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Steve Kimock Crazy Engine
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JamBase
Kimock's New Project Announced
Steve Kimock Steve Kimock launches his long-awaited, national touring band, Steve Kimock Crazy Engine. This is Kimock unleashed. The ensuing revelry, featuring Melvin Seals, will push the limits of rock & roll, rhythm & blues, gospel and soul for undeniably feel-good music. While the complete six-person lineup won't be announced until 2009, expect gigantic things from Crazy Engine in the coming year.
New Years in Colorado Steve Kimock returns to Denver for a string ...
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Fogerty Revisits "Blue Ridge" on New Album
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Billboard Magazine
A pair of returns will mark a creative outburst from John Fogerty in 2009. The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman is finishing work on John Fogerty: The Return of the Blue Ridge Rangers, a sequel of sorts to his 1973 solo set of vintage country and roots covers, Blue Ridge Rangers." He'll also be putting out John Fogerty -- Comin' Down the Road, a DVD chronicling his first concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, which took place earlier this year, ...
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Phish: 12/30/97 Now Available
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JamBase
Phish: 12/30/07 Now Available
Phish After a standout show on 12/29/97, Phish gave a loose, funky performance on the second night of their three-night holiday stand at MSG on 12/30 with a show-opening Sneakin' Sally Thru The Alley" and a playful, non-stop second set that highlighted a sublime AC/DC Bag," McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters" and Harpua" which introduced elements of the New Year's Eve Udder Ball gag and Tom Marshall's appearance for Phish's first and only cover of The ...
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Broadway Personality Devin Richard's Debut CD "My Own Voice" Available Now!
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Lampkin Publicity Service
LMGJAZZ is proud to announce the CD release of Broadway personality Devin Richards - My Own Voice Live at Metropolitan Room Devin has recently appeared in his tenth Broadway, Tale of Two Cities, while also be featured in the October issue of the well known magazine Ebony, and is the voice of the character, Dwayne Forge in the biggest selling video game in history Grand Theft Auto IV. Devin has also appeared in the workshops of Pamela's First Musical, Shriek ...
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Diana Krall Preps Album, Producing Streisand
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Billboard Magazine
Diana Krall describes her first record in three years as intimate, sensual and erotic. I'm not coy single girl singing 'Peel Me a Grape.' I love that song but I don't love it for me any more," Krall says. I feel more womanly, I guess, and I think this record is a love letter but very sensual, more on the erotic side. It's definitely late night." Quiet Nights is due March 31 from Verve. The sultry jazz vocalist and pianist ...
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Marco Benevento New Album Covers MMJ, Beck, Deerhoof
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JamBase
MARCO BENEVENTO To Release New Album, ME NOT ME With Interpretations of Songs by MY MORNING JACKET, LEONARD COHEN, DEERHOOF, BECK and More
Marco Benevento by Greg Aiello On February 3, Marco Benevento will release Me Not Me, a new studio album featuring his interpretations of songs by artists including My Morning Jacket, Leonard Cohen, Beck and Deerhoof among others. The ten-track collection arrives within a year from release of Benevento's critically acclaimed debut studio effort, Invisible Baby ...
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Dead Road Trips: MSG 1990
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JamBase
The Grateful Dead Road Trips - Madison Square Garden: September '90
The Grateful Dead will begin Volume 2 of their Road Trips series with the exceptional Madison Square Garden run from September 1990.
These shows were heaving with emotional and historical significance as keyboardist Brent Mydland had died of a drug overdose just a few months before, ending his 11-year stint with the band. Mydland's tragic death was devastating to band and fans alike. Shows were cancelled and it looked ...
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