 Share This- Jazz News: Memphis-Bound Get-Down Blues Show Comes to Columbus
 Mar 7, 9:12am  (1 review) music http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php...- On Saturday, March 28, Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings will team up with Detroits celebrated musician Paul Miles for a special blues presentation at the Thirsty Ear Tavern in Columbus, Ohio, from 9:30pm- 1am.
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- Master Player, Teacher Paul Rishell Releases Interactive Video Software...
- Aug 10, 2008 8:45am (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10102122-master-pla...
- Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, text comments, interactive powertab, looping, frame advance, zoom, and other useful controls. Works on PC or Mac and also includes access to Truefire TV
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- Detroit Blues Society Announces The 2008 Detroit Blues Challenge
- Mar 8, 2008 11:37am (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10055693-detroit-bl...
- The Detroit Blues Society is proud to announce that it will be hosting five preliminary Detroit Blues Challenge events in 2008 In total over 34 Detroit area acts have signed up to compete in this prestigious challenge this year.
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- Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival Poised To Crash the Mansion in Downtown...
- Mar 4, 2008 9:30am (1 review) blues http://bandweblogs.com/guestbloggers/200...
- Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival aims to crash beyond tried and true formulas by offering the blues scene fresh sounds and a new approach, fully revealing the deep microtonal language found in blues classics while inventing the mind-bending "notes-between-the-notes" blues standards of the future - by some of the finest and hippest New York City blues artists.
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- STARKs UK Tour Dates Announced
- Feb 28, 2008 6:26pm (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10053374-stark-uk-t...
- STARK, the female-fronted rock trio from New York City, is heading to the UK for a mini-tour in support of the UK release of their sophomore album Put It To Your Head
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- America Embraces Achison, Relocated Aussie Guitarist Tours US Coast to...
- Feb 28, 2008 6:16pm (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10053375-america-em...
- After a year living in the US, Australian guitarist/songwriter Geoff Achison has had a big impact on the Blues/Roots music scene here. And America has had it's own impact on him, his wife and 5 year old son, who see the US for the first time.
- Feb 26, 2008 2:55pm
- America Embraces Achison, Relocated Aussie Guitarist Tours US Coast to Coast 2007/08
After a year living in the US, Australian guitarist/songwriter Geoff Achison has had a big impact on the Blues/Roots music scene here. And America has had it's own impact on him, his wife and 5 year old son, who see the US for the first time.
Geoff Achison is about to complete his first year as resident of the country from which the music he adores originates. With countless radio interview and performance spots, multiple television broadcasts, tireless touring and international radio airplay more people than ever have been exposed to Geoff's sound. His recent critically acclaimed live release, Souldigger CD, has helped. It reached #23 on the US Roots Blues Chart, and was identified by a variety of DJ's and many Internet sites (including Jambands.com and Kweevak.com) as one of the best releases of 2007. On his latest tour of the UK in the summer, he returned to the BBC Studios to again record a national radio program there. He also is proud to have completed his tenth year of teaching at Jorma Kaukonen's (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp. Needing an amp, he was fortunate to develop a relationship with an American manufacturer (Kustom Amps) who provided him with a tube guitar amp to use for the duration of his time in The States. (a '72 Coupe).
While Geoff still performs solo in some shows, he also has a slew of new musical friends who frequently join him for his full band performances as Souldiggers (Geoff's band wherever he is.) These musicians include drummers like Yonrico Scott (Derek Trucks Band), Chris Fryar (Oteil and the Peacemakers) and Tyler Greenwell (Susan Tedeschi Band) and bassists such as Charlie Wooton (Zydefunk), David Stoltz (Dickey Betts Band) Ted Pecchio (Susan Tedeschi Band), and many others across the US. "Each musician brings their own particular style to the band," Geoff says, "and that keeps my ears open to new ways of playing some of my old tunes." The ever-evolving Achison further explains, "I'm able to treat these songs as sort of inter-stellar space vehicles that we can fly to different planets and back. Well sometimes we come back!"
He also has co-billed with, and/or been joined onstage by the iconic Colonel Bruce Hampton (Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Quark Alliance), Tom Principato, Webb Wilder, Delta Moon, Oliver Wood (Wood Brothers), The Red Elvises, Watermelon Slim and fellow Aussie, Harper. His January performance with Randall Bramblett (Traffic, Steve Winwood, Allman Brothers) and Atlanta folk legend Caroline Aiken was so well received at Atlanta's Eddie's Attic that the trio is being encouraged by industry players to do a regional tour. His co-bill with gritty Atlanta songsmith Donna Hopkins was covered by Jambands.com magazine, has been downloaded thousands of times on the Live Music Archive website, and even spent some time on their Top 10 Critic's list.
Geoff and his wife Michelle have enjoyed their experience with American culture as well. Geoff was able to take Michelle and their 6-year-old son Jacob to Memphis to experience the musically significant city and visit the site of his 1995 International Blues Challenge victory. The family members also took part in their first full-on, American Halloween experience replete with ghosts, ghouls, skeletons and trick or treating for the young Jacob, not to mention costumes for Geoff and Michelle! The couple's parents even made the trip to Georgia in December and were able to experience an unusually wintry Atlanta Christmas. "I fell in love with Decatur and Atlanta quickly," says Michelle, "The warmth and generosity shown to us by Geoff's friends and fans has overwhelmed me. Decatur in particular is a wonderfully artistic and creative community."
However, Geoff certainly has not forgotten his beloved native country, and the jumbo jar of vegemite delivered to him by fans visiting from Australia in September helped as well. One particularly Acho-friendly Atlanta-area venue even had a vegemite pizza baked just for Geoff when he was performing in their room in celebration of Australia Day!
Nancy Lewis-Pegel
email npegel@mindspring.com
Address: 235 Melrose Ave.
Decatur,GA 30030
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Phone 404-373-2299
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- Publisher Launches Roots Music PressRelease Distribution Site
- Feb 11, 2008 6:49pm (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10050489-publisher-...
- Roots music performers have gone largely ignored by the media for too long. Now music magazine publisher Dave King launches a press release distribution site exclusively for blues/jazz/folk and roots musicians.
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- Canadas Tracy K Recognized by International Songwriting Competition and...
- Feb 3, 2008 9:44am (1 review) music http://www.prlog.org/10048962-canada-tra...
- On January 28th, one of Canada's foremost blues musicians, Tracy K, was declared a semi-finalist in two categories of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition
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