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Rights Organizations: PRO’s - LEGAL WOLVES in the FLOCK of SMALL MUSIC
Alice Hill is a short story writer,
restaurant and venue operator, mother and Kansas farm wife.
Al
Petteway and Amy White brought their magic
to our little farming town. They are good at
magic.
In 2005 they graciously traveled from North
Carolina to Atwood, KS to support the 1907
Shirley Opera House Project
(restoration/rehabilitation) with a
fundraising concert. Their music mesmerized
the audience and began a new life for the
old building.
The
Shirley Opera House holds that indefinable
energy that flows from musician to listener
and back. Built from locally kilned bricks
in 1907 it was recognized for its authentic
character by the Kansas and National
Registers of Historic Places as it turned
100 years old. As a member of the Boulder
Acoustic Society exclaimed “there’s music in
the walls”.
Since
that first event, many others have followed.
I call it our Monthly Music Fix and
encourage people to view a night at the
Opera as better than drugs.
Anti-depressants, that is. Now, six years
later I am depressed, angry, frustrated and
outraged. .
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 APEYGA
Takes Jazz Fusion to a Deep, Disorienting Pleasure
RAR
- Publisher of RARWRITER.com and
The Revolution
Culture Journal
APEYGA, the three-piece
heavy-jazzadelic unit out of Culver City,
Southern California, who recently released
Ring, their third LP, is an indie
film producer’s mother lode of disturbing,
disorienting, sonic assault; just the kind
needed for that FEAR.NET gore fest my wife
keeps on all night long, so that now I can’t
sleep unless I hear women screaming in the
background.
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 Douglas
Strobel Reviews PopZinkle, the Latest from Pop-Folky David Zink
Douglas Strobel is a lifelong musician and
instructor and a regular contributor to
RARWRITER.com
I envy you the
opportunity to
discover this music!
PopZinkle
is a remarkable song
cycle written in
response to the
tragic events of
9/11!
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 Al
Jardine takes a nice ride back to the pretension-free era of '60s rock
RAR
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The Revolution
Culture Journal
“San Francisco was our first stop
along the way, where Dad started up a blueprint company. They sent him
to Los Angeles to do it all over again and that’s where my musical
odessey (sic) begins.”
So reads the liner notes on A Postcard from California, Al Jardine’s
sentimental labor of love chronicling his boyhood journey to California
and his serendipitous meeting, at El Camino College, with a kid named
Brian Wilson.
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 Aussie
Steve Lee offers a paean to the equalizer with I Like Guns
RAR
- Publisher of RARWRITER.com and
The Revolution
Culture Journal
Whatever it is about guns, and songs
about guns, that has always resonated in the soul of man – it was a
staple on AM radio in songs from Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, and
others when I was growing up in Middle America – it has clearly put its
stamp on Australian singer-songwriter Steve Lee.
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 Jinx
Jones Has A New CD that Finds Rockabilly to Be Alive and Kicking
RAR
- Publisher of RARWRITER.com and
The Revolution
Culture Journal
He (Jones) is spectacular, not only
in his considerable pyrotechnical flash, but in the soul and depth of
his musical choices. He is a studied composer, a player who truly owns
his instrument. He is also a clever lyricist and an accomplished singer.
There he is a role player, performing the lyrics almost in character,
and this is a character we all recognize as Mr. America, our Everyman.
He works with his hands and strength of his back, and he leads with his
heart...
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 Steven
L Smith rocks Memphis-country with Outside of Tupelo
RAR
- Publisher of RARWRITER.com and
The Revolution
Culture Journal
Steven L Smith seems to get that
sometimes guys go into those bars where mostly
naked women swing around on poles and, after a
few drinks, they fall in love with them. This
seems counter to the instincts that draw men to
these clubs in the first place, but then men are
weak and drink is strong, and the instinct to
care for vulnerable souls is even stronger,
one’s own and those of others. “I fell in love
with a woman on a pole,” sings Smith in the
opening track of Outside of Tupelo, his
2010 release on his Vinyl Record Company label.
It is the kickoff to an album’s worth of
top-flight country with white whiskers and a
sure step.
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Phillip Rauls Shares News of
the Passing of a Legend to Music Industry Insiders - Poe Kat
Phillip Rauls -
Photographer; Four Decade-long
Atlantic, STAX Records A&R
This is truly the end of an
era.... We are saddened to pass along the news that legendary tipsheet
publisher Bobby
Poe, whose annual
radio and record industry conventions were equally legendary, passed
away Saturday, Jan. 22 of complications from a blood clot. He was 77 and
had been battling throat cancer for the past two years. Poe's son, Bobby
Jr., posted the news on Facebook on Sunday. Poe, a.k.a. "The Poe Kat,"
is best known and loved as the publisher of his iconic Pop Music Survey,
an influential weekly music tipsheet that was sent to Top 40 radio
stations and record labels..
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Sam Broussard Reviews Steve Conn's New CD
Beautiful Dream.
Sam Broussard -
Musician/Writer.
There’s a lot of good music
out there these days. Powerful sounds burnished by sonic landscapers,
singers who can emote at the heights of passion all day, musicians who
can play anything and do, and amateur musicians who create mood
cathedrals on laptops that sound just tossed off, pulled out of a pocket
and dropped into your inner spaces, mixing in with the howling winds of
your very own and very unique void.
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 Diana
Olson on Heinali and Matt Finney's Internet Collaboration
Ukrainian composer Heinali and American poet
Matt Finney have never met each other in person. Their internet
collaboration has produced two acclaimed eps and now they are working on
their third album.
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