New England Music Scrapbook Newsletter
Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

April 5, 2008
Issue 2008:269
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We've got Thrills, chills, Dirty Water
- What more do you need?
When the big beat hits ya
Comin' from your transistor
- Like the T at full speed
When the big beat hits ya...

"Boston Lullaby," Dudick/Naihersey.
- Copyright c. 1980 by Camaraderie Music, BMI.
- All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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BRATTLEBORO, VT, April 5 - Big business may have goofed up its part of
the United States economy; but on a grassroots level, the
entertainment industry is zipping right along. At least here in New
England it seems to be. No doubt not everyone is doing equally well;
but over the past two or three months, we have received so many news
e-mails that I have taken longer each week, looking through them and
deciding which pieces to use, than it took me to produce a whole
newsletter issue, from start to finish, last year.

So far, 2008 has been our busiest year ever. This week has been one
of our busiest weeks ever.
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ECONOMIC STIMULUS REBATE CHECKS come out next month. Any portion
spent on local music would be much appreciated. Consumers make up
two-thirds of the American economy. Why not give the country a little
boost in the way you spend your rebate money, all the while hearing
some great music and keeping your dollars circulating close to home.
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SPECIAL THANKS to my e-friend and colleague, Maria McLaughlin, for
wonderful use of her considerable transcription and spell-checking
skills, to Dennis Brennan for some valuable contact information, and
to Stephen Lewis for material that may especially interest young moderns.

Past-belated and future-belated thanks to Jeanne Walsh appear
elsewhere in this document.

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THE FOOLS
Put on an April Fools Show

The Massachusetts rock band, The Fools, has a gig this very day in
Webster, Massachusetts. Needless to say of April 5, 2008, it's a
night for beautiful girls.

If I get this right, trust me, I did it from memory. If I get it far
wrong, you won't need to be told I did it from memory.

Chau gog-a-gog man chug-a-gog chu bunna gunga mog

This is a Native American expression, very closely associated with
Lake Webster, which is traditionally followed by the English-language
phrase, "then you die."

The Fools

- April 5
- at Point Breeze
- Webster, Massachusetts

We are told, "Great food, great dancing, great lake views.

"Call 508-943-0404."

Or get details on the Web.

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F A T
An Answer to Our Query

We received a couple excellent responses to our query about the 1970s
western Massachusetts band

- F A T.

Here is one from a very well-known scene observer, Steve Nelson of the
Music Museum of New England:

"I don't remember them doing a version of 'Rags to Riches' but I
remember Fat well. They were a terrific blues/rock/psychedelic band
with an excellent lead singer, Peter J. Newland, and I booked them
many times at the Woodrose Ballroom in 1969 and 1970. They had a 1970
album on RCA, and then a slightly different Fat lineup recorded in
1978 with producer Felix Pappalardi, who also produced Cream's
'Disraeli Gears' and of course played bass with Mountain. Fat was a
great live act, but the fates conspired against them and they never
made it. They do an occasional reunion show in western Mass. - check
out these YouTube videos from last September in Springfield - they can
still bring it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v02l4b881mQ&feature=PlayList&p=C3C724AE199EE690&index\
=4

"Peter also performs with his own band. You can buy Fat's records at

http://www.mainstrecords.com/fat/"

SOURCE: Steve Nelson, "Fat," E-Mail Message, March 28, 2008.
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I HAVE TRULY AMAZING ABILITY to type ".org" when ".net" is needed or
to type ".com" any old time whether right or wrong. So to keep me
from goofing up the Music Museum of New England Web address, why not
copy it from the posting at our own Yahoo Groups home page at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uridfm/

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THE SEA NOTE
Closing Its Doors

I did not notice the copyright notice at the bottom of the
announcement of the closing of The Sea Note until too late to ask
permission to copy that document here. I am going ahead and posting
the announcement anyway, feeling reasonably secure in the belief that
no one in the club's management would mind. To me, this is an
important news story, and I want this newsletter to help circulate it
to people - possibly a lot of people - who would not likely see the
announcement at the Sea Note's website. The Sea Note's closing
announcement is placed near the end of this newsletter on account of
the announcement's length. - Ed.

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SATURDAY NIGHT IN HARVARD SQUARE
At a Coffeehouse by the Name of
The Nameless Coffeehouse

"Please come on out and join us this Saturday night, April 5th, at
8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30) for another wonderful night of real,
hand-made music, featuring Cathy Schumer, Bird Mancini, Frank
Critelli, and Mark Greenbaum."

