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Dulcie Taylor Amy Mantis & The Space Between Reboot: Elvin Bishop - November 2005 In the business of music, you’d be hard who played blues in Oklahoma. It was pretty Pepper Shakers. As I got a little better, I was able at that time so we gravitated right for each other. pressed to find a more down-to-earth guy than hard getting started. I had those little pawn shop to get gigs with people like JT Brown. He was kind METRONOME: What year did you go solo? Elvin Bishop. Since the age of eighteen, he’s been guitars with the strings two inches off the neck. of a known saxophone player around Chicago. Late sixties maybe. I’m not good with dates. quietly storing away stories and tales of a career It’s a tribute to human persistence that I stuck Hound Dog Taylor... you’ve probably heard of METRONOME: Was it The Elvin Bishop Band? filled with larger-than-life events. From playing with it at all. him. Junior Wells gave me a few gigs. He was nice Yeah. with great Chicago bluesmen like Muddy Waters, METRONOME: What was your first pro gig? enough to. Then I got with Butterfield. METRONOME: What was the name of your Lightnin’ Hopkins and Albert Collins to jamming Before I got with [Paul] Butterfield, I played with METRONOME: How did you meet Paul? first record? with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Bishop has done it all some little bands. When I got to Chicago, I was I met him the first day I was in Chicago. I was It was the same name. It was on Fillmore with little revelry or fanfare. Maybe that’s why his supposed to be going to the University of Chicago. just walking around the neighborhood checking Records. The label that Bill Graham had going. career has lasted for more than four decades. But When Clive Davis was running Columbia at the time as Bishop puts it, “I don’t really dwell in the past. I I signed the contract, they always put your picture live more for the moment.” Still, he still has plenty in Billboard. They got some old hippie in the office to talk about. and made him put a suit on and we went out in I caught up with Elvin by phone at his California the middle of the street and took a picture. When home one sunny October afternoon. The following we got back to the office, they pasted Clive Davis’ is a glimpse into a man that has, more or less, face on his body and sent it to Billboard (laughing). seen it all. METRONOME: Were you always a ES-335 guitar guy? METRONOME: Where were you born and Yeah. raised? METRONOME: What inspired the song “Travelin’ I was born in Glendale, California, but it was Shoes?” really kind of an accident. This was 1942 and my I don’t remember writing that tune. I know that Dad was stationed there in the army. Then from it was roughly based on an old Gospel song. the time I was about two, I lived on a farm in Iowa METRONOME: How did you hook up with ‘til I was ten. Then we moved to Oklahoma. I lived Mickey Thomas for your hit, “Fooled Around there until I went to Chicago in 1960. and Fell In Love?” Did you write that song? METRONOME: What made you get into the Sure I did. Mickey Thomas... that’s another music business? Gospel story. He was singing with a Gospel/Rock Just hearing blues on the radio. I went crazy group... this great performer named Gideon. He for it. had a group called Gideon & Power. He was a METRONOME: Were you living in Oklahoma? black guy from Philadelphia and in his younger Yeah. days was on Gospel tours with all the great guys METRONOME: Who were some of the people like Sam Cook & The Soulsters and The Mighty that you were listening to? Clouds of Joy. Anyway, Mickey was originally from I really like Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Caro, Georgia, which is a little town on the Georgia/ Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters... Florida line. This guy Gideon would go through METRONOME: How did you break in to the the south recruiting singers and he found Mickey business? down there. So he took him out to the West coast, I moved to Chicago in 1960. That was really a I heard him, got a chance to jam with him and we lucky thing because Chicago blues and all the main just sort of fell together. guys were just thriving; young and strong. Muddy METRONOME: How old was he when he sang and Little Walter... Howlin’ Wolf and Magic Sam... that song? METRONOME: You were a young man yourself, Middle twenties, probably. eighteen years old? That was kinda like my cover story. I really wanted stuff out and there was a guy sitting on some steps METRONOME: When you toured for that single Yeah. to get into blues. I got together with some of the playing blues on the guitar and drinking a quart of and album, was he in the band? METRONOME: Had you been playing guitar for black dudes that worked in the cafeteria and we beer... it was Butterfield. Yeah. a while at that point? worked up some tunes and played different little METRONOME: So you struck up a friendship METRONOME: How long was he with you? Yeah, but not really raising no hell because gigs. Then I played with a band called Larry & The with him and remained friends until his death? A couple of years. We did a live album during nobody in my family played. I didn’t know anybody Crowd Chasers. Another one called The Salt ‘N’ There were very few white people in the blues that period called Raisin’ Hell and Mickey’s on that.

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Was on the good foot... get the shit outta my system. was shooting dice with Albert Collins. He was fun I bring my stuff. The bass player and drummer that a conscious effort on your part? I’m grateful to have had the blues there at my to jam with, but boy he would keep you rolling. get a backline, but I prefer to bring my sound with No. No. No. I’m probably the least scheming guy disposal because I think it was invented half way He was so much fun. We’d be shooting dice and me. I haven’t had good luck taking a chance on you ever met. Everything that happens is a surprise for that purpose. By people that had a lot of rough he had a saying for everything. He’d say, “C’mon what they provide. to me. I’m always the last guy to find out about experiences and needed a way to feel better about Aidy Mae”... he was shootin’ for an eight. If he was METRONOME: Who’s playing with you what ever it is. There’s a lot of luck involved in the life. I think it’s a good vehicle for that kinda thing. shootin’ for a ten, he’d say, Ten top buckets and nowadays? music business. The media is supremely powerful METRONOME: Where did you record the pans.” He’d say, “If I don’t hit my pint, that meat Mostly the guys on the record. The band is and over 90% of the people, all they know is what album? ain’t greasy.” smokin’. the media feeds them. You’re lucky if you get to Right at my house. METRONOME: Are you a guitar collector? METRONOME: Who is your bass player? hook up with that media machine. If they happen METRONOME: Will you tour for this album? No. I’m strictly a guitar player. A guy named Tim Walker. He’s from South to have a viable category that they can cram you I don’t exactly tour. I play gigs. I’ve got a nice METRONOME: How many guitars do you own? Carolina. comfortably in to, then you’re very lucky. That was family and a beautiful place here (California) and Maybe three or four. METRONOME: Is Bobby Cochran still playing the one and only time in my career that there was I’m kind of a serious gardener. I raise, pretty much, METRONOME: Do you own an acoustic? drums for you? a category that big media could use. This was my own food. If I could find a pork chop tree, I I think I have an acoustic with a big hole in it Yeah. during the years of the Southern rock scare. Never wouldn’t have to go to the store. I’m a maniac. I that I’ve never played. Not the round hole in the METRONOME: How did you hook up with Blind before or since has there been a category that I can up three or four hundred jars of stuff; fruits and middle, but a hole that got bashed into it at a party. Pig Records? even roughly fit in to. It’s not a major option... it’s vegetables. And I’m about five miles from a good I don’t actually play acoustic at all. I’ll just turn an They called me and said, “We heard you had a specialized taste that only a small percentage of fishing lake so... I don’t road dog it like I used to. I amp down way low and call it acoustic. a project going. Could we listen to it?” So I sent it the people are ever going to be in to. did my share of that 200 and 300 dates a year. I’m METRONOME: Is that a Gibson ES-335 that to ‘em, they liked it and they put it out. METRONOME: What label was that album on? always some where on the weekend. your pictured with on your new album? METRONOME: Who were some of the people Capricorn. At the time they were doing pretty METRONOME: How many shows do you figure That’s a ES-345. that helped or inspired you with your career? good because they had The Allman Brothers. you do nowadays? 