Saturday, June 28, 2008

Saturday Music Digest

Music from Treme

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/121400073313460.xml&coll=7

We got to see Johnnie Johnson, whom Chuck Berry honored with the song "Johnnie B. Goode", several years before he died. He was working with NRBQ at the time. An annual blues and jazz fest is held in his memory every year in his home town in West Virginia:

http://www.timeswv.com/entertainment/local_story_177235600.html

Sighted: former All-Starr Sheila E.

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/21802919.html?location_refer=Music:highlightModules:5

Former Dirty Dozen guitarist goes on the road:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880626061

Island Mele with Kawaikapuokalani Hewet!

http://starbulletin.com/2008/06/27/features/records.html

And Joe Cocker's performance at Woodstock has finally been translated into...English!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM