Posts tagged with "PAUL SIMON"
GRACE PETTIS “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW” Video & Web-Exclusive Interview
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: GRACE PETTIS
Video Premiere: “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW”
DOWN TO THE LETTER
WITH AMERICANA’S WORKING WOMAN GRACE PETTIS
by Rodeo Marie Hanson
An American juvenile cinéma vérité, reminiscent of 1985’s The Breakfast Club, unfolds within every school’s granite and brick corridors, monochromatic carpeted classrooms and institutionalized cafeterias. In this microcosm,...
String Wizard JOHN McEUEN Premieres “I’ll Be Glad (When They Run Out of Gas)” Track Video
JOHN McEUEN “I’LL BE GLAD (WHEN THEY RUN OUT OF GAS)” Track Video
Musician: JOHN McEUEN
Track Video Feature: “I’LL BE GLAD (WHEN THEY RUN OUT OF GAS)”
JOHN McEUEN’S TRANSFORMATION FROM “STRING WIZARD” TO MAN OF RECORD WITH SPOKEN WORD ALBUM THE NEWSMAN
by Rodeo Marie Hanson
Inside the sanctuary of anonymity, offered by a luxury hotel, a figure shrouded in mystique rhapsody is perched comfortably at a piano....
SCOTT MULVAHILL – Web-exclusive Interview
Musician: SCOTT MULVAHILL
Video: “I Don’t Need Her Love”
SCOTT MULVAHILL FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK’S COOL NIGHTS 21
FINAL TWO NIGHTS—THIS THURSDAY & FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16-17
Scott Mulvahill, along with Liz Longley and Billy Crockett, will be featured at Christmas at Blue Rock for the final Cool Nights 21 livestreaming concert series—this Thursday and Friday, December 16-17.
Scott Mulvahill has left his unique mark on the intersecting...
WILLY PORTER VIDEO PREMIERE
Musician: WILLY PORTER
Video: “Angry Words”
WILLY PORTER FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK’S COOL NIGHTS 21 THIS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
Willy Porter will be featured at Blue Rock aLive! Cool Nights 21 livestreaming concert series—this Thursday, October 28. His music spans over two decades, 11 albums and multiple continents with a journey defined by an inquisitive love for humanity and the language that describes what we all hold to be true. Porter’s...
NOBODY’S GIRL at Blue Rock aLive! Cool Nights 21
Musician: NOBODY’S GIRL
Video: “Waterline”
NOBODY’S GIRL KICKS OFF BLUE ROCK’S COOL NIGHTS 21 THIS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
Nobody’s Girl (Grace Pettis, Rebecca Loebe, BettySoo) will be featured at the Blue Rock aLive! Cool Nights 21 live streaming concert series—this Thursday, October 21. You can buy a Season Pass for only $105—and have a seat in the house by sending in your headshot. They will place the large headshot on a...
Video & Interview PIERCE PETTIS
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: PIERCE PETTIS
Video: “The Adventures of Me (and This Old Guitar)”
PIERCE PETTIS & GRACE PETTIS AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! COOL NIGHTS 2020 THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10
Pierce Pettis’ songs have been recorded by Susan Ashton, Dar Williams, Garth Brooks and Art Garfunkel. He was a member of the Fast Folk movement in 1980s New York. He released one independent solo album before signing with...
Video Premiere & Interview Artist: LEE DEWYZE
Video Premiere & Web-Exclusive InterviewArtist: LEE DeWYZE
Video: “Weeds”
AMERICAN IDOL WINNER LEE DeWYZE PREMIERES EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL NEW SINGLE “WEEDS”
https://youtu.be/lE4wAawKTGA
American Idol winner and Mavelle/InGrooves/Universal artist Lee DeWyze is back with a new single/video “Weeds.” We are proud to premiere this emotionally powerful song with an artistically imaginative...
Video Feature & Interview DANNY SCHMIDT
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: DANNY SCHMIDT
Video: “Black & Blue”
DANNY SCHMIDT & CARRIE ELKIN FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL CONCERT
Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin will be the featured artists this Thursday (August 20) at Blue Rock aLIVE!—a unique virtual summer concert series—featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer. Blue Rock’s innovation, quality and creativity...
Video & Web-Exclusive: MATT THE ELECTRICIAN
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: MATT THE ELECTRICIAN
Video: “I Will Do the Breathing” from the album Accidental Thief
MATT THE ELECTRICIAN FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! VIRTUAL SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
Matt the Electrician will be the featured artist this Thursday (July 16) at Blue Rock aLIVE!—a unique virtual summer concert series—featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer. Blue Rock is a good example...