50, 75? METRONOME: What year is it? I’ve had help from a lot of people like Little METRONOME: Tell me about your relationship Maybe about that. Maybe a little more. That one was made for me at the Gibson Custom Smokey. Otis Rush was very kind to me and with Little Smokey Smothers. METRONOME: Is it all West coast dates? Shop about five years ago. They’re making another took time to show me stuff. A guy called Sammy He’s a beautiful guy. He’s one of the first guys The Northeast, where you’re at, is probably the one for me now, but it’s not my best guitar. It’s in Lawhorn was nice and took time with me. B.B. that really helped me out in Chicago. He didn’t place we go the least. We play a lot in the South there because it’s photogenic. King and George Thorogood have been very nice have to help me, but he was just nice enough to and the West coast, the Northwest and somewhat METRONOME: What is your favorite axe? to me and encouraging. take an interest. He taught me a lot of stuff in and in the Midwest. For some reason, we don’t go to An old ES-345 from1959. METRONOME: Has music helped you keep out of music. Here was this guy that came up from the Northeast that much. We’re going to be in New METRONOME: Do you take it on the road with going all these years? Oklahoma that was square as a pool table and York in January at B.B. King’s. you? I do feel real lucky to have the music. Before I twice as green and he befriended me. I always METRONOME: What are some of the most Unfortunately I do. That’s what the story is got into music I had a lot of other jobs. I worked appreciated it. memorable times of your life as a musician? with the one they’re building now. I happened to in steel mills and oil fields, so I know what hard METRONOME: Was he a Chicago native? Do you remember Flip Wilson? He had a meet the President of Gibson in L.A. and he said, work is. I really appreciate having the music and No. Almost all of the Chicago blues guys character called Reverend Leroy. Reverend Leroy “I feel like we owe you, what can we do for you?” being able to make a living at something that’s so came from Mississippi or some part of the South. was a Pastor of the Church of What’s Happenin’ I said, I’m tired of taking this ‘59 out on the road enjoyable and so rewarding. There’s still guys out Smokey Smothers is from Chula, Mississippi. Now. I’m a member of the Church of What’s because it’s livin’ on borrowed time. Usually you there in the steel mills and oil fields who never get METRONOME: What spawned the album with Happenin’ Now. I’m basically not that much of a figure five years is the life expectancy of a guitar on a round of applause. Smokey, That’s My Partner? nostalgia guy, I try to keep it up to date. I do have the road because either the thieves or the airlines METRONOME: How do you feel about this I just had a chance to try and repay a little bit, some good memories, but I don’t really dwell on will get to it by then. But I haven’t found anything whole internet boom? in some small way, all that I felt like I owed him. them that much. It’s amazing how lucky I’ve been. that sounds like this one so I have to take it. So This was a real surprise for me because I woke It was good because he’s one of these old blues I remember being fourteen years old and listening he said, “We’ll build you one like it.” I Fed Ex-ed up one morning and it was okay for people to guys that’s still at the top of his game. He’s real in my room to some of these guys and I ended up it to them and they took all kinds of photographs steal my shit. I thought that was against the law. vital and can play and sing really great still. It was gettin’ to make friends with them all and play with and measurements and analyzed all the parts and This guy at Napster says, “I just want to share the a good thing to do. them all. I’m probably the only guy in the world that this time they say they’ve really got it. music with everyone.” Look M.F., why don’t you METRONOME: Tell me about your new album got a chance to play with Lightnin’ Hopkins, John METRONOME: What color is it? share something that belongs to you instead of Gettin’ My Groove Back. I understand some of Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Red. something that belongs to me. the songs come from personal hardships like Allman, Little Walter and Albert Collins. METRONOME: What kind of amps do you use? METRONOME: What’s coming up in the future the loss of your ex-wife and daughter. METRONOME: I understand Albert Collins was Little Gibsons. When I’m home in my studio I for you? Are you going to keep making music? I had a period there that was pretty rough. I a real gentleman... use a Vibrolux, but you can’t take tube amps on Yeah, that’s what I do and I love. Nobody’s ever had a lot of stuff to get over and grieve about. I Albert Collins was the guy I miss most of all. I the road. They’re just not roadworthy. So I use given me a good reason to change. always felt I was lucky having the music because loved that guy. something that’s currently in the Gibson spectrum. --Brian M. Owens

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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist METRONOME: Did you start singing in a the guitar, it seemed so cool to just hold the the coolest thing I ever saw in my life. Thank Dulcie Taylor grew up in South Carolina. band during your teenage years? thing. you God, I’m home. Influenced by her mother’s love for Elvis I played the ukulele when I was a little I played keyboards in some rock bands, METRONOME: You spent a long time Presley and Frank Sinatra along with her thing. I used to play at Girl Scout camp for but keyboards are a lot of trouble to haul living in California too... sister’s rock & roll records while singing in a everybody (laughs). Then my mother bought around (laughs). My hat’s off to those people Oh yeah. Then my husband took a Baptist church, Dulcie’s musical education me a guitar after a boy sat on my ukulele on who do it. I did it for a while and I enjoyed it, job in D.C. He did his undergraduate at was broad and multi-faceted. the front porch of a cottage we were renting but I wouldn’t stand in line to have to carry Georgetown. When we moved back, all his Her education didn’t end there though. when we were on vacation. that thing around again. friends were still there. It’s a great town. It When she was old enough to travel was old home week for him. abroad, she found her way to METRONOME: Did you meet him in California seeking a better way of California? life for herself. There, Dulcie began Oh yeah. I married him in Pasadena. to find her voice. She launched METRONOME: How did your music her recording career with a self career do in California? released CD called, Other Side of I started playing with people and The Bed, which received accolades being who I wanted to be as a person. from friends and fans alike. That METRONOME: When did you attracted the attention of record record your first album? producer George Nauful. Her first In 2002. album for Nauful’s Mesa Bluemoon METRONOME: Was it a solo project label, Diamond & Glass, landed in or a band effort? 2002 and garnered her a WAMMIE That was on Mesa Blue Moon (Washington DC Area Music Award) records and it had a lot of players on as she received national airplay, it. At that point, I didn’t have a band, charting on the Album Network’s but George Nauful, the guy that’s the non-commercial AAA format for the head of Mesa Bluemoon Recordings, release. produced it and brought in the Since then, Dulcie has been players. busy making music. With 2.7 million METRONOME: Were the songs all views on her YouTube channel and original? 193,000 likes on her Facebook page, I’ve only done one cover in my Taylor’s hard work has paid off. I entire recording career. Everything had a chance to spend an October else has been original. afternoon talking with her about her METRONOME: Does your musical extraordinary life as well as her latest 6-song METRONOME: How old were you? Sometimes my producer, George relationship with George continue to this offering, Reimagined. With typical southern I must have been around ten when the kid Nauful, and I do a duo show and that van day? grace, class and hospitality, Dulcie guided broke my ukulele. of mine is packed. It’s amazing how much Oh yeah. We play live together. He and me through her musical journey... METRONOME: Were there any bands or amplification you need for just two acoustic his wife came over yesterday and we sat artists that moved you musically as a people playing. How much stuff you actually outside and talked. They’re the only people METRONOME: What made you fall in kid? haul. I’ve seen socially in seven months. love with music when you were young? God, we had so much different stuff. As METRONOME: You moved from South METRONOME: When did you leave Dulcie Taylor: My family always had I said, my mother was a big Elvis fan so that Carolina to California. What prompted California and why? something going on. I was raised in a Baptist was always playing. My older sister liked the move? It’s because my husband got relocated church and music is a big part of it. I loved everything: Rock & Roll and Soul music. I It was a little it of everything. When with his job. His corporation was going the organ player and watching him play. I liked so much stuff. you’re born in the South, how to eat, how through a lot of internal changes. He was in loved the piano and I sang in the choir. I had How about Bluegrass? I could listen to to dress, how to think and how to worship... legislative affairs. The friction was going to an aunt that was a music teacher. Bluegrass all day long. You either like that everything is laid out for you. You don’t be right where he was and he knew it. It was My mother always bought all the stuff or you don’t. It can’t be taught. even have to have an original thought. It is a great chance to move to D.C. and a good Broadway sheet music. We all took piano METRONOME: What was the first band so tradition bound. I was suffocating. I said, financial decision. and stuff. That was fun. We would all sit you played with? I have to get out of here. So I got in my car Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed D.C., but around the piano and sing. My mother loved Well, I was solo for quite a while, but the and drove to California. when he said he wanted to retire, I said, I Elvis Presley and she loved Frank Sinatra first band I was in was a trio. Guitars and I I thought it would be cool to move to don’t care if you quit working, but we’re too. I heard everything. Something was played dulcimer and harmonica. L.A. so I did. It was like going to the moon. not staying here. We were going back to always playing. METRONOME: It sounds like you were a I remember going in to La Brea Market in California. METRONOME: Did mom and dad play? multi-instrumentalist? Hollywood. It must have been 2 o’clock I had some great experiences playing No, they didn’t. They tell me that my Well, I started on the piano. Nice Southern in the morning. I was standing in line and and touring out of D.C. I did three tours of grandmother Dulcie had a beautiful voice girls take piano. Of course I played the some woman in front of me had a full length Texas and went up to Maine. I played a lot though. She passed away when I was five. ukulele and then I got a guitar. After I got mink coat and bikini on. I thought, This is and I enjoyed it. It was great, but I wanted to come back to California. Well, he just didn’t want to have them with forgive a lot, but I cannot forgive that. Once appreciate what those gals have done in METRONOME: How long have you been you, which is a painful thing. It just came out you do that, it’s over with anyway. I had an country music? back in Cali? of that. Of course it was more fun to write it older friend tell me once, “I’ve seen people Oh yeah. I can’t say I listen to a lot of Eight years. not being the person having the harder time. break up because someone was unfaithful,” Reba, but I listen to Patsy Cline. I don’t METRONOME: Did you feel when you METRONOME: What inspired the song, and she said, “Neither one are ever happy consider myself a country artist though. I went back that you had never left? “Diamond and Glass?” again.” would say Americana, although I like saying I didn’t even look back. There’s something I had a dream. You know when you wake METRONOME: Your song “Rainy Day” Adult Contemporary which is different. “You about California that I’ve never found up and you’ve just had a dream and you’re has a Latin feel to it. How did that song and Me” off my new EP is pretty much a anywhere else. not quite sure where you are, cause you’re come to life? jazz tune. METRONOME: Let’s talk about your new still in the dream? That was written straight I like that music. That’s a more recent Now don’t get me wrong, I like country EP, Reimagined. Did the Covid event out of a dream. tune. We had moved to California and it music. I’ve got some songs that are stone lead you to revisiting some of your older METRONOME: Did the writing of that hadn’t rained in 4 years. We had moved to country and I record them that way, but I material? song come quickly for you? paradise, but it didn’t really rain. That’s what don’t consider myself a country artist. No, this started before the pandemic Yeah, I got the bones of it very quickly. it came out of. METRONOME: You deliver your songs in hit. I’ve put out six CDs on Mesa Bluemoon METRONOME: How does the songwriting METRONOME: Are the fires in California a very personal way. Do you work on that Recordings and George [Nauful] just wanted process work for you? effecting you? intentionally or does it just come out that to go back and mess with some tracks. We I do it all different ways. Sometimes I We have bad air quality from them, but way? have another one almost ready to roll. write words first and sometimes I start they’re not close enough. In one week, It’s the way it comes out. I wouldn’t know It was like time travel. We pulled up the playing something on the guitar and just California had the worse air quality in the how to work on that. I wouldn’t know any tracks and listened to them in the studio like how it sounds. I do it all kinds of ways. world. other way to be. I try to be a better singer and it was like time travel. You were right Generally though, I’ll get a chorus first, then METRONOME: “Corazon Frio” is a obviously, but I just do what I do. back where you were when you first did it. It I write a verse to it. wonderful tune. What made you write METRONOME: Do you have another EP was wonderful. It was a lot of fun. METRONOME: Do you ever work things that? in the works of ‘reimagined” songs? METRONOME: I loved the opening track, out on a piano? I had a line in my head, “Freezing water Yes. We almost have the thing mixed. It “Easy For You.” You also made a video Oh yeah. Sometimes you write off of a surrounds a frozen well.” I had that in my will probably be six songs. for the song. How did that song come riff. One of my best songs, “Woman I Used had for a long time. I think it built out from METRONOME: Do you have a working together for you? To Be” came from a guitar riff. that. title for it? When a couple splits up, usually one METRONOME: I loved your song, “To Be I took Spanish in high school and college. I don’t know. I have some new things person has a much easier time of it and A Fool.” What inspired that tune? I was fluid at one point, but I haven’t used that I want to cut, but I’m not eager to get that’s just how it is. I remember a girlfriend It’s about betrayal and what people go it enough. I have a song called Mal Amor... back in to the studio. I’m just not ready to saying to me, “He told me he didn’t want through. You see so much of it. I saw a friend “Bad Love” on a recent CD. Spanish is such get in people’s faces yet. If that makes me a children.” That’s why they split up. Within a go through that. That’s where that line came a beautiful language. scaredy cat then put my name down on that short amount of time, the new woman he out of, “I love you too much for you to ask METRONOME: I heard Patsy Cline and list (laughs). was with was pregnant. Of course you say, me to be a fool.” It makes sense to me. I can Reba McEntire in your voice. Do you -- Brian M. Owens Hearings by Doug Sloan, Alex Gecko or Brian M. Owens

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England music scene and have absorbed Encouraging real life leitmotifs propelled American music to its core. • GROWN UP GUY Continued on next page >>> Hearings continued spy movie vibe while fitting in well with • THE GHETTO American enunciation over typically English along with Grammy winning producer an ecstatic cabaret noire ethos. “Dream • MOODY’S MOOD musical stylings. Dennis Walker (B.B. King; Robert Cray; Cleaver” clears the air one last time with • LOVE BALLAD T-Rex joins the fray for “Got Me Goin’,” Bettye LaVette) for this stunningly crafted a solid yet charming long burst of sonic • NEVER GIVE UP ON A GOD THING and rightfully accents the required rhythm. sophomore release. therapy. 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Then George explores James • IT’S A SHAME tempo rhythm tracks until they swerve groove work its simple, yet effective magic. Taylor’s “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” • LOVE CAN TELL into a common direction for an orgasmic Psych guitar effects also ably support the Things get funky with “The Ghetto,” • WHY IS PEACE SO HARD? finale. The cheesy organ sound of “Bliss poetic majesty of “Maybe The Weather.” resplendant with outstanding percussion • LOVE OF YOUR LIFE Out” as well as the more upbeat singing The band leaves us wanting more with the work from Khari Parker. • KISS MY TROUBLES AWAY style lightens the tone for a short burst of nightmarish end of “Starred.” [Gecko] Uptempo love songs abound with • SETTLE DOWN EASY sunshine within the otherwise dark DVG Contact-- “Moody’s Mood, the groove-filled “Love • DOWN TO THE BOTTOM universe. “Hey Dena” is another emotion https://lawitches.bandcamp.com Ballad,” and “Never Give Up On A Good • THESE FOUR WALLS clearing interlude. “The Universe” simplifies Thing,” before mellowing out on Jose • I CAN’T BE LOVED the rhythm to 1/1 and leaves the mystical Feliciano’s expressive “Affirmation.” • HOT LOVE reverb coated vocals at the forefront with GEORGE BENSON GB closes out the album with his 1998 hit just a light coating of keyboard and sax WEEKEND IN LONDON “Cruise Control” offering up his trademark While Malaya Blue is recognized as one melodies. 14-SONG CD scatting throughout the tightly woven jam- of the UK’s premier contemporary blues Death Valley Girls channel their inner based workout. It’s hard to believe it’s been singers, it is her command of jazz crooning Velvet Underground with the tasty garagy • GIVE ME THE NIGHT forty years since seeing Benson play live as that truly impresses on her new Blue Heart riffs of “It All Washes Away” and a certain • TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND part of the Boston Common Music Series Records release, Still. Teaming up with her left field je-ne-sais-quoi. The vocal of “Little • LOVE X LOVE (anyone out there remember those shows?), band, Nat Martin on guitar, Stevie Watts Things” have a subdued countrified tone as • IN YOUR EYES but I can attest that this musical genius on Hammond organ, keyboards & piano, the song maintains an uplifting aura with • I HEAR YOU KNOCKING has lost none of his talent or swagger. Eddie Masters on bass and Mike Horne simple yet effective guitar strumming. • NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE Outstanding! [B.M.O.] on drums, Malaya is graced by notable “10 Day Miracle Challenge” kicks out FOR YOU Contact-- www.georgebenson.com musicians: bassist Richard Cousins (Robert the jams with a rocking ethos. “I’d Rather • FEEL LIKE MAKIN’ LOVE Cray), guitarist Brett Lucas (Bettye LaVette) Be Dreaming” works up a captivating • DON’T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT AMY MANTIS & THE SPACE BETWEEN Sheboygan.” [D.S.] A PLACE TO LAND Contact-- www.brianlisik.com 10-SONG CD

