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John Nemeth Barrett Anderson Band Remembering Eddie Van Halen The rock world lost one if its true Santa Monica, California on October 6, were naturalized as U.S. citizens. bought a drum kit, however, after he guitar innovators on October 6, 2020. 2020, at age 65. The brothers learned to play the piano heard Alex play The Surfaris’ drum solo Eddie Van Halen, songwriter and lead Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was born starting at age six. Eddie revealed that in the song “Wipe Out” on the drums, guitarist for the band of the same name, on January 26, 1955 in Amsterdam, he had never been able to read music. he decided to switch instruments and lost his battle to cancer. Known for his Netherlands. He was the son of Jan Instead, he learned from watching and began learning how to play the electric heavy cigarette smoking guitar. He would often since age 12 on top of practice while walking drug and alcohol use around at home with throughout his career, his guitar strapped on Eddie began receiving or sitting in his room treatment for tongue for hours with the door cancer in 2000. He locked. underwent surgery that Eddie and Alex formed removed a third of his their first band with tongue. He was declared three other boys, calling cancer-free in 2002. themselves The Broken He blamed the tongue Combs at Hamilton cancer on his habit of Elementary School in holding guitar picks in Pasadena. Eddie was in his mouth, revealing the fourth grade. He later in 2015, “I used metal stated that this was when picks. They’re brass and he first felt the desire to copper which I always become a professional held in my mouth, in musician. He would learn the exact place where I Eric Clapton’s solos in got the tongue cancer. I the band Cream “note mean, I was smoking and for note” citing Clapton doing a lot of drugs and as, “My main influence,” a lot of everything, but at while also including the same time, my lungs Jimmy Page among are totally clear. This is guitarists he admired. just my own theory, but doctors say it’s van Halen and Eugenia van Halen (née listening. From 1964 through 1967, The Van Halen brothers formed a possible.” van Beers). His father was a Dutch he won first place in the Annual Piano band together in 1972. Two years later, For the last 10 years, Van Halen clarinetist, saxophonist and pianist who Competition held at Long Beach City they would induct singer-frontman fought Cancer that was found in his instilled a love for music in his sons. In College. However, according to Eddie, David Lee Roth on vocals and Michael throat and eventually spread to his 1962, the Van Halen family moved from playing the piano did not prove to be Anthony on bass and “Van Halen” was lungs. He was hospitalized in 2019 the Netherlands to the United States challenging enough or interesting to born. They would become a staple of for the disease and succumbed to the settling in Pasadena, California. Eddie him. the Los Angeles music scene while illness at Saint John’s Health Center in and his older brother, Alex Van Halen As Alex picked up the guitar, Eddie playing well-known clubs like the

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In a 1985 interview, Van Halen Van Halen took the modern music stated that his guitar tone was called landscape by storm fueled by an the “brown sound.” He went on to say, innovative melding of hard rock, heavy “It’s basically a tone... a feeling that metal and athletic stage antics by I’m always working at. It comes from both Eddie and David Lee Roth during the person. If the person doesn’t know their live performances. By the early what that type of tone I’m talking about ‘80s, Van Halen was one of the most is, they can’t really work towards it, can successful rock acts of the era. Their they?” In a later 2015 interview, Eddie album, 1984 went five-times platinum elaborated on the “brown sound.” as the lead single, “Jump” became the He claimed he was actually trying to band’s first and only #1 hit garnering describe the sound of Alex’s snare them a Grammy nomination. drum, which he thought, “Sounded like Van Halen charted thirteen #1 hits he’s beating on a log. It’s very organic. in the history of Billboard’s Mainstream So it wasn’t my brown sound. It was Rock chart. In 2019, the band ranked century, as well as the likes of Western Les Paul. He replaced the factory P90 Alex’s.” 20th on the RIAA list of best-selling virtuosos like Paganini on both violin pickup with a humbucker in order to Eddie engaged in several projects artists with 56 million albums sold in the and guitar. sound more like Clapton. However, he is outside of his band, including solo work United States and more than 80 million Eddie named Jimmy Page of Led most associated with the Frankenstrat, and partnerships with his brother on film units sold worldwide. Van Halen was Zeppelin as the progenitor stating, “I a guitar he built himself from parts. The soundtracks. He also collaborated with inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of think I got the idea of tapping watching ash body and maple neck originally cost a number of high profile musicians that Fame in 2007. Jimmy Page do his “Heartbreaker” solo $130. The tremolo was taken from a ‘58 included Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, Eddie’s guitar virtuosity was second back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off Fender Stratocaster, but later replaced Nicolette Larson, Michael Jackson, to none. No other guitarist in the to an open string, and I thought, Wait a with a Floyd Rose. The guitar had a Brian May, Sammy Hagar, Black contemporary arena, other than Jimi minute, open string? Pull off? I can do single Gibson PAF bridge pickup from Sabbath, Roger Waters, Toto guitarist Hendrix, had changed the way the rock that, but what if I use my finger as the a Gibson ES-335, which he enclosed Steve Lukather, and LL Cool J. In guitar was played. Eddie was inventive nut and move it around? I took it and with paraffin wax to prevent feedback. addition, he made cameo appearances on the fretboard- fast, fluid and tasteful, just ran with it.” Eddie held a patent up The Frankenstrat was originally painted in the music video for Frank Sinatra’s and always seeked new ways to until 2005 for a flip-out support device black, but was recoated with Schwinn “L.A. Is My Lady” and an episode of the develop his instrument, amplification that attached to the rear of an electric red bicycle paint in 1979. TV sitcom, “Two and a Half Men.” and playing. His 1978 instrumental, guitar. This enabled the user to employ For the band’s 2012 tour, and early Eddie Van Halen passed away with his “Eruption,” exhibited an ingenious solo the tapping technique by playing the 2015 television appearances, Van son, Wolfgang, ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli technique called tapping in which he guitar in a manner similar to the piano Halen used a Peavey EVH Wolfgang and brother Alex Van Halen by his side. used both left and right hands on the with the face of the guitar facing USA made guitar with a black finish He will be remembered throughout guitar’s fretboard. While he popularized upward. and ebony fretboard. For the 2015 tour, history as one of the greatest guitar the tapping technique, he did not invent The trailblazing guitarist used he used a white Wolfgang USA guitar innovators of all time. R.I.P. Eddie Van it. Flamenco guitarists had enlisted customized equipment throughout his designed by Chip Ellis, featuring a Halen. the two handed trickery for at least a career. 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Hailing from Western Massachusetts, singer- I did, but not for very long. I was initially self- to call me his protégé, and I took in all I could. the beats moving and the rhythm grooving and on songwriter-guitarist Barrett Anderson has been a taught, with My Dad (who knew his way around Ronnie was incredibly supportive, happy to be the low-end, the sub-100Hz frequencies, is the part of the Boston blues scene since the age of some chords) giving me pointers and tips. I wound an open book for me to learn from. We spent bassman himself, Jamie ‘Black Cat Bone’ Hatch. fifteen when his group, fresh off a Battle of The up taking lessons from a couple of different many afternoons together, at his house, guitars METRONOME: How did you meet the guys? Bands victory, opened for the legendary Pinetop teachers in local music shops, and I picked up in our hands, with me asking him how does this I go deep with these guys. Jamie (bass) Perkins and Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin. Since things like how to play a pentatonic scale, but I or that trick or technique, and he’d teach me. He and I go back the longest. He and I grew up then, Anderson has been a member of Ronnie really wanted to play like Lightnin’ Hopkins and would show me how to do what I wanted to learn. together, working as teenagers at the only store Earl’s Broadcasters and Monster Mike Welch’s the local teachers could only help so much. Then the lessons would continue at gigs, where, in our quiet, central Mass. town. While we made band. The real music lessons I got were “on the Ronnie would make eye contact, ensuring I was sandwiches and pizzas, sliced deli meats and In 2007, Anderson stepped out on his own with job,” from the blues scene. I was frequently “in paying attention, as he’d play the riff from before, assembled Sunday newspapers, we took a deep a debut CD entitled, All The Way Down, produced the right place at the right time,” and I got to making sure I knew how to use it. dive into blues, discovering the music together. by Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame know lots of the local and national players as they METRONOME: Were you in any local groups Every shift we worked, we would each show up and never looked back. The Long Fall followed came through town. I always asked for advice or when you were younger? Did any of them gain with handfuls of new blues CDs (these were the in 2013, winning Barret and the band a Boston tips (and often just *happened* to have my guitar any notoriety? days of BMG and Columbia House), excited to Music Award for “Blues Artists of The Year.” with me). If they seemed receptive, I’d ask for Well, like I said earlier, I did win my high school spend the next few hours together soaking up Now, Anderson and his group are riding the more formal lessons. Paul Rishell, one of the pre- battle of the bands. Pretty early on I put my band Otis Rush’s 1950’s Cobra sides, or Sonny Boy wave of their new, energy-infused live album, eminent country blues revivalists, was one of the on hold to focus on learning and being a sideman Williamson’s Down and Out Blues. Jamie was HypnoBoogie. people who obliged that request. I took lessons for bands that weren’t just gaining notoriety, they the first person I ever jammed with. He wasa We caught up with Barrett through his publicist member of my first band. I hope he will also be a Mark Pucci (markpuccimedia.com) and he part of my last band and everything in between. detailed his musical influences and rise in the He’s a true musical brother. Boston blues scene. Doug MacLeod (drums) lived one town over from Jamie and me in the 1990’s. Despite a multi- METRONOME: Are you a native New decade age difference, we were “running in the Englander? If not, where are you from originally same circles,” finally meeting in 2000 at a local and what brought you to Boston? benefit concert. Doug and I connected over our Barrett Anderson: Oh yes, Massachusetts born shared love of music. I remember a passionate and raised… Proud of it. When I was a teenager, conversation about The Band and the magic of newly and hopelessly in love with blues music, I Big Pink and Doug joined the fold. used to wish I was from the south, from Macon For 5 years The Barrett Anderson Band was or Memphis or Mississippi, but I love the heritage a 3-piece, but in 2018, Charlie Mallet, a former here – the music scene I get to be a part of. bandmate of Doug’s, started sitting in on gigs, There’s such history. Club 47, The Boston Tea bringing his vintage goldtop Les Pauls to the Party, The Speakeasy, WBCN, Skippy White’s, stage and, just like hot