Stormy Friday Music News You Can Use

As Hugh Masekela would say, "It's Raining!"

Take 5

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/story/2012-07-26/weekend-picks-olympics-paul-mccartney-underworld-more/56507696/1

Suffolk Jazz Fest time

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/07/suffolk-jazz-fest-benefit-womens-vets-foundation

Meet the Ookelele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn!

http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/Ukulele-Orchestra-of-Great-Brooklyns-MISSIONARY-IN-MANHATTAN-Begins-Performances-823-20120726

Guitar Shorty sighting

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20120726/NEWS/120729951/1066&ParentProfile=1051

Hail, Hail

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/hail-hail-chuck-berry-invents-rock-0726-2012.aspx

Bill Kreutzmann Talks Story

http://www.njherald.com/story/19121261/dead-drummer-finds-another-new-vista

"Backbeat" has its North American premiere

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/168452-PHOTO-CALL-A-Look-at-the-North-American-Premiere-of-Backbeat-the-Origin-Story-of-The-Beatles

The Top 10 North Texas Blues albums

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2012/07/top_ten_north_texas_blues_albu.php

Deep Beatles

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/07/26/deep-beatles-all-ive-got-to-do-1963/

And Steve Berlin of Los Lobos doesn't heart Paul Simon

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/07/los-lobos-steve-berlin-calls-paul-simon-an-idiot/