The News Review:
- Dropkick Murphys – to be sure let’s get raucous
- Folk America: Hollerers Stompers & ld Time Ramblers
- Holly’s legacy beats on
- Alejandro Escovedo feels at home in Lexington
Dropkick Murphys – to be sure let’s get raucous
Adelaide Advertiser Australia
"The music is familiar to people and there is some Irish heritage there but what’s been the best is to see it happening in places like Japan and Italy and Russia. "I don’t think it matters if you’re not necessarily from the background or even familiar with the music. People like it – it’s good party music and it’s aggressive. " What’s it like seeing Japanese fans screaming along to Celtic punk music? "It’s funny because sometimes when we play in Japan and the crowd screams the words back at you in perfect English – I mean you can’t even detect an accent or anything different. "Then you come off stage to talk to the kids and they can’t even speak English – it’s more like a mimic than actually knowing what they’re singing back at you. "They’re insane and very excitable. " What have been some of the best shows that stick in your mind? Is bigger better? "We’ve done different things.
Folk America: Hollerers Stompers & ld Time Ramblers
guardian.co.uk UK
“A yearning for that country road for the lost innocence of the garden” is how one of the documentaries describes it. All of tonight’s performers have that yearning and they express it in a variety of ways. Allison Williams started out as a punk-rocker before she picked up a banjo and moved to North Carolina to soak up some old-time mountain music culture. The band she plays in featuring champion fiddler Chance McCoy is accomplished and exuberant with a clean-cut conviviality that you won’t find easily on the punk scene. Nashville’s Diana Jones cuts a more traditional figure and sings unaffected ballads with a lonesome air. She brings her deep creamy voice poignantly to bear on Henry Russell’s Last Words a song based on a letter that a dying coal miner trapped underground wrote his wife more than 80 years ago. The refrain “h how I love you Mary” completes each line giving the song a simplicity that makes it all the more moving.
Holly’s legacy beats on
DesMoinesRegister.com IA
Ward for instance releases a new album Feb. 17 that includes a cover of Holly’s “Not Fade Away. ” And younger music fans are discovering classic rock in greater numbers as the songs flow freely from iTunes and other online digital sources. Valens is revered for his guitar technique and as the prototypical Latino rocker who anticipated the careers of everybody from Santana to Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys. The Bopper wrote country music hits for other artists and is credited with creating the first distinct music video. “They are all different but of the same era – pioneers artists that really did catch the ear of the world not just America” said Terry Stewart president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The Bopper has yet to join Holly and Valens as an official Rock Hall inductee but the museum is co-producing a series of events Wednesday Feb.
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Alejandro Escovedo feels at home in Lexington
Kentucky.com KY
Among Visconti’s credits were seminal albums by David Bowie and T. Rex as well as recordings with The Moody Blues Angelique Kidjo and many others. Visconti recorded the Pittsburgh punk band Anti-Flag at St. Claire earlier in 2007 and was keen enough on the studio to suggest it to Escovedo for the songs he had been writing with Prophet. “I thought the things Tony could bring to the record were things that I had been hoping for” Escovedo said. “He wanted me to make a rock album and stuck to that. I knew I had a rock album in me but Tony had a way of making you feel without even verbalizing it that there was something really special going when we were recording.