sauce, he made everything The J. Geils Band, Morphine and all the blues better. He joined the band as the full-time fourth cats (some of the heaviest players of the last 50 member at the start of 2019. years). Oh yeah, and Car Talk. What a cool place METRONOME: How many albums have you to get to call “my fair city.” released? METRONOME: How long have you been It just so happens that my third album, singing and playing? HypnoBoogie, came out at the end of September I’ve always been drawn to the guitar, but I on Whitaker Blues Records. It’s a live record and started playing in earnest when I was 13. I joined it is the most thrilling music I’ve been a part of. a band at 15 and, when we needed a singer, I from Paul, life lessons really, taught through the were already notorious. I joined Ronnie Earl and Although it’s my third album, it’s my first with The closed my eyes, opened my mouth, and stepped vehicle of blues guitar and song for four years, The Broadcasters when I was 16. When I was 19, Barrett Anderson Band. up to the mic. On my 16th birthday, now calling stopping only because he had been such a I joined The Monster Mike Welch Band, and was My first album, All the Way Down, came out ourselves The 708 Club, my band won the Battle masterful teacher. a part of 2005’s album, Adding Insight to Injury. I in 2007. Jimbo Mathus produced it, and we of The Bands at my high school and 6 weeks later, “You can keep coming here and I can hold your didn’t go to music school, but I certainly did get a recorded it in three days with a crack band of I was backing up Pinetop Perkins and Steady hand and show you how to play these songs, but music education. North Mississippi heavyweights at Jimbo’s studio Rollin’ Bob Margolin all across New England. you don’t need me to do that. You know how to METRONOME: When did you put The Barrett in Como, Mississippi. METRONOME: Who were some of the bands figure them out yourself,” Paul told me. He was Anderson Band together? The Long Fall, album #2, came out in 2013, and players that inspired you to want to be a right. He had taught me how to listen, how to The Barrett Anderson Band officially formed and features an organ trio lineup with blues musician? relate to the guitar on my own and interpret the in 2013, although our connections and roots go superstars Ron Levy (organist for BB King, Albert Stevie Ray Vaughan and Roy Buchanan made music myself. Now, when we get together, it’s for back decades,. This band is made up of some King, Roomful of Blues, and more) and Per me want to be a hot shot guitarist. Buddy Guy, dinner, although the guitars usually still come out. of my longest-term, nearest and dearest friends, Hanson (renowned drummer for Ronnie Earl and Albert Collins, Magic Sam and Earl Hooker made Ronnie Earl, another of my longtime guitar collaborators and cohorts. The Broadcasters). Cambridge roots-rock king, me want to play blues. Son House made me want heroes, was another important teacher. Also a METRONOME: Who’s in the group and what Dennis Brennan produced this one. Shortly after to lose myself in music – to fully inhabit every note mentor, bandleader, boss, and ultimately, dear are their musical roles? The Long Fall was released, I was honored to win I play. Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker made me friend. We initially met at his shows. I went to We’re a four-piece band. That classic rock and a Boston Music Award, “2013 Blues Artist of the want to shake and move, boogie and groove and as many of them as I could and made sure to roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. We Year.” lose myself in the beat. Duane Allman made me connect with him afterwards. all sing and we all contribute equally. This really METRONOME: Are you the principal want to push the boundaries and make something At some point Ronnie started remembering is a “sum is greater than the parts” scenario. The songwriter for the band? original and potent. Of course, also Dire Straits: me and eventually offered to give me guitar focus of this band is on all of us and what we do Historically yes, however the process has been “money for nothin’ and chicks for free.” lessons. Within a few months we were friends together. much more collaborative in the past year. We’ve METRONOME: Did you ever take formal music and bandmates. I spent 3 years as a member I sing and play the guitar, as does Charlie got some new originals that have come from all lessons? of Ronnie Earl’s Broadcasters. Ronnie used Mallet. Doug MacLeod plays the drums, keeping four of us, and I’m really, really excited by how they sound. HypnoBoogie is just full of little magic moments albums I’ve recorded. The chrome plated, shiny Cool Overdrive, and I step on that for the guitar METRONOME: How does your songcrafting of communication, improvisation and inspiration steel looks amazing on stage and it sounds pretty solo on “House Party.” work? Personal? Observational? Off-The- between all four of us. There are parts, especially great too. METRONOME: Did you have any guests Wall? during the quiet section following the guitar solo, Rounding out the pack is Honey, my blonde appear on the album? Songwriting definitely takes effort for me, but that I wouldn’t believe weren’t coordinated had Telecaster with a black pickguard. I’ve had this I really wanted this album to be about this it’s something that I’m happy to put the time into. I not been a part of their creation myself. Magic guitar for over 20 years, and it was my main band – the four of us, and what we do. When I find the hardest part to be getting the first line, moments. guitar for nearly that entire time, only recently Charlie joined at the start of 2019, it had such wrangling that first idea into some form. Once I I love “Mona,” the disc and set opener. This retired in favor of Blue. Honey started out as a an impact on us. Doug, Jamie, and I had spent get an initial piece – a foothold in place (it can be was a set closer for The Barrett Anderson Band Fender ’52 reissue Tele and has been heavily years working to create a big sound between a lyric, a riff, a chord progression), I can build the for many years, and it had to be a set closer. modified to more closely resemble a ’52 or’53 the three of us. Having another player who was rest of the song pretty quickly. How could we possibly follow up that non-stop, Tele. This guitar was the primary instrument on incredibly thoughtful and diligent in his approach, I like revising too. Working things through, propulsive Bo Diddley beat? Fast forward to my first two albums, as well as The Monster emphasizing and supporting rhythms while also questioning, tweaking, and keeping an open 2018. Before a gig, Jamie dared me to reverse Mike Welch Band album I was a part of, and it offering a strong lead voice that we’ve been able mind. When I was writing songs for my second the set list. Play the first song last and the last makes an appearance on the last two songs of to highlight both in solos and also in harmonized album, I took giant pieces of white paper and song first. Not being one to shy from a challenge, HypnoBoogie, “Gone” (which was recorded with guitar parts… Suddenly everything worked. taped them all over my house, covering the living we walked on stage that night and I opened my this guitar back in 2007), and “House Party.” The grooves were more muscular- stronger and room and hallways with song lyrics in large scale, mouth, “Heyyyyy… Mona!” It’s a great opener, Charlie always brings cool guitars to gigs, and irresistible. The songs were more dynamic. The so I could easily see and hear, revise and edit. setting a high bar for all that follows, but, like I on HypnoBoogie he’s playing a mid 50’s goldtop playing more expressive. When Charlie joined, I should take a moment to thank my incredibly said, I’m not one to shy from a challenge. Les Paul, which unlike my gear, needs no more each show was better than the last, and that was tolerant, supportive wife who didn’t mind living in Another favorite is the set/disc closer, “House qualifiers or explanation. what I wanted to capture. a house of lyrics for nearly a year. Party.” Ever since discovering Full House Live! METRONOME: What amp(s) did you use? I thought about having some of my friends, my METRONOME: Where was your new live and the realization that The J. Geils Band is way I brought out my two favorite amps for this musical collaborators, join us for a song or a solo, album, Hypnoboogie, recorded? mightier than the pop hooks of Centerfold, I’ve session – a 1964 Fender Vibroverb and a 1961 but I didn’t want to water down the impact of the Yes. HypnoBoogie! A super groovy, very been deeply inspired by the high-octane rock Dearmond R15T. four of us. I did, however, have my sister Emily, exciting live album that was captured at The and roll and rhythm and soul that these Boston The 1964 Fender Vibroverb has about 40 watts an incredibly talented singer (she’s sung with The Fallout Shelter... Bill Hurley’s amazing dream of boys captured. Peter Wolf is as good a frontman of power and a 15” speaker, which gives it this Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood a venue/studio. We recorded this in one night, as there’s been. He always brings everything he huge, full voice with limitless low-end response. It Pops for decades) join us on vocals and February 1, 2010 which, I should mention was has and I feel so lucky to be part of a scene that pairs beautifully with a Telecaster, complementing harmonies throughout the album. She’s family. the street address for Chess Records during its allows me to see him in all sorts of venues, from the guitar’s inherently bright tone. This particular We’ve been singing together my whole life, and heyday, 2120 S. Michigan Avenue. Since it was the tiny red room of The Lizard Lounge to Fenway Vibroverb was owned by Jay Geils. I knew that she could come in and complement pre-Covid lockdown, there was a sellout crowd Park, and everything in between (of course, Back in 2002, I stopped at a little guitar shop everything, strengthening the impact of the music of nearly 100 people and the band was on fire. that was pre-Covid). We started playing “House in Central MA. for some strings and saw this amp and the music in each song, without diluting us in We didn’t do more than one take of any song. Party” as an encore at the very end of our shows, in the corner, amidst the Squire guitars and “Strat any way. Emily, when you want to join the band, We didn’t need to. Bill and the crew recorded the spurred on because I loved playing it. Turns out, packs” marketed for beginners. It turned out that the invitation is open. show, capturing both the audio and the video people loved hearing it, and there was no way Jay was thinning his collection to fund some hot METRONOME: What inspired the name for the beautifully. that we could get away with not including it on rods, and he was selling his amps through his CD? METRONOME: How did you meet Bill Hurley? the new album. friend, who owned the shop. A few days later, HypnoBoogie is a term I came up with while I met Bill Hurley towards the end of 2019, METRONOME: Who engineered the record? having thoroughly convinced myself that this amp hanging with Jimbo Mathus back in 2007. We although I had been aware of him and the Fallout The Fallout Shelter comes with a built-in was in fact the greatest amp I had ever heard, were recording my first album,All The Way Down, Shelter much before that. The Barrett Anderson staff. Seasoned industry veterans who know I was fortunate to be in a position to make that and one night, after a long day of recording, Band was taking part in an event held by The how to use the room and make it sound great. amp mine. Jimbo and I were tired but also wired. We weren’t Boston Blues Society at The Fallout Shelter. Even Eric Nordstrom and Connor Quigley, the staff The 1961 Dearmond R15T is another favorite quite ready to call it yet, so we sat around, talking though we only had a twenty-minute set, Bill engineers at the Fallout Shelter, really did an of mine - a tweed Deluxe-style amp with larger about the music we were making, trying to figure heard something in us, and he made sure that I incredible job of capturing our set, sound, and transformers. A family friend found