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February 3, 2007
Issue 2007:207

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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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Oh, doggone, I forgot to get into the latest CD by Vermont's

THE DIRTMINERS,

and now I'm totally out of time and then some. I'll try to get back
to it next week. The new record, "American Typewriter," is quite a
good deal and it is deserving of some attention in these cyberpages.
For the moment, suffice it to say that a tickler EP or demo that came
out earlier seemed quite promising, but "American Typewriter" is
better than I expected. CD-release shows are in the works, and
spirits are high in old Vermont.


I'M MAKING A LATE START
WE'RE HEADED FOR THE HASTY PART...

LATELY, several of the musicians I have interviewed have responded to
my questions with questions of their own. For instance...

I assure you that one of the sharpest people out there is Crooked
Still's and Sometymes Why's

AOIFE O'DONOVAN.

Aoife has given amazing answers to some of my questions. When I asked
what is unique or most nearly unique about a Crooked Still concert,
she gave an answer that was entirely different from everyone else's.
Entirely.

So anyway, this fit into a question I needed to ask; and in response,
I was asked what Aoife said.

Piece of cake to answer, since it was the generality of what she said,
not necessarily the specifics, that made her answer so unusual.
Aoife's reply had nothing at all to do with writing, arranging,
playing, or singing music. Everyone else concentrates on how their
music is the thing that makes their shows unique. Aoife didn't even
touch it. This is all the more remarkable when one considers that she
has a really solid music education and performing background.
Instead, she talked about the personalities and the rapport that makes
Crooked Still the band it is. It was a very interesting and unique
response to an interesting question about uniqueness. Credit Aoife O
for original thinking.

However, someone just asked an entirely different question and I
tried, and tried, and tried some more to give a concise response and
just couldn't do it. A brief answer to this woman's question may not
be possible. I wasted a lot of time, I now know in hindsight, trying
to find a brief answer. And now it has got me running much worse
behind even than usual.

So I had better get right into it.

We received only about half as much local music news by e-mail this
week. BUT...


We received several really great records.


NEW ARRIVALS VOL. 1

The record playing at the very time of this writing is a various
artists fund-raiser compilation,

NEW ARRIVALS VOL. 1

and this is one of the best VA collections I have heard in recent
years. Vols. 1 and 2 are both great, but Vol. 1 is the one I
personally like best. So far anyway. Favorite cuts include:

Paul Brill, "New Pagan Love Song"

Michal, "Desireless"

Pharaoh's Daughter, "Change Your Mind"

Noe Venable, "Juniper"

I am not familiar with the music of any of these artists, and that
goes for nearly everyone else on both these discs.

Many of the lesser gems on "New Arrivals Vol. 1" could be the
most-treasured cuts on other really good compilations. They would not
be lesser gems on another set.

If there is some reason to not absolutely love

RACHAEL SAGE

I'll have to get back to you. I haven't found it yet. These "New
Arrival" collections came out on Sage's own MPress Records label.


TEMPER

Pretty doesn't mean wallpaper
Pete Sutton holds onto his Temper
By BRETT MILANO
January 30, 2007 5:22:43 PM
In this week's Boston Phoenix

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid32584.aspx

Well,

TEMPER,

temper. What have we here? This piece was definitely not on the
Boston Phoenix music section online table of contents Thursday
morning. I already knew about this piece and looked for it three
times on Thursday.

Thanks to

PETE SUTTON

for sending a link. I've never heard Temper, but one of its members,
Carlene Barous, is a personal favorite. So this is one of the main
articles this week that I suggest giving a look.

AND ... the Phoenix notice was written by another personal favorite,
the great Brett Milano.

What more do we have to say...


MARDI GRAS BALL
Way down on the levee
In old Cambridge Em Aye

There's Daddy and Mammy, There's Shaun and Suzi ... Fortunately, one
of the items we received by e-mail this week is a developed (to say
the least) announcement of the upcoming Boston-Cambridge area

MARDI GRAS BALL

a New England institution of long standing that, this year, is
featuring a New England institution of even longer standing,

WILLIE "LOCO" ALEXANDER.