The Nameless Coffeehouse

- 3 Church Street
- Harvard Square
- Cambridge, Massachusetts

(across from the Harvard Square Movie Theater)
(617) 864-1630

SOURCE: M. LeBlanc, "Nameless Coffeehouse Concert April 5, 2008,"
April 2, 2008.

THANKS TO FRANK CRITELLI for being first to tip us off to this great
looking show.

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SARAH BORGES
AND THE BROKEN SINGLES
South by Southwest

"Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles just returned from the South by
Southwest tour '08. The band spent six weeks on the road, got to
visit some of their favorite places, braved blizzards in Iowa,
Wisconsin and Tennessee, a flood in Missouri and what they as
Bostonians thought was a heatwave in Texas but was really just regular
March weather for the South.

"The tour culminated in Austin, Texas, for the annual South by
Southwest music extravaganza. This year's event was a big success for
the band. We played four shows in three days - it was awesome,
hectic, memorable, rewarding, you name it. It was so exciting, we
decided to keep a diary and video blog documenting our travails. You
can check out what we did on our SXSW vacation by going to

http://sarahborges.com/news.html

We hope you will agree that the band has taken pretty well to our new
role of documentarians."

SOURCE: "Sarah Borges April Newsletter," April 1, 2008.

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LISSA SCHNECKENBURGER
At the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery
Brattleboro, Vermont
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Evidently we are not on Lissa Schneckenburger's mailing list, a thing
I must correct. Lissa is a talented fiddler/singer. But her main
contribution at this point may be her gathering together of a
first-class repertoire of traditional New England songs and dance
tunes. Her past and present home bases - Maine, Boston, southern
Vermont - are important strongholds of New England's folk community,
which ought to help her cause.

We are definitely talking local music here. Bandmate Corey DiMario
also plays bass in the Boston stringband, Crooked Still, while Keith
Murphy of the trio, Nightingale, lives just around the corner and up a
little hill from the New England Music Scrapbook World Headquarters
and Exposition Center.

The apt title of Lissa's new album is "Song," and she's looking great
on the cover. This release ought to ratchet up her career not one but
several notches. It is said that Lissa and Corey DiMario have really
connected with the southern Vermont folk dance community, and I
believe it. This sound harkens back to a local concert/dance club of
long ago called the Chelsea House Folklore Center. The modern local
folk dance scene springs from there as much as from anywhere.

Vocally, Lissa sounds a bit like Tracy Grammer, a personal favorite.
On "The Jam on Gerry's Rock," in brief passages, Lissa sings quick
grace-note runs in a vibrato with the greatest subtlety I have ever
heard. If Lissa develops this fully, she could have frightening power
over coffeehouse audiences from coast to coast.

The material on "Song" was very well selected. According to the CD's
notes, Lissa got a number of these songs from one of the best sources
possible: Phillips Barry. I believe he was based at Harvard. His
publication certainly was. He was the editor of the Bulletin of the
Folk-Song Society of the Northeast: a major resource. Now all Lissa
needs to do is learn my versions of "The Hoboes of Maine" and "Green
Mountain Boys" and nothing can stop her.

"Song" has qualities to be treasured, not least of which is that it is
strong from start to finish. Too many releases are mere collections
of songs, with those thought to have broadest appeal all crowded into
the early going. Those records run out of steam badly long before the
last cut. "Song" has no such weakness: it is Lissa Schneckenburger at
full strength from beginning to end.

Lissa's hometown CD-release show is at Brattleboro, Vermont's
Hooker-Dunham Theater on Thursday, April 17. Here is the
Hooker-Dunham newsletter's item about the show:

4/17 Lissa Schneckenburger - An evening of traditional and original
fiddle tunes and folk songs by Lissa Schneckenburger and her band
(Keith Murphy, Jeremiah McLane and Corey Dimario)

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RACHAEL SAGE

Taking South by Southwest by Storm
- and the
"Chandelier" CD

"MPRESSFEST AT SXSW WRAP-UP: 2008

"Once again, MPressFest at SXSW was a blast and the line-up and
attendance exceeded our greatest expectations! MPress unveiled 'New
Arrivals: Vol. 3' (due Fall 2008) at a glittery celebration at SOHO
Lounge featuring six NAV artists, who captured the crowd with
heartfelt, energetic performances. The bill featured The Kin, Amy
Speace & The Tearjerks, Jay Clifford, Mieka Pauley, Stephen Kellogg
and the Sixers, RGB and of course, Rachael & The Sequins.