this particular out what to call it. I came up with the name had his phone number before I was off the stage. energy. In addition to putting the mics in just amp on the sidewalk, left in the rain with the HypnoBoogie, and I’ve been calling my music We talked the next day, and the rest, as they say, the right spots to get great sounding drums and garbage cans on trash day. He took it home, let HypnoBoogie ever since. It’s not blues, but it’s is history. guitars, they knew just where in the room to put it dry off in his garage, and brought it over to me. bluesy. It’s not rock, but there have been plenty METRONOME: How many songs are on the ambient mics, capturing the sound of the space. My amp tech put in some new tubes and new of cues from The Allmans and the Stones. It’s CD? These room mics make up a lot of what you caps, and I eventually replaced the (original) all about the groove. It’s music that is vital and We have 11 songs and 71 minutes of music hear on the record. The Fallout Shelter is simply a speaker with a slightly more robust model. This alive, music that makes you swing and sway, that on the new CD. We couldn’t have fit more on the great sounding space, and Eric and Connor made has become one of my “perfect” amps. makes you feel something deep down. That’s disc if we wanted to. sure came through on the recording. These two amps complement each other HypnoBoogie! METRONOME: Did you pen them all? Dan Cardinal mixed and mastered the beautifully. The Vibroverb has this big low end METRONOME: Do you plan on touring locally 7 of the 11 songs are mine, and the four covers recordings from the Fallout Shelter at Dimension and strong high end, while the DeArmond with this album when things open back up? make up some of the staples and favorites from Sound Studios, his studio in Jamaica Plain. We provides a rich, warm, vocal midrange where all Oh yeah! We are ready to tour locally, nationally, our sets. We worked carefully to only pick out the couldn’t have done this without him. the righteous tone is. I love what I can get out of internationally, intergalactically. I have every cream of the crop. A-list material for this one. METRONOME: What kind of guitars did you this slightly oversized rig. intent to get this music in front of as many people METRONOME: Which songs are your favorites play for the record? METRONOME: Do you use pedal effects? If so, in as many places as I can. on Hypnoboogie and why? I played three different guitars on this what kind? Frankly, I feel like we’ve built this super-hot In general, it was really fun and exciting to album; these three guitars have been my main Ronnie Earl taught me to never use pedals. race car, and are now sitting with in the garage, re-record some of the originals off the first two instruments for over two decades now. He was adamant that a player should be able waiting to take it out for a drive. We are ready to albums. Music is vital. It’s alive and songs are Blue, my trusty Telecaster and current main to get everything they need from their heart and hit it hard and bring HypnoBoogie all across the ever evolving. In 2007 when I recorded my first guitar, is what you hear the most on the first 6 their hands. When I was on stage with Ronnie I world. album, was a long, long time ago. I’m really tracks of HypnoBoogie. I assembled this from couldn’t even have a tuner in line – it looked too METRONOME: Where can people buy your thrilled to have the opportunity to capture “Gone” various pieces and was able to make it exactly much like a pedal. It took me a long time to move music and find out more about you on the and “Broken Down” from the first album, and “Not what I wanted it to be. I got lucky too. Everything beyond intense guilt whenever I entertained the world wide web? Your Baby” and “Emma Lee” from the second, as worked and I wound up with a cohesive thought of a fuzz or vibe, but Band of Gypsys is www.barrettandersonband.com is the main they sound after a decade of gigs. instrument that plays and sounds fantastic. The one of my favorite albums and, at some point, I spot. You can listen to music, buy albums, watch The thirteen-minute long instrumental original, body is a classic, 1950’s style Tele, nothing fancy. had to give in to the wah-wah goddess. So, yes, videos, read interviews with the band. Our music “The Long Fall,” has some of my favorite This guitar has a big, fat neck and early ‘60’s style I use effect pedals. is on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, etc. All moments... magic moments, I call them. We’re an appointments. As soon as I strung it up, I knew I use a 1960’s style wah made by Geoffrey the big streaming services, check it out. improvisational band. We might have a general how special this guitar was.It’s been my go-to Teese during the solo on “Not Your Baby.” Lastly, we’re on all the regular social media idea of the points we want to hit within any guitar since 2014. There’s a Fuzz Face (made by Analog Man) candidates which means Instagram, Facebook, given song, but it’s up to us and up to the night’s All the slide playing is done on a guitar made and Octavia (made by Kyle Chase) on the solo Twitter and YouTube. Links to all the social inspiration as to how we hit them. We all try to be by French luthier, James Trussart. It’s a Les Paul on “Gone.” Monster Mike Welch gave me a media sites can be found on our website: www. fully immersed in the music and let it guide us as shaped guitar that’s made out of hollow steel. I’ve prototype of an overdrive pedal he developed barrettandersonband.com. we go. The version of “The Long Fall” captured on owned this one since 2003, and it’s been on all 3 with Barber Electronics. It became their Custom -- Brian M. Owens Hearings by Doug Sloan, Alex Gecko or Brian M. Owens

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BOX 921, BILLERICA, MA. 01821 • REEL BURNER (Alternate Take) woogie piano work from Anthony Geraci, the instrumental harmonica workout “Reel • CHICK TALKS MONK off Chick’s list and he pays reverent homage Since 1980, Sugar Ray Norcia has been Burner,” the hilarious bounce of “My Next • PANNONICA to his influences and peers. Favored tracks singing and playing harmonica with his Door Neighbor,” and the clever jump blues • TRINKLE TINKLE include “Yesterdays,” “Desifinado,” “Blue band The Bluetones around the globe. And of “From The Horses Mouth.” [B.M.O.] • BLUE MONK Monk,” “Pastime Paradise,” the musical throughout that time, he’s always managed Contact-- artworks of “Portrait: Henrietta” & “Portrait: to pull in the best players to join him. Folks www.sugarrayandthebluetones.com Celebrated piano icon Chick Corea Chris,” and “Duet” with French-Israeli jazz like guitarists Monster Mike Welch, Little opens this engaging solo project by pianist Yaron Herman. Charlie Baty, Duke Robillard, Kid Bangham, telling the audience he’s going to combine Corea proves to be a benevolent, good Ronnie Earl and Troy Gonyea, among CHICK COREA compositions by the great composers natured host throughout the project adding others, have all shared the stage with Ray PLAYS Mozart and Gershwin... but before he about his performances, “I Like People along with Bluetone stalwarts Anthony 33-SONG, 2-CD SET begins we have to tune up (meaning he and to feel like they’re in my living room and Geraci on piano, Michael Mudcat Ward the audience). It’s that kind of playful banter we’re hanging out.” Thanks Chick for the on bass and Neil Gouvin on drums. Heavy • CHICK TALKS MOZART AND GERSHWIN from Chick at shows around the world memories. [B.M.O.] lineups indeed. • MOZART: PIANO SONATA IN F that make this 2-CD set such an enjoyable Contact-- www.chickcorea.com For the group’s seventh studio album, • SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME encounter. Too Far From The Bar, Sugar Ray enlists old • IMPROVISATION ON SCARLATTI Fun was the operative word for Corea when friend Little Charlie Baty to hold down guitar • SCARLATTI: SONATA IN D MINOR creating the tracks for Plays as his listeners HOW TRAGIC chores, contributing his stylistic fretboard • YESTERDAYS become an integral part of the musical PAST LIVES prowess to a handful of originals penned by • CHICK TALKS BILL EVANS AND ANTONIO JOBIM experience. Exploring the masters Mozart, 4-SONG EP Geraci, Ward & Norcia along with covers by • WALTZ FOR DEBBY Scarlatti, Scriabin and Chopin, Corea also folks like Sonny Boy Williamson, Lowman • DESAFINADO salutes Bill Evans, Thelonius Monk, Antonio • DEATHWISH Pauling, Little Walter, Jerry McCain, Otis • CHOPIN: PRELUDE OP. 28 #4 Carlos Jobim, the Gershwins, Jerome Kern Spann and Harold Arlen. It’s a roadhouse • SCRIABIN: PRELUDE OP. 11(Pt. 1) #4 and Stevie Wonder. No great songcrafter is Continued on next page >>> Hearings continued Hill band has been kicking around the If Bananarama had a male singer, “She’s • SPARE ME life sized statue of Bo Diddley, considering New England music scene since founding Gonna Live Forever” and it’s infectious • LET ME DOWN they’re now basing their first record on his member Morgan Keating’s early days with melodies is what it would have sounded • DONE trademark riff as “Hanky Panky Franky” the Gypsy Mechanics. Accompanied by like. In turn, “Sneak Attack“ takes on the evidences. Thankfully short bursts of Rolling Gypsy Mechanics bandmate Jonathan Aristocats theme and a simplified 2/2 beat Paige Campbell and her Brooklyn based Stones riffs fill in the edges. Grant on bass guitar, Gary Young (Ballou that sticks in your brain. If you miss the band erupt in a saturated market ready to Despite running on the recurrent same Brothers Band) on guitar, dobro & lapsteel, 1980s and admire an element of cheese elbow their way through all resistance. The basic guitar mode, still at 90 mph, “You’re A David Ballou (Ballou Brothers) on drums & from a band that refuses to take itself too self confident vocal delivery is backed up Doll” maintains the emotional high ground. cajon and Willie Walker (Mighty Colors) on seriously, this is the record for you. [Gecko] by powerful guitars, bass and drums that There are cute keyboard inflections straight piano & keyboards, Keating proves to be a Contact-- remind you a little of early Alanis Morissette out of Blondie with a hint of silliness. For gifted songwriter, penning colorful tales of https://theaquabats.bandcamp.com/album/ in the way the poppy chorus nails it down “That Old Ghost Don’t Lie,” they revive the love and life. kooky-spooky-in-stereo perfectly on “Deathwish.” girl group modus for a stylish near ballad Songs of note include the insufferable “Spare Me” is a little less produced, with loads of backing vocals. “All My Baby “Weight of The World,” the country tinged but delivers by way of hooks and choruses Brought Back Was The Blues” gets a bit “Moving On,” the Hillbilly howl of “Cupid’s LEAH BELLE FASER burrowing their way into your cerebellum. more bratty, but maintains all the hooks and Arrow,” and the Steve Earle infused CROSSING HERMI’S BRIDGE “Let Me Down” is the more downbeat ballad even throws in a snazzy harp to perk up the “Theorello and Me.” [D.S] 7-SONG CD of the bunch yet has oodles of muscles mix. 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Entering the back and in between. • THE WALK OFF the studio with a well penned collection Relationships play a big part in the Pale • DANGEROUS LEON of originals, Leah enlisted the help of ace PALE LIPS Lips’ repertoire and “Show Me Another • PAJAMAZON studio musicians Nick Buda on drums, Tim AFTER DARK Way To Your Heart” is no exception, as • SHE’S GONNA LIVE FOREVER Marks on bass, Billy Nobel on keyboards, 12-SONG LP the dynamics stay muscular and agile. The • SNEAK ATTACK percussionist Casey Wood and guitarists gals bring in more high pitched silliness • KARATE BODY PART 2 Kerry Marx & Eddie Heinzelman along with • SOME SORT OF ROCK N’ROLL with “Doo-Wop Showaddydaddy” which brother Hoke Faser on vocals and John • I’M A WITCH few others could do without embarrassing The Aquabats are supposed to be live Lancaster on keys (“Ruled”) to realize her • HANKY PANKY FRANKY themselves. By the end of “Cosmic Love,” legends in their Orange County ecosystem, musical vision. 