On a moon light night you can find them all. While they are waitin'
the banjos are syncopatin'...


KNOCKS FROM THE UNDERGROUND

A snapshot in 16 songs
A new CD encapsulates the best of Boston's unsung music scene

By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | February 2, 2007
In Friday's Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/02/02/a_snapshot_in_16_son\
gs/?page=full

I'll bet this headline made a lot of sense to the person who wrote it,
given the compilation's name. But when one considers how severely the
Boston Globe has cut its local music coverage since Steve Morse's
departure, I'd have to call the Globe headline inadvisable unless some
form of confession is intended as to who is doing the UN-singing. But...

This piece was written by Jonathan Perry, a Globe correspondent who
has done his part and more to keep Boston local sounds before the public.


SOUNDS LOCAL
By Sheryl Hunter
The Recorder
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Arts & Entertainment pullout section

Sheryl Hunter's "Sounds Local" column in The Recorder out of
Greenfield, Massachusetts is almost always about local music, hence
the name. But many of the artists whose addresses are local to
Sheryl's area have national and even international reputations.

Once in a Brattleboro waiting room I was talking with a woman. The
subject of music came up quickly. And though it took a while, for me,
for it to sink in, it seems she was telling me that her husband was

MAX ROACH.

A couple minutes later, THE Max Roach - one of the most acclaimed
drummers in all jazz history - walked right by me in the hall. He was
teaching, at the time, at UMass-Amherst and may still be. Making him
then and possibly now local to Sheryl's area.

So anyway, Sheryl's column is local in a conventional sense but
regional, national, and sometimes international in other important ways.

And Sheryl's column is about to go interstellar.

That's right. We are told "Sounds Local" FINALLY is going to be
posted on the Web.

THIS is an idea whose time has come ... and gone ... and come again.

We hope that individual issues of "Sounds Local" will be left online
long enough that it would work for us to post a link here. But either
way, it will be great to not have to work so hard to track down
Sheryl's column in hardcopy.

We'll see how it goes.


INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION
List of Finalists

http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm

"ISC is pleased to announce its 2006 finalists and semi-finalists

http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm

"Winners will be announced in March 2007."

[Why it is that the Web address, itself, is marked for winners while
the HTML page's title is given as Contact is anyone's guess.]

This lengthy list names many New England-based songwriters and
probably a decent representation of ex-New Englanders.


PRIOR TO REACHING THIS POINT in the rough draft of this issue, it
became apparent that I would run out of time. And from here on, I
have to do this the fastest way possible.

STEPHEN KELLOGG

DAVE MADELONI's column in Thursday's Arts & Entertainment section of
our local newspaper, the Brattleboro Reformer, is about

STEPHEN KELLOGG

and his band, The Sixers named, I have always imagined, for former
UMass-Amherst basketball superstar Julius Erving - the legendary
Doctor J. I could be wrong about this being the origin of the band's
name. Just a thought.

Poster Child for the Long, Slow Slog to Stardom
Brattleboro Reformer
A&E Section
Thursday, February 1, 2007

ANAIS MITCHELL

On any scale of coolness, Vermont singer-songwriter

ANAIS MITCHELL

registers well beyond "Coolest." I know: I recently interviewed her.

Covering All the Bases
Anais Mitchell and Michael Merenda
Club Passim
January 5, 2007
By Jeff Breeze
January 30, 2007
[Evidently I've got nothing on Jeff Breeze and/or the Boston Phoenix
when it comes to running late.]

THE MERCY BROTHERS

So there I was at our town's library sitting at a public-access
computer and explaining to my neighbor on the next machine that my
research is all about the 19th-century and its music while Barrence
Whitfield of the

MERCY BROTHERS

was staring out at me from my screen. It may have suggested to my
neighbor a hole in my story.

