Live music has been virtually wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic. So to help out the talent agencies, management firms, artists and live touring companies fighting to stay alive, a fundraiser featuring some superstar guitars is on auction.
The nonprofit National Independent Talent Organization (Nito) is behind the effort, launching a Guitar and Stringed Instruments Auction. Starting today and running through Sunday, December 13, the auction is open to the public and will help raise crucial funds for Nito’s continued efforts to ensure that the live touring industry has a united voice in Washington D.C. and in a rapidly changing economy.
A selection of guitars and stringed instruments will be on auction from George Benson, Leon Bridges, David Bromberg, Mike Doughty, Fall Out Boy, Steve Forbert, Tom Higgenson/Plain White T’s, Jack Johnson, Will Kimbrough, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Tommy Lee, Nick Lowe, Steve Martin, J Mascis, John Mellencamp,...
The nonprofit National Independent Talent Organization (Nito) is behind the effort, launching a Guitar and Stringed Instruments Auction. Starting today and running through Sunday, December 13, the auction is open to the public and will help raise crucial funds for Nito’s continued efforts to ensure that the live touring industry has a united voice in Washington D.C. and in a rapidly changing economy.
A selection of guitars and stringed instruments will be on auction from George Benson, Leon Bridges, David Bromberg, Mike Doughty, Fall Out Boy, Steve Forbert, Tom Higgenson/Plain White T’s, Jack Johnson, Will Kimbrough, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Tommy Lee, Nick Lowe, Steve Martin, J Mascis, John Mellencamp,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Just because I gave you the best dozen first, don't think that Part 2 can be skipped. Albums 13-25 get more interesting, because they're less obvious choices.
13. Chris Smither: Hundred Dollar Valentine (Signature Sounds)
Veteran folkie with bluesy leanings makes yet another superb album, for the first time using only his own songs. Review here.
14. Raymond Byron and the White Freighter: Little Death Shaker (Asthmatic Kitty)
Castanets frontman's more rockin' project still plumbs emotional depths. Review here.
15. Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur (Zoe/New Rounder/Concord)
"[M]oodily bittersweet songs with catchy melodies, sung with tightly coiled intensity by a woman with a haunting voice." Review here.
16. Grizzly Bear: Shields (Warp)
Brooklyn favorites who went national a few years ago follow up not by playing it safe, but by using an edgier production style that retains their strengths while providing more challenging and compelling listening.
17. Frankie Rose: Interstellar (Slumberland)
The noise,...
13. Chris Smither: Hundred Dollar Valentine (Signature Sounds)
Veteran folkie with bluesy leanings makes yet another superb album, for the first time using only his own songs. Review here.
14. Raymond Byron and the White Freighter: Little Death Shaker (Asthmatic Kitty)
Castanets frontman's more rockin' project still plumbs emotional depths. Review here.
15. Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur (Zoe/New Rounder/Concord)
"[M]oodily bittersweet songs with catchy melodies, sung with tightly coiled intensity by a woman with a haunting voice." Review here.
16. Grizzly Bear: Shields (Warp)
Brooklyn favorites who went national a few years ago follow up not by playing it safe, but by using an edgier production style that retains their strengths while providing more challenging and compelling listening.
17. Frankie Rose: Interstellar (Slumberland)
The noise,...
- 12/26/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Chris Smither: Hundred Dollar Valentine (Signature Sounds)
Surprisingly, this is the first album in Smither's nearly five-decade career to consist entirely of his own songs. It includes new versions of two older ones, both of them dark. The oldest, "I Feel the Same," is a concisely heart-wrenching breakup song that's been covered by Bonnie Raitt, Candi Staton, Esther Phillips, and more, but sounds best in Smither's bleak. "Every Mother's Son," about vigilante terrorists, is even more chilling: "You know you made your son Joseph a dangerous man, / He's gone to town and bought himself a gun [….] Vengeance is mine, he said, come join the fun, / He looked more like a Judas on the run."
Theoretically it's the last song on the album, but -- as though he didn't want to go out on such a downer -- there's a hidden bonus track, a hotel-room rendition of, actually, a third oldie,...
Surprisingly, this is the first album in Smither's nearly five-decade career to consist entirely of his own songs. It includes new versions of two older ones, both of them dark. The oldest, "I Feel the Same," is a concisely heart-wrenching breakup song that's been covered by Bonnie Raitt, Candi Staton, Esther Phillips, and more, but sounds best in Smither's bleak. "Every Mother's Son," about vigilante terrorists, is even more chilling: "You know you made your son Joseph a dangerous man, / He's gone to town and bought himself a gun [….] Vengeance is mine, he said, come join the fun, / He looked more like a Judas on the run."
Theoretically it's the last song on the album, but -- as though he didn't want to go out on such a downer -- there's a hidden bonus track, a hotel-room rendition of, actually, a third oldie,...
- 7/3/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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