["New Arrivals" Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are among the best pop-oriented
various artist collections I have ever heard. They are close to
"Respond," but "New Arrivals" discs have a greater element of
surprise. - Ed.]

"While Rachael was still recovering from a recent bout of pneumonia
leading into SXSW, the magic of the day - along with the fantastic
weather in Austin - helped her heal that much quicker! Thanks to all
our sponsors & to our beneficiary, National Eating Disorders
Association, for their amazing support."

Early release bookings for Rachael Sage's "Chandelier" CD are as
follows, leading up to the June 10 national issuing of the disc:

APRIL 6th @ HOTEL CAFE, 7:00 PM / LOS ANGELES (no advance tickets)

MAY 15th @ JOES PUB, 9:30 PM / NYC (purchase tickets)

JUNE 11 @ WORLD CAFE LIVE, 8:00 PM / PHILADELPHIA (purchase tickets)

SOURCE: MPress Records, "Rachael Sage: CD Release Parties ... and
More," March 31, 2008.

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MARK ERELLI
Some Favorite New CDs

ORDINARILY I ASK PERMISSION from singer-songwriter Mark Erelli before
quoting from his newsletter. He is my favorite writer of those
musicians whose writings I regularly read, and the passages I quote
tend to be extensive. Requesting permission is the way to go under
these circumstances. But this time, I simply didn't have time to ask
permission to quote from his April 2008 newsletter. So I will just
condense his comments on a few recent releases he particularly likes.

Erelli thinks the new Kris Delmhorst CD, "Shotgun Singer," is her best
album of original material. (Delmhorst set other writers' verses to
music for her wonderful collection, "Strange Coversation.")

Erelli is very high on the new release by Peter Mulvey, "Notes From
Elsewhere."

Erelli also said, when plugging "The Historical Conquests of Josh
Ritter," that he liked Ritter's band so much he used it for recording
his own album. High praise.

AS FOR THE PETER MULVEY RECORD, I personally don't know of a soul who
has heard "Notes From Elsewhere" and doesn't totally love it.
Mulvey's fans suggested making this album of solo acoustic recordings
of favorite Peter Mulvey originals, and clearly they came up with one
hot idea. He could get his crowd of fans to collectively produce his
records, if not for the fact that he has a great thing going with
David Goodrich who has quietly made himself one of New England's best
record producers.

I've got "Notes From Elsewhere" playing right now and would not
hesitate to call this one of the best records in my collection. On
the "Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Celebration DVD," among much
else, Mulvey shows that he can give six-string acoustic guitar playing
a serious kick. Mulvey's picking and strumming may be the main thing
that elevates "Notes From Elsewhere" far above other albums of
solo-acoustic versions of favorites.

"Notes From Elsewhere" is up there with Mulvey's classics, "The
Trouble With Poets" and "Ten Thousand Mornings." Compliments do not
get a lot higher.

(I am told that "Knuckleball Suite" is also among Mulvey's best CDs,
but I haven't heard it.)

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ONE OF OUR OCCASIONAL PROBLEMS has deepened. The volume of mail we
receive in our FredRemainsLost account has gone up considerably,
making it lots easier for some individual messages to get buried in a
busy inbox. In the past, I would often solve this problem, at slower
points in the week, by using the Yahoo Mail search device to retrieve
those messages which I remembered once seeing. But the Yahoo Mail
search device is not working at all in our two main newsletter accounts:

- FredRemainsLost

and

- URIDFM.

I get an error message saying that my search has failed and that Yahoo
staff members are working to fix this problem. So there is not a lot
I can do about it. Our FredRemainsLost inbox at present has over
10,000 e-mails, and looking through it for stray messages is a thing
that is just not going to happen.

If you have sent us anything that you consider to be important but you
have seen no evidence that your mailing has been noted, why not try
sending it a second time, by way of the following Web page:

http://www.geocities.com/nemsbook/fred.htm

Prior to the point where Yahoo Mail's search device stopped working
altogether, something very strange was happening. I would search on
the name,

- jeanne.

And it WOULD find messages from, or that mention, Jeanne French; but
it would NOT find messages from our public library's amazing reference
librarian, Jeanne Walsh. How odd.

Jeanne Walsh, incidentally, helps so much and so often she could make
a NEMS newsletter "thank you" list most weeks.

Thanks Jeanne!

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PRESS RELEASES AND SOME OTHER ITEMS are most often placed toward the
end of these newsletters on the strength of length. One should never
assume that just because an item comes late it is less important. On
the contrary, late in this issue comes a MAJOR item: a press release
announcing the issuing of

- GREETINGS FROM AREA CODE 207 VOL. 7.

