When you hear the opening track of Loreena McKennitt's latest release, the live CD/DVD "Nights from the Alhambra," you can begin to grasp the power of McKennitt's talents. She is internationally renowned as a singer, musician and composer of Celtic-inspired music, and she's also a shrewd businesswoman who created her own label long before it became common for musicians to do so. In the first two minutes of that opening track, "The Mystic's Dream," you are captured by subtle instrumentation and the magic of McKennitt's wordless vocals. The sound she creates is so intriguing that when her full band joins her, you are ready to follow wherever she leads. That's when you realize that McKennitt is also a master storyteller who recognizes the importance of setting a scene.
A lot of college guys start their own bands. They do it because they love music. They do it in hopes of going on to fame and fortune. They do it to meet girls. Except that last reason doesn't mean much at BYU, jokes Mitch Mallory. "You tell a girl you have a band, and she says, 'Big deal, so does every other guy I know.' There's no shortage of bands around here.
DANBURY, Conn. - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.
Who: Melissa Mulligan. The Stratford-based songwriter performs both solo, as a duo with husband/guitarist Bill Blue and with her band, the appropriately titled Melissa Mulligan Band. The performer released her first solo record, "Love this Life," in 2004 and now follows that up with the EP "sparrow," a record she is dedicating to "the musicians, dancers, staff and friends of Ken Safety's Open Mic Show at C. J. Sparrow in Cheshire." Mulligan has debuted material there since 1998. "Where you can see her: Mulligan and Blue will perform tonight at Thataway Cafe in Greenich. She'll have a record- release party for "sparrow" at C.J. Sparrow May 19 with her whole band. About this mix, she says, "Everyone probably tells you how impossible this was to do. Let me be the next one to tell you how h...
During Jefferson Airplane's 1967 recording sessions oí Surrealistic Pillow, which included such timeless psychedelic anthems as "White Rabbit" and "She Has Funny Cars," [Paul Kantner] says the band was "reflecting on the times, and it was a positive time; we were just making music. Nobody knows how or why [music] works or how it impacts our consciousness; [music] still mystifies me, but it's a mystery I don't want to figure out. Of course/The Doors overcame that disappointment and built on their early successes to become one of the most important groups in rock history. With deep voiced crooner and sex symbol Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and [Ray Manzarek]'s unique keyboard playing, The Doors released a parade of songs that are still popular today-"Love Me Two Times," "People Are Stran...
As it turned out, [Aaron Williams] spent five years being his father's sideman. Their first project was Cadillac Joe & the Blind Wolf Blues Band. "That was your typical guitar, organ and harmonica blues band," says Williams. "We dropped the name Blind Wolf [in 2004] and called it the Cadillac Joe Band Featuring Aaron Williams. That's when we started playing festivals all around the Great Lakes. I really like the sound of the old '60s and '70s power trios like Hendrix and Cream," says Williams. That's something Williams says he has in common with his drummer, Eric Shackelford. The Hoodoo is also supported by the bass guitarist "Z." Besides his father, Williams says he's had another important mentor - Beth Kille of the former Madison rock band Clear Blue Betty. "She's played an impo...
[Nora Cruz] says she chooses to cover numbers based on whether the song has strong lyrics and how frequently it is covered. For instance, instead of doing Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind," she does his lesser-known works like "I Gotta Lover." "I like to educate people," she says. In the near future, Cruz and her new band are going to work on an album of new material. She says that when [Rich Cowan] joined the band he brought along 13 original numbers that run the gamut from bluegrass to Santana-styled guitar rock to Bonnie Raitt-inspired blues. The diversity suits Cruz just fine. "That's who I am," she says. "I don't like sticking to one style.
Much of Nickel Creek's unique sound comes from the music they heard as youngsters - from traditional folk and 'grass to '90s radio hits. "There were definitely different listening stages for me," Watkins says. "Until I was about 14 it was pretty limited to the stuff I heard at folk festivals, like Tim O'Brien and Béla Fleck. My parents always listened to a lot of music, mostly stuff with a 'roots' origin - Celtic, folk and classic rock like The Band. Being in a family act might be convenient from a creative standpoint, but it can also create major tension. Just look at the fractious relationships between musical siblings such as The Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies, the Black Crowes' [Chris Thile] and Rich Robinson or Oasis' Liam and Noel Gallagher. Watkins claims that her band avoids a...
Have you heard what's happening in Venezuela? What's going on over there right now is not traditional at all. It's called Chávez. Have you heard of it?" she asks. "They wouldn't be here otherwise. It is the Venezuelan government that is bringing a band of Afro Venezuelan women to America," she says. "This is because in Venezuela there is a policy - 'revolution' - for some, and for some it's called something else. There's this process of including the people who have traditionally been excluded, and it just so happens that those people are the majority. "Before, everybody wanted to be blonde and to live in Miami," says [Patricia Abdelnour]. "Now there is this renaissance and rescue of our identity as Venezuelans and that includes the natives, the blacks, the Spanish and so on. [Hugo Ch...
The young pop aspirant says she has always loved to perform and cites her lead role in a play at Monte Vista Elementary School as a kindergartner as evidence. Later, at Monterey High, she got in front of all her classmates to sing the national anthem at homecoming. She also sung in a short-lived local ska punk band called SAQ. "It's just my personality," she says of her motivation to perform. "I'm always like, 'Look at me, look at me.' It doesn't take much to imagine the catchy numbers, which [Paloma Ramos] co-wrote with a handful of other songwriters, being blared in clubs or played on pop and rap radio stations. "The Crazy One Is Me" is a ridiculously catchy tune with a driving drumbeat, flutters of acoustic guitar and lyrics in Spanish and English, and "Can't Stop Us Now," which fe...
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