Video & Web Exclusive Interview Seth Glier
Photo credit; GMD Three
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: SETH GLIER
Video: “Sunshine”
Seth Glier’s video “Sunshine” from new studio album Birds
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Seth Glier’s studio album Birds is out now. The collection of insightful and well-crafted songs includes standout tracks “Sunshine,” “Water on Fire,” and the timely socially-conscious cover “For What It’s Worth.”
To celebrate...
Track Premiere & Web Exclusive Interview Sarah Aroeste
TRACK PREMIERE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: SARAH AROESTE
Track Premiere: “La Ketubá De La Ley”
A Ladino/English song celebrating the holiday of Shavuot, from the new Sarah Aroeste album Together/Endjuntos
Sarah Aroeste releases the first-ever, all-original bilingual Ladino/English Holiday album, Together/Endjuntos today. She has created an eclectic collection that combines elements of Bhaṅgṛā, rap, cabaret, merengue...
Video & Web Exclusive Interview Boney James
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: BONEY JAMES
Video: “Honestly” featuring Avery*Sunshine
SAXOPHONIST AND COMPOSER BONEY JAMES’ HONESTLY REFLECTS MUSIC’S POWER TO TRANSPORT
Four-time Grammy Nominee Celebrates 25 Years with September 1, 2017 Release Featuring Vocalists Avery*Sunshine and Eric Roberson
Boney James released his 16th album on September 1, 2017, titled Honestly—25 years after his debut recording, Trust....
EXPERIENCE VINYL—BRAD HAMMONDS & JAKE FISHBEIN
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
EXPERIENCE VINYL
Experience Vinyl is more than a record a month club. It’s a total customer experience with special concerts and unique member-only benefits. Each month, members will receive a selection of the featured artist-curator’s essential “Desert Island Disc.” Accompanying the record will be a personal description written by or for the artist about why the record is so important. In addition...
VIDEO FEATURE & INTERVIEW JONATHA BROOKE
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: JONATHA BROOKE
Song: “Midnight Hallelujah”
Songwriters: Jonatha Brooke & Mark Batson
Video: Directed & Produced by Nigel Dick
Jonatha Brooke is an incredibly talented singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician whose songs have so much tuneful melody, rhythm, color and character. When you hear her sing, you immediately know her songs should be in heavy rotation on every major radio...
Video Feature & Interview: RYAN SHUPE
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: RYAN SHUPE
Video: “We Rode On”
RYAN SHUPE Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
Ryan Shupe will be touring the country to promote his eighth album, the independently released We Rode On—a fusion of rock themes with an acoustic bluegrass influence. A Utah-based, fifth generation fiddler, as well as an accomplished mandolin...
Video Feature & Interview: ROBBY HECHT
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Artist: ROBBY HECHT
Song: “Soon I Was Sleeping”
Duet with Rose Cousins
Directed by Ryan Newman
ROBBY HECHT Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
How did the idea of “Soon I Was Sleeping” come to you?
I actually wrote this song over the course of about six years. I had the “put that bottle of whiskey right where she used to kiss me” hook for...
SPENCER DAY
SPENCER DAY
HOMETOWN: East Layton, Utah
INFUENCES: Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Paul Simon
ALBUM: The Mystery of You, out now
WEBSITE: spencerday.com
Modern jazz singer and pianist Spencer Day learned the power of music during his troubled childhood. He grew up in a strict Mormon household in small-town Utah, and his parents divorced when he was young. His mother, a classical opera singer turned teacher, encouraged his love of music as a means of...
JERRY DOUGLAS
JERRY DOUGLAS
Traveler
[eOne]
Jerry Douglas became the best-known Dobro player in the world by taking his instrument to places it had never been. Traveler is his most mainstream release to date, but it remains a bold step forward. The album’s guests range from the not-so-surprising Alison Krauss and Union Station, Keb’ Mo’ and Marc Cohn to the more inspired likes of Mumford & Sons, Paul Simon, Dr. John and Eric Clapton. Slowhand’s fervid...
PAUL SIMON
PAUL SIMON
Graceland: 25th Anniversary
[Sony Legacy]
Perhaps the rhythmic experiments on Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland should have come as no surprise. He had always known a striking backbeat when he heard one, reaching back as far as “Cecilia,” “Mother and Child Reunion” and “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” But when Simon fell for the joyful sounds of South Africa and sought to incorporate them into his own music, he soon discovered...
PAUL SIMON
PAUL SIMON
So Beautiful or So What
[Hear Music/Concord]
Elvis Costello, himself no stranger to conveying hard-won wisdom in song, pretty much nails it in his liner notes for Paul Simon’s first new album in five years: “This is a man in full possession of all his gifts, looking at the comedy and beauty of life with clarity and the tenderness bought by time.” Simon’s solo output has always been erratic, a zigzag of indisputable landmarks, most...