These albums are easily among the greatest various artist local music
compilations I have ever heard. Why not scroll on down and check out
the announcement.

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If there are degrees of being out of time, I am WAY out of time. At
least two items are not here for no other reason than that I have zero
minutes left. These items are about new releases by Chris Trapper of
The Push Stars (do you suppose he signs checks "Chris Trapper of The
Push Stars"?) and Dave Crossland. There is at least one item left
over from last week, though I am drawing a blank on whatever it may
be. And then there are possible and even likely new arrivals in our
main inbox (FredRemainsLost). But now I've got to hurry back to the
mid-nineteenth century: my home away from the present moment.

I'll pick up whatever pieces I can next time.

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ANTHONY J. RESTA
- and
1990S BOSTON GUITAR HERO NUNO BETTENCOURT

"'Smart People'

"New movie with Sarah J. Parker and Dennis Quaid hits cinemas April 11
and features the Anthony J. Resta song, 'Sad.' The rest of the score
is by Nuno Bettencourt."

SOURCE: Anthony Resta, "StudioBopnique Newsletter April 08," March 28,
2008.

ANTHONY J. RESTA'S LATEST Studio Bopnique Newsletter is a true
goldmine of information. I will do my level best to remember to draw
other items from it over the next couple weeks.

For any who don't recall, Nuno Bettencourt was lead guitarist for the
1990s Boston modern-metal/hard-rock band, Extreme, which, ironically,
is most remembered for its soft, sweet, harmony-beautified ballad,
"More Than Words."

Anthony J. Resta, of course, is a much-in-demand, well-known producer.
- Ed.
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THE WAVE
New Club at Marion, Massachusetts
Featuring The Love Dogs
Friday, April 11

Club closings probably get lots more press than venue openings. When
a long-running club closes, we know a great deal about what it has
meant to us. But in the case of a recent opening, we haven't a clue:
after all, the place is new. So we will definitely mourn the loss of
The Sea Note in Massachusetts and the Middle Earth Music Hall in
Vermont. But we also ought to celebrate the new rooms. To that end,
The Love Dogs will be making a party at The Wave in Marion,
Massachusetts. Here is the announcement the L-Dogs sent:

Fri 4/11 **NEW VENUE!**
The Wave - Marion, MA
508 748-2986
www.thewaverestaurant.com

A very cool new nightclub on the south coast that's been featuring New
England's best blues, r&b and rock 'n' roll. Come early for dinner
and get a good seat - fantastic food, and NO COVER - you can't go wrong!

SOURCE: The Love Dogs, "Spring With Yo Dogs," April 2, 2008.
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SHIFTLESS ROUNDERS
"Warm Clothing Line" CD

"The Shiftless Rounders are pleased to announce the release of their
new CD, 'Warm Clothing Line.' We will be on the road throughout April
to celebrate."

SOURCE: The Shiftless Rounders, "West Coast CD Release Tour," April 2,
2008.
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THE COMING GRASS
At Portland's The Empire
April 19

One of my favorite New England bands, Maine's The Coming Grass, had a
show last (Friday) evening. Our copy of the announcement had a key
band member's name missing: Sara Cox. Sara is a songwriter of real
talent and an excellent singer who shows a thorough understanding of
the importance of subtlety. No doubt if she was not with the band
last night, her presence was missed.

I am not certain whether Sara Cox is back in the lineup for the next
show. Either way, here are details:

The Empire
575 Congress Street
Portland, Maine
Saturday, April 19, 9 PM
With special guests Brooklyn rootsy rock boys, Yarn.

http://www.yarnmusic.net/
http://www.myspace.com/portlandempire

http://www.thecominggrass.com/
http://www.myspace.com/cominggrass
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SAL BAGLIO OF THE STOMPERS (ETC.)
Creative Expression Workshop

Sal Baglio is a talented fellow, and he is an excellent selection for
these "Creative Expression Workshops," which are to be held in May at
Salem, Massachusetts. - Ed.

"CREATIVE EXPRESSION WORKSHOP with SAL BAGLIO,
Tuesday evenings 7-8:30pm

- May 6, 13, 20, 27
- The Cellar Studio
- Salem, Massachusetts

http://www.myspace.com/cellarstudio

"An interactive workshop for musicians, poets, writers, designed to
stimulate the creative process through a series of written, oral and
performance exercises.

"For more info

- http://www.juliedougherty.net/

click on 'Studio'."

