FREE TICKETS – We have five pairs of tickets to see Craig Morgan at Horseshoe Casino on November 14. I have a MySpace page at www.myspace/lmnguy. The first five people to send me an email message through the MySpace page AFTER 6 p.m. EDT on November 6 (two days after the election), will win a pair of tickets each.
The all-new LEO website, running on Joomla!, looks much better than the old one and is faster as well. This week, they have reviews of the new Lords CD, Fuck All Y’all Motherfuckers; My Darling Asleep’s eponymous release; Broadfield Marchers The Inevitable Continuing; OK Zombie Do The Zombie; the Villiebillies’s newest From the Belly of the Beast; The Muckrakers’ The Concorde Fallacy; Ben Purdom’s Meets the Morning and Scott Mertz and His Panel Of Experts‘ You Wish.
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.
Dolly Parton’s website lists a show for her at the Louisville Palace on October 26. The Palace website does not have the event listed. Pre-sale tickets to Parton fan club members are $85.50.
Jason Bugg over at LEO has his choices in live shows for the week. He likes Six White Horses at Cahoot’s; Tift Merritt and Love Jones at the Original Highlands Fest and the final show for Dead City Rejects at Headliners.
Music writer J. L. Puckett did the country concert review duty at the Fair for Trace Adkins and Miranda Lambert
J. L. Puckett had an underwhelmed reaction to the Dave Matthews/Willie Nelson show.
It’s dueling weekly pubs on music time - LEO’s Music issue is out and Velocity has a sampler for the cover. LEO gets the call, though, as they have a cover story on none other than Travis Meeks, a feature certain to cause some disturbances in the ether. Seems Meeks’ has Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s in-n-n-n-terresting reading.
There’s a lot more about music in the town - LEO devotes the whole issue to various aspects, so pick up a copy on read it at leoweekly.com
This weekend has so much music going on in the Louisville area that the C-J had to spread it around their staff, instead of just leaving it all to J. L. Puckett. In no particular order, there’s the Lebowski Fest, covered by Puckett plus, of course, LMN and 37 Flood, which has an interview with Will Russell. And more.
Next, there’s the Water Tower Blues and BBQ Festival, awarded the first choice in the C-J’s Hot List
Puckett touts Your Black Star, which was the LMN cover story back in May.
Finally, there’s the LMN list of music for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Caesar’s, soon to be the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino, has quite a lineup of shows coming up this summer:
The Beach Boys - Saturday, July 5
Reba McEntire - Friday, July 11
Barenaked Ladies - Saturday, July 12
Gretchen Wilson - Saturday, July 19
The Black Crowes - Saturday, July 26
Boston and Styx - Sunday, July 27
Bonnie Raitt - Friday, August 15
Stone Temple Pilots - Saturday, August 16
George Thorogood and Buddy Guy - Friday, August 22
Bob Dylan - Saturday, August 23
The good news is that Horeshoe Southern Indiana has fixed us up with some free tickets. Eddy Metal has some for shows and I have several to give away to Barenaked Ladies and Gretchen Wilson.
Here’s the deal - I have a MySpace page at www.myspace/lmnguy. The first five people to send me an email message through the MySpace page AFTER 6 p.m. EDT on July 4 FOR ONE OR THE OTHER SHOW will win two tickets. Got that? There are five pairs of tickets for each show. You must indicate in your message which show you want - not both or either.
You have to sign up with MySpace to send a message but that’s free. It would be a good idea to do that early. If you win, you’ll be notified by email. If you don’t make a habit of checking your MySpace page, leave a different email in your message.
I will post the winners’ names on my blog at www.louisvillemusicnews.net sometime after July 4 - that might happen immediately or it might take some time. Click on “The Editor’s Blog.”