Across Countries
The Mercy Brothers' Mike Dinallo Gets Around
By Bob Gulla
The Providence Phoenix
January 30, 2007

Dinallo remembers playing the Mole's Eye in this town. It could be he
remembers, too, playing clubs and listening rooms in all of your
towns. The man has gotten around.

JAKE ROCHE
Late of Jeremiah Freed

Survivor: Portland
By Sam Pfeifle
In the Portland Phoenix
January 31, 2007

JEREMIAH FREED headed west.

JAKE ROCHE

stayed in Portland. That is pretty nearly all I know. But since
Jeremiah Freed has been a very popular Maine band, it seems likely
this column will interest many of our readers.

Hotline:
Rosenberg Sets His Sights on Nashville
By Michael Marotta
Boston Herald
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Of course, we have already noted one or possibly even two news items
about Brett Rosenberg leaving Boston for Nashville. The Brett
Rosenberg Problem seems to be that Boston is a very expensive city and
anyway he needs a change of scenery. The Nashville skyline should
provide it.

WBCN ROCK AND ROLL RUMBLE

I am surprised to learn that the Rumble at the Rat is moving and that,
in fact, the Rat isn't even at the Rat anymore. It's amazing how much
can change when you look away for a few decades.

"Names"
'BCN Rumble Jumps Ship to Harpers Ferry
By Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan
The Boston Globe
January 31, 2007
Gee, I must have this item somewhere else in this issue, though for
some reason I seem to be missing it at the moment. Just to be sure,
here is the direct Web address:

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/01/31/bcn_rumble_jumps_ship_to_\
harpers_ferry/

Hotline:
There's a Rumble in Allston
Michael Marotta
Boston Herald
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Not only does this Boston Herald piece cover the return of the

WBCN ROCK 'N' ROLL RUMBLE

to Boston, but it also has an item about

SARAH BORGES

signing to Sugar Hill Records. Woo woo! Good for you Sarah B!

SULLY ERNA
And we certainly are glad that the Boston Herald didn't run the risk
of doing anything crazy like setting a precedent by cross-referencing
this piece to the Music section.

Lawrence Nightingale
Godsmack Singer Writes About Life and Crime
on the Mean Streets of His Hometown
By Dave Wedge
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

PATTY GRIFFIN
Folkie Griffin Takes Flight
With Rip-Roaring "Children"
By Christopher John Treacy
Monday, January 29, 2007

PATTY GRIFFIN is pretty doggone fantastic when she is rockin'. I
take this headline to be a good sign.


PATTY GRIFFIN

Music Review
Road-testing new material, Griffin's right on course
Patty Griffin performed many new songs as well as older material.

By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | February 1, 2007
In Thursday's Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/02/01/road_testing_new_material_gri\
ffins_right_on_course/


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BRIEF ITEMS :


The
ORCHESTRA LUNA
Reissue

Noted With Evident Surprise
By Rick Berlin

"Peter Muir in the UK has somehow persuaded SONY/UK to re-release the
'Orchestra Luna' album. Not sure of all the details, but I was asked
t write about the origins of that band, my first, in all it's bizarre
beginnings. If ya want t read what I wrote, it's here:

http://www.rickberlin.com/writing/index.html

-- Rick Berlin, "Berlin Experiences Early
'Sometimers,'" January 31, 2007

Great news. I'm a bit confused, though. Isn't "Orchestra Luna" in
print already? I could have sworn that Amazon.com has been listing it.


THE WEEPIES

"In February, look for 'World Spins Madly On'

[by THE WEEPIES]

to be featured in the new Diane Keaton/Mandy Moore film, 'Because I
Said So.'"

-- The Weepies, "Just Got Home From the
New Year's Party," January 29, 2007


BILL MORRISSEY

"I hold my musical heroes near me at all times."

