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New Music that I can't stop listening to:
Firewater Psychopharmacology (JetSet Records) unpretentious groove rock that swaggers from NYC. They might just steal your wallet.
Big, Big Furnace Soundtrack to a Midwestern Winter (Crustacean Records) This Wisconsin band puts the Wiz in Wisconsin. Few bands are as smart, considerate and full of hooks as Big, Big Furnace. Be proud of them.
Hold the Vocals…- A Tribute to the Instrumental Hits of the 50's, 60's,70's. (Go-Kustom Rekords) Irregular Records sister label Go-Kustom Records first release with such great instrumentals as Hawaii Take 5-0 by The Squirrels, Rumble as performed by d.A. Sebasstian, Albatross (Fleetwood Mac) by Trance To The Sun and Henry Mancini's Experiment In Terror by Madison's own, The Waterdogs.
Jammin George Giving The Fans What They Want (Very Weird Records) Like everything on LaCrosse's Very Weird Records it's an accident that you have to check out. Jammin George is the worst comedian in the world. I wonder if he even knew that he was being recorded?
Eric Blowtorch and his Superpowers Flame On!! (Simmerdown) A mixture of ska and Martin Denny, Blowtorch and his orchestra know the difference between the real thing and everything else.
RIP: So many musicians died recently that I could only report on 1/5th of them. Check out the Dead Rock Star Club for more.
James Drayton - Died 4-17-2001 ( Doo-Wop ) Was a baritone singer for The Five Dollars and The Don Juans.
Tommy Mercer - Died 4-18-2001 (Jazz) Born 1924 - Baritone singer (He did," When I Fall In Love and "I'm Old-Fashioned") Worked with Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Charlie Spivak and Eddie Duchin.
Billy Mitchell (William Melvin Mitchell)- Died 4-18-2001 - Lung cancer (Jazz) Born 11-3-1926 in Kansas City, MO - Saxophonist - Worked with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat Towles, Lucky Millander, Woody Herman and Stevie Wonder - Worked over 30 years as a resident player at a jazz spot in Seaford, N.Y., called Sonny's Place.
Fred Jordan - Died 4-18-2001 (Manager) Born 1973 - He was a manager of music and talent for MTV and had worked there for nine years.
Isaac "Ike" Cole - Died 4-22-2001 - Cancer (Jazz-Pop) Born 7-13-1927 in Chicago, IL - Pianist and composer - Was the leader of The Ike Cole Trio - Was the brother of Nat King Cole.
Al Hibbler (Albert Hibbler)- Died 4-24-2001 (Jazz) Born 8-16-1915 in Tyro, MS (He did, "Unchained Melody" and "After the Lights Go Down Low") Worked with Jay McShann, Duke Ellington, Harry Carney, Mercer Ellington, Billy Kyle, Billy Taylor and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Billy Higgins - Died 5-3-2001 - Pneumonia (Jazz) Born 10-11-1936 in Los Angeles, CA. - Drummer - He was one of the founders of The World Stage, a storefront performance space and teaching venue and was a member of the jazz faculty at UCLA - Worked with Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackon, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charles Lloyd, Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Bo Diddley, Joshua Redman, Art Pepper and others.
Tony Fuller "Ike" Mills - Died 5-3-2001 (Jazz) Born 10-22-1933 in Beaumont, TX, U.S. - Played trombone, baritone horn and the upright bass- He worked with Michael Nase, Dizzy Gillespie and Pearl Bailey.
Boozoo Chavis (Wilson Anthony Chavis) - The Creole Cowboy - Died 5-5-2001 - Heart attack, stroke (Zydeco) Born 10-23-1930 near Church Point, LA- Accordion (He did, "Paper In My Shoe", which is considered to be Zydeco's first popular record and "Dog Hill") He was the leader of The Magic Sounds - Worked with Sonny Landreth and David Greely - He is widely acknowledged as the king of Zydeco music.
Top Jimmy (James Paul Koncek) - Died 5-17-2001 - Liver failure (Blues) Born 1957 in Kentucky - He was the leader of The Rhythm Pigs - Worked with X, Tom Waits, Steve Berlin and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Susannah McCorkle - Died 5-19-2001 - Jumped from her Manhattan apartment (Jazz - Blues - Cabaret) Born 1-4-1946 in Berkeley, CA. She worked with Keith Ingham, Frank Wess, Terry Clarke and John Chilton.
Willie Foster - Died 5-19-2001 - Heart attack (Blues) Born 1922 - Harmonica player - Worked with Muddy Waters.
To see a complete listing of all the musicians who have died since the beginning of time, go to the Dead Rock Star Club
http://users.efortress.com/docrock/2000.html
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