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I’m somehow reminded of the • MOVING ON appears to focus on listeners with a pre- • TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE THINKING prairie states Winter Bear with a hint of early • YOU NEVER CAN TELL teen mind set. “The Walk Off” picks up • SECOND CHANCES 1960s due to the prolonged use of a perky • TAKE COMFORT the pace, but attempts a more snide style • THE STORIES WE ARE TOLD yet chugging guitar riff and the rhythmical • CUPIDS ARROW where the keyboard sweetens the accents accent on the roll rather than the rock. Not • IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING over the guitar. “Dangerous Leon” pushes Hailing from Mamaroneck, New York, everyone can do that. • THE LIGHTS the envelope with a dissonant guitar solo this inventive collective features the ace It’s so delicious, they keep up the same • THEORELLO AND ME within the mainstream pop foundation and songwriting of guitarist Tom Nelson fueled basic guitar for “I’m A Witch” which shows • TWO KIDS soaring killer chorus. “Pajamazon” takes on by the commanding vocal prowess of they don’t take themselves too seriously. our home office online shopping culture with Megan Porcaro Herspring on their fourth Our young ladies must have an altar with a The New Hampshire based Russell a decent dosage of Ska styled keyboard. album release, The Stories We Are Told. In the studio, Heathcote Hill comes to • THROW ME IN THE WATER infectious groove of “She’s My Punisher,” • I’M NOT GOING TO WORK TODAY life for the recording through a talented • CHAIN BREAKER Nemeth and the boys are in total control. [Larry Newman] assemblage of players that include Tory • BARS John Nemeth is no stranger to the New • LET THE BYGONES BE Ridder on drums, Mike Bishop on piano, • I CAN SEE YOUR LOVE LIGHT SHINE England blues music circuit and once we [Kimberly Starr Pfister] Akil James on bass, organist Rob Arthur, • DEPRIVIN’ A LOVE abolish this Covid bug, look to see Nemeth • THE ROSES I NEVER BOUGHT YOU drummer Sammy Merendino, upright • WORK FOR LOVE back in action once again. Good stuff! [Randy Black] bassist Steve Count, and backing singers • GUESS WHO [B.M.O.] • TAKE ME BACK Vanessa Ridder, Amanda Homi and Neal • SHE’S MY PUNISHER Contact-- www.johnnemeth.com [Ralph Fatello] Coomer. The sound is beautiful and • SWEEP THE SHACK • HE IS NOT GONE compelling while Megan’s voice touches [Mr. Curt & Andy Hollinger] heart and soul. This isn’t your typical rock Born in Idaho, Nemeth cut his teeth there ASA fare, but a well crafted collection of songs playing 5 nights a week for more than a I AM NOT GONE This wonderful collection of songs penned sung and played by a masterful band. decade. In 2004, he moved to Oakland and A TRIBUTE TO ASA BREBNER by Asa Brebner were offered up by friends Radio-friendly songs that will surely joined Anson Funderburgh’s band replacing 14-SONG CD and colleagues that were touched musically capture listener’s attention worldwide blues legend Sam Meyers. These days, by Brebner through his many years in the include the gorgeous “All I Remember Is the singer-songwriter-harmonica man calls • SUNSHINE BLUE SKIES Boston music community. You,” the stark reality of “Hey,” the sweetly Memphis, Tennessee home as he continues [Robin Lane] Assembled by executive producer Larry penned “You and Sunday Afternoon,” the to follow his muse as well as the blues that • LAST BAD HABIT Newman and mastered by engineer Gary instrumental elegance of “Elergy For Mary move him. [Richie Parsons & Frank Rowe] Soprano, this fitting tribute pays respect to Ellen,” and the inventive “Second Chances.” For his tenth solo release, Stronger Than • TRAVELING BLIND the singer, songwriter, guitarist, cartoonist If you’ve never heard of Heathcote Hill, I Strong on the Nola Blue imprint, Nemeth [Jon Macey & Larry Newman] and activist while highlighting the diverse encourage you to seek this band out. Good leads his smokin’ road band, The Blue • SHELTER OF YOUR LOVE talents of his peers throughout this fourteen stuff! [B.M.O.] Dreamers, that features 19 year-old guitar [Linda Viens] song CD. Contact-- www.heathcotehill.net slinger, Jon Hay of Philadelphia, Boston • INDIAN AMUSEMENT PARK You also get a glimpse of Brebner’s born drummer Danny Banks and Memphis’ [Classic Ruins] idiosyncratic observations and droll take on Matthew Wilson on bass for an uplifting • FINE LOVIN’ MAMA everyday life in songs like “Last Bad Habit,” JOHN NEMETH roots blues outing. [Billy Connors & The Gato Brothers “Indian Amusement Park,” “Babes In The STRONGER THAN STRONG Whether he’s painting the back porch • BABES IN THE BAR Bar,” “I’m Not Going To Work Today,” and 12-SONG CD awash in the blues with the album opener [Glider] “The Roses I Never Bought You.” “Come And Take It,” vibin’ the Don Robey • RAGGED RELIGION Asa Brebner’s mortal coil may be gone • COME AND TAKE IT classic “Sometime,” testifyin’ the truth in [Natalie Flanagan] from this earth, but his spirit and music live • FOUNTAIN OF A MAN “Bars,” pumping a reggae groove in “I Can • DON’T EVER LOSE A MEMORY on through this recording. 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Mark Dix

A long time member of Boston area folk guitar pieces when I was still in high school. Like Miller and guitarist Russ Barenberg. blues and jazz standards to classic country and quartet, Whose Muddy Shoes, singer-songwriter- many other acoustic guitar players in those days, While solo guitar playing and composing folk songs, along with our own originals. guitarist Mark Dix has stepped out on his own I taught myself to play Davy Graham’s “Angie” as was very satisfying and probably the most METRONOME: How did you all meet? (with some help from his friends) to release a well recorded by Paul Simon, and that gave me the technically accomplished music I’ve ever done, I have two grown kids. When they were little penned solo album entitled, Nobody’s Angel. We idea that an acoustic guitar could be effective for there’s nothing like singing and playing with other I sort of put down the guitar for a couple years. caught up with him during the heat of August and something more than accompanying vocals. people. This brings us to our notorious, infamous My hands were full, so to speak. My neighbor at Mark outlined his long standing musical career... I started listening to John Fahey, Bert Jansch, band, Whose Muddy Shoes. the time, Greg Clark, had a band that practiced John Renbourn and others and continued through Years ago, the six-piece band played every weekend and they got a bit loud at times METRONOME: How long have you been those years in Cambridge. I am still proud of the quite a lot throughout New England, western when my kids were trying to sleep. I went over singing and playing? to complain once and they invited me in. The Mark Dix: After several years of playing rest is history. piano, I picked up the guitar when I was 14 Soon I was playing rhythm guitar with them and have been playing ever since. It took a bit and the kids never complained. It was a very longer to feel comfortable as a singer. laid-back group at the time with no name METRONOME: What came easier for you, and few aspirations. For the first year or so it the vocals or the guitar? was just an opportunity to hang out and play Definitely guitar. For many years I played endless repetitions of 12-bar blues. We had a and sang in groups, but was reluctant to sing piano player for a very short time who brought lead. Instead, I was very focused on guitar in the Elmore James song “Whose Muddy playing and started writing solo guitar pieces Shoes,” and someone suggested that would be while I was in college. a good band name. Thirty-some years later we When I first came to the Boston area I had are still at it. Same name, however the music is significant success as a solo instrumentalist a lot different. and composer, playing opening sets at Passim Our horn player, Bill Mantone, is the only for guitarists John Fahey and Pierre Bensusan, remaining member of that original group. When singer/player Chris Smither, and also poet Greg’s bass player moved out of the area, I Allen Ginsberg. That was back in the day when recruited Jack Esher to play bass. Jack and Bob and Rae Ann Donlin ran Passim. I had sons the same age who were in school As many will remember, WCAS AM in together and I knew Jack from coaching youth Cambridge was the local folk radio station. soccer. Robin Winter was acquainted with the Some of my guitar music was played on band through a work association with Greg’s that station. I recently unearthed some lost wife. Robin sang with us from time to time, recordings of those guitar pieces and will making us a much better band when she did. eventually make them available on my website When another band heard her and threatened (www.markdix.com). In the meantime, there is to enlist her for their band, we decided we’d a fine recording of one of these early pieces, better make her a permanent part of ours. “Sounds Like Rain,” on my first solo CD, This Before long Bill and Robin were married, so it Old Song. was a done deal after that. METRONOME: Who were some of the METRONOME: How many albums has that bands that inspired you to be a songwriter? group released? I think I’ve been inspired by great music The original six-piece band made one, self- and musicians in general more than particular titled, album released in 1998. That album bands. My father was an accomplished includes four of my earliest songs, including musician and composer, although, like me, “Too Long On the Water,” which is still a this was not his profession. He is and was my regular part of our repertoire. A few years later, greatest inspiration and introduced me to a lot I completed my first solo CD, This Old Song. of music. guitar pieces I wrote and performed back then, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Newburyport, All the songs on the CD are originals of mine, but Then there are the classics, J.S. Bach in but creating them was very time intensive and and at Club Passim. The quartet version of the the band is very much in evidence on many of particular, composers for the guitar like Villa keeping them performance-ready required a great Shoes has been playing and singing together the tracks. Lobos and John Dowland, players like Charlie commitment of time and energy. Along the way, I for many years now. With a steady gig at Chianti A few years later, 2006, I think, the acoustic Byrd, John Renbourn & Bert Jansch, the had also dabbled in writing poetry and fiction for Café in Beverly, MA. along with annual house quartet completed another CD called All In Good harmonies and spirit of Peter, Paul, and Mary many years, so it was not a great leap to writing concerts in Southwest Harbor, Maine, a night at Time. That CD also has four of my originals, and the big guns, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. I lyrics for melodies I created with the guitar. This the Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor, and opening along with originals by Bill and Jack. As with started out creating guitar pieces, but then grew all came together in the form of songwriting when for Charlie Daniels at the North Shore Music both of my solo CDs, we recorded that one with into songwriting. I love pure instrumental music, I was first playing with the Whose Muddy Shoes Theatre, we’ve had a great time. Seth Connelly and added percussion and some but there is nothing more enduring than a song. 6-piece band back in the late eighties. METRONOME: How long have you been additional solo instrumentalists to get the most METRONOME: When did the songwriting kick METRONOME: Who were some of the groups playing with Whose Muddy Shoes? out of each song. in for you? you played with when you were younger? Did I think it was about 1986 when I first played METRONOME: Who’s the principal I have always been surrounded by music, first any of them gain any notoriety? with some of these people. We were a 6-piece songwriter(s) for the band? influenced by my father, who was a composer Prior to the Cambridge years, I played and band until around 2001 when the current 4-piece In the very early years, no one was writing and and had me taking piano lessons from the age of sang in a duo that gained some local recognition group split off to create a sound that emphasized we were doing