“I am that guy,” he says of Boone

When Ryan Adams was in town recently, he stopped by Leatherhead on Bardstown Road, as do many musicians, in part because it’s right across the street from Guitar Emporium. Adams went the leather shop one better, though - he plugged it and owner Nick Boone in the most recent edition of Harp, a slick music publication. Adams is a big fan of Orlando Bloom, who is also a big fan of Leatherhead. Oprah fans might remember Bloom talking up Leatherhead’s dog collars on a show a while back.

Anyway, Nick and Lynn are tickled by the mention.

Program Attracted a Non-Ordinary Audience

Andrew Adler’s Sunday column in the C-J concerns the presentation of a program called “Video Games Live,” which attracted a large audience of young games, putting more ‘butts in the seats’ than usual at a Louisville Orchestra concert. Adler suggests that while these kind of events don’t ‘grow the audience’ for classical music, they do stand on their own and are worth doing, the purists’ scorn not withstanding. Read the whole piece here.

Rain Threatens, Event Continues

The Forecastle Fest is going on downtown on the Belvedere, despite the threat of rain (and the overnight rain.) Velocity’s Wednesday edition had a preview and the Courier-Journal has a short piece on the Friday portion.

Popular Series Genre-Spanning

The Louisville Orchestra’s Chase Pops and BB&T Legends Series for Fall 2007 have been announced. The Chase Pops Series looks like this: Classical Mystery Tour - A Symphonic Tribute to the Beatles, Friday, September 21, 2007, Bob Bernhardt, Conductor; Michael Bolton, Saturday, October 20, 2007; Michael McDonald, Saturday, December 1, 2007, Johnny Rivers, Saturday, January 19, 2008; Marvin Hamlisch , Saturday, March 1, 2008; NS Amy Grant, Saturday, May 10, 2008. All shows are at the Louisville Palace with the Louisville Pops Orchestra, Bob Bernhardt, conductor.

THe BB&T Legends have these performers: Kenny Rogers, Saturday, September 1, Jorge Mester, Conductor;Charlie Daniels Band, Saturday, October 13, 2007, Bob Bernhardt, Conductor; Ronnie Milsap, Saturday, January 12, 2008, Bob Bernhardt, Conductor.

For more information and tickets, log onto http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/

Fall Season is Packed

The Louisville Palace has posted a daunting fall schedule on it’s website, with the following acts newly listed: Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Sept. 10, tickets $37, on sale July 27; Tori Amos, Oct. 28, tickets $42; The Killers, Sept. 11, tickets $37, on sale; Ani DiFranco, Setp. 15, tickets $32, on sale. Previously listed are John Prine, Sept. 8, tickets $42.50 and Gordon Lightfoot, Sept. 13, tickets $52.50 and $42.50

All About Innovation

The annual LEO Music Issue is out on the streets. Your honorable editor, once more, was not invited to contribute, although LMN’s Jazz columnist has a piece about Boogie Morton. There are five primary articles, each of which contains subarticles about somebody in the business, including a piece by Catherine Irwin on her band Freakwater; Dave Johnson of The Glasspack scribbles a few words about the South End; Mat Herron confesses to having gone to Tweligans for a punk show; the ubiquitous Leigh Ann Yost gets bio’ed and Dominic Cipolla writes about his two bands, Dead Child and Phantom Family Halo.

Adam Day has a long feature on VHS or Beta. THere’s a bunch more, of course. Trying to cover the Louisville music scene in all its diversity in a single issue is bonkers, but I can’t blame editor Cary Stemle for trying. Pick up a copy and read it all; you’ll learn something about the Louisville music scene.

I can’t resist pointing out, however, that every issue of Louisville Music News is a Music issue

Event is Set For August 4 and 5

The Kentucky Bluegrass Music Festival, presented by Kentucky Proud and Kroger, is back again in Louisville. The two-day music jam will happen on the Ohio River at The Belvedere in downtown Louisville Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4. Featured performers include Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock and The Cumberlands with Jeff Guernsey and Curtis Burch Music starts around 5 p.m. and continues until 11 p.m. Tickets are $6 before 6 p.m. and $9 afterwards.

He Likes To Listen to Country Music

Over at hypebot.com, there’s an interesting transcript of George W. Bush responding to a question about performance royalties for radio airplay. It’s a lot of laughs. Doing a great job, Georgie.

Equity Group Offers $1.3 Billion

Cumulus Media, the nation’s second largest radio group after Clear Channel Communications, has accepted a 1.3 billion dollar buy-out offer from an investor consortium led by company chairman Lew Dickey and an affiliate of Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. The company controls 344 stations in 67 major media markets in the United States. The deal needs approval from the FCC.

Tune-In Tuesday

J. L. Puckett at the Courier-Journal does his usual Tuesday round-up of CD releases and mentions the give-away of Prince’s latest CD, Planet Earth, by a British newspaper. It’s not quite clear why he mentioned, though, except that it made the industry and particularly record stores, really, really mad.