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Buddy Guy Worries About The Future Of Blues Music

I wonder if there aren’t as many young black musicians devoting themselves to the blues. Do you worry about the future of blues music?

I worry about the future of blues music whether you are black or white. If they don’t hear it like I did and listen to it and don’t know about it — you ever been to Louisiana where they cook all this gumbo?

I have. I love it.

I do, too. [Laughs.] So if you never tasted it, you wouldn’t love it. That’s what’s happening with the blues. Now, the young people don’t know nothing about it unless — I know satellite [radio] do play blues, but we need more than that. I tell everybody I would love to hear Muddy Waters twice a week. I’m not telling you to play him all day, all night; just play him. Let the young people know where it all started.

For the younger people who don’t know much about the blues, what’s the case that you would make to go buy a Muddy Waters album as soon as they can?

If you don’t have the blues and don’t know about the blues, just keep livin’.

What do you mean by that?

[Laughs.] At least, you’re gonna see a better time or a worser time in life. Just listen to what I’m sayin’: Just keep livin’. Even if you get in the middle of the expressway and your car quit runnin’, you got blues.

Via NPR

Buffy Sainte-Marie On Lasting 50 Years In Music

More than 50 years after your first album, you are back with a new one, Power in the Blood. Morrissey asked you to tour with him this year and you’re getting great reviews. How do you explain your longevity?
I didn’t get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound. And in the 1960s there was an open window into what people call the music business. It’s really been a lot of luck. Actually, when I first got famous in the 60s, I got a little too famous and in order to escape showbusiness I moved to Hawaii. I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I do but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place.

You were part of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and many others. Where did you fit in to that scene?
I kind of didn’t fit in, in a way, but that was a time when misfits could have a career. I didn’t really sing folk songs like Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, and I didn’t come from a business family like Bob Dylan, or a music family like Judy Collins. But where I fitted in, I think, was that I didn’t think I’d last, so it’s not as though I was risking anything. And I think it was because of my uniqueness.

Unique in what way?
I was writing about everything. I was writing pop songs such as Until It’s Time for You to Go, which was later recorded by Elvis, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond and everybody. I was writing about Native American things and I had written Universal Soldier. I think it was just very surprising and that’s why I got away with it. Even in this new album – similar to all of my other albums – it’s much more diverse than almost any singer you can think of.

Via The Guardian

‘INXS The Musical’ To Open In Australia In 2017 – Broadway Next?

INXS hope to become the new sensation of the world’s theatre stages with a musical based on their hits to open in Sydney in 2017.

With their music still commanding the album charts more than 100 weeks after they restored their legacy with the INXS: Never Tear Us Apart mini-series last year, manager Chris M Murphy has set up a theatre company to mount INXS The Musical.

Murphy remains tight-lipped about his backers for the project but insists he has some of the international theatre world’s biggest “creatives” coming on board to write and produce the musical for the stage.

The band’s longtime manager set up Murphy Theatrical to orchestrate the band’s next move to exploit their extensive catalogue of hits recorded by Michael Hutchence, Andrew, Tim and Jon Farriss, Kirk Pengilly and Garry Gary Beers, after reacquiring the rights to their music a few years ago.

The phenomenal success of the mini-series, which was watched by more than two million Australians and sold internationally, gave Murphy the impetus to forge ahead with the stage musical.

INXS: Never Tear Us Apart provoked a fan frenzy for their music with the The Very Best hits compilation giving the band their first No. 1 album in Australia in 24 years and spending 102 weeks in the charts and counting.

Via News.com.au

Listen: 2 Rare Joy Division Tracks From New Vinyl ReIssue

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” on June 27th, Rhino are pleased to announce the re-issue of four iconic Joy Division releases on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl.

The studio albums UNKNOWN PLEASURES (1979) and CLOSER (1980) will be available on June 29th. They will be followed on July 31st by STILL (1981) and an expanded version of SUBSTANCE (1988), both available as a double-LP set.

Each design replicates the original in painstaking detail, including the gatefold covers used for Still and Substance. The music heard on the albums was remastered in 2007 when Rhino introduced expanded versions of the albums. The lone exception is Substance, which features audio remastered in 2010 for the +- singles box and for the first time on vinyl, the expanded tracklist from the original CD release, plus two additional songs: “As You Said” and the Pennine version of “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” which you can hear below.

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“Fun, Fun, Fun” Parody by The Beach Boys…errr…Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon

First Drafts of Rock takes a look at an early version of The Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun.”