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Here they remaster their classic cloud of melodies, this time with male the vocals while the verses are more ‘70s that hearkens back to some cool 1990s 1982 release as if it was recorded yesterday. vocals. The keyboard on “2:22” remind me flavored. The harp is what gives it the East coast productions like Swell that took “Buy Me a Million Dollars” gives you tingly of Kim Wilde hits, though less obvious, but vintage feel. emotional guitar work to new heights. The leads amid an uplifting bouncy rhythm. with a more conventional structure. The band still has one foot in the punk band wants you to like their approach of “Sixty Degrees Below” is more moody, yet “Take It Back” has a guitar umph in camp with the determined, “I’m Your Man” ever so slightly distorted vocals and guitar still full of expression with a nod to nostalgia. its backbone yet still relies on carefully featuring smokin’ guitar solos. 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I felt like I Way It Was Before” probably has a different distant vocals on “Something I Forgot ticking over level and only slowly delivers on learned something, but am challenged all the vocalist, or at least a different approach to To Du” while “U Never Went Away” has a its promise with just a touch of remorse and way. “Ramblin’ Rodriguez” seems almost give it a more serious and subdued flavor. plodding rhythm with slow shoegazing a keyboard solo. “Fun To Be Happy” lives up unremarkable in comparison to the other Light hearted humor with a fast paced guitar work air brushed over it as the singer to it name with a pleasant mid paced ender tune, but would have been a masterpiece backing track remains the Mires forte as appears like a ghost in his own mythology. to a forgotten classic. It’s easier to review by any other band. 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Flea, a.k.a. Michael Balzary, bassist covered in the media of the time or in Kiedis’ material and building a decent yet dark solo of the Red Hot Chili Peppers published autobiography, but the book is extremely repertoire despite sinking ever deeper into “Acid For The Children, A Memoir” in personal and arty. Overall, it appears that the abyss. Last time I saw them in 1991 2019. The diminutive yet innovative bass the writer aged gracefully while he hints at a Lanegan was 27 and looked 37 yet stoic player recounts his early life from his birth possible sequel towards the end. delivering the dreamy yet energetic musings in Australia up to the first Chili Peppers gig while supporting the “Uncle Anesthesia” in LA. The sensitive, imaginative, feral and album. Little did we know? Still, he has a anti-authoritarian boy struggles through an very hard mind set and bleak outlook as well upbringing in a broken home in 1970s Los as an all-consuming anger only marginally Angeles. Despite a disinterest in schooling dulled by self-medication. Nevertheless the he becomes very literate and soaks up delivery in the book is very intelligent and all the music lessons of the public school mater-of-fact and no self-pity can detected system of the day all while smoking as much even in the deepest squalor. weed as possible and shoplifting everything Lanegan eventually got the monkey off that wasn’t nailed down. Mind you, his his back and has had a fulfilling musical substance abusing step father’s Jazz base career outside of the Trees since the turn work did inspire him. of the millennium. It’s difficult to enjoy this The book is largely chronological, with down to earth exploration of Lanegan’s life just the occasional flash forward. Still, it within the Seattle musical historical setting, takes to roughly the middle of the book till but it certainly brings a lot of things into he meets both Anthony Kiedis and Hillel perspective. Mark Lanegan also published institutions for wayward girls on more than Slovak, where he was still a classically an earlier book worth checking out called I one occasion. At the same time, she admits trained trumpet player with classical, Jazz Am The Wolf: Lyrics And Poems. in the foreword that she missed out on at and prog rock tendencies and had yet to least four years on account of being zoned see the band as a career option. out on drugs. It sadly becomes evident that Flea tried everything under the sun drug Courtney Love, nee Harrison, published daughter Frances was cared for by others wise, but thanks his lucky stars for not Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney during Courtney’s fits with motherhood. having become a junky, contracting aids Love in 2006. Courtney Love, certainly Readers will probably get a better or ending up dead, like so many of the era. conjures up controversy at the drop of a hat take on the real Courtney Love from the He probably mentioned everyone he ever and easily positioned herself as alternative drummer, Patty Schemel’s book. Guitarist met and does a great job developing his music’s Lady Macbeth. Love had the chance Eric Erlandson is mentioned en passant relationship with the two RHC co-founders. to tell her side of the story, which would a couple of times, but there is no band Due to the abrupt end of the book, we Mark Lanegan, vocalist of the Screaming have been fascinating, but basically handed chemistry. It does have early drafts of liner get little info on recording, songwriting or Trees, recently published Sing Backwards her scrawled diaries and scrapbooks to her notes, lyrics and various letters and looks tour shenanigans, which might have been And Weep in 2020. Lanegan certainly assistant to scan and put the said items on visually captivating, but isn’t something for brings your spirits down with a hefty dose the market as one of these dreaded coffee the serious musicologist. The lyrics reflect of hard hitting disillusionment in the way table books, or so it would seem. an inner despair and Courtney Love is very he dismisses most of the Screaming Trees The reader can catch glimpses of much a girl wanting to be understood after earlier back catalogue as he hands you a her twisted mind frame in some of the having been painted into a corner by the no holds barred heroin diary full of violence manifestos and to-do lists as her take media. Unfortunately, the most informative and crime. on the blonde ambition concept. You do parts of the book are the notes in the The young Lanegan grew up in a broken get the drift that Courtney was placed in appendix. home as a substance abuser and hard core delinquent in a culturally deprived logging town in the Pacific Northwest and music provided his escape from his no hope future. The hard rockin’ psychedelia from Subscription Form guitarist and chief song writer Gary Lee Conner made the band stand out during the $15 for 1 Year (12 issues) mid-1980s in a sea of punk and hardcore, but didn’t really meet Lanegan’s ambitions. By the late 1980s, Marc was a full blown Name______junky and made friends with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain with Alice And Chains’ Layne Street Address______Staley and many other Seattle scenesters contributing to the local heroin culture as Town/City______much as to the grunge scene which also carried the Trees along for a decent ride on Proudly Promoting State______Zip______a major label. The Music Scene You read how he eventually was able Since 1985! to impress his lyrical content onto the Mail to: P.O. Box 921, Billerica, MA. 01821 The Time Machine The Nor’easters Photo circa: 1989 Band Members: L to R- Johnny Fatello (Guitar & Vocals), Mike “Whitey” White (Bass), Ralph Fatello (Vocals & Guitar), Lenny Dunn (Drums). Musical Achievements: Rising from the ashes of popular Boston acts, The Vinny Band and Semper Fi, Ralph Fatello formed The Nor’easters in 1988 along with his brother Johnny, bassist Mike White and drummer Lenny Dunn. The band was a favorite on the local club scene headlining at concert venues like The Channel, Edible Rex, The Paradise and other Boston area nightspots while garnering its fair share of radio airplay on Boston’s premier rock station, 104.1 FM, WBCN. They released a 4-song CD that featured the songs “Upside Down,” “Intensify,” “My Guitar,” and “Jet Stream.” To this day, fans of The Nor’easters remember the quartet’s rockin’ anthem “95 On 95,” an autobiographical tune depicting the group’s late night rides home after gigs on Route 95 doing 95 mph! Where Are They Now: The band continue’s to play out a few times a year at special events and shows. Ralph Fatello also plays in a 3 piece as Big Handsome Daddy, and as a solo artist under his name. He’s also working on two other projects Prince Vince and The Geezers (where everyone in the band is over 60 yrs old). Johnny Fatello hosted a blues jam for years at a club in Beverly MA. and still writes and records with longtime girlfriend Sue. Mike White played in bands over the last five years and has done reunion shows with The Outlets and the Blackjacks. Lenny held down the drum throne in Johnny’s Blues jam and still plays with Catalinas’ bassist Ron Chane. Make no mistake. The band will still blow the roof off a joint. After all, they don’t call themselves The Nor’easters for nothing. The Rampage Trio Happy Holidays!