-- "Mark Erelli February 2007 Newsletter,"
February 1, 2007

MARK ERELLI

started this month's newsletter with a heartfelt account of totally
losing his composure when meeting his musical heroes. Chief among
them is New Hampshire's

BILL MORRISSEY.

Evidently there is news posted on the Web that Morrissey is at present
involved in inpatient alcoholism rehab, and we wish him all the luck
in the world and beyond.

Morrissey is a regional treasure. He has written so many great songs
over the years that, if this was a test of some sort, we would be
tempted to accuse him of cheating. His career overview, "The
Essential Collection" (Rounder), is a must-have set with songs running
the whole range from dead serious to ridiculously funny.

When it comes to answering questions, Morrissey is the most focused
artist I have ever interviewed.

And whether or not he is, I don't know, but Morrissey really OUGHT to
be an inspiration to songwriters everywhere for his ability to edit
and polish his songs. His skill at telling a whole story in a very
few words is astonishing. It is no wonder that he is widely admired
by some of our country's most acclaimed prose writers.

This rehab story is very serious business.

For years I took hospital patients to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings,
and I hold the organization in very high regards. AA has saved a lot
of lives, and I know a lot of the people whose lives it has saved.
Inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation has done the same.

But the Mark Erelli piece was not as sober, so to speak, as this item
in our newsletter might make it seem. His stories of making a fool of
himself when meeting his musical heroes is very funny in a
characteristically subtle sort of way. If you can get your hands on a
copy, I recommend giving the latest Mark Erelli newsletter a look.

And again, best of luck to Bill Morrissey.


LISA MARTIN
Concert Recording
Live at the Iron Horse Music Hall

"So the BIG NEWS ... is the live show

[by LISA MARTIN]

at the Iron Horse Music Hall which will be recorded ... multi-tracked
to be specific ... and will result in my next CD offering to all of
you. Please join me and make lots of noise (after the songs, of
course) and be part of this musical project. Joining me will be my
regular band mates for part of the night: Mike Young (electric
guitar), Bill Newton (bass) and Brad Willard (drums). Then, I have
some special guests joining me for the rest of the show: Jim Henry
(who is touring with Mary Chapin-Carpenter this summer! electric
guitar, lap steel and dobro), Guy Devito (bass [ex-Fat]), Billy Klock
(drums) and Derrick Jordan (violin). These guys have been involved
with numerous award winning musical projects. Hopefully, mine will be
one of them! Tickets are $12 and available NOW at the Northampton Box
Office 1-800-THE-TICK or through me."

-- "Lisa Martin Live CD Recording,"
January 31, 2007


AMY FAIRCHILD
A 2006 Billboard
World Song Contest Winner

"The song, 'Mr. Heart,' from the album of the same name, has just won
first prize in the Americana/Folk Cateogry in the 2006 Billboard World
Song Contest. This is the second award given to this song, co-written
with Adam Steinberg. Last year it took an honorable mention in the
Folk Cateogry in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Once again, I'm
honored and grateful. I encourage all of you songwriters out there to
SUBMIT to songwriting contests if you don't already. It's paid off
hugely for me and could for you too! Check out this link for details
and other winners:

http://www.billboardsongcontest.com/

"And ... recording for the new record will start on February 19th ...
stay tuned for more progress on that!"

-- Amy Fairchild, "'Mr. Heart' Takes First Place
in Billboard World Song Contest,"
January 28, 2007


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SOMETYMES WHY

The Who of Sometymes Why
By Alan Lewis
Special to the Vermont Guardian

Vermont Guardian
February 2, 2007
Culture Section, Page 17

When this trio's debut album, "Sometimes Why," first came out, group
member Aoife O'Donovan sent me a copy, and I became a fan right away.
I have tried time and time again to create an opportunity to write up
these gals only to have my best efforts fail ... until now.

I got to interview Kristin Andreassen, who is also a member of the
stringband, Uncle Earl, and the whole thing was pretty neat.

Some of our circa-1980 Boston folk will remember Mark Andreassen of
the punk-rock band,

LA PESTE.