The Real Story Behind Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl”

“Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield is a classic song and Jimmy Kimmel has always wondered what the real story behind it was. It turns out they shot video of the first time Rick and his band ever played it and it is absolutely fascinating.

https://youtu.be/CQYpg8rOzMY

By the way, that’s Ronnie Vannucci Jr. of The Killers playing drums.

Full Video: Horton Hears A Who! (CBS, 1970)

The 1966 cartoon of How The Grinch Stole Christmas was so popular that director Chuck Jones (Looney Toones), followed up with Horton Hears A Who! It aired in 1970 on CBS.

Horton is an elephant splashing in the watering hole of the Jungle of Nool on the fifteenth of May when he hears a person calling for help. The sound is coming from a small dust speck. Dr. H. Hoovey, an astronomer on the speck, believes that there’s a world beyond the speck, but the rest of the Whos don’t believe him at first. He explains to Horton that the speck is in danger if it’s floating around. “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” says Horton as he decides to save the Whos. But the other jungle citizens don’t believe him as they are unable to see them and can’t hear as well. Meanwhile, the citizens of Whoville refuse to believe the existence of Horton, but eventually they do. Jane Kangaroo, the Wickersham brothers,and the Black-Bottomed Eagle are Horton’s main and worst tormentors, but at last, the Whos make themselves heard. At the end of the special, Dr. Hoovey is relaxing in his chair, exhausted from the ordeal, when he sees a small speck of dust and hears a “Help!” on it, and says the final line: “Oh, no!”

https://youtu.be/K0xQsleqNyQ

Bill Nye Reads Mean Tweets About Himself

“You pretend the global warming fairy is real even as you live in a mansion. Maybe do cartwheels for voodoo.”

Parrot Sings The Lego Movie’s ‘Everything Is Awesome’

Birds on Safari, a pet store in Stuart, Fla., posted a video of a yellow-naped Amazon parrot named Princess Yellowfeather that sings “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie. I’d sign her and get her on tour with Tegan & Sara.

Universal Releases Five-Year Development Plan; Lucian Grainge Stays On Until At Least 2020

Paris, July 31, 2015

Vivendi:

– Five-year development plan for Universal Music Group

– Lucian Grainge committed to UMG and Vivendi at least
until 2020

Vivendi has agreed on a five-year development plan with the senior management of Universal Music Group (UMG). Present in over 60 countries and owning a portfolio of 50 prestigious labels, UMG is the global leader in music. It has an annual turnover of nearly 5 billion euros and employs over 7,000 people in the world. This plan will enable the company to maintain its profitable growth and continue to play a leading role in the transformation of the music industry.

UMG will accelerate the monetization of music on digital channels, broaden the reach of its audio and visual content through multiple partnerships with platforms and strengthen its strategic relationships with brands and sponsors. It will pursue its industry-leading track record of talent management and development. UMG will also continue investing in high-potential markets for music, such as Africa, India and China.

Key to this strategy is the fact that Lucian Grainge CBE, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UMG, has committed to UMG and the Vivendi Group for a further five years, until at least 2020. Appointed to his current position in 2011, Lucian Grainge has held a variety of functions within the music industry spanning over thirty years. After joining UMG in 1986 to launch PolyGram Music Publishing UK, Lucian Grainge held the positions of Chairman of Universal Music UK and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group International. He spearheaded the international expansion of UMG and the diversification of the company’s activities.

UMG is at the heart of Vivendi’s strategy to refocus the Group on media and content creation and to be the preferred partner for all creative talent.

 About Vivendi

Vivendi is an integrated media and content group. The company operates businesses throughout the media value chain, from talent discovery to the creation, production and distribution of content. The main subsidiaries of Vivendi comprise Canal+ Group and Universal Music Group. Canal+ is the leading pay-TV operator in France, and also serves markets in Africa, Poland and Vietnam. Canal+ operations include Studiocanal, a leading European player in production, sales and distribution of film and TV series. Universal Music Group is the world leader in recorded music, music publishing and merchandising, with more than 50 labels covering all genres. A separate division, Vivendi Village, brings together Vivendi Ticketing (ticketing in the UK, France and the U.S.), MyBestPro (experts counseling), Watchever (subscription video-on-demand) and the Paris-based concert venue L’Olympia. With over 2.5 billion videos viewed each month, Dailymotion is one of the biggest aggregation and distribution platforms in the world. www.vivendi.com, www.cultureswithvivendi.com, www.themediashaker.com

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