Christian musician and former LMN salesman Paul Turner got a nice profile in the Courier-Journal for his Love Outside the Lines CD. Turner sings backup with the Monarchs, plays with The Lost Boys and teaches music for a living.
The October cover story for Louisville Music News is the Troubadours of Divine Bliss. Check that out, along with all the latest columns, performance and CD reviews in the print edition.
The deadtree copies will be on the street beginning today - later than usual, due to the problems caused by Hurricane Ike.
The largest annual music event in Louisville, the National Quartet Convention, begins on Sunday and runs through September 13. Some 40,000 people are expected to attend. The COurier-Journal has a preview.
Southern Gospel singer and Kentucky native Dottie Rambo was killed in a crash of her tour bus on her way to a Mother’s Day show in Texas. Details at the Tennessean.
Joseph Lord got the short straw for this week’s Velocity cover story, a look at two churches - Sojourn (930 Listening Room) and St. Francis of Assisi - currently booking live music and not just Christian music, either.
Elsewhere in this issue, Lord previews Stars at the Kentucky Center tonight, March 26. Curiously, the online version of the story has no mention of the show per se, other than a reference to the Kentucky Center in the photo cut line.
Over at LEO, Mat Herron writes a good-bye to the Jazz Factory; Kevin Wilson previews the Cowboy Junkies, who’re playing with Mary Gauthier at the Clifton Center on Thursday and Brent Owen does the duplicate honors for Stars. In LEO’s CD reviews, there’s a review of the The Health & Happiness Family Gospel Band, plus several more.
J. L. Puckett certainly has brass - check his picks for the Grammys, if you care.
The Courier-Journal’s Christopher Hall has a feature on a New Albany-based radio show and its host that has listeners around the world.
The Chicago Tribune has a story by staff reporter Robert Mitchum on the types and frequency of visits to first aid tents at concerts. Among the results: the highest rate of mortality is at classical events, due to the age of the audience; metal shows have more physical trauma (stab wounds, dislocated shoulders, facial trauma), mostly related to the style of dancing. The highest rate of visitation is at Christian music shows, where concert-goers frequently leave medication - particularly asthma-related - behind on the grounds that they ‘would be healed’ and carrying medication might suggest a lack of faith.
The Courier-Journal’s Saturday Scene cover story features Mark Maxwell of Mom’s Music and Jeff Jackson of Takin’ It To The Streets, who have assembled a crew of Christian bands to play in unlikely places, including Coyote’s, 4th Street Live! and the Phoenix Hill Tavern as well as their usual August event at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. J. L. Puckett has all the details.
From Futuremusic.com comes word that Pete Townshend of the Who has introduced a software application called ‘Method Music’ that will allow users to hum a tune and clap a rhythm and get a ‘composition’ back, so anyone can be a songwriter. Of course, clapping a rhythm might be the deal-killer for a lot of would-be writers.
You can check it out at http://www.lifehouse-method.com