Sad to say, as far as she knows, Kristin Andreassen is no relation.
She is pretty neat anyway, though: a known Yellow Car Superstar.

I actually haven't yet checked to make sure, but I believe this item
is hardcopy only. If you can get hold of the paper in hardcopy,
chances are decent that you will find

SOMETYMES WHY (note the name's spelling change)

to be an engaging folk-noir threesome.


MARDI GRAS BALL
Saturday, February 17
TT the Bear's Place

Shaun & Suzi's 14th Annual Mardi Gras Ball
Saturday, Feb. 17 at T.T. The Bear's Place
10 Brookline Ave., Central Sq. Cambridge, MA

$12. Proceeds benefit the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic. (Tickets are
available in advance via TicketWeb.)

Fourteen years running, Shaun & Suzi's Annual Mardi Gras Ball is a
celebration of both New Orleans' music, and of the Boston rock music
scene's diversity and abilities. It is a magnificent evening of
debauchery, music, art, and more. Shaun Wolf Wortis and Suzi Lee lead
a large band through a night of the irreverent and quirky R&B music
which exploded out of New Orleans in the 1950's. Local rock
luminaries - come up to join them for a few songs each throughout the
night.

Proceeds go to help New Orleans musicians ravaged by Katrina.

Great band this year - all of Slide (S&S, Ken Schopf, Dimitri Fane),
Paul Ahlstrand, Chandler Travis, Mark Sanchez, Joe Stewart, Jacques
Pardo, Danny Heath, and Brian O'Neill; Bertrand Laurence joins us on
guitar for some of the old jazz tunes; great guest singers, and many
surprises.

SPECIAL GUESTS - MARDI GRAS XIV

Wlllie Alexander

Local rock legend Willie Alexander performs at the Mardi Gras for the
first time. Willie's musical history is nonpareil, having played with
The Lost, The Bagatelle and The Grass Menagerie before becoming a
member of The Velvet Underground. After leaving The VU, he enjoyed
both a solo career and one with his Boom Boom Band, that lasts to this
day.

Willie has quite a long association with Slide, opening for Slide at
their first CD (Forgiving Buckner) release show. Slide later covered
his "WKD" on their second record.

Andrea Gillis

Andrea Gillis is a much a local rock star as there's been, and for
obvious reasons. She's the bomb, anyone who's heard her sing can tell
you that. Andrea has performed at Bastille Day shows in the past, but
this is her first Mardi Gras, oddly.

We're pleased to announce that Andrea and Dennis Brennan will perform
their first ever duet at this year's Mardi Gras Ball.

"Belting out an old-style mix of R&B, soul and garage-rock takes guts.
She's Got them." - The Boston Globe

"Gillis has been blessed with the pipes of Etta James and the boozy
swagger of Jim Morrison" - The Boston Globe

"She's pure dynamite" - Soundcheck Magazine

"Her vocals are simply spectacular" - The Boston Herald

"Her vocals have the power of rock, the emotion of blues, and the
surprising improvisational skill of jazz" - The Patriot Ledger

Dennis Brennan

Dennis Brennan celebrates the release of his new CD, "Engagement"
(Hi-N-Dry) featuring both studio recordings and live recordings from
his residency stint at Cambridge's Lizard Lounge.

"Divided equally into studio and live tracks, the diversity is
stunning as he takes listeners on a journey that comes from the
gut."--Steve Morse, longtime Boston Globe reviewer and cohost of
"Morse on Music," WBOS-FM.

"Lonesome, ornery and great."--Peter Guralnick, author DREAM BOOGIE,
The Triumph of Sam Cooke and LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS, The Rise of Elvis
Presley.

Dennis also, while a veteran of the Bastille Day show in the summer
has never played a Mardi Gras. This year, not only does Dennis sing,
but we get a duet with Andrea, their first ever. Expect the best.

