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Get online, share your ACT US ® Send e-mails to favorites and talk with ON THE COVER: Jimbo Mathus will be a GumTree [email protected] Scene is published by other Scene readers Songwriter Showcase judge. ® Fax info to (662) 842-2233 Journal Publishing Co. about what’s going on in Cellular South GumTree Festival poster ® Snail mail goes to Scene, P.O. Box your world of entertain- INSET: CONT Tupelo, Mississippi ment. May 8-14, 2008 musicscene 3E Tupelo takes a dive in Drowning Pool BY SHEENA BARNETT “Full Circle.” Scene Despite tragedy and dealing UPELO – A lot can with a struggling industry, happen in 12 years. Drowning Pool holds on to Alternative rockers family. Drowning Pool “We’re like the Spinal Tap of T the new millennium. We’ve formed the band in 1996, and everything from the line-up to been friends since high the music has school, writing music changed and for like 15 years. grown. It’s certainly a The origi- AGE core family,” nal band ON ST Egypt Central, Pierce said members – I Who: Drowning Pool, in a C.J. Pierce Killjay,Allyria phone on guitar, I When: 8 p.m. Saturday Tupelo inter- bass I Where: Goodtime Charlie’s, view player I Cost: $20 from the Stevie I Info: myspace.com/rickdunsford1 road. Benton “We feel ON THE WEB COURTESY PHOTO and drum- like we Drowning Pool’s latest CD, “Full Circle,” was released in August. mer Mike I Hear Drowning Pool at have Luce – start- myspace.com/drowningpool. evolved im- Rock ‘n’ roll show first before you can write Drowning Pool has toured ed the band mensely.” The deep friendship be- music,” he said. relentlessly, but it never gets with vocalist Dave Time has been tween the band members have That friendship extends to old, Pierce said. Williams when they a friend to Drowning helped make the music better, fans. Pierce said he makes an “It’s different from night to were still in high school. After Pool, Pierce said. Pierce said. effort to reach out to them. night. We’re changing up the releasing Drowning Pool’s “The longer you do it, the “We’re having fun again – “We hang out before and set list again so it’s pretty cool debut record, “Sinner” in better you learn your craft,” he we’re four friends, four broth- after shows,” he said. “I love and fun...(it’s an) old-fash- 2001, Williams passed away said. ers. You’ve got to be a family meeting new people.” ioned rock show,” he said. from a rare heart condition. The band soldiered on and re- leased a second record with a different vocalist. When that relationship fell through, Drowning Pool found a new vocalist in former SOiL singer Ryan McCombs, and the band has released a third record, Hey, C. J.Pierce of Drowning Pool, what’s on your iPod? “(My music taste) is so extreme. I ARENA like to put it on shuf- fle. I didn’t realize I had Madonna CONNECTION on there until one Sign up to receive day I’m rocking out to, it must’ve news and info on been Mudvayne, and then upcoming events it went to ‘Ray of Light.’ I www.bcsarena.com was like, ‘How did that get on there?’” ©Daily Journal-07 4E musicscene May 8-14, 2008 NewSounds Estelle ‘shines’ on sophomore CD Neil Diamond BY SHEENA BARNETT overpower the star herself, Scene Estelle. ‘Home Before Dark’ Combine elements of hip- A perfect example of that is ##### hop, R&B and soul, gloss it the single “American Boy” If “12 Songs,” Neil Diamond’s strik- ing 2005 collaboration with producer over with a healthy dose of featuring West. The song has Rick Rubin, renewed your love of Dia- sass, and you’ve got Estelle’s a breezy feel, and West’s rap mond’s songwriting, the pair’s follow-up, new feels natural beside Estelle’s “Home Before Dark,” is a must-have. record, jazzy vocals. “Just go out there and face what you “Shine.” “Pretty Please (Love Me)” did before/Did it once you can do it The once more,” Diamond sings on one of featuring Cee-Lo is another the album’s many highlights.