SOURCE: InfoMan, "Creative Expression Workshop," March 30, 2008.
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BRIAN MINISCE
Going to the Birthday Well
One More Time

Brian Minisce, a long-time friend and musical associate of Becky
Chace, has one of those milestone birthdays coming up. That's right,
a birthday of the round-number variety. He and I have an agreement
whereby, if I don't go broadcasting his age all over the World Wide
Web, the young feller won't go broadcasting mine.

Says Becky Chace, "Happy Birthday, Brian! We'll be celebrating at
Tazza April 23rd!"

SOURCE: Chace Becky, "Happy Spring! April 2008," April 1, 2008.

If you go to the Tazza show, maybe you can get the gentleman's age,
straight from the source.
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GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE

A member in good standing of the Lewis family sent this:

In the June 08 issue of Guitar World Magazine, the cover feature is
"Perry and Slash show you how to become a real Guitar Hero." There's
also a header advertising a sneak preview of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Finally, two of the songs with tabulature in the magazine are from
Guitar Hero 3: Foghat's "Slow Ride" and Heart's "Barracuda."
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ROCK BAND
Downloadable Content

I got this item from the same source:

In a press release recently, it was announced that Rock Band had over
70 songs available for Download.
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THE DRAMAS
This Duo's Music Has
Popped Up on Television

"The Dramas songs 'Speak' and 'Somebody's Gonna Love You' were just
featured in recent episodes of the new 'High School Reunion' on TV Land."

SOURCE: March 31, 2008 Mailing From The Dramas.
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YAHOO NEWS HEADLINE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON

- Hope, panic may be overblown in outlook
- on U.S. economy

Great, now all we need is to be told that moderate points of view on
the economy are also overblown and then we will have the whole thing
covered.
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IT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION that CNN radio did an exceptionally poor
job in reporting Friday's unemployment announcement. In the first two
of their broadcasts I heard, which took place hours apart, they
carried comments from one guy - one guy expressing a doom-and-gloom
fringe of thought - with no other shade of opinion or point of view
whatsoever represented. Disaster is fast on the way. No further
discussion is needed.

It is hard to imagine how the CNN editors could possibly think this is
good reporting or is in any way in their listeners' interest.
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YAHOO NEWS HEADLINE, THURSDAY-FRIDAY OVERNIGHT

Poll: 81 percent think US on wrong track (AP)

Saying that 81 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong
track is hardly the same thing as saying that 81 percent of Americans
agree on what would be the right track. Nonetheless, since on most
questions we Americans are split a lot more nearly evenly, this poll
result is very much worth noting.
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Yahoo News Headline, Thursday morning:

- British inventor of teen-repellent device
- wants laws regulating it"

Did Batman have some apparatus to repel teens attached
to his utility belt?
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35TH PARALLEL WEBSITE
Service Interruptions This Weekend

Not long ago, we received a query for 35th Parallel contact
information, which we noted here to illustrate what appears to be a
rising problem having to do with the need to cut through Web clutter.
And we took the liberty of posting 35th Parallel contact information.
It seems apropos, then, to pass along that the group's website host
is shuffling around some servers this weekend, and the 35th Parallel
official website may be offline at times while e-mails sent to their
main contact address will be bounced. Good to know. The 35th
Parallel crew ended, saying, "Our hosting service assures us that both
the website and e-mail will be fully functional again come Monday at
the latest."

In case you have not yet heard, 35th Parallel is a terrific world
music and improvisation duo out of New Hampshire and Vermont.

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ROCK BAND
Free Download

March 31, 2008 - "Still Alive," the Jonathan Coulton song that plays
over the credits of Valve's Portal, will be available as a free Rock
Band download in April, Harmonix, MTV Games and Valve announced today.

The song will be available for the Xbox 360 on April 1 and for the
PlayStation 3 on April 17. Harmonix VP of product development Greg
LoPiccolo said the free "Still Alive" download is a "thank you" to
Rock Band fans for their support of the music game.

Including GLADoS' anthem, Rock Band boasts more than 70 downloadable
tracks, in addition to the 58 included on the disk.

I DO NOT NOT KNOW the original publication of this excerpt, but I am
running it because it names Greg LoPiccolo. It seems to me he may be
personally acquainted with both Carlene Barous of the Boston ensemble,
Temper, and JoEllen. And as if that is not enough, he was also in the
early-1990s major label rock band, Tribe.

Trust me on this, there are a lot of Tribe fans out there.

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DOMINIQUE EADE
Boston and New York: Here's Singing to You

Dominique Eade

1) is a wonderful jazz singer and educator,

2) stood sideways when playing center field for the Boston Red Sox, or

3) wrote her biography with literary help from The Singing Nun.

