the burnout and cynicism EPs and singles in with singer / brainchild “Are things falling together or falling apart?” shouldered (and often repressed or con- Logan Hammond in 2017-18, but it wasn’t Hammond wonders, barely four minutes in. cealed) by one’s parents, teachers, football coaches, employers, etc. But that doesn’t Logan gets stuck in an emotional rut, misses mean Hammond’s experiences and emotions meals, and suffers insomnia on “Unhealthy.” aren’t valid, or that what a young adult might She’s hopelessly infatuated on “Right have to say about them can’t be arrestingly Through” and “Tummy Rumblin’” and poignant or unapologetically poetic. similarly lovesick on “Signal Dreams,” but confused and circumspect on “You Suck” And the music? Well, Small Crush trades on and on “Snake Eyes.” Yet insecurity never concise, endearing, confectionery bytes that sounded so cozy, so communal and shared cut to the quick…and scurry away as fast, in a “she gets it, she understands me” way. like the Farfisa-decorated “Mail Truck” that Hammond’s voice is gorgeous throughout, runs Hammond over after delivering a pack- intimate and unwavering as she bares her age (a life lesson): soul for our amusement / entertainment / “Signs are all around me telling me where empathy. Her background / harmony vocals to go, and all I wanna do is go home,” are downright angelic, too. Logan muses, in a sumptuous speak-sing Our favorite track is “Chicken Noodle,” a ki- that reminds us of Deborah Harry (Blondie), netic, sixty-second gem whereon Hammond Margaret Glaspy (Emotions and Math), and owns accounts for her flaws (“All my apples Nanna Bryndis Hilmarstdottir (Of Monsters have worms in ‘em”) and thanks her pals / and Men). listeners for tolerating them. The overall band sound draws predominantly “I’m a mess!” she confesses, thrice—just to from the quirky ‘80s: The rhythm guitars be sure we get it. are breezy, balmy - and only occasionally distorted for maximum punch (as on “Right We do. Through” and “Transparency”) - while Will Hammond and the Small Crush guys may or Scherer’s drumming quotes ‘50s / ‘60s bal- may not be train wrecks in real life (aren’t lads and doo-wops, resulting in shimmery, we all, if just a bit?), but they sound splendid sunny blend of ska ‘n’ roll. 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