COLUMN 1
* 'Marysville' Welch tribute to fire and flood victims.
* Honey Boy Painting
* Po Monkey's Jook Joint
* Elmore James honoured
* 2012 digital music?
* I tunes no1 music store in US
* The American Roots Music Category
COLUMN 2
* Cath Butler wins Chain Awards
* HOY-HOY! DVD
* Chain Award Finalists 2009
COLUMN 3
* 2009 Derringers Music Adelaide Blues Awards
* Jason on Jazzfest 2003 & 2005.
* Blues Hall of Fame Inductees
* Derringers Blues Award Winners 2008
* 30th Blues Music Award Nominees 2009
* Maple Blues Award Winners 2008
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Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch has written a heartfelt tribute song called Marysville after hearing that some of the victims of Queensland's recent floods had donated their relief cheques to Victorian fire victims. After initially writing about fire and flood victims, he decided to focus on the mountain town. Coincidentally, he had recently started writing a song with the line: "just came back from Maryville". "When I heard the news about the town of Marysville it rang a little bell and maybe that's one of the reasons I decided to concentrate on that particular community. I'm usually a little leery of writing that sort of thing, especially in the face of the real sadness of the real victims, as I'm a distant observer and not that qualified to comment meaningfully. It's all I knew to do I guess." *
*http://www.theage.com.au/news
View video of 'Marysville' by Kevin Welch with Kieran Kane and Fats Kaplin at 'Norwood Live' 26th Feb 2008.
Painting by Earl Klatzel.
Long past its due, I finally took the opportunity to portray a big inspiration to me as well as add an essential figure from blues history to my portfolio. Born in 1915, and playing blues since the early 1930's, Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards is one of the last living blues musicians from when the music was at its infancy. He still records and tours to this day at the young age of 93. Reflections of his life style and the eras he built his reputation, stain the canvas background in faint washes. His music style and unique sound have a strong presence emanating from this full color image in oils, while giving you a glimpse into his life. I'm very proud to have met and talked with Honeyboy here in Calgary in 2007, and I will always cherish our conversation. This painting of Honeyboy will be posted on my website within the next few weeks in the Musicians Gallery.
Thank you, Earl Klatzel
Check out many of Earl's Blues History & Blues Portrait paintings at: Bluesworks by Earl Klatzel www.earlklatzel.com
On February 24, 2008, a filming crew from Good Morning America was in the Delta. The result was a testament to one of the last remaining "jook joints" - Po Monkey's in Merigold, MS. View the clip. Featured in the clip is Mr. Willie Seaberry, the proprietor of Po Monkey's, and the band is T-Model Ford on guitar, Terry "Harmonica" Bean on harp, and Lee "Pocket Knife" Williams on drums. For more information about Po Monkey's and its heritage, visit http://www.southernspaces.org (Information courtesy of Charley Burch and Luther Brown.)
An originator of the electric Blues style who performed in cafes and juke joints around Canton, Mississippi, sixty years ago got a marker along Mississippi's growing Blues trail. On Tuesday, historians, state officials, and Blues enthusiasts gathered in Canton to unveil the Elmore James/Hickory Street Blues Trail Marker. James was born in Richland, Mississippi, in 1918. Blues historian Jim O'Neal of Kansas City said James arrived in Canton in 1951 and worked in a radio repair shop. The shop was owned by Robert Earl Holston, who in a 1971 interview shared how he and James experimented to amplify the guitar's sound. O'Neal said James' music inspired Fleetwood Mac and almost anybody who plays slide guitar.
Blues Wax
Digital sales of music represented ten percent of the total worldwide
music market in 2007 up from 6% in 2006, according to In-Stat. By 2012,
digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide.
Factors
contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband,
demand for single-track downloads, and market growth in mobile downloads
to mobile handsets in markets beyond Japan where over-the-air already dominates.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
- Sales for online digital
music reached $3.05 billion in 2007, up 48% from 2006.
- Revenue for worldwide
full track mobile downloads will reach approximately $4.2 billion by 2012.
- Most who accessed online video (72.3%) in 2007 did not pay for the video
they saw.
Apple Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart to become America's No. 1 music store, the first time that a seller of digital downloads has ever beaten the big CD retailers.
Apple sold more albums in January and February than any other U.S. retailer, market research firm NPD Group said Thursday, underscoring how the music industry is on the front edge of a digital media shift that is upending businesses as diverse as bookstores and video game makers.
U.S. consumers still buy more CDs than digital downloads, but the gulf is narrowing rapidly. Only five years after launching its iTunes digital store, Apple has dominated the fast-growing download market so completely that it jumped ahead of individual CD sellers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target.
"It's a major milestone," said Tom Adams, president of consulting firm Adams Media Research. "It is the first instance of an electronic venue surpassing a [bricks-and-mortar] retail venue for any kind of media delivery."
Many industries are feeling the pain. Bookstores are shutting down, unable to compete with online sales and huge retail chains. Newspapers are laying off thousands of employees as advertisers and readers move to the Web.
"We are thrilled," Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes, said in a statement.
NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y., did not release figures
on how many albums each company sold. It said it counted every 12 singles
sold as one album, and that Apple probably received a boost during the
two months by people cashing in iTunes gift cards -- which Wal-Mart and
other retailers also sell -- received during the holiday season.
But NPD
Group analyst Russ Crupnick predicted that Apple's music industry power
would only continue.
"If you look at what is happening to the CD and the
growth of the digital side, it's a pattern that is going to hold," he
said.
Folkwax
The Grammy Awards have added a new category!
It's called 'The American Roots Music Category' and encompasses the following awards:
. Americana Album
. Bluegrass Album
. Traditional Blues Album
. Contemporary Blues Album
. Traditional Folk Album
. Contemporary Folk Album
. Hawaiian Music Album
. Native American Music Album
. Zydeco or Cajun Music Album
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