Saturday, March 6, 2010

Saturday Music Digest

Another bounty of info

Folk songs for jazzers

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35735

The unsure artists

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703807904575097390662423192.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

Duke Dorsey

http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/86694062.html

This week in Stupid Music History

http://www.kera.org/artandseek/content/2010/03/05/this-week-in-texas-music-history-bob-wills/

More stupid music from Red Molly

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2010/march/05/americana-trio-red-molly-to-appear-at-concerts-at-the-crossing.html

Preview of today's huge ookelele festival in the 50th State

http://www.hawaii247.org/2010/03/05/great-waikoloa-ukulele-festival-march-6/

A Haitian singer and his guitar fight the urge to weep

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/world/americas/05haitimusic.html

Preview of next month's Long Island Guitar Festival

http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/pr/press/2010/025.html

Red Green sighting

http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2010/03/incoming_red_green_at_the_uptown.php

Timbuktu, the birthplace of...the blues?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0305/Timbuktu-the-birthplace-of-blues

The LA Times reviews the "new" Jimi Hendrix album

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/album-review-jimi-hendrixs-valleys-of-neptune.html

Off With Her Head!

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/03/05/off-with-her-head-sammy-davis-jr-is-a-caterpillar/

A Traveling Wilburys reunion

http://www.genesis-publications.com/News/Where-were-you-last-night-Traveling-Wilburys-in-LA/0503

And an interview with Nashville's Chris Scruggs, who didn't meet his Grandpa Earl until just recently!

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/2010/03/chris_scruggs_the_cream_interv.php