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Photo circa: 1980 Band Members: L to R- Michael Baker (Guitar & Vocals), Matt Thurber (Drums), Bobby Gifford (Bass & Vocals), Mark Sutton (Guitar & Vocals). [Original drummer Bob “Woody” Woodbury is not pictured]. Musical Achievements: The Rings formed in Boston in 1978 and were a popular attraction on the New England music scene. Their live shows were flawless as they built and entertained a loyal following of fans throughout the region at area clubs like Bunratty’s, The Rathskellar, Spit, The Paradise and others. They played the famed Rock & Roll Rumble in 1979 losing out to The Neighborhoods. Boston radio stations, WCOZ, WBCN and WCGY gave the band substantial airplay and in 1980, MCA Records came calling and signed the band. Their debut, self-titled LP was released in early 1981 and contained the songs: “Opposites Attract,” “Who’s She Dancin’ With,” “This One’s For The Girls, “Let Me Go,” “Got My Wish,” “My Kinda Girl,” “I Need Strange,” “Watch You Break,” “Too Much Of Nothin’” and “Third Generation.” Later that same year, the band released their second MCA record, Rhythm Method that included the tunes: “Uh Oh (Here I Go Again),” “Take The Chance,” “You Can up of The Dead River Band was official and the Never Say It,” “Talk Back,” “Bang Bang (Out Of three began work on recording their debut release Your Misery),” “It’s Not Enough,” “Move Over,” Pictures In The Sand. In 2005, Baker would step “Walkin’ In The Dark,” “Love’s Not Safe” and “The in as producer for Peter Dayton’s album, Perfect Rhythm Method.” The band continued to perform Wave. After The Rings demise, Bob Gifford and before breaking up in 1982, due in part to internal Mark Sutton continued to write and play together struggles and a lack of support by MCA Records. in the bands, Bamboo Gang and The Wickermen. Where Are They Now: Michael Baker left the Matt Thurber would also join The Wickermen on Boston rock scene, relocating to Nashville, drums. The Wickermen stayed together for five Tennessee and began managing singer Patty years releasing two popular singles, “Angel Is Griffin. Baker convinced Griffin’s label, A&M, Falling” and “Shut Up,” as well as a live album to bring in Nashville rocker, Jay Joyce, for her recorded at the infamous Allston nightclub, sessions, winding up with the songs, “Let It Fly” Bunratty’s before breaking up in 1990. In 2010 and “Every Little Bit.” In the mid-1990s Baker Mark reached out to Bob, suggesting that the collaborated with Carmelo Licata and formed two of them re-record some of the music they had an all-acoustic classic rock cover band based recorded together in the past. Bob had a better in Boston. The group called itself Anthology and idea. Gifford proposed recording the songs that featured a wide variety of acoustic instruments, were never formally finished. They have been including the djembe and a miniature bass fiddle. doing both. The renewed musical collaboration With a repertoire including tunes by Lynyrd is called Locating Rollie. Locating Rollie’s Crazy Skynyrd and the Eagles, the group did well in Parade album is available as a digital download New England venues. In the fall of 1997, original through CD Baby at https://www.cdbaby.com/ material began poking its way into the mix. The cd/locatingrollie or by contacting the band at duo added drummer Sean Muise. Sean’s diverse [email protected]. Drummer Matt Thurber jazz influence combined with a solid rock back went on to play with The New Models alongside beat made him the perfect complement to already Casey Lindstrom replacing Michael Johnson. stylish works of Baker and Licata. The three He appeared on the band’s 1983 release, Blind agreed to continue as a trio and hire musicians Ambition. Nowadays, he spends his time as a only as needed. In November of 1999 the line- cinematographer taking photos and shooting film. Amy Mantis & The Space Between

Amy Mantis’ musical journey hasn’t own unique thing going on. When I moved to Boston to go to METRONOME: How did you come up been an easy one, however she manages Amy: We all felt challenged too. We all got Emerson, I did my MFA in Fiction there. I with the name Space Between? to remain steadfast in her commitment to a lot more space and it really opened it up thought, I need to choose either writing or Amy: I was coming back from a trip to follow her muse and create the best original for us. I love playing rhythm guitar and trying music. I don’t think I can do both of these L.A. with my old producer Brian Packer. He music possible. Along with her bandmate, to figure out, How do I play both rhythm and things at the same time and still make a moved to L.A. and I wanted to record with drummer Eric Marshall, Mantis continues lead at the same time. living. Once I graduated from Emerson in him. He said, “Come to L.A. and we can to serve up sass induced power pop that’s METRONOME: How did you guys all 2014 though, I wanted to do it again. I was record. I can have some of my friends play unquestionably danceable and totally meet? going to shows a lot at the Middle East and and we’ll do an EP. So I was coming back memorable. I talked with Amy and Eric from that trip but I didn’t want to use my one rainy morning in late October and they name by itself because I always wanted a offered up their pragmatic vision for the band. On the plane ride back I was thinking, future of the group in a world that’s seems I have to name this record. I thought, Why to be upside down... don’t I call it the space between the old and new? That’s where I feel my songwriting METRONOME: Where are you guys from? lives. I draw very heavily on classic rock, but Amy Mantis: We’re a Brighton based I’m not a classic rocker. I try to use that with band. We play a lot at The Midway Cafe. We a modern edge to it. Then I thought, Why were nominated last year for a New England don’t I call the record, the space between... Music Award for “Best New Artist.” I went Wait a minute, why don’t I call the band, The to Berklee College and Eric grew up in New Space Between? That’s how it came to be. Bedford and went to Emerson College. We dropped “The” after a bit and it just felt We’ve been playing together for almost five right. years. It became really easy to put my name in We used to be called just Space Between. front of it later because we love the band Then our keyboard left. I was writing all the name. I wanted to maintain an image. I songs and my name is easily Google-able, wasn’t a singer until 2013 because my so I thought, Let’s put my name in front of singers kept quitting my old bands. I said, the band name to make it easier to keep Fine, I’ll do it myself. It took six years after track of these things. that to put my name in front of the band METRONOME: When exactly did the name and feel confident with my own voice band form? as a singer and not just a guitar player or Amy: The early days in the band go back songwriter. It feels right now though. to 2013. It was a quartet. We played around METRONOME: You only played guitar in as a quartet for about a year and a half. the early bands? Then our keyboard player, Wells Albritton, Amy: In my first bands that I had, I moved to L.A. in August of 2018. After he played guitar and wrote the songs. I wasn’t left, we became a trio. Amy: Over the internet. Good old fashion thinking, I can do this. It made me get out singing. I started taking voice lessons in It was immediately apparent that it worked Craig’s list. Our bass player Jeff [Fogleman] there and do it again. So I put the ad up 2013 because I had two singers who quit really well as a trio. We were pleasantly had a post looking for bass students. I and Amy answered it. I went to a couple of at inopportune times. I got tired of having surprised and really leaned in to that to messaged him and said, I’m not looking for rehearsals and realized we were all trying to people coming and learning these songs make our new record, A Place To Land. a bass teacher, I’m looking for a bass player. do something similar. and re-branding the band. I thought, If METRONOME: The sound must have We got together and had lunch. It turns out METRONOME: Was Jeff in the band at I can take out that part of the equation, it been completely different without the we went to Berklee at the same time, but that point? will make everything so much easier. Then keyboard. Did it morph into a new didn’t know it. Amy: Jeff came in first and brought along it happened again when Wells left. When dynamic? I had a band called Canary and he had Wells. They were good friends from high we went from a quartet to a trio, it made Eric Marshall: I think so. My experience as a band called Charlie The Most. They were school. Wells was moving from New York to everything way easier to handle. the drummer for the band is much different a nine piece funk band and were really Boston. We were having lunch and Jeff said, METRONOME: Is A Place To Land your than when we first started out. Also, Wells’ good. Our band’s played at least two shows “I have a friend who plays keyboards and first recording? songwriting style was pretty different from together. also sings.” I said, Great, bring him over. Amy: This is our first full length album. Amy’s. It’s a little less rock oriented and a METRONOME: How did Eric come in to Wells and I tried to be a songwriting If you count all of our EPs though... the first little more like contemporary R&B. It did the group? duo, but it didn’t work because we were so EP is called Where The Mountain Should shift us down in a big way and made things Eric: I put my own ad up looking to put different. I love what he does, but we had Be. a lot easier for me. I think I’m a much better together a band. I hadn’t been playing music two very distinct sounds. METRONOME: How many songs was drummer for a guitar oriented band than for a long time. It had been a decade since Eric: We were stuck between two that? one that’s moving between the guitar and I played a gig. I grew up in New Bedford aesthetics. When we were working with Amy: Five. All my tunes. That was in the keys. and by the time I was thirteen years old, I Wells, we were trying to tone down some 2016. In 2017, the band and I went to L.A. to METRONOME: When you’re in a three was playing in punk, hardcore, ska core and of Amy’s stuff. We were all wearing clothes work with Brian again and recorded another piece band, each player has to have their modern rock acts. that didn’t totally fit. batch of five songs. That was calledA Good Hurt. the time very quick. There were a couple of METRONOME: “Better Than Me” is a Amy: (Laughing) Everyone in the world is METRONOME: Does Brian own a studio songs that took a long time to get right, but great album opener and very clever. How aware of who this person is. It’s the guy who there? seven out of those ten songs were pretty did that song come together? hopefully is not going to win the election Amy: No, we rented out a place. immediate. Amy: I love that song. I wrote that in next week. I took the title from a Tom Petty Eric: King Size Sound Labs. That’s in Eric: When Amy brings in a song, it goes late 2017. I told Eric, I have a song that feels song that never really got released. Eagle Rock, California. one of two ways. It’s either I’m trying to like Queens of The Stone Age meets Tom I wrote it at a time where Wells had METRONOME: How long did it take to figure exactly what was in her head when Petty. I knew that he would like it. He’s a challenged himself in 2017 to write and record? she was writing the song and I have to find big Queens of The Stone Age fan and I’m a record demos of twelve songs over the Amy: We went in the studio for two days the right part for it or it’s more exploratory big Tom Petty fan. This is a perfect match of course of the month of November. It was a then one day I went to Brian’s house to do and I’m trying to solve a puzzle that she what we like to do. National writing challenge. some more guitar parts. It was awesome. makes for us like the last song on the The lyrics are my relationship with social That was the only song of the twelve Eric: We had a couple of day when we record, “The Distance.” media which I have a very hard time with in that was actually pretty good. I just wrote it first got there to get settled and rehearse. I METRONOME: How do you come up with general. That song comes from that. about my feelings on the matter at hand in think we were there for eight days. songs before showing them to the band? METRONOME: It really sets the tone for 2017 and it’s still exactly how I feel about it METRONOME: What came next? Amy: I write all the time. Not so much the rest of the album too. now. On that one, I get to play guitar. It was Eric: We did a one off single called “Killing these days, but in a normal year, I write Amy: Thank you. That was our intention. super fun. Spree” with Cory Brown who is from this every single night. I almost always use my We thought, What’s a snappy, punchy, Eric: I like when we open with that one area. Strat. Usually it’s me sitting down with the hit ‘em hard opener? That was the most live because it’s a song that gives people a Amy: His producer name is something guitar and coming up with something that obvious choice. good, straight forward idea of what we can else though. I like. METRONOME: “If I Told You” sounded do as a band. It’s so much fun to play. Eric: Then we started working with METRONOME: Do you have a notebook very personal. Was it? METRONOME: I heard Chrissie Hynde Sean McLaughlin at 37’ Productions. We full of songs? Amy: Oh yeah. It was about a real person and The Pretender in your song “Call It recorded “You Shouldn’t Have To Ask,” with Amy: I have a notebook full of songs and in my life. We love the ending of it. It came What You Want.” What spawned that him, which is one of the songs on A Place I’m actually looking at one of them right now about totally naturally. You hear on that tune? To Land. We did it as a one off to release as because we were working on it before you recoding exactly what we played the first Amy: I love them. She’s awesome. We a single. called. time we ever played that song. talk about them a lot as far as a reference- Amy: We did that one song and I loved it. We have a song on the record called Eric: I don’t know if Amy had a solo if you like The Pretenders, you’ll like what I said, Let’s go do nine more. I emailed Sean “Spinning Black and Blue” and those worked out for it originally. we do. As a vocalist, she uses her voice in and asked, Can we make a whole record? chords, though not in the same key, are the Amy: No, it just came out. such a unique way that serves her songs so He said, “I would love to do that.” opening chords of a Tom Petty song. It’s Eric: We just kept playing the song and beautifully. She’s an incredibly believable METRONOME: What year was that? nothing fancy, but I think, What can I steal that’s what happened. We thought, We singer and storyteller. Amy: We recorded “You Shouldn’t Have that’s going to fit this idea that I have? We’re should use it. METRONOME: Do you have another To Ask” in the summer of 2018. That was not trying to reinvent the wheel, we’re just METRONOME: “God’s Gift To Man” is a album’s worth of material that you’re Wells’ last thing with the band. He moved to trying to write good material. very clever tune. Who’s that about? working on with Sean? L.A. after that. Amy: Yes, we do. We just started it. We METRONOME: So Wells played on that tracked guitar, bass & drums for six of the song? eleven songs that we’re doing last week. Amy: Yeah. They don’t all have keyboard METRONOME: What is the ETA for the on them, but the other ones that do were album? done by Tom West. He was fantastic. Amy: That’s a good question. At the METRONOME: Do you have a good rate that we’re going, Sean currently has to working relationship with Sean finish mixing 78 songs for other people. He McLaughlin? recorded a ton of stuff early on in quarantine Amy: We had such a great time working and now he’s saying, “I shot myself in the with him and on a personal level, he and I foot.” get along incredibly well. At this point, Sean We don’t go back to see him until is actually in the band. He’s playing bass on December 7th to do more tracking. I don’t the record that we’re currently working on. think we’ll get all this done until the Spring He played on A Place To Land, but he will be of next year. all over the next one as engineer, producer Eric: We have two sets of songs that and bass player. are connected to one another. Rather than METRONOME: Is Jeff out of the picture? releasing a full album, we’re looking to put Amy: Yeah. Jeff dropped out of the band out 2 EPs that are sibling EPs where each this past Spring. song on each recording corresponds to the Eric: It’s a bummer because we developed other song on the other recording. such a great chemistry and I think you can Amy: One of them actually is the same hear it on the record. It’s so hard to find song. good bassists. Eric: Yes. We have two different METRONOME: How does the songwriting arrangements of a song called “I Want To process work for you guys? Know,” that comes from two very different Amy: The way it worked for A Place To places emotionally and aesthetically. We’re Land is that every song there I brought in pretty excited about how the project is 100% done as far as what I could do with it. coming together from an artistic standpoint. We would play them and play them again. It I think we’re going to call them Within and was a very democratic process in how the Without. It will be the sort of thing that songs came to be. you can buy one or the other or buy them Eric: The arrangements of them. together as a package. Amy: It was really organic and most of -- Brian M. Owens Metronome Madness

Season’s Greetings music lovers. Welcome on Straight To You: Live took place at the glimpse at a world that was rich in culture, to the December 2020 issue of Metronome famous Leverkusen Jazzstage for the iconic music, dining, fashion and more. Iconic Magazine. As always there’s plenty of German TV show, Rockpalast on November musicians Sonny Rollins and Quincy Jones music news to tell you about. So break 25th, 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic as well as preeminent jazz historian Dan out the eggnog and please read on... hit. The seven-piece band took the stage Morgenstern give first-hand accounts of the Grammy winning guitarist Lee Ritenour will and launched into their recent hit “Woman clubs that Rollins called “a paradisaical place release his first studio album in five years. Like You,” with the powerhouse voice of to be.” The book’s 200 exclusive images Weaving tapestries of instrumental guitar Noah Hunt backed by the fiery fretwork of include never-before-seen club souvenir and conjuring eclectic moods, the 12 tracks Shepherd. “The whole intention of this set-list photographs, some featuring fans posing of Dreamcatcher rank amongst the most is that we come out with a lot of energy, get with legendary musicians such as Charlie melodic and tinglingly beautiful in Ritenour’s the crowd pumped up. We want to get them Parker, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, catalogue. But there’s a power and purpose energized right off the bat.” The release of Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. here, too, hinting at the darker circumstances Straight To You: Live comes at a time when There’s even one photo showing club goer that sparked this new record. “Our house and there is no live music and the world looks Marlon Brando with fans at New York’s my studio in Malibu, California burnt down very different than it did 12 months ago, but Birdland. Also included is a wealth of colorful in 2018,” Ritenour recalls. “About 100 of as you watch the seven-piece Kenny Wayne club graphics, from cards, menus, flyers, my guitars went up in the fire, plus 40 amps, Shepherd Band bow out on a phenomenal matchbooks, postcards, and posters as well finale ofJimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight as supplementary photographs of other top Return)” and wave goodbye to the cheering performers and venues of the day. Sittin’ Leverkusen crowd, it reignites the love of In is a must-have for anybody interested in live music and the hope that is still to come. music, history, race relations, fashion, the The Straight To You: Live video set list looks music club scene, vintage photography, and like this: little-known corners of American culture. 1. Woman Like You With their self-titled debut album, the new 2. Mr. Soul trio Rhythm City showcases its pride in the 3. Long Time Running eclectic, all-embracing St. Louis jazz sounds. 4. I Want You The group brings together three giants of Dave Keller Releases 5. Diamonds & Gold the city’s jazz community for the first time 6. Talk To Me Baby as a trio: pianist Ptah Williams, master You Get What You Give 7. Heat Of The Sun drummer Rob Silverman, and in-demand 8. Down For Love bassist Larry Kornfeld. Rhythm City, due Fund, Know Your Rights Camp, N’COBRA, 9. Shame, Shame, Shame out December 4, 2020 via the Silvermans’ and Jus’ Blues Foundation. “The musicians 10. Turn To Stone own Autumn Hill Records imprint, finds the on this album represent a great diversity of 11. Blue On Black thrilling trio exploring a wide-ranging and styles, backgrounds, ages, genders, and 12. I’m A King Bee stylistically diverse songbook, including ethnicities. Some are known around the 13. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) classics by jazz icons and fusion pioneers world. Some are known only locally. But The Barrett Anderson Band was nominated like Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Chick most importantly, their music and their ‘soul’ for a 2020 Boston Music Award for “Blues Corea, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious move me. I am proud to call each of these Artist of the Year.” You can read Barrett’s Monk, to transformed standards, original wonderful human beings a friend.” Steve story in our November 2020 issue. Multi tunes and funk favorites. The core trio is also Lukather a.k.a. Luke and Joseph Williams faceted musician, author & composer John joined by special guests trumpeter Randy has announced the formation of a new band, Lee Ritenour McLean and Paris born guitarist Charles Brecker, saxophonist Eric Marienthal and with world class players. They will continue lots of music, the history of my whole career, Barkatz announce a December 4th release keyboardist Michael Silverman. Hailing to tour as Toto, and are in motion to bring pretty much. A week after the fire, I went date for Shadow Man, their new CD which from Vermont, singer-songwriter-guitarist their Dogz of Oz tour worldwide as the pair to the hospital, which I’d never had to do teams them up with producer Mark “Kaz” Dave Keller is releasing his new Tastee Tone looks forwards. Planned concerts across before, for surgery to replace an aortic valve. Kazanoff and a host of Austin all-star Records CD, You Get What You Give, on North America, Europe, Asia, Australia/New So those incidents and the support from my musicians that includes Derek O’Brien on November 20th. Keller unites with a host of Zealand and other geographical destinations family and friends absolutely went into this guitar, Chris Maresh on bass, Nick Connolly like minded singers and musicians from the will be staged where the ensemble will music. Making this record was a life-saver on keys, and John Chipman on drums and blues, soul and gospel music worlds to create perform all the hits, deep cuts, and solo for me.” Dreamcatcher is scheduled out The Texas Horns along with Alex Coke on a very special album of songs dedicated music from Lukather and Williams individual on December 4th. Kenny Wayne Shepherd sax and flutes and Elaine Barber, principal to raising funds toward enhancing racial catalogs. Joining Lukather and Williams for Band released Straight To You: Live, the harpist with the Austin Symphony. The justice and equity. Joining him are Trudy this next chapter in their indelible history are group’s first-ever live concert video, on album was recorded at Wire Recording in Lynn, Joe Louis Walker, Annika Chambers, bassist John Pierce (Huey Lewis and The November 27th via Provogue. “People have Austin with Stuart Sullivan engineering, and Johnny Rawls, Annie Mack, Dawn Tyler News), drummer Robert “Sput” Searight been asking us to do a live concert video is being released on Leaky Shoes Records. Watson, Brother Bob White, Carly Harvey, (Ghost-Note/Snarky Puppy), and keyboardist forever, for decades,” Shepherd explains. Grammy-winning historian, archivist, author, Toussaint St. Negritude, Katie Henry, Chad / background vocalist Steve Maggiora (Elvis/ “We’ve been working so much focusing on and record executive Jeff Gold offers a Hollister and many more who donated their Moms Mabely). Keyboardist Dominique studio recordings. But I’ve been hearing the candid look inside the jazz clubs across the time and talent for the cause. “We’ve already “Xavier” Taplin (Prince/Ghost-Note) and call from the fans for many years now.” As United States in his new book, Sittin’ In: raised over $2,000.00 from pre-orders, all of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Warren Ham live music has come to a standstill, the band Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s available which will go directly to groups working for (Ringo Starr) will continue their tenure in the wanted to give fans a taste once again of that from Harper Design publishers. Drawing on racial justice and equity,” says Keller, who ensemble alongside Lukather and Williams. experience, and this blistering set shows it to an incredible trove of never-before-seen also produced the album. “So far, the list This marks the fifteenth incarnation of them in full force. The performance captured photos and memorabilia, he gives us a of groups includes: NAACP Legal Defense the Toto line-up in consideration of band of Lizzy Borden, Vol. 2. Available digitally of 62; Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, on November 13th, Best of Lizzy Borden, best known for his hit song, “Mr. Bojangles,” Vol. 2 picks up where 1994’s Best of Lizzy died October 23, 2020 of cancer at a hospital Borden leaves off, containing 12 tracks that in Austin, Texas at the age of 78; Legendary showcase the albums, Deal with the Devil outlaw country singer-songwriter, Billy Joe (2000), Appointment with Death (2007) and Shaver, whose songs were recorded by My Midnight Things (2018). Additionally, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and Waylon the collection features 2 new cover songs Jennings died Wednesday, October 28 from recorded in the summer of 2020 (the first a stroke at the age of 81; Viola Smith, the recordings by Lizzy’s latest live show line- drummer billed as the “fastest girl drummer up!): Blue Oyster Cult’s “Burnin’ for You” and in the world,” who played for big bands The Ramones’ “Pet Sematary” - both mixed died October 21, 2020 from complications by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Steel Panther, Stone of Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Costa Sour). Fates Warning have been a presence Mesa, California at the age of 107. in progressive metal for more than 35 years, VIDEO PICKS OF THE MONTH: Vampires and now they return in 2020 with the most vs. The Bronx- A group of young friends from epic and longest album of their storied career, Lizzy Borden Band the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood Long Day Good Night. The record features from gentrification and vampires; The guest appearances from touring guitarist confirmed. Nash wasn’t exactly a one-hit Devil All The Time- Starring Tom Holland, Steve Lukather & Joe Williams Mike Abdow, who contributed solos, plus wonder though his most popular song is Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough and Robert Porcupine Tree/The Pineapple Thief the reggae influenced pop song ‘“ Can See Pattinson, this excellent Netflix film portrays members or sidemen who joined or exited. drummer Gavin Harrison who plays on two Clearly Now.” Nash wrote and produced the a young country boy trying to protect the In 2021, both Steve Lukather and Joseph tracks. Check out the new Speedfossil video song that was a million selling record in 1972. ones he loves from a corrupt town of evil Williams will release solo albums that feature for their song, “Tattoo” from their album, A fan of reggae, he had moved to Jamaica in doers; David Foster: Off The Record- He one another performing on some of the songs You’re So Next! at: https://www.youtube. the late 1960s with his manager. They started may have been one of the greatest pop music featured. The forthcoming titles will be issued com/watch?v=6aphraaWl0k&feature=youtu. record label JAD Records and met Bob producers in the world but leaving his families globally in partnership with Mascot Label be. Good stuff! The first official book to Marley and other reggae greats; Spencer behind while being disliked by many who Group. Mascot Records has announced the explore and display Pink Floyd co-founder Davis died Monday October 19, 2020 at the knew him, makes for a contentious being in signing of Levara, and the premiere of the Syd Barrett’s life and work, Barrett: The age of 81 at a hospital while being treated this documentary that gives us a glimpse at first recording from the band’s debut studio Definitive Visual Companion, will debut in for pneumonia. Davis was the namesake and the life of producer-engineer-musician David album coming in 2021. To view the band’s paperback on November 24th. For Floyd fans, guitarist of the legendary classic rock band Foster; Nothing Stays The Same: The Story “Heaven Knows” video, go here: https:// there are many rare photographs of Syd with The Spencer Davis Group known for their of The Saxon Club- This outstanding Netflix youtu.be/Ca0yQq05QOE. 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They first Star state; In The Shadow of The Moon- while drummer Josh Devine chose L.A. deluxe, two-volume collector’s edition, the called themselves The Rhythm and Blues This wildly inventive Sci-Fi thriller stars Boyd as home versus his native United Kingdom book contains the largest collection of Syd Quartette but then changed their name to Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael following success behind the kit with One Barrett-related images ever assembled. The Spencer Davis Group in 1964. Steve C. Hall. You’re going to have to stay open Direction. There they found common vision This paperback edition also includes two Winwood left the group in 1967 to form minded for this time traveling mindbender. with Trev Lukather (guitar), son of Toto’s previously undiscovered works by Barrett. Traffic and the band continued with new Well friends, that’s it for this month. Stay Steve Lukather, one of SoCal’s most It’s an essential item for any Pink Floyd or members until breaking up in 1969. 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On March 10, 2019, The New England be great if you do this song. Then there were The other guy I want to mention is Gary Tim Jackson or Trick Wallace called music scene lost one of its guitar luminaries, some people that took it upon themselves Soprano because he gave more of his time me up and said, “We want you to play Asa Brebner. Playing roles in Mickey Clean & to say, “I want to do this song.” I said, Okay, and effort voluntarily than anybody on this the memorial show because we had Willie The Mezz, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters, great. project. He mastered the whole thing for Alexander scheduled and he can’t make it. Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers METRONOME: How did you collect the free. That took a giant amount of money Of course I wasn’t happy that Willie wasn’t and his own groups, The Grey Boys and music? away that I would have had to spend. He doing well, but I was thrilled that I was going Asa Brebner’s Idle Hands, the ever creative People submitted recordings to me that also recorded Billy Connor’s tune, “Fine to be a part of this. singer-songwriter-guitarist and advocate for were either partially or completely done. If Lovin’ Mama.” He ended up playing all the At that point, it gave me more energy the greater Boston music community was a they were partially done, I went in to the guitars on it and he just sounds incredible. in getting involved with everybody. I knew much beloved figure. His death was a shock studio with them and was behind some He made a big effort on this. Trick and John and Robin and all these to all. of the production. There were five studios John Pfister recorded a few of the tunes people, but now it was time to say, Let me On June 9th, 2019, family, friends and involved with producing this CD. at his studio in Marblehead and that was all shepherd this thing forward. fans rallied for a Memorial Show at The The idea was that there were some songs for free too. From the time that Asa died, I was Regent Theater in Arlington, MA. for the that really meant things to people that they A lot of people came together for this- posting what I called, “Your daily dose of fallen guitarist. The five hour event was Asa Brebner” on Facebook, and I’m highlighted by remembrances of Asa still doing it. My Facebook page always by local notables interspersed with has stuff about the CD and about Asa. his music performed by a host of well I think I’m going to start a page that’s known artists. It was that show that specifically for Asa and the CD. Lori, his spawned the making of the album, I Am widow, is still maintaining his page, so Not Gone, a compilation disc featuring every time I put an ad on my Facebook songs written by Brebner and performed page, it ends up on Asa’s because it tags by his colleagues. him. I spoke with executive producer Larry METRONOME: So this all got spawned Newman who assembled the songs from that one show at The Regent for this monumental undertaking, and Theater? he outlined the generous process by Yeah. musicians and recording techs that will METRONOME: How long did it take to keep Asa’s memory alive for years to choose the songs for the album? come... Probably about a half a year. For one reason or another, six months of the year METRONOME: What was the genesis was getting the songs together. Once for putting the Asa Brebner tribute we had all the songs, I delivered them to album, I Am Not Gone together? Gary Soprano. Gary and I went back and Larry Newman: When Asa died in forth with files for the next few months March 2019, I was devastated. The first after that. We would listen to every single thing that came to mind was that I have tune over and over deciding if there was to keep his music alive. There were a anything that needed to be tweaked. He couple of memorials for him. The first really did a lot. one was small with some really close friends wanted to do. Randy Black has been playing, Randy Black recorded his tune with Linda Then it was down to the manufacturing and family. The second one was a sold out “Roses I Never Bought You” since Asa died, Vien at David Minehan’s studio and Ralph and of course you can’t design the package show at The Regent Theater in Arlington. At months before he ended up recording it. I Fatello did his tune with John Cardon until you know exactly what songs are going the Regent Theater, I had already spoken to had been playing “Ragged Religion” and in Hampton, N.H. It was really a great to be on it. Both my wife, Liz Newman and a couple of people, but when I played on “Traveling Blind” in my repertoire since the combined effort from all these musicians Ralph Fatello were working on this for a stage that night, I announced that I was day after Asa died. I had always wanted to and studios. couple of months before we sent it on to going to start a tribute CD of Asa’s songs play some of his songs, but never really did METRONOME: Were there other songs manufacturing. done by local musicians who were his when he was alive because I didn’t think he that didn’t appear on the CD? A couple of weeks after that, the friends and musical colleagues. would like my version (laughs). There was so much material that I think manufacturing plant sent us some proofs I started getting a response immediately. Everybody came together for this and it we will probably do another one. There were back. I asked them for an audio proof too. In fact, there were a couple of people that was all voluntary. People provided me with a lot of people that didn’t get on this CD They sent me back a CD because I didn’t came up to me after the show and said recordings that were done and if I had any that I would have loved to see on it. At the want any surprises. Then I went over to they wanted to lay claim to doing some of problems with them, we went back in and time, Willie Alexander wasn’t in great health. Rick Harte’s house in Boston and he has his stuff right away. I started developing a remixed them. For instance, for “Babes In He’s the reason why I ended up playing at an amazing stereo set up. We listened to list of songs that I would like to see on the The Bar,” Rick Harte went back in with me the memorial show. I ended up performing it and looked at each other and thought, If CD. Most of them made it on there. Some and ended up mixing it because what we “Indian Amusement Park,” because Willie they give us back what we have right here, of them didn’t. got could never have been put on the CD. was in the hospital. He had some surgery we have something that’s really good. And There were some people that I reached METRONOME: Did anyone else help out done. He ended up not making it to the we did. It was incredible. I didn’t get any out to personally and said, I think it would with the project? memorial. surprises at all. METRONOME: From start to finish, it it and see if it makes sense. The first list he thought they were great. It was like watching over the kitchen table. He died of a heart sounds like everything fell neatly in to put together is what’s on there. a poor version of The Stones. That’s where attack. His death was very sudden. place for you? METRONOME: What was it about Asa the whole scene started. Asa was basically When the band got back together and did Yeah. Rick even said to me, I’ve put that made you become friends? right at the beginning of it. Within weeks of the gigs at The Burren, the idea was that they together several compilation albums of When I first met him in 1974, I worked that time, there were all these bands coming were actually going to create a new Robin different bands but this sounds the most for a band that played at The Rat called The out of nowhere playing at The Rat, The Club Lane & The Chartbusters. John Pfister was consistent of anything. Infliktors. I worked for them schlepping gear in Cambridge and The Inn Square Mens’ probably going to be playing bass because METRONOME: Who decided on the and they became close friends of mine. One Bar. Scott Baerenwald had lost his hearing. album’s song sequence? day when I went over to their apartment, What I really liked about Asa is that he Asa and Trick Wallace were going to be on I had an idea about the first and last song. this guy was jamming with them. It was Asa. was a true artist. He didn’t compromise for guitar, Robin would be playing some guitar I wanted the first song to be Robin’s [Lane] They introduced me to him. Right away I anybody. If he wanted to compromise, he and singing and Tim Jackson would be on and I wanted the last song to be Mr. Curt’s liked his dry sense of humor and his attitude could have probably had the biggest record drums. That was going to be the new band. because he changed Asa’s song from “He Is plus he played as well as anybody I knew. deal in the world. He wrote about real They had plans. Not Gone,” to “I Am Not Gone.” For the rest Before that, the band told me, this is stuff. The majority of his songs are about METRONOME: How old was Asa? of them, Gary really is responsible for that. the guy that played with Jonathan Richman love, unrequited love and for the most part He was 65. Obviously he created a lot He fooled around with it and developed a & The Modern Lovers. Asa told me about autobiographical. of alliances in the music business with the certain amount of criteria that I went along touring with them and some things he METRONOME: Asa was a kind soul too. musicians. He was not up for schmoozing with 100% because it made sense to me. had done before that. He told me he had Oh absolutely. He did an amazing and doing what you need to do to be He said, “I don’t want there to be two been in jail in Ecuador and I thought it was amount of charitable work. For the last five successful with the business people. He songs in a row by either a female or male something he had made up (laughing). I or six years of his life, when his boys were really needed a good agent that could artist.” That established one criteria. Then thought, this is amazing. going to a local school in Cambridge, he represent him. he didn’t want more than two songs in a Eventually he had come back from did charity gigs for them and played at the METRONOME: Do you have enough row to be slow songs. When you create a touring with Jonathan Richman and formed school. They have a section in Cambridge material to do a Volume 2? formula by which you’re going to do this, it a band called Mickey Clean & The Mezz that they’ve named Asa Brebner Square. He Oh, absolutely. I have a bunch of people falls right in there. with Mickey Clean. They were one of the was very active in the community. It was a lined up just chomping at the bit to do it. I also liked the fact that he wanted it first bands to play at The Rat. In fact, I think loss for everybody. Willie Alexander, Eric Royer, George Hall and to rev up and then come down like a lot of they might have been the first. METRONOME: How did Asa die? Scott Baerenwald all want to be on it, and albums do. There were only really a couple Jimmy Harold, who was the owner of The He and Robin and the band were going Kit Dennis who was the first bass players of ways you could do it, that dictated the Rat, initially stood outside on the sidewalk to get back together. They did two sold out in The Infliktors who actually introduced me way it was. yelling at people coming by saying, “Do you shows at The Burren in Somerville. The to Asa. There are people all over the place Other than the first and last song, I didn’t want to hear the worse band in the whole place was jammed. After the last gig, Asa that didn’t make it on this one that I certainly have much of an idea then Gary said, “I world? Come on in here.” Of course, boring drove up to his farm in New Hampshire and want to have for the next one. I don’t see have some ideas about how to do this.” I is no good. Great is good and horrible is Lori and the boys followed him. When they why we can’t do another CD. said, Great. Put together a list, we’ll listen to good. Any publicity is good publicity. I finally got there, they found him slumped - Brian M. Owens

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