Thursday Music News You Can Use

Upcoming music events in Detroit

http://www.freep.com/article/20130606/ENT04/306060019/lady-antebellum-ll-cool-j-leon-russell-DMX-juanes-los-lobos-toby-keith-young-jeezy

Uncle Led and Uncle Mike head to Grass Valley

http://www.theunion.com/entertainment/6780965-113/kaapana-led-hawaii-kaawa

R.I.P. to Savannah jazz musician Ben Tucker, who was killed when his golf cart was struck by a car

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/Savannah+jazz+musician+Tucker+killed+crash+driver/8481485/story.html

And R.I.P. to drummer and Hot Tuna co-founder Joey Covington, who was killed when his car struck a wall in Palm Springs

http://www.today.com/entertainment/jefferson-airplane-drummer-joey-covington-dies-car-crash-6C10223330

Jake Shimabukuro rocks the Palladium

http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/circlecitizen/2013/06/05/ukulele-virtuoso-jake-shimabukuro-rocks-the-palladium

Yet another update on the Gibson Guitar Saga

http://tennessee.watchdog.org/2013/06/05/targeting-tn-guitar-maker-strikes-wrong-chord-with-gop/

Tomatoes and Zydeco music, what could be better?

http://www.thedailymeal.com/tomatoes-and-zydeco-music-what-could-be-better

Chris Smither comes full circle

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/06/recording_a_career_retrospecti.html

Making a Governors Island pavilion with 53,000 plastic bottles

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/05/making_a_governors_island_pavilion_with_53000_plastic_bottles.php

And Rollin' Up the River at the 2013 Chicago Blues Fest

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/conner/20544975-421/chicago-blues-festival-celebrates-heralded-music-road.html