Give Fans The Credit!

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Published on Monday, May 20 2013 13:19
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Dear Readers:

Here is an idea that fans and studio musicians have been talking about for a long time. It is finally coming! GIVE FANS THE CREDIT is a petition that encourages producers and digital outlets to list ALL musicians and artists involved in EACH recording.

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Bill Clinton was "Gonna Crawl" to get Zep to Reunite in 2012.

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Published on Wednesday, May 08 2013 08:31
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Former US president, Bill Clinton was " ... Gonna Crawl," to get Led Zeppelin to reform in 2012.

From CBS and the AP Press:

"Hots On For Nowhere."

"According to CBS, David Saltzman of the Robin Hood Foundation, which organised the Hurricane Sandy benefit concert in New York, said that he and the film executive Harvey Weinstein had flown to Washington DC to enlist Clinton's help in getting Led Zeppelin on the concert bill alongside The Who, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones."

Clinton agreed to Saltzman and Weinberg's request and approached Led Zepplin band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in Washington at the Kennedy Center Honors gala, which took place days prior to the Hurricane Sandy benefit. However, the former President could not get the band up on the stage.

"Hey Hey What Can I Do?"

"Harvey Weinstein had this great idea that we could enlist Bill Clinton to convince Led Zeppelin to reunite," Saltzman said. "The President was terrific – 'I really wanna do this, this will be a fantastic thing, I love Led Zeppelin'. And Bill Clinton himself asked Led Zeppelin to reunite, and they wouldn't do it."

"Hats Off ..." to Mr. Clinton for trying. "How Many More Times" will we seek a Zeppelin reunion answer? It's the "Battle of Evermore". We love our rock heros, "Hot Dog" "I Can't Quit You Baby."

 

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Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters.

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Published on Wednesday, April 03 2013 08:19
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From Robert Plant's website.

Read recent news and reviews as Plant circles the globe, continuing to mix the past with the present.

It is now, it is zen, this is how Plant operates. The piper is calling you to join him.

 

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Freedy Johnston is performing on April 6, 2013 at Club Passim

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Published on Friday, March 29 2013 07:39
Written by Bluebird

PRESS RELEASE:

NYC indie-rock artist, Freedy Johnston is performing on April 6, 2013 at Club Passim. 

Heading out on the road, Freedy will be supporting his eleventh full-length album, Rain on the City.

Listen to his music at his website: http://www.freedyjohnston.com/music/

Rolling Stone and Spin hailed Can You Fly as a masterpiece. Robert Christgau called it "a perfect album." Its success led to a major label deal with Elektra, for whom Johnston released "This Perfect World" in 1994. Not only did that album showcase Johnston's increasing sophistication and range as a songwriter, but it also included his breakthrough hit, "Bad Reputation."

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Joe Bonamassa Update

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Published on Sunday, February 24 2013 11:01
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Get a free song download and Joe Bonamassa Update Here:

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Thanks, Deb !

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Out On The Tiles

DAWES at the Newport Folk Festival, 2012

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This year, the Newport Folk Festival was sold out for months in advance of the show. It drew tens of thousands to Newport, Rhode Island, from all over the Northeast US and beyond. Some of these people have been attending this annual event for generations. There was a time when the budget for this global talent gathering was scarce. During these droughts, the loyal music aficionados, rock snobs and bluegrass historians, still came to support local regional music and folk traditions.

In mingling with the crowd this year and talking to fans at this event, I learned it is this core culture that keeps the bar for the acts as they come through. They talk about each band in great detail, including their connections with folk and music history, as well as regional presence. There are many terms that I learned Folk Festers use, to describe if they approve of an artist's music to be in the line-up of the Newport Folk Festival: "appropriate," "in the folk tradition," "in line with the history of folk," and, of course, ~ "Dylanesque."

Simultaneous to the folk and bluegrass that frames the permeable boundaries of this art, is a new wave of younger, Folk Fest revelers, who are jumping right in to hear their contemporary favorites. 'My Morning Jacket" "Deer Tick" and "Conor Oberst" to name a few. In a myriad of harmonies, the generational Folk followers that I spoke to, said they approved of these bands too, and hailed them as fitting into the storytelling chapters that would dawn the days to come. "Eclectic" the generational Folk Festers say of these new infusions of sound, "a fresh perspective."

And then there was DAWES!

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