Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Midweek Music News You Can Use

Uncle Tom Moffatt Gabs about this week in 1968, when The Turtles came to Honolulu. Opening acts? Canned Heat and Buffalo Springfield!

http://www.midweek.com/robert-pattinson-jake-shimabukuro-celebrity-news/

A new Guitars Not Guns program gets underway in California

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131119/A_LIFE1201/311190302/-1/A_LIFE

More info on that upcoming CBS Beatles special

http://www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2013/11/18/report-paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-to-join-young-stars-on-cbs-50th-anniversary-beatles-salute/

Ry Cooder, live again.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/ry-cooder-live-again.html

The 2014 Norfolk & Norwich Festival announces his first acts

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/first_acts_confirmed_for_norfolk_and_norwich_festival_2014_1_3013149

New Orleans' Big Top is closing

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/11/the_big_top_folds_tent_after_1.html

Los Lobos throw a 40th Birthday bash at the Whiskey A Go Go

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2013/11/los-lobos-celebrate-40-years-whisky-go-go/

"Under the Milky Way"

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/176342-journey-of-a-song-the-churchs-under-the-milky-way/

The Fab Faux sighted in Jersey

http://ns.gmnews.com/news/2013-11-21/Front_Page/Fab_Faux_brings_Beatles_classics_to_New_Brunswick.html

And the story of Duane Allman's long-lost 1957 guitar

http://www.guitarworld.com/guitar-lust-story-duane-allmans-long-lost-1957-gibson-les-paul-goldtop