Clifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Rose Maddox, Big Mama Thornton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lydia Mendoza, Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Flaco Jimenez, No Speed Limit, The Lee Boys, The Pine Leaf Boys, The Magnolia Sisters, The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Conjunto Bernal, Santiago Jimenez Jr., The Campbell Brothers, Amede Ardoin, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Jackson, Valerio Longoria, Los Pinguinos Del Norte, Csokolom, The Carter Family, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Del McCoury, Treme Brass Band, Sonny Simmons, Aubrey Ghent, Isidro Lopez, Sonny Treadway, Don Tosti, The Savoy Family Band, and many more!
Sounds Like
Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, Mexican Regional, Gospel, Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Country, Jazz, World Music, Folk, and on and on and on.
On November 3, 1960, the first Arhoolie LP (LP stands for Long Play, 33 1/3 rpm record, for anyone too young to remember) arrived from the pressing plant: 250 copies of Mance Lipscomb's "Texas Sharecropper and Songster." Founder/president Chris Strachwitz and co. sat around his kitchen table gluing printed cover slicks onto black jackets. They stuffed the discs into the jackets and inserted a booklet which included Mack McCormick's interesting and informative notes and the texts of the songs. After a lot of hard work they finally had 250 "homemade" copies for sale.
Forty plus years, and a few music formats later, Chris Strachwitz is still busy releasing the music he likes, the way he likes it. Arhoolie remains an independant record label, devoted to releasing down home music. Among these are: Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, Mexico Regional, Gospel, Bluegrass, Jazz, Old-Timey, Country, Folk, and world, to name several.
I'm really glad to let you all know that we've just agreed a deal with a major broadcaster which will see AmericanaOK selected tunes on air, worldwide, 24/7 from January 2010. Watch this space for details.
Christmas is coming soon. Are you looking for a Christmas present and would like to help handicapped children? Than please request the list of donations in kind from HelpCharity, www.MySpace.com/HelpCharity , by sending me an e-mail at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de . Many donations in kind are autographed.
If you don't have the chance to request the list of donations in kind, please add HelpCharity to your Top Friends!
Thanks for helping me to support handicapped children!
Christian
Founder of HelpCharity Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 (0) 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 (0) 171 6903352 E-Mail: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Internet: www.MySpace.com/HelpCharity Internet: www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Ruby Jane and Mark O'Connor: Virtuosos of the American Fiddle: http://www.poptech.org/blog/mark_oconnor_and_ruby_jane_smith_virtuosos_of_american_fiddle
Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!! http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/who-do-these-guys-think-they-are/ AND Check out the new pictures and video! Let me know what you think! Ruby Jane
Stu Heydon 3rd Degree Self Windsor-born Stu Heydon is a veteran bluesman with his first CD as a leader. He began his career playing with Detroit’s legendary Bobo Jenkins, to whom this CD is dedicated. A charter member of the Windsor/Detroit scene, he was also a long time member of the Wild Child Butler band after he re-located to Windsor. So he knows about the blues. Although he has since moved to Carmel CA, he recorded much of this album at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton with our A-List players: Prakash John & Jordan John are on bass & drums, Mike Branton on rhythm guitar, Les Smith on harp and Michael Fonfara/Bob Phillips/Dennis Keldie on keyboards. The result is a solid program of original songs. “Middle Of The Night” is a chugging opener that reminds me of Coco Montoya or John Mayall. “Closing Time”, at a similar tempo, is another one of the highlights – a packed seven minutes that goes by too quickly. The B3/lead guitar sound he likes reaches its peak on the title instrumental, a jazzy delight. The slow blues “Fooled Myself” features a lengthy solo by the unheralded Les Smith although solo may not be the right word. Heydon simply sings over the hard-working band, much as a jazz singer might. It’s unusual but works very well here. As a singer, he has a fairly limited range but he knows that and he uses it well. “Sleazy” is another instrumental with Heydon taking a good solo. Check out his web site at www.stuheydon.com. - John Valenteyn, jvalenteyn8724@rogers.com
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Gitarist Stu Heydon speelt al jarenlang blues en verdiende daardoor tijdens the Motor Cities Blues Awards, de "Lifetime Achievement Award", deelde 't podium met zowat de halve top van het blueskruim en deed zowat elk betekenisvol bluesfestival in Amerika. Ook zijn er weinig stijlen binnen de blues die nog geheimen voor hem hebben. Late night jams in Bobo Jenkins befaamde studio elke zaterdag avond met de beste bluesmuzikanten van Detroit' waren een perfecte leerschool voor hem. Diezelfde Bobo Jenkins was bovendien zijn persoonlijke leermeester op gitaar. Stu speelde twintig jaar lang met Bobo en Wild Child Butler.
Wat later verhuisde hij naar Carmel in Californië, waar hij zich hoofdzakelijk met de Blue Room recording Studio verbond, en er les gaf aan jongere muzikanten, omdat hij besefte dat de blues in gevaar is momenteel, en hij ziet het als een taak om de blues in leven te houden. Zijn sterke voorgaande cd "To My very Soul" werd opgenomen in Santa Barbara in Californië met onder meer hulp van John Popper en Bob Phillips en een hoop andere bekende namen. Nu is er dus "3rd Degree" opgenomen in vier verschillende studio’s waar Stu veel werkt, waaronder natuurlijk zijn eigen Carmel studio’s en de studio in Santa Barbara waar ook de voorganger opgenomen werd. . Stu's blues beschrijven is niet zo eenvoudig, maar volgens mij komt het geluid van de Charles Ford band met Robben Ford vaak het dichts in de buurt. De voortreffelijke harpspeler Lester Smith is, naast Stu op gitaar natuurlijk, een van de hoofdelementen, ook al is de cd rijkelijk voorzien van Hammondbijdragen, Niet minder dan 4 keyboardspelers staan in de line-up: Micheal Fonfara, Ross Garden, Denis Keldie en Bob Philips. Alle nummers zijn van de van hand van Stu, en we onthouden naast de titeltrack vooral "Sleazy" (beiden vanwege die voortreffelijk klinkende harmonica) en het funky "My Way". De latin invloeden in de intro van afsluiter "L
Three singer-composers present the Bay Area’s first tribute to great Mexican songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez (King of the Mariachis) on Thursday night, Oct. 9, at La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley.
Presenting the bilingual homage will be Berkeley’s Steve Taylor-Ramírez (http://www. myspace.com/thestevetaylor), Oakland’s soulful groove goddess Theresa Perez (http://www.myspace.com/theresaperez) and San Francisco’s award-winning trovador Alfredo Gomez (http://www.myspace.com/alfredoguitarra).
For more info, please see: http://www.lapena.org/event/880