ANSWER: 1) Dominique Eade is a wonderful Boston-based jazz singer and
New England Conservatory of Music educator. As a baseball player, I
see her more as a utility infielder and definitely writing a brilliant
autobiography with the literary help of Bill Lee.

We get very few mailings from Dominique Eade, and most that we do
receive have to do with upcoming shows. So, if we are going to report
on her, I guess we are going to make one of our few exceptions about
doing show listings. Eade has appearances in New York and Boston in
the coming weeks. Here are details:

NEW YORK CITY:

Saturday, April 19
Cornelia Street Cafe

- Ben Monder: guitar
- Aidan Carroll: bass

29 Cornelia Street Cafe
(212) 989-9319

http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

sets at 9:00 and 10:30; $10 at the door

BOSTON:

Friday, April 25
Real Deal Jazz Club and Cafe
(at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center)

- Bruce Barth: piano
- John Lockwood: bass
- Allan Chase: saxophones

Real Deal Jazz Club
at the

- Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
- 41 Second Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts

7:00 p.m. (one set)
$16; $12 for students

http://water-music.com/schedule.html

tickets: 617-876-7777

Saxophonist Allan Chase is probably on a lot of our records. He is
definitely one of The J.P. Horns, an instrumental quartet that
brilliantly closes out the Mickey O'Halloran compilation, "Bo-Town
Does Mo-Town," with a Circe Miller arrangement of James Brown's "Cold,
Cold Sweat."

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GREETINGS FROM AREA CODE 207 VOL. 7
Press Release

WBLM, Cornmeal and Shipyard to release new GFAC 207 CD April 22.

102.9 WBLM-FM and Cornmeal Records, in association with Shipyard
Brewing Company, Casco Bay Brewing Company and The Inn On Peaks
Island, are proud to announce the April 22, 2008 release of Greetings
From Area Code 207 - Volume 7, a compilation CD of Maine musical
artists. As with volumes 1 through 6 (compilation CDs released in
2000-2005), 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit The St Lawrence
Arts Center on Munjoy Hill in Portland. The six volumes (plus a
best-of CD, Maine Tracks, released by Bangor Savings Bank in 2007)
have raised over $100,000 to date. Headlining Volume 7 are previously
unreleased songs by Ray Lamontagne, Rustic Overtones, Phantom Buffalo,
Sara Cox, The Coming Grass, As Fast As, The Boneheads, Darien Brahms,
Adam Gardner (from Guster), Jon Nolan, Steve Jones and Seekonk, along
with 9 others. The disc was mastered at the world famous Gateway
Mastering studios in Portland by Grammy Award winning engineer Adam
Ayan. This new installment will be available at all Bull Moose stores
(located throughout Maine and in Portsmouth and Salem NH) and at
Borders Books and Music in South Portland. It will be available
on-line at www.bullmoose.com and at www.cornmealrecords.com.

"I guess I say this each time we release one of these compilations,
but this is the best one yet" said Charlie Gaylord, the CD's executive
producer and principal of Cornmeal Records. "It is a testament to our
local musicians and music scene that, pound for pound, we continue to
produce music that compares favorably with any city in the country".

Of special note on Volume 7 are the two live tracks recorded at One
City Center by Ray Lamontagne and Rustic Overtones. Lamontagne, with a
solo acoustic song, is appearing on his fourth consecutive GFAC 207 CD
and The Overtones recording is from their historic comeback show held
on July 27, 2007 on the BLM patio, overlooking Monument Square, in
front of an estimated 6,000 fans. These two tracks are not available
anywhere else.

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JOAN BAEZ
Autographed Guitar
In a Club Passim Fundraiser

In the late 1950s, the New England folk community was launched out of
a room that until lately had been a jazz coffeehouse, Club 47, and the
success of Joan Baez was the main driving force.

Though there was a little break in the action, Club 47 is, to a
degree, the same place as Harvard Square's Club Passim.

This Joan Baez autographed guitar auction is right at the heart of
Club Passim's own tradition.

Joan Baez is among a handful of the acts - Barry and the Remains, the
J. Geils Band, Aerosmith - that most influenced our music.

This auction ought to be one of the hot events of the season.

Here is the press release we received:

Joan Baez Autographed Guitar

To Celebrate Club Passim's 50th Anniversary, Ben & Jerry's Harvard
Square has donated a beautiful 1970's Harmony Acoustic Guitar
decorated by local artist Tabitha Fitzsimmons. To commemorate the
event Joan Baez signed the guitar during her visit to Cambridge where
she played a very special concert celebrating not only Club Passim's
50th Anniversary, but also her 50th Anniversary as a performer.

