May 5, 2009

Tour Dates: Steve Goes To Townes

On May 12, politically charged alt.country troubadour Steve Earle is set to release his latest album, Townes, a 15 song tribute record honoring the work of his friend and mentor

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Editorial: Bennett and Tweedy At It Again

The AP is reporting that former Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett is suing Jeff Tweedy for breach of contract surrounding payment for Bennett’s appearance in the 2002 documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.

[via Rockpalast Archive]

Bennett, who was in Wilco from 1994-2001 and contributed to Being There, Summerteeth, both Mermaid Avenue albums and of course, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, claims in the lawsuit that he was compensated only in “infrequent partial payments” equal to 15 percent of Wilco’s income from sales and performances.

Now, I am certainly no copyright attorney. And I’m equally no expert on how actors and musicians are paid for their work in movies. So I’m not going to pontificate on what Bennett is legally entitled to. But aren’t there clear laws about this? Could the movie have even come out if Bennett hadn’t signed some agreements to determine compensation? What about Leroy Bach, who was also in the band during the filming of the movie but has subsequently been replaced – has he been paid more/less than Bennett for the movie?

READ ON for more of Luke’s thoughts on Bennett’s lawsuit…

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Cover Wars: The Ballad Of Curtis Loew

The Ballad Of Curtis Loew was originally released on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s aptly titled sophomore effort Second Helping. There is a FAQ section on Skynrd’s website that asks if there was a real Curtis Loew. Here’s the answer…

The inspiration for Curtis Loew was loosely based around the characters that lived near Ronnie’s home on Jacksonville’s Westside. The corner store in the song is based on Claude’s Midway Grocery on the corner of Plymouth and Lakeshore in Jacksonville. While there wasn’t a ‘real’ Curtis Loew, there were many Curtis Loews in the neighborhood. The actual spelling of the name came when Ed was writing the liner notes for the Second Helping album in 1974. He thought it would be funny to name this old Florida black bluesman after the Jewish Loew’s Theatre.

Cover Wars


Looking back at last week’s Eminence Front Cover Wars, Max Creek has emerged victorious with a little help from guest guitarist Jeff Pevar.

The Contestants:

Keller Williams: Leading off this week we’ve got a short rendition from the early years of Keller Williams. Source: 1-25-1998
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Review: Jackie Greene @ The Aladdin

“These guys are a fun band”, Dee said as the openers – The Truth & Salvage Co. – took the stage. “You’ll probably like them”. Dee and Ron had come to town from their rural environs north of Nanaimo, British Columbia. They were following the Jackie Greene Pacific Northwest swing of his current tour.

Getting their fix, as Ron put it, of live music for the year. Sort of like Hoss and Little Joe hooking up the buckboard and heading into town for supplies. Dee and Ron drove seven hours (not counting ‘ferry time’) to get to the previous night’s show in Seattle. Another three hours and change south on I-5 (not counting an hour or so lost in the one way maze that downtown Portland can become at rush hour) to get to Thursday night’s gig at the Aladdin Theater.

Stan and Sheila, our neighbors to the right, agreed. “Really fun,” they chimed almost in unison. “Really, really fun,” Sheila added. They had journeyed from Eugene the night before to catch the Seattle show and, without getting lost, made it back south to Stumptown in time to get to the front row tonight, roughly ten hours in the car so far.

These guys were making me feel guilty for living ten minutes away and waiting for the tour to come to me. No, I take that back. Only I can make myself feel guilty. They were making me feel nostalgic for the old day’s road tripping to Seattle to see the Stones, Bowie, The Who and later on, Green River, Nirvana, Alice In Chains et al as grunge grew up three hours north.

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for more about AJ’s experience at the Jackie Greene show…

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Hidden Flick: Page Side Cinema Pt. 2

…a powerfully eerie sound erupts out of the darkness, and the magician twirls his hands up, down, and side to side, before waving his digits in a fast flurry through the low-lit air. The young sorcerer walks away from his own electronic creation, slashing his arms in a bird-like fashion, until the arcing cries transcend shape, slowly fading into the demonic distance, neither appearing nor disappearing by the physical touch of a human hand.

Jimmy Page is done with his bit of sinister audio, and returns to attacking his Les Paul. Robert Plant howls at the devil on his trail and yelps for a whole lotta love, while John Paul Jones and John Bonham beat the drums en route to Valhalla without any pretension towards mercy and restraint. This ain’t your daddy’s Chicago blues, mate. This is chaos.

My initial exposure to the strange surreal sounds of the theremin was on many trips to a little midnight movie by the world’s biggest band, Led Zeppelin. The Song Remains the Same was a sledge-hammered cranium-opener for my sane and sober teenaged mind. Flash forward a few years, and one comes across a documentary based on the inventor of the instrument and this week’s Hidden Flick, Theremin – An Electronic Odyssey.

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