Bourbon Princess

Monique Ortiz' Bourbon Princess play rich, cinematic, and often darkly
psychedelic rock with hues of New Romantic, post-punk, and flourishes
touches of jazz and sixties rock.

After a break this year where Monique launched a solo CD, and another
project (A.K.A.C.O.D. with Dana Colley and Larry Dersch), BP returns
to start off this year's Mardi Gras Ball with an opening set.

Sal Clemente

Sal Clemente and his Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra has caused a stir in
the scene for the past couple of years with hugely successful
performances of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Clemente's original "A
Night At The Rock Opera"

"From the pink hair to the platform boots, the glam face paint to the
slinky gowns, and the people dancing everywhere, the spectacle on the
Regent Theatre stage seems more a party than an opera ... one big
party with live music, courtesy of a killer band made up of no fewer
than 18 singers and eight musicians... Together they are an insanely
versatile outfit capable of bringing off even the most intricate of
rock pieces - say, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" - with effortless ease,
lighthearted humor, and an audacious display of vocal prowess." --
Boston Globe

"Let's be honest: The proper way to receive your rock 'n' roll is in
anthemic waves of fist-clenched bombast, replete with tight leather
pants, epilepsy-inducing stage lighting and a set list that favors
Bowie, Queen & 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Only a handful of bands are
licensed to rock you that hard. And a band like the seven-musician,
eighteen-singer Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, whose
glam-bam-thank-you-ma'am rocktastic thunder literally made Andrew
Lloyd Webber's head explode, certainly has that license." -- The Metro

Bo Barringer

Bo Barringer returns to the Mardi Gras after a fabulous rendition of
Sugar Boy Crawford's "Overboard" a couple of years ago. The tune made
sense - a raw frantic proto-punk R&B gush - very much like Bo's music.
Bo plays with the Collisions, who sound like Cheap Trick playing a
prom with Fugazi before getting beat up in the parking lot by the
Cramps. Something like that. Smart, well-written songs that rock...
Steamy Bohemians

The Steamy Bohemians

The Steamies are one of the best female duos in Boston. Combining
strikingly original yet catchy musical tunes and rich vocal harmonies.
Always with tounge-in-cheek, and just a little naughty.

This Mardi Gras the Steamies allow the band to try something they've
always wanted: a suite of songs by 60's NOLA-based girl group Dixie Cups.

Gonna be awesome.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT

As always we're delighted to present another great bill for this
year's Mardi Gras Ball. We hope everyone will put Februrary 17 on
their calendars, and come on out for a great night of music and
drinking and fun, and a great cause. The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic
is a great organization and we're proud to try to help other musicians
in need, especially those who've been hit so hard in the past year and
a half.

Thanks always for your support, and hope to see ya on the 17th!

Cheers,
--Shaun & Suzi, and da band

-- Shaun Wolf Wortis, "Shaun & Suzi's 14th Annual
Mardi Gras Ball," January 29, 2007

Oh, what's that they're sayin'
Oh, what's that they're sayin'
I'm hummin' and swayin'
Oh, while they keep playin'...

No doubt I should have found a Louisiana song. But once I get started
on "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee," it can be hard to stop.


SESSION AMERICANA
"Beer Town"
CD-Release Shows

Thursday, March 8th 9:00 PM
CD Release Shows for "Beer Town, The Table Top Collective Vol. 3"
Lizard Lounge
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
http://www.lizardloungeclub.com/main.html
Session Americana's new Cd will be released at our home base for the
past year. Tickets will be available on http://www.virtuous.com

Friday, March 9th 9:00 PM
CD Release Shows for "Beer Town, The Table Top Collective Vol. 3"
Lizard Lounge
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
http://www.lizardloungeclub.com/main.html
Session Americana's new Cd will be released at our home base for the
past year. Tickets will be available on http://www.virtuous.com.
more events at http://sessionamericana.com/index.php?page=calendar

-- Session Americana Mailing, February 1, 2007


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