Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData WGLT Program Guides Arts and Sciences Summer 7-1-2007 WGLT Program Guide, July-August, 2007 Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg Recommended Citation Illinois State University, "WGLT Program Guide, July-August, 2007" (2007). WGLT Program Guides. 213. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg/213 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in WGLT Program Guides by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Play it Again,Sam ... Recycled Music Sale We accept donations of all musical media (except 78s) and working musical instruments and equipment.These kind businesses have once August 16 members only Preview Sale* again agreed to help GLT collect your donations. August 17 & 18 9am-9pm August 19 Noon-Spm *GLT Memberships available at the door. Drop-off Locations If you have yet to visit the GLT Recycled Music Sale, you are missing one of our most Bloomington: Normal: Peoria: entertaining events of the year. Our annual sale is the station's biggest fundraiser, with Bloomington Normal Public Library Samuel Music proceeds benefitting the GLT Equipment Fund. That's good for the station. Public Library 206WCollege Metro Center 205EOlive It's where you can find some valuable additions to your music collection for ... well ... Twin City Self Storage Kidder Music a song. Whether you're looking for Stevie Wonder or Stevie Nicks, Mozart or The Horine's Pianos Plus 2019 Eagle Road 7728 N Crestline Drive 1336 EEmpire Monkees, Muddy Waters or Handel's Water Music, this is the place for you. It's a Vitesse Cycle Lakeview Museum trip down nostalgia lane with lots of side alleys. That's good for you. Samuel Music 2065 Linden 1125W Lake 1717RTDunn Drive So save a bundle and support GLT at the same time. LPs are just a buck, CDs only Waiting Room Records Eureka: $3. We'll have cassettes, 45s, 8-tracks, sheet music, and a wide variety of stereo Schnuck's 113 W North Street Eureka Public Library 1701 EEmpire equipment and musical instruments. A friend of GLT just donated their entire The Music Shoppe 2025Main collection of laser discs - some have never even been opened - and player. Kidder Music 1540 ECollege 802 SEldorado Morton: Crossroads Center in Normal has once again donated a beautiful space with plenty Latte TiemCafe Morton Public Library of parking, and we'll have everything sorted and alphabetized for easy shopping. and Deli 315 W Pershing 706 SMain Street Volunteer! Washington: We need lots of help setting up and staffing the sale. Contact Linda Healy Washington at [email protected] to (309) 438-5083 to sign up. Public Library August 8 - 14 Sorting and organizing sale-various day/night hours 301 Walnut August 16 - 19 Sale (see hours above) In 1958, when Eddie Cochran sang "there ain't no cure for the summer­ time blues,"he had no idea that"summertime blues"would be a good Budweiser Illinois Blues Festival thing in 2007. August 31- September 1 • Riverfront Park • Peoria, IL The Central Illinois blues festival season includes four big events: Noth in' But the Blues Festival,July 20-21 in Bloomington; The Luther Two Stages Of Live Entertainment Allison Memorial Blues Festival,August 11 in East Peoria;the free Sweet Featuring: Listen during GLT Blues, Corn Blues Festival in Uptown Normal, August 25-26 (see lineup on pg 6); Dave Mason 103.5 and 89.1 FM, and and the Budweiser Illinois Blues Festival, Labor Day weekend in Peoria. Watermelon Slim on line at www.wglt.org for weekend specials Big James & The Chicago Playboys featuring music from Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones the artists playing some Nothin' But the Blues Festival Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings of these festivals and Kilborn Alley Blues Band opportunities to win July20-21 • SaleBarn • Bloomington,IL After Midnight Blues Band pairs of tickets. And many more to be announced soon! Friday Lineup: Advance Tickets:$12 per day or a special 6:00 pm Rooster Alley 2-day ticket for $20 7:00 pm Dona Oxford Tickets available in advance at all Co-op 8:15 pm John Primer and the Records, the Riverfront Visitor's Center, Real Deal Blues Band 1-800-514-ETIX and online at wwwJaytv.com 9:30 pm Blues Caravan 2007 "The Guitar Women": Sue Foley, Debra Coleman, Roxanne Potvin Saturday Lineup: 2006 Illinois Blues Festival performers Breezy Washboard Peyton of Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band (r), and Magic Slim (below) 1:30pm TBA KoKo Taylor at 2006 NBTB Festival 2:45 pm Central Illinois Blues Challenge winner Advance tickets: $12 per day 4:45 pm TBA At the gate: $15 6:00pm Big Ray and Chicago's 12 and under free Most Wanted Tickets available at 7:30pm Tab Benoit nothinbutthebluesfestival.com 9:00pm C.J. Chenier Sweet Corn Blues Festival August 25-26 • Uptown Normal • Free! The Sweet Corn Blues Festival celebrates the bounty of Central Illinois' signature crop - sweet corn - and the Once again, the Associated Press and bounty of Central Illinois' musical talent - sweet, sweet blues. the Radio-Television News Directors Association have honored the WGLT It's a two-day festival featuring some of the area's best blues News Department for journalistic bands who will cook up a tasty treat for your ears, while excellence. In March, the Illinois you're munching on some of those golden ears. The corn AP awarded GLT more first place Willis is cooked on the spot with the help of an antique tractor awards than any other down- (you've got to see it to believe it!). You've never had corn state public radio station. It was so sweet or so fresh. the sixth straight year that Thanks to the generous sponsorship of CEFCU, you'll the three-person GLT news hear some amazing blues. team had won multiple Saturday Lineup: awards. GLT won three 1:00- 2:30 Steve 'The Harp" Melberg awards in this year's contest, all first 3:00-4:30 Delta Kings place: Best Newswriter - Charlie Schlenker, 5:00- 6:30 Hip Pocket Best Sports - Charlie Schlenker, Best Hard News Feature - Willis Kern. In early April, Schlenker also won his third consecutive Sunday Lineup: regional Edward R. Murrow Award - automatically entering him into the national 11:00- 12:30 TBA contest, in which he has won Murrow Awards two years running. 1:00-2:30 TBA 3:00-4:30 Billy Galt & the Blues Deacons Both Willis and Charlie are modest about their award-winning partnership. Schlenker sponsored by bemusedly notes, "We don't really believe all this hoopla," and Kern says, "the best part CEFCU® of winning awards is that we have to take Your Credit Union a little break from news coverage to decide - where to put the plaques on the wall." Still, Kern believes GLT's wall of awards reflects a substantive improvement in public radio lo­ cal reporting over the years, and Schlenker concurs: "We're better storytellers than we The GLT Newsteam (I tor): Assistant News Director used to be, using higher production values Charlie Schlenker, Morning Edition®Host Jim Browne, on sound-rich pieces. I hope that this makes and News Director Willis Kern us more significant in the lives of our listeners." Hear GLT Jazz every weekday from 9 am - 4 pm, and Monday - Thursday nights. Hear GLT Blues all weekend at 89.l and 103.5 FM, and listen online 24/7 at www. See schedule on page 23. GLT Jazz Host Laura Kennedy recommends: wglt.org. GLT Music Director Jon Norton recommends these CDs from artists you'll get the chance to see at local blues festivals. See lineups for three festivals on pgs 4-6. Alan Vache With Benny in Mind (Arbors Records) Tab Benoit Album Fever For The Bayou (Telarc) The King of Swing, Benny Goodman, was a huge influ­ Benoit peppers Fever For The Bayou with covers from ence on Alan Vache from the time he was knee high legendary bluesmen like Buddy Guy, Slim Harpo, and to a clarinet. On his new CD, Vache pays tribute to the Elmore James. This CD is certainly blues, but the dash master with faithful, lively interpretations of some of of soul, hint of country, and sprinkling of funk give this Goodman's classic hits. Moonglow is here. So is Avalon, 2005 release the gumbo sound of his native Louisiana. Air Mail Special, and scads more swingin' tracks. Sachal Vasandani Eyes Wide Open (Mack Avenue) Sue Foley/Deborah Coleman/Roxanne Potvin Sachal Vasandani is the kind of vocalist that raises goose Time Bomb (Ruf) bumps and expectations for his future. He has a power­ Time Bomb smokes from beginning ( the blistering title ful and full-bodied voice and a debonair delivery. His track) to end (the funky In the Basement). Coleman, interpretations of standards, both jazz and pop, are fresh, Foley, and Potvin trade vocals (and guitar licks) that are intelligent, and quietly moving. Keep your eyes wide open tender, defiant, and confessional, sometimes all in the same to watch his star ascend. song. It's no small feat, but Time Bomb is the best release to date for each of these extremely talented musicians. Matt Ray Lost in New York (CAP) Watermelon Slim & the Workers This is a genuine love letter to the extraordinary city of The Wheel Man (Northern Blues) New York. Ray's new CD reflects the diversity of New Trying to peg Watermelon Slim (a.k.a.