mostly covers of blues tunes that 8. I picked up the guitar at 14 when I was at home in the traditional music scene in Ithaca, NY. That more acoustic instruments and three and four- Greg brought in. About that time, I was listening with a flu. My first guitar was a rented Harmony. A was another great place to be at the time, with part harmony. With acoustic guitar, bass, clarinet to Greg Brown, John Gorka, John Prine, Steve couple of years later, I moved up to a Martin 00- people like Howie Bursen, the British duo of John or sax, one female and three male voices we’ve Goodman and other songwriters. I was also 18. I started playing around making guitar riffs into Roberts and Tony Barrand, blues player John been able to cover a wide range of music from friends with local songwriters Geoff Sather and Dianne Ziegler and started spending time at open He became so engaged in this pursuit that he recording is the track called “Meditation.” It is I know Marty Rowen and Mark Retalluck, two mics. The songwriting I am still doing today started took early retirement to devote himself full time very different from anything else I’ve recorded. It great keyboard players, from our many years back then. I was comfortable playing rhythm in a to composition. is my solo voice accompanied by percussion – a playing at Chianti Café in Beverly. Harmonica blues band, but was tempted to write lyrics when He wrote music for piano, various chamber basic beat I keep by tapping the top of my guitar, player Hatrack Gallagher has played with Seth for hearing songwriters on WUMB and at open mics. ensembles, and orchestra. He had always played along with a shaker, a rain stick, and a floor tom many years and was the obvious choice when we I began writing myself and was pleased to find piano, and throughout my childhood I fell asleep with a very loose head so that it sounds a bit like wanted harmonica on “Everybody’s Lonesome.” that my songs were well received by the band to the sound of him playing late into the night. As a bass drum, a bit like distant thunder. I wrote One day we decided that “God Got It and others. So, I’ve been the principal songwriter the album notes say, “The Old Violin” makes use the melody for that song many years back for an Wrong” wanted a Cajun sound. Having spent ever since, though every other member of the of a sizable dose of poetic license. Father became assignment in a music theory class. My teacher my childhood in Louisiana, I loved this idea, but current band has also contributed songs. Grandfather, piano became violin, my father’s at the time praised the melody and encouraged we did have a challenging time finding the right METRONOME: How many solo albums do you itinerant music teacher became the violinist in a me to keep it and do something more with it. The accordion player. After contacting a number of have out? “traveling show,” and so forth. Most everything tune is written in mixolydian mode and has the people who did not work out, we came across I have two, This Old Song from 2001, released in the lyric has some basis in my experience and quality of a Celtic ballad, while the lyrics reflect Sonny Barbato, who played it just the way we a few days before 9/11 and Nobody’s Angel, family history. images reminiscent of a Native American vision had in mind. released recently during the current pandemic. Another favorite is “Callin’ You Home,” which quest. For the rest, I did not have to look far. My Both albums are eclectic, with upbeat fun songs, ends the album. The lyric is very satisfying. Seth A few of the other songs on the new CD bandmates, Robin Winter, Bill Mantone, and thought provoking story songs, and evocative once made the comment that despite an unusual and on This Old Song have a country flavor. In Jack Esher sang most of the harmonies while Bill waltzes. chord progression, the melodic line feels like several cases on both albums Seth and I chose played two sax parts and Seth played bass and I have always enjoyed singing harmony, “your favorite old shirt.” It’s a good old country to enhance the country quality with Leo Egan’s mandolin. All the guitar parts are mine. and Whose Muddy Shoes loves working on waltz. I’m told I have a penchant for waltzes. marvelous pedal steel guitar playing. A well- METRONOME: What inspired the name for the harmonies. Best of all, they like singing harmony METRONOME: Who engineered the record? played pedal steel is an amazing and evocative album? on many of the songs I have written. The Shoes’ This is the third album I have recorded with instrument. You can hear Leo’s contribution to I had a number of possibilities for the name, harmonies are well represented on both of my Seth Connelly. Seth is great to work with. He has the new album on five tracks. Other flavorful but after the song Nobody’s Angel was written it CDs. a marvelous ear, great mixing and editing skills, instruments include Matt Leavenworth’s violin, became the first choice. I describe the song as METRONOME: How does your songcrafting and has also introduced me to some of the other Hatrack Gallagher’s harmonica, and Sonny a love song for mature audiences (mature as in work? Personal? Observational? Off-The- fine musicians who appear on the album. Barbato’s accordion. grown-up). With this song I intended to express Wall? METRONOME: Where did you record the METRONOME: How did you meet all the folks a more nuanced and realistic view of an adult I would say that it’s personal, spiritual, and project? that contributed to the record? relationship. In fact the whole album presents exploratory in a lot of ways. Generally speaking, In the beginning everything was done at Seth was responsible for bringing me into a set of questions about life, love, death, and it’s not necessarily personal in an emotive way, Seth Connelly’s studio in New Hampshire. More contact with a number of these great players. spirituality. I want people to listen and enjoy the but more in a contemplative and philosophical recently there have been tracks recorded in band Leo Egan on pedal steel feels like an old friend musical variety, and hope it gives them a little sense. Some of it is quite light-hearted and members living rooms, basements, you name it. since he played with me on both albums and at something to think about. tongue-in-cheek, while some is more serious, but It was a well-traveled album even before it was my live CD release party for This Old Song. Matt METRONOME: How often did you play live I hope not in an overly heavy manner. Particularly released. Leavenworth is an extraordinary violin player before Covid hit? with the collection of songs on the new CD, I METRONOME: Did you incorporate any who played all the violin parts on this CD, and In recent years we have been blessed with hope that it will give listeners something to think unusual instrumentation for the recording of also played on two songs with the band on All In a residence gig at Chianti Café in Beverly. When about as well as something to listen to. Nobody’s Angel? Good Time, including the title cut. Don Croad was we started there in 2005, we were playing every METRONOME: You new album is Nobody’s The most unusual instrumentation on this Seth’s excellent choice for our drummer. week in the dining room. That lasted about six Angel. How long was it in the making? years. Then, owner Rich Marino, who is also a Nobody’s Angel was much longer in the musician and bass player in the band The Rule of making than I care to admit. Let’s call it ten years. Three, opened a new room specifically intended I never expected it to take so long and can’t really for music. It’s a great venue that has been listed in explain why it did; part logistics and part a bit of Downbeat Magazine as one of the top jazz clubs perfectionism shared by me and my engineer/ in the US. Had it not been for Covid-19 we would producer Seth Connelly. When the band made All have celebrated our 15th year there this October. In Good Time, the title song, one of mine, became We’ll have to wait and see what happens with a humorous reference to how long that album that when we finally reach the other side of this took to complete. But the new one has actually pandemic. taken quite a bit longer. METRONOME: Do you plan on touring locally METRONOME: How many songs are on it? with this album when things open back up? There were to be 12 songs on the album and it When that time finally comes, I’ll be happy to was originally released this way. But a month after play anywhere where people will listen. Prior to it was released, I learned of a potential copyright the pandemic, I had great plans for a CD release infringement issue on the only derivative, not party at Chianti Café, but of course those plans completely original song on the album. I had been have gone by the wayside. sold a cover license to distribute my recording METRONOME: Where can people find out of this song, but the validity of the license was more about you on the internet and buy your challenged. Which ever way it works out, the music? album will have a great collection of either 11 or Everything they might need to know can be 12 songs. found at my website: www.markdix.com. The METRONOME: Did you pen them all? physical and digital versions of the albums are Therein lies the tale of 11 vs. 12. I wrote available at the website and also through CDBaby, everything on the album except the melody used Amazon, and other online distributors. It can be in the verse of one of the songs. I borrowed an streamed from Spotify, iTunes, and Soundcloud. evocative melody, wrote the lyrics, and added Some of the songs on Nobody’s Angel were pre- a B section so that the whole thing works as a released along with YouTube lyric videos. These song, rather than an instrumental. I acquired can also be accessed from the website. what I believed was the appropriate license, but METRONOME: Is there anything you’d like to that is still to be determined. As of now, I am still add before we close out? awaiting the resolution of this copyright question. Releasing an original recording is a big deal METRONOME: Which songs are your favorites and it’s great to have a chance to talk about it, on Nobody’s Angel and why? especially given the limitations we all face during I’m most fond of “The Old Violin” because I this time of the coronavirus. I hope your readers wrote it with my father in mind. My father was a will take time to listen to my songs and enjoy very fine musician who began studying musical what they hear. composition with the head of the composition -- Brian M. Owens department at Julliard late in his corporate career. The Time Machine Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Photo circa: 1978 Band Members: L to R- Tim Jackson (Drums), Scott Baerenwald (Bass), Robin Lane (Vocals), Leroy Radcliffe (Guitar), Asa Brebner (Guitar). Musical Achievements: Robin Lane formed the Chartbusters with Asa Brebner and Leroy Radcliffe (of The Modern Lovers), Scott Baerenwald and Tim Jackson in 1978. After seeing a Chartbusters show, Jerry Wexler signed the band to Warner Brothers. Their first album, Robin Lane & the Chartbusters released in 1980, featured the hit singles “When Things Go Wrong” and “Why Do You Tell Lies?” The debut earned favorable reviews, and received airplay across the country. The music video for “When Things Go Wrong” was the 11th song shown on MTV’s first American broadcast day, August 1, 1981. The band released two more albums on Warner, the EP 5 Live in 1980 and Imitation Life in 1981. A lack of commercial success combined with business disputes and Lane’s desire to have a child, led to the breakup of the Chartbusters in 1983. Where Are They Now: In 2002 The Chartbusters reunited. Their CD, Piece of Mind, was released in February of 2003. In 2010 Robin founded Songbird Sings. She continues writing songs and performing at House concerts, cafes and clubs. Asa Brebner died suddenly of a heart attack in March of 2019. The Chartbusters had just played two reunion shows at The Burren. Leroy Radcliffe is a music producer and film composer of TV and Modern Dance. Tim Jackson is a film maker, actor, director and continues to play the drums. Scott Baerenwald lives on the North Shore of MA. •BANDS• Sound Museum Get Noticed! Rehearsal Rooms Available!