Proceeds from the auction are being donated to Passim Folk Music &
Cultural Center's Culture for Kids Program. Culture for Kids, created
by Club Passim in 1999, is a free, monthly, multicultural program
whose goals are to provide children with exposure to other cultures
and peoples. An emphasis is placed on children who may not have the
benefit of cultural and artistic opportunities in their schools or
communities. For more info on the program go to
http://www.clubpassim.org/cultureforkids/

Thank you Ben & Jerry's Harvard Square for your support!

Make a bid or spread the word!

http://www.cmarket.com/auction/AuctionHome.action?vhost=benjerrycambridge

SOURCE: Susan Scotti, "Bid on a Handpainted Acoustic Guitar Signed by
Joan Baez," April 3, 2008.

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JOHN STEWART: RIP
A Reminiscence of Dave Crossland

I WAS AND STILL AM A HUGE FAN of Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio. I
never paid a lot of attention to John Stewart, the guy who was hired
on to replace him. That is, until I bought the last Lovin' Spoonful
vinyl single to do much commercially, "Never Going Back to Nashville,"
which was written by Stewart. That record is all it took to get my
attention.

For diehard fans, John Stewart's life and career were truly much
bigger than the sum of the parts. Stewart was a romantic figure, in
the old-fashioned sense of sweeping stories with heroes and villains
and action. Stewart told just this sort of story, dealt with big
subjects, and did it all against a backdrop as panoramic as America.
The man was also hilarious. His tales about going out for a pack of
cigarettes and learning to play electric guitar are among the funniest
stories I have ever heard.

It is a cliche but also perfectly true in this case that people who
liked John Stewart loved him. He was a singer and a songwriter and a
banjo picker and a man with a bold vision and he represented a way of
life - a better way of life - to a lot of people.

Here is some of what Dave Crossland said about John Stewart for one of
his (Crossland's) recent mailings:

John Stewart: Hero, Mentor and Friend

As many of you all know, I hit the road in January for a three-week
tour around America's West and Midwest. Overall, it was a great tour.
I played Sundance again, saw a lot of friends, old and new, and came
back with a bunch of stories. But two days into it, I got a call and
learned that my friend and greatest musical hero had suffered a stroke
in California. It wasn't the kind of thing that a person survives,
and the next morning, my phone rang again.

The papers and the music rags describe him as a member of the Kingston
Trio and author of "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees, who had a
top-10 hit in the '70s with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. But
Johnny Stew was much more than that, he was an iconic American artist
who has touched people all over the globe. He was also a hero of mine
who, at a very tumultuous time in my life, took me under his wing and
reminded me how to dream. ... But suffice it to say that John was a
great friend and teacher. We played, recorded, and toured together,
and I can't believe he's gone. Godspeed, Johnny Dreams, you will be
missed for a long, long time."

SOURCE: Dave Crossland Mailing, April 1, 2008.

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OLD NEW YORK AND RURAL MANHATTAN

Research I am doing concerning the nineteenth-century American popular
music group, the Alleghanians, continues to produce fascinating views
of old New York.

In the early days, New York's population was concentrated very heavily
on a relatively small part of lower Manhattan. A four-story house at
444 Broadway was at the northern end of a stagecoach line that carried
passengers up and down Broadway - part of Broadway. Can you picture
444 Broadway being at the northern edge of the city? I certainly cannot.

In the first decades of the Early Republic, Philadelphia, not NYC, was
the biggest city in the young country. But New York grew fast and
steadily.

444 Broadway ceased being on the outer limits of New York and,
instead, grew close to the heart of the entertainment district.

A man named Miller developed 444 and the next several lots, opening up
the Assembly Rooms which ran across the top floors of several adjacent
buildings. There was a ballroom and supper rooms where great meetings
of the day were held.

The auditorium downstairs at 444 Broadway became a pivotal hall in the
history of minstrelsy, until the building and its neighbors were
destroyed by fire in 1854. The new structure at 444 Broadway was
variously used as an early variety theater, a concert hall, a dramatic
theater, a home for burlesque, and no doubt much more. It is where
Robert Heller, easily one of the greatest magicians in United States
and United Kingdom history, operated his Salle Diobolique. This was
at a time after the scandal, which the New York Times called the
"pretty waiter girl nuisance," centered on 444 Broadway and before
some of the same people - but at different locations - set off the
can-can dancing scandal of the 1870s.

