This week’s Velocity is pretty much MIA for music this week. There is a Pop Culture piece about Jeremy Reddick, education director at the School of Rock in J-town. Mama Donna is probably doubly thrilled; she’s the managing director at the facility.
LEO Music Editor Mat Herron’s weekly tout column features plugs for Monotix, Mose Allison and Sarah Borges and features a phoner with Josh Ritter
LMN Jazzin’ columnist Martin Kasdan occasionally engages in some literary slumming to spread the word about some of his favorite jazz groups. This week, he’s written a preview of the Pat Metheny show for LEO.
Points to LEO for the cover story on Buell Kazee, a Magoffin County, Kentucky singer and banjo player who recorded in 1929, stopped to take up preaching, then was ‘rediscovered’ in the ‘folk scare’ era of the late Fifties. Nathan Salsburg has a thoughtful and thorough introduction about the late Kentuckian in this week’s edition.
Bars come and bars go: Vito’s Place on Preston, just north of Uncle Pleasant’s, is now called Bruno’s Pizzeria and Pub. Bobby J’s on East Market is now Icebreaker’s.
The November issue of Louisville Music News, featuring the band People Noise, will be on the street today and tomorrow.
Country Music Hall of Fame member Porter Wagoner has died at the age of eighty. His publicist said that he had lung cancer. Read more here.
Your humble editor has been busy getting the November issue of Louisville Music News together; hence, the lack of postings. I’ll be back on a regular schedule shortly.
Darn, I overlooked J. L. Puckett’s Digital Sounds column in the Saturday lifestyle Scene. I must have been dazzled by the fashion layouts and trenty furnishing photos. Anyway, Puckett notes the Led Zepplin has decided to put their music online (old news); the Eagles have a new CD (also old news) and his ‘Left of the Dial feature is about a Danish group, The Raveonettes. I guess trendiness is in the eye of the beholder.
Andrew Adler’s review of the Blackstone Trio concert at the U of L School of Music was not a rave and not a pan. Some of it he liked, some not. That’s what critics are far. Read his comments here.