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John Nemeth & The Blue Dreamers

John Nemeth is one of the most That guitar player that I mentioned... and Bob Welsh who is now the guitar player a great radio success. I continued to add electrifying performers in the world of blues he and I started a band in high school. We in Elvin’s band. I was working gigs with all more soul and soul blues in to my records. today. His expressive, powerhouse vocals started off playing blues and blues rock. We these guitar players that needed singers. It Robert Cray was a big influence on me and soulful harmonica chops have garnered were doing Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, was a lot of fun. in my early 20s. I had opened some shows him a legion of admiring fans around the George Thorogood, ZZ Top, some Skynyrd, METRONOME: How did you hook up with for him. He was a Northwest blues singer globe. Little Walter and Junior Wells right off the Anson Funderburgh? at one time, so we had very similar blues Even while he was fighting a mysterious bat. There was this one cat that showed up tenor voices. I get compared to him quite infection last Fall that had him bedridden METRONOME: Had you picked up the in Idaho and he worked for hospitals. His a bit. It probably got me a lot of work. The and more recently, sidestepping the ongoing harp by then? name was Scott Cable. He’s probably one of Northwest accent and what have you just Covid pandemic, Nemeth managed to kinda led me down that path. create one of the most impressive albums The Portland, Oregon blues scene had of his career. a lot of gospel in their blues which is soul- Standing tall with his band, The Blue blues in my mind. That’s how the soul Dreamers, John is proud of his new record, started creeping in there. the aptly titled, Stronger Than Strong on the METRONOME: Were you playing up and Nola Blue label. I tracked him down at his down the West coast at that point? home in Memphis on the first day of October Oh yeah, absolutely. In 2000, I went out and we jawed about his remarkable musical on a national tour with Junior Watson. After journey that continues to this day... I had done that tour, he started to wrap up his touring career. I just called all the clubs METRONOME: How does a kid growing that I played with him and they hired me up in Idaho catch the “blues” bug? to come back with my own band. This has John Nemeth: From a family that was been my living ever since I graduated high really in to music. There was not really a time school. It’s what I love and what comes the when the radio wasn’t on. Every morning, easiest (laughs). my dad would put on this Hungarian folk METRONOME: How did you end up music which essentially is jazz harmonies signing with Blind Pig Records? and bebop tempos. He would put that on I had an album that I had self produced and do his calisthenics to that stuff. with Junior Watson and his band. I put it Then he would go to work and my mom out on this new, upstart company called would put on the college radio station KBSU. CDBaby. It was brand new technology at the They would play jazz and blues, bluegrass, time. They had Soundscan. I was showing folk and classical music. That ran most of really good record sales. Pandora picked a the day. My mom loved the crooners too. tune off my Come and Get It record and it When she played records, she would play became a top selection in the Bay area on Nat King Cole, Doris Day and Sinatra. Pandora. Then NPR started using cuts off Then my brother loved Outlaw Country of it. and rock and my sister loved singer- Without any publicity, it picked up songwriter’s and disco. I had not picked up the harp at that point. the greatest blues guitar players that you’ll moment. I was selling out shows and the METRONOME: You had it all. It wasn’t until we landed a house gig at never know because he doesn’t choose to Blind Pig folks came to see me one night When it came to the blues though, I didn’t one of the toughest clubs in all of Idaho. It do it for a living. He put me in touch with when I was actually just sitting in with really hear Delta blues music until I was in was a real honky tonk. We would play five, Junior Watson and Anson Funderburgh. another band. I played two song with the high school. When I heard that, it was really 45-minute sets per night. When Sam Meyers, the Mississippi group and got off the stage and they signed the missing puzzle to a lot of the American I went to go price out a keyboard, because legend that was singing with Anson for a me up right there. music that I loved. I took piano lessons as a kid. I didn’t have few decades got throat cancer, they needed METRONOME: Why did you move from METRONOME: Any particular artist? the money to buy a keyboard so I bought a someone to come in and sing Sam’s the West coast to Memphis? A guitar player friend of mine, Tom harmonica and that was it. songbook. I got the call to do it. That was It was due to the fact that I wasn’t home Moore, went to the library and picked up METRONOME: When that band was a phenomenal experience. One of the life to see my wife and my daughter very much Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Lemon finished, you moved to California. Can changing moments in my career. because tours from the West coast are Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Charlie you tell us about that? METRONOME: After your stint with difficult. A lot of real estate had dried up Patton, Robert Johnson and Skip James. Yes. I moved to San Francisco first and Anson, you began to develop a solo out West. Music became less important to He put this all on a mix tape for me. It was then to Oakland. career, correct? people in places like Reno and Salt Lake a real life changer. Then his guitar teacher METRONOME: You started rubbing Yeah, I started developing that on the City, so if I wanted to really tour, I had to gave him a cassette tape of Junior Wells’ elbows with some prominent blues Magic Touch record. That was an album that boogie all the way out to Lincoln, Nebraska Hoodoo Man Blues and that sealed the deal “cats” out there, right? Anson had produced. I wrote a song when I and Minneapolis. for me. Yeah. The Bay area was fantastic. I worked was living in Boise called “Blue Broadway.” All these tours started with a major drive, METRONOME: Did you sing in bands as with guys like Junior Watson and Elvin I cut that tune with Anson and his band so to make them profitable, I had to stay out a teenager? Bishop and younger cats like Kid Anderson on the Magic Touch record and it became a little longer. I was doing ten week tours and my daughter was born. Then Oakland went Boston named Danny Banks. He was 19 Memphis after that. He’s been here ever was last Fall at this time. When I wrote this in to a lock-down because they were trying years old, but I wasn’t interested in having since. album, I had to be stronger than strong to to snuff out the gangs. Violence had been a kid in the band at the time. I was working I’ve been through a string of guitar players, do it. It’s interesting singing in that amount picking up. Drug dealers had no problem with Howard Grimes here in Memphis from then I ran in to this kid named John Hay in of pain. It really changes you forever. affording a half a million dollar house just to the Hi Rhythm Section. He and The Bo- Reading, Pennsylvania. I had him sit in with METRONOME: I loved the album opener run their drugs out of. It was a tough scene. Keys couldn’t make this gig in Switzerland, me at this Blues Festival and I really liked “Come and Take It.” What is that song My wife and I talked it over and said, so I got a hold of a couple of my friends in his playing and I liked the way he backed about? We should probably move. She asked me, the Bay area, but I couldn’t find a drummer me up on the guitar. I gave him a call and I was on tour and still working. Somewhere “Where would you want to live?” I said well, that was available. I called Danny Banks had him come out to play second guitar in in Ohio I drove by this big shooting range I like Memphis, Tennessee because it’s got and said, Alright Danny, I know you can do my band for a couple of tours. The audience on the side of the road. On the side of a great music scene, it’s centrally located, this and I think Switzerland’s legal drinking just loved him. He made me look good and this gigantic place was an AR-15 semi- it’s got great studios, the Blues Foundation age is 18 (laughs). Here’s 30 tunes. Learn he was a nice kid, so I gave him the job and automatic rifle. There was a sign that said, is here, they have Beale Street, there’s lots them and learn these harmony parts. We’ll then he moved to Memphis. “Come and take it.” I thought, Well God, if of clubs and it is truly affordable. have time for a short rehearsal before the METRONOME: It’s good to have a group that isn’t like a slogan. METRONOME: You fit that scene gig. of young players. They’re all hungry to METRONOME: Did that spawn the writing perfectly. The kid learned all the songs and came prove themselves. of that tune? It is a good fit. I love it here. I love the in and nailed the show. I said to him, Why Oh absolutely. And they all got in to the Yeah. players here. Groove wise, not everybody don’t you move to Memphis and soak blues at the same time I did in their teenage METRONOME: What made you cover the that comes to Memphis grooves with the up the scene? I’ll have you drum tech for years. If you have that opportunity to fall in Don Robey tune, “Sometime?” Memphis players. I came in and it was an Howard Grimes on tour. He jumped at the love with a style of music like that, it sinks in That was a tune that I would do with instant fit. I was very familiar with the sound. chance. He moved down and he’s been in on a different level. The way these guys feel a local band that I work with of studio METRONOME: Did playing the harp come the band ever since. the music is spot on. musicians and “cats” that had worked with easy for you? Then I needed a bass player to tour METRONOME: How did you come up Bobby Blue Bland and B.B. King and those The harmonica was a weird one because with. I was in a situation where I hired a guy, with your new album’s title, Stronger guys. We do that song with that group. I like I wasn’t use to an instrument where you but I didn’t like his playing. So I went on Than Strong? to jam with my road band and one night I couldn’t find the note. I picked up aC Facebook and this cat that use to work with I have a line in this song, “I Can See had this thing going and I sang the lyrics to harmonica and immediately tried to play Nick Moss hit me up. His name is Matthew Your Love Light Shine.” The line is, “I’ve got “Sometimes” on it. I liked the way it fit and “Snatch It Back and Hold It” by Junior Wilson. I had heard Matthew play before a love that is strong/Stronger than strong/ the band really liked it so we decided to cut Wells. That song is in Bm. Well, I could and thought, If I ever need a bass player, I’d You can have it baby/All day and all night it like that. It’s got a brand new power to it. almost play the song except I couldn’t get a use that guy. I knew he could do the gig, so long.” (Laughing) I thought, Well, if that isn’t METRONOME: I love your song “Bars.” 5th. A 5th in B is an F# and there is no F# on I signed him up. He lived in Milwaukee and a blues line, there never was one. It also hit What was the genesis of that? a C harmonica. It was mind boggling. drove to the Slippery Noodle in Minneapolis me on a bunch of different levels. At the time I was sitting in the house with my son This substitute teacher was at school one and knocked it out of the park. I said, Great. that I wrote this music, I was laid up in bed on my lap looking out the window. He day and we had a talent show. They didn’t I got a bass and a drummer. He moved to with this cripplingly infectious disease. That said, “Daddy, why do we have bars on our have enough acts to round out the show, so window?” So I went upstairs and started the teacher offered to play the harmonica in writing this tune. It just came right out. I the show. After the show I asked, How did wrote that song probably in an hour. My you do that? I’ve been trying... So I hooked wife saw the lyrics sitting somewhere. She up with this guy and he showed me how read them and liked the song and said, “Hey to bend the harmonica. Then I sat down at gosh, you need to cut this song.” That’s the piano with my guitar player friend and where that one came from. we figured out where all the missing notes METRONOME: You