The right to put on burlesque shows may seem like an odd cause, though
members of the Boston Babydolls may think otherwise. It is a simple
fact though, shown clearly enough in my own research results, that
some people in the 1860s and 1870s were willing to go to jail over
this very issue and a few actually did go to jail.

It was a wild time along Broadway, as the population of lower
Manhattan first exploded and then got pushed out to the upper reaches
of the island and to neighboring cities by the demands for space for
business interests.

It is amusing that the lower Broadway address of Niblo's Garden was
considered to be out in the country in the late 1820s. But the same
was true of the Crystal Palace in 1854, when P.T. Barnum was trying to
draw crowds to that rural site - way, way out in the countryside. Do
you know where the Crystal Palace was? Right next door to the current
location of the New York Public Library's main branch. Rural America.

Prior to his death in 1886, retired theatrical manager William Stuart
found tree-lined streets and uncrowded living farther up Manhattan at
120th street.

The Manhattan frontier kept getting pushed farther and farther north.


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THE SEA NOTE
Sounds the Closing Bell

Sea Note
159 Nantasket Avenue
Nantasket Beach, MA 02045
781-925-4300

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END and the Sea note is no exception.

After 14 years of presenting some of Greater Boston's best live music,
the time has come for us to fold our tent and move on to other
adventures. Before we go, there are a number of people we'd like to
thank and acknowledge.

TO OUR REGULAR BANDS: Fat City, the Love Dogs, Jeff Pitchell, Barrence
Whitfield, Toni Lynn Washington, Steve Smith & the Nakeds, the Roger
Ceresi All Starz, Bellevue Cadillac, The Swinging Steaks and Mission
of Blues, to name a few, we thank you for your outstanding
musicianship and the many years of memorable performances.

TO THE TOURING BANDS: Big Jack Johnson, Magic Slim, the Nighthawks,
Li'l Ed, Mitch Woods, Eddie Kirkland, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Sleepy
LaBeef, Terrence Simien and Commander Cody, again, to name a few, we
thank you for making the trek to our little suburban club and showing
those big city venues they had nothing on us.

TO THE REGIONAL/LOCAL BANDS: like Sugar Ray Norcia, Entrain, Johnny
Hoy & the Bluefish, Duke Robillard, Forgetful Jones, Chris Fitz, the
Funky White Honkies, Young Neal & the Vipers, The Incredible Casuals,
Urban Renewal and Slippery Sneakers, we thank you for gracing our
stage with your diverse sounds and exceptional talent.

TO OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS: Turt, Trish, Carmen, Kevin, Vinny, Susan,
Chris, Mike, Mikey, Alex, Leila, Diana, Paul, Ron, Judy, Kenny, Scott,
Tucker, Arpy, Neil, John, Bob, Michael, Jim, Jennifer, Tom, Tasha,
Bob, Jerry, Lynn, Diane, Doug, Brian and the list goes on and on and
on... We thank all of you for your continuous enthusiasm,
encouragement and patronage. And to Kenny and Leslie, we bestow our
own Independent Spirit award for seldom missing a new act, trusting
that they'd never hear a bad band at the Sea Note.

TO OUR FRIENDS IN THE MEDIA: We thank the only real music writers,
Steve Morse for years of Boston Globe support and Kathleen McKenna for
her thoughtful and in depth Globe South articles. And more thanks to
WATD's Peter Black, Ramblin' Sam, Paul Wanner, WZLX's Carter Allen and
WBOS's Holly Harris for supporting the local music scene and a
posthumous thanks to WGBH's Blues After Hours DJ the late Mai Cramer
for all her support in our early years.

TO THE SEA NOTE STAFF: Our very own lovable dysfunctional family -
Barbara, Eric, Jimmy, Sheila, Bruce, Greg, Lana, Kate, Kasyo, Janice
and Bob, we thank you for all your years of loyalty, support and hard
work; for the laughter, the parties and the stories behind the
stories; for countless encore calls for "One More" and enough birthday
cakes to last a lifetime. We love you guys, you were the best.

TO OUR NAYSAYERS: Yeah, we had a few, and they know we know who they
are. To them, we give an extra special thanks for motivating us to
work harder, be better and succeed despite their ill will. Success
really is the best revenge.

And last but not least, to Carrott, Gene, Jim, K.D., Tao, Jackie, Jake
and everyone else that made the Sea Note a lot more than just a
business, we thank all of you for 14 unforgettable years and a truly
great adventure.

See you on the dance floor and don't forget "without music life would
be a mistake!"

Paula & Joe

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