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- ld time rock ‘n’ roll: Traditional hymns get fresh beat as…
- xford music man making plenty of noise
- James Brown
ld time rock ‘n’ roll: Traditional hymns get fresh beat as…
Free with registration – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 25, 2006
Even the familiar tunes usually are there — just with a blues pop folk or rock ‘n’ roll setting all played by the “house” band Koine. Pete Reese 32 a string bass player from Milwaukee describes the music as. CPYRIGHT 2006 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
xford music man making plenty of noise
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – Dec 25, 2006
- Say what?Tom’s last name is pronounced KAY-ha. xford music man making plenty of noiseBY SHEENA BARNETTDaily JournalXFRD – Tom Queyja is a modern-day music man. For Queyja music is life. He plays in three bands Maria Y El Sol Pithecanfunkus Erectus and the New Madrid Click and owns his own recording studio The Lip. He also takes care of the production of xford public radio show Thacker Mountain Radio. Most recently he’s spent time working on music by major-label artists Modest Mouse and Gavin DeGraw. He’s busy but happy… “I like to stay busy in music in some form or fashion. “The xford native grew up in a musical household and went on to play in a marching concert band. After that he sang in a punk band and he’s played in bands since. In 2000 he started The Lip recording studio in the small green house next to his home. Lately he’s been working at Sweet Tea Recordings to engineer the latest work by DeGraw and Modest Mouse. There’s not much of a difference between working with a famous band or a group of musicians from down the street Queyja said except for major-label artists “have a huge budget and more pressure to finish” the record. While he loves working behind the scenes playing a live gig is the most fun he said.
James Brown
Telegraph.co.uk – Dec 25, 2006
By the early 1980s Brown had 800 songs in his repertoire and had sold some 80 million records some of his singles selling as many as 15 million copies over the years. His songwriting skills however seemed to have grown fragile and he was failing to attract younger black fans as they turned to new types of sound. But Brown confounded his critics by finding new inspiration from his young white fans who could detect the roots of punk and new wave in his music. As Cynthia Rose noted in her biography he had created funk and rap 20 years before they had achieved mainstream respectability. For a period in the mid-1980s Brown was without a record contract; but in 1986 he returned with Living In America which was his first Top 10 chart hit for a dozen years. His new-found success inspired Polydor to release the LP In The Jungle Groove — a collection of tracks laid down between 1969 and 1971. In the same year he also released a new album Gravity.