put a reggae feel to “I were. All of a sudden, I’m off and rolling. Can See Your Love Light Shine.” What a METRONOME: Luther Dickinson great song. What’s that about? produced your album Feelin’ Freaky. I wrote that tune on the piano playing a What was it like working with him? real behind the beat Rosco Gordon piano That was fantastic. I met him on a blues riff to it. It’s like a lazy Memphis shuffle. This cruise and we were just hanging out late one is really interesting... Rosco Gordon is a night and he said, “Hey man, c’mon down “cat” that became a great inspiration to the to Mississippi some time to see my ranch Rocksteady reggae scene. Because they and make a record with me.” I was getting would tune in to American radio stations on some material ready and my agency was short wave radios, they couldn’t hear the left hot on me to cut a new record. I called him hand on the piano. They could just hear the up and he said, “Yeah man, come down.” upbeats which were lazy on the backbeat. He didn’t forget me. My band, just because of all the music I went down there and brought my band they listen to, went that direction with it. and set up in his studio. It was great. He had They asked, “What if we do this?” They put some great ideas. The tracking engineer I that on there. I said, Man, I love it. Let’s ride used on Memphis Grease engineered the with that. That was their idea. Feelin’ Freaky record, so I was in great METRONOME: I dig the song, “She’s My hands right there. It was a nice, easy, calm Punisher.” Is that autobiographical? experience. I love that record. (Laughing) Oh yeah man. It’s an biography METRONOME: How did you meet the of many, many men. If you upset your gal, guys in your road band, drummer, Danny you can count the lovin’ out. Of course all Banks, guitarist, John Hay and bassist the guys love that tune and of course all the Matthew Wilson? ladies are, “Nah!” But I have to have a song There was a young man who sat in with like that on every record. It’s the blues man! me on drums a couple of occasions in -- Brian M. Owens Metronome Madness

Hello friends and players. Welcome to the found it made him feel better. It was the best he Festival. He says that show connected with what November 2020 issue of Metronome Magazine. could do. The EP came together rather quickly he’d been hearing in his imagination like a lightning The Coronavirus pandemic remains relentless in after that. He collaborates with musical friends bolt. “This is what I’m after. It was all there. I sat in it’s virility. Life has changed because of it. Let’s do Frank Molina, Andy Hollinger and Bill Allen and with them, made friends with him, and then went everything we can to eradicate this pesky virus by reminds us all about the new release, “The trouble back to my life. Well, it just so happened that they all means possible. I heard it doesn’t like rum, with “topical” music is that within a few years, the broke up shortly after that. Did they want to just vodka or whiskey... shot anyone? There’s plenty “topic” has faded from memory and the music is let it go and go do other things? Well, they had just of music happenings to let you in on, so grab a no longer relevant. Let’s hope that this EP is no met me in Colorado. And on the other hand, Sam seat and please read on... On November 13th, jazz longer relevant as soon as possible.” We’re with had just played on some kid’s first album, some icon George Benson will release Weekend In you Tim. The International Bluegrass Music kid out of the East Coast out of Boston, New York London, his new live album capturing his 2019 Association held its 31st Awards show, Thursday named Bela Fleck.” Fleck was 22 and he’d played performance at London’s intimate Ronnie Scott’s October 1st. And while the ceremony was online with Bush on his own solo instrumental debut Jazz Club. Only a handful of lucky fans were instead of live in Raleigh, NC, the honor was no album. But he was living in Lexington, KY with a present as the lights went down that magical night less for the new inductees into the Bluegrass Hall band of his own, honing a style of banjo playing in 2019. “We captured a lot of the atmosphere on of Fame: 1980s band The Johnson Mountain that fused the classic and the new. A deeply Weekend In London,” says producer Kevin Boys, Station Inn owner/promoter J.T. Gray and deliberate and focused musician, Fleck was wary Shirley. “It was very crowded, like it always is at the genre pioneering New Grass Revival. Bill about being recruited, even into a band he Ronnie Scott’s. A lot of Benson fans were there. Monroe’s original bluegrass was a progressive appreciated. New Grass Revival 2.0 introduced It was a fantastic night.” The show that became take on traditional old-time fiddle music and a themselves to the world with the album On The Weekend In London was a fabled night in the contemporary cousin of the bebop movement in Boulevard on Sugar Hill Records in 1984. With club’s folklore. “We don’t plan the show out in jazz. Even genre-defining first-generation acts like virtuoso finesse, songs from within and outside Flatt & Scruggs began stretching with sound and the band and with the New Grass name being repertoire in the 1960s. By 1970, bands like the more widely used to describe progressive string Country Gentlemen, The Dillards and The band generally, the band soon attracted some Kenny Wayne Shepherd Bluegrass Alliance were coloring outside interest on Music Row. Capitol Records signed Monroe’s lines, arranging pop and folk songs on them and let them make records without live concert video, out November 27th via bluegrass instruments, and starting to jam like jazz supervision. Everything clicked except country Provogue. “People have been asking us to do a players. The Bluegrass Alliance was a band of radio. Their biggest commercial success came with live concert video forever, for decades,” Shepherd scruffy Kentucky youngsters – Sam Bush, Ebo the Top 40 single “Callin’ Baton Rouge” from the explains. “We’ve been working so much focusing Walker, Courtney Johnson, Curtis Burch and 1989 album Friday Night In America. By then on studio recordings, but I’ve been hearing the call Lonnie Peerce. And for reasons of personal and though, the die had been cast. Fleck had found a from the fans for many years now.” As live music musical chemistry, or lack thereof, the band moved pure jazz side project he loved that became Bela has come to a standstill, the band wanted to give to let fiddler Peerce go. That’s where the New Fleck and the Flecktones. Bush was wearing out fans a taste once again of that experience, and Grass Revival story began. The first quartet on carrying the administrative burdens for a band this blistering set shows it to them in full force. The released a debut, self-titled album on classic he’d been doing for twenty years. Cowan and Flynn band’s last studio album The Traveler was country label Starday Records that included the wanted to keep rolling, but Fleck’s formal notice released in May of last year, giving the band their Jerry Lee Lewis hit “Great Balls Of Fire” at (a year) led to the last album, a farewell tour and a eighth #1 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. breakneck speed and a Leon Russell song, final show on New Year’s Eve in Oakland Coliseum The performance captured on Straight To You: “Prince of Peace.” Those caught the interest of opening for the Grateful Dead. A Dead finale Live took place at Leverkusen Jazzstage for the George Benson 21-year-old John Cowan when he was invited to couldn’t have been more fitting. Jam band met jam iconic German TV show, Rockpalast on November see the band play live, though he cared little for grass, and in the decades since, that audience has 25th, 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed advance,” explains Benson. “But we know there’s bluegrass music. Little did he know he was soon been a large and reliable affinity group supporting down the world. Talking about not being able to things we gotta play, and if you leave too many to be asked to join to fill in the electric bass role string bands in the New Grass Revival image, perform live during the COVID-19 pandemic, out, you’re in for a troubled night. We know what that NGR had never fully locked down. Not only including Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain Shepherd says, “I miss it. Live concert people have come to hear,” he explains. During a did Cowan fit right in with bright, tight and funky String Band, Greensky Bluegrass, the Infamous performances are the essence of what we do best. six-decade career marked by awards, acclaim and bass lines, he proved quickly to be a magnificent Stringdusters and more. In its Hall of Fame So, not having that in our life is yeah, this has been Billboard-topping output, the Pittsburgh born singer, and his voice would be a signature of NGR announcement, the IBMA said of NGR that “their an eye-opening experience I think for all musicians. veteran has earned his place in both the history for the next fifteen years. One place that welcomed, very name became synonymous with new trends It’s been a personal loss for every performer out books and the biggest venues around the world. and in some ways defined itself around, New in the music, and their sound owed as much to there who does what we do. A lot of our lives have So it’s a rare treat and a whole different thrill to find Grass Revival, was the Telluride Bluegrass rhythm and blues, reggae, and rock and roll as it been spent pouring our heart and soul into that.” this megastar going nose-to-nose with the Festival in western Colorado. The other key did to bluegrass and country.” Black Stone Cherry The release of Straight To You: Live comes at a breathless 250-capacity crowd at London’s most development in reaching a bigger audience was a and Mascot Records announced the release of the time when there is no live music and the world prestigious bolthole. “I like that kind of intimacy,” years-long collaboration with Leon Russell, the band’s seventh studio album The Human looks very different than it did 12 months ago, but says Benson. “I can feel the love when it’s up close multi-talented Oklahoma native who’d broken out Condition on October 30th. Watch the new music as you watch the seven-piece Kenny Wayne and personal.” Dr. X (a.k.a. Tim Casey) has as a Los Angeles session pianist, songwriter, video for the band’s first single “Again” here: Shepherd Band bow out on a phenomenal finale produced a new “mini album” for these troubled producer and rock star. It put the band on the https://youtu.be/OO4ib5xC7Fk. October 2nd, of Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” times. It’s available for downloading for whatever national map. Courtney Johnson and Curtis marked the release of a brand new Speedfossil to the cheering Leverkusen crowd, it reignites the price you want, including paying nothing at all. Burch bowed out in 1981, tired of the road, leaving single called, “Count Me Out.” Go to https:// love of live music and the hope that is still to come. Download the album at--http://www. Bush and Cowan to figure out what to do. They speedfossil.com where you can purchase a Singer, songwriter and guitarist Danielle Miraglia lowbudgetrecords.com/pages/Dr%20X%20 played as a duo, the Two Grass Revival for a bit download. It’s a scorcher of a rock and roll song, has released a new solo acoustic album called EP%20Extended%20Pandemic.html. After Tim’s before putting out feelers to two musicians they’d that band leader Garret Vandermolen hopes will Bright Shining Stars on VizzTone, and highlights mom died from the Coronavirus in a nursing home, come to know on the scene. One was West Coast motivate everyone to get out and vote on her bluesy one-woman band sound, including and after seeing bodies piling up in refrigerated guitar player and songwriter Pat Flynn, who first November 3rd. 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The 1968 Maytals old automobiles & trucks to amazing works of art comedians could be seen plying their comic genius Rosenblatt. New England based bluesman Duke song “Do the Reggay” introduced the term to from Mike’s vast 40 year collection of cars in his to this hilarious flashback of days gone by. Don Robillard announced a November 20th release the world, and it stuck. At the time, Hibbert had junk yard; Enola Holmes- The film follows teenage Rickles, Jack Benny, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, date for his new record, Blues Bash with Duke been leading the Maytals for seven years. fter sister of Sherlock Holmes, Enola, who is looking George Burns, Ruth Buzzi, Bette Davis, Dom Robillard &Friends. Duke declares Blues Bash the original Maytals disbanded in 1981, Hibbert for her mother who has disappeared. Millie Bobby DeLuise, Redd Foxx, Rich Little, Bob Newhart, Doc to be “packed with plenty of bright sounding continued on a solo career, releasing albums Brown stars as the title character, while also Severinsen, Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, Joey Fender guitar a la Ike Turner, Lefty Bates, etc. Just including 1988’s Toots in Memphis; Original serving as a producer on the film. Henry Cavill, Sam Bishop, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, a good listening or dancing record like the blues member of The Four Seasons, Tommy DeVito, Claflin, Adeel Akhtar, Fiona Shaw, Frances de la Phyllis Diller, Dick Martin, Connie Stevens, Rich records I bought when I was a kid. It was pretty died Monday, September 21, 2020 at the age of 92 Tour, Louis Partridge, Susie Wokoma and Helena Little, Abe Vigoda, Jimmy Walker, Jackie Mason, much a reunion of sorts and I wanted the material from COVID-19. DeVito left the group in 1970. 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California, owner Mark Allen, Nipsy Russell, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Flip feeling is what I wanted to convey.” “The collective the drummer who played for Johnny Cash (1932 – Towle, Tony Quinones, Constance Nunes, Shawn Wilson, Jack Klugman, Jack Carter, Soupy Sales, roster spans the full chronicle of Duke’s recording 2003) and Carl Perkins (1932 – 1998), including on Pilot and Michael “Caveman” Pyle, who transform Dan Rowan, Avery Schreiber, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy career and includes horn sections, the all- the classic songs, “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Ring junk cars in to creative, world-class pieces of art; Dean, Mort Sahl, Carol Channing, Bob Hope, saxophone Rich Lataille-Greg Piccolo-Doug of Fire,” died September 23, 2020 at his home in It’s A Rockabilly World- This well conceived Paul Lynde, Charlie Callas, Steve Allen, George James and James, Al Basile and Sax Gordon. 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It might even take you back Among other guests, harp player Mark Hummel, Orbison (1936 – 1988), Willie Nelson and Bob Brian Jones- This riveting film follows the career to some happier days. Well friends, that’s all for pianist Bob Welsh, vocalists Chris Cote & Dylan; Helen Reddy, the Australian singer whose and tragic death of Rolling Stones founder/multi- this month. Stay safe and be well out there. Until Michelle ‘Evil Gal’ Willson and pianist Mark ‘Mr. hits included the 1972 chart-topping feminist instrumentalist Brian Jones; Bobby Keys: Every next issue, keep making, listening & supporting B.’ Braun round out the recording. Blues Bash is anthem “I Am Woman,” died September 29, 2020 Nights A Saturday Night- From growing up poor beautiful music. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO, a career highlight from one of the world’s best. in Los Angeles at the age of 78. Reddy followed in Texas to playing saxophone for everyone from YOU SCORPION YOU. Happy Thanksgiving! PASSING NOTES: Toots Hibbert, lead singer the success of “I Am Woman” with No. 1 hits “Delta The Beatles to Warren Zevon, Bobby Keys guides Thanks for reading. and songwriter for Toots and the Maytals, one Dawn” in 1973 and “Angie Baby” in 1974, and with you through his “wild” rock & roll life style and --Compiled by Brian O.

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Debbie Harry of Blondie published lips and superlative cheekbones and record straight, from at least his point Face It with Silvie Simmons in 2019 good moves on stage, but the essence of view. on the basis of a series of exclusive of what made Blondie so great is not If anything, this book supremely interviews. The present hardcover defined here. She prefers to dwell on complements that of John Lydon and version has a lot of art work leaving the clothes and her attempt to maintain Glen Matlock, though you have to wade one tempted to dismiss it as a coffee an androgynous vibe in all the material. through profanity on average every 3 table book, but fortunately there is Blondie were a bunch of noobs with sentences. There is very little, if any, more behind the cover and the photos a series of poor business decisions and dialogue and a ghostwriter was clearly of Debbie. Harry likes to boil it down by the mid-1980s the band is creatively at work making simple sentences out of to the story of a young adopted girl bankrupt, millions in debt to the IRS, the material. from New Jersey searching for identity, and Stein is in the hospital, despite that of Marilyn Monroe and a bottle of selling millions of albums. Debbie Marky Ramone, nee Marc Bell, discusses her movies and how she kept published Punk Rock Blitzkrieg in going, but then suggests that Madonna 2015 together with Rich Herschlag. took on her persona and made a better As is usual for the genre, the Ramone job of it. drummer kicks in with an anecdote Stein and Harry reformed the before starting at the beginning in the band with original drummer Clement Brooklyn of the early 1950s. After an Burke and new recruits and were even otherwise unremarkable youth, the inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of young drummer records his first album Fame in 2006. That generated bad blood with the promising original hard rock with the remaining original members trio Dust. When the second album, who were not invited to play. Blondie didn’t sell, Marc begun his journeyman for controversial Svengali Malcolm continues gigging and records the years with bluesman Johnny Shines, MacLaren. The complementary occasional album for indie labels and chemistries of the 4 members made Harry is happy to call the punk identity the combination work, at least before her own. The book has its points, but the Grundy Radio interview, which is somehow I’m not convinced Debbie is fully documented here. Steve gives a peroxide providing a convenient launch being completely forthcoming with us. lot of background on most of the songs pad. Chris Stein has 2 quite expensive photo and sees himself as the architect of Although there is no classic Beatles books with little or no text, so this is as the sound, but acknowledges Lydon moment on TV for her, the junior college close as you will get to the real story. as the master lyricist, while claiming a graduate drifts into an early 1960s New few words here and there. If anything, York, finding some structure at Max’s Steve Jones published Lonely Boy: he rubbishes the clichéd punk attitudes Kansas City and the Warhol/Velvets Tales from a Sex Pistol in 2016. The against professional behavior and scene. She did sing backing vocals book is divided into a before, during materialism. for the fairy vacuous hippies Wind in and after the Pistols section. The After the band implosion, Jones takes the Willows band in the late 1960s that extremely dysfunctional Sex Pistols on numerous projects including albums needed her as decoration and then guitarist relates his bleak and abuse and tours, but sees his alcoholism and attempts to create a traditional Girl ridden childhood in West London which heroin addiction spiral out of control. He Group back in NYC in the early 1970s. made him so determined to make it in straightens out by the end of the 1980s Well past the traditional age to make it, music. Dickens’ worst tales had nothing just as punk becomes fashionable things only picked up when she finally on Jones. Being dyslexic and having again and releases the rather good meets guitarist Chris Stein and punk an addictive personality wasn’t helpful Fire And Gasoline metal album. The comes along. either, but his kleptomaniac tendencies, last portion of the book intertwines his Harry claims not to remember at least assured the Pistols a start with experiences with the 12-step program everything, due to the tumultuous good instruments. as well as the Pistols’ reunion tours and rise and fall of Blondie or perhaps the He claims speed allowed him to Estus, Wayne County, Richard Hell and his inability to maintain relationships. side effects of the heroin, so there is concentrate enough to learn to play the the Voidoids and even auditioned for He acknowledges the content of some little useful background material on guitar, which his ADHD would normally the New York Dolls. of his peer’s autobiographies and tries the songs and the recordings. There have prohibited. Contrary to John This alone provides a useful history to explain the complex interpersonal must have been more than just pouty Lydon, Jones retains a certain fondness of the early 1970s music scene, even chemistries at the time and sets the before he mentioned often seeing the the Hell out of her equipment. Still she was all business-like fun and games, Ramones, talking heads and Blondie developed enough of a style in local Marky starts dropping hints about the on the Scene. The transition from bands just as Courtney Love recruited strains of partying all while touring and Tommy Ramone to Marky appears a new rhythm section for Live Through recording. This culminated in his ouster to have been a smooth one and both This to get a more melodic and together from the band, rehab and a 4 year prospered. Contrary to his band mates, sound. long stint as a bike messenger before the drummer appears to have enjoyed Love’s Lady Macbeth like reputation rejoining the fold. Johnny eventual the Phil Spector sessions the most. isn’t the primary focus, but you get relented so that The Ramones could Marky does not provide a lot of enough of a peek through the keyhole have more stability for their last few dialogue, but calmly and matter of factly of the dysfunctional Cobain household years, even if CJ replaced Dee-Dee. explains a lot of the undercurrents. and it seems that almost everyone in By the mid-1990s, they were a spent The sentences are very functional Seattle was on smack. Schemel had force with the 3 founding members an unemotional and just enough as good a run as the rest of Hole and dying within a short time of cancer or amusing stories to make this a fast describes their tours, recordings and overdose in the early 2000s. At least an informative read. The stingy and successes as well as bassist Kristen they collected their trophy for the Rock controlling Johnny and the obsessive Pfaff’s overdose. Patty only loses it N’ Roll Hall of fame. Marky and CJ compulsive Joey don’t exactly come when “Celebrity Skin” producer Michael Ramone keep going on the nostalgia she cleaned up for good to settle into a out of this favorably, so Dee Dee, who Beinhorn replaced her with a studio circuit with a couple of ringers. stable family life. had already outed his numerous habits, musician, thereby getting her fired. The brutal honesty is certainly jarring was his only real confidant. Johnny Schemel’s decent into Hell as well Patty Schemel, the drummer of Hole, almost overly honest, but maintains had, in turn, dismissed Marky as a flake as her devotion to Heroin is perhaps published Hit So Hard in 2017. The a certain artiness for this useful in his autobiography. One big happy even more eloquent and enticing than Seattle native had the misfortune of documentary of the Grunge era. Some family, they were not. William Burroughs’ “Junky,” if that’s being born into a family of alcoholics of this is in the film documentary of the The Ramones wives are occasionally even possible. The drummer also had and then felt alienated on account same name. Schemel drummed again mentioned, which provides some continuous relationship trouble and of being a lesbian, which leads this for Love’s solo album as well as for juicy details, as long as it isn’t about eventually has to prostitute herself book to being more about substance Juliette Lewis, Upset, and her brother his Marion. He gives you a usable to pay for her ever increasing doses. abuse than music. Nevertheless, Patty Larry’s fantastic Death Valley Girls amount of details on the creation and She recounts several dozen rehabs drifts easily into the Pacific Northwest band. She generates reliable income recording of many of the most loved and detoxes, but thankfully one day scene and takes up drumming to give through her dog boarding business and songs, like “Pet Sematary.” While it the drugs stopped working for her and meaning to her life by basically beating teaching drums.

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