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It’s another MelodyTrip.com milestone with today’s podcast being #25. I’m your host, Heather Larson.
We’ll do news, podsafe music, and commentary…not so much commentary, but it does seep in sometimes.
First, let’s start with all-girl Zeppelin cover band, Lez Zeppelin and “The Ocean” for some podsafe music!
Lez Zeppelin is playing:
September 26, 2007, 7:30pm
Slim's
333 Eleventh St.
San Francisco, CA
415-255-0333
Ticket price
$17
http://www.myspace.com/lezzeppelin
http://www.lezzeppelin.com
Let’s start with Austin City Limits Festival where Bjork, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age and Joss Stone played. James Taylor may as well have been playing this festival since a semi trailer caught on fire and a rainstorm happened sometime after that. Also playing were the reunited Crowded House and chick MC M.I.A.
I’ve got some jazz news now for you because we cover music festivals of all genres all around the world. One thing unites us all – and that’s music. So let’s talk about the Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox, Mass. Hank Jones, Ahmad Jamal, and Jimmy Heath are some of the legends who played Tanglewood. If you went you’re lucky, and you’re also wondering why we’re getting to this story so late! The fest happened back in August. As we’re a weekly podcast, we’re not exactly timely with the news, for one. So when we do get to some news, it may not exactly be of the minute. But since our idea is that people travel to music festivals as a form of musical tourism, we tell you about every fest we’ve ever heard of whether the news is old or not. That way you can plan to attend Tanglewood next year if you missed it for ’07.
Here’s a great article about one of the greatest artists of all time. And yes, he’s a definite music festival artist. His son is also a rocker, in a rock band that I’m not entirely sure is even together anymore as we haven’t heard from them in a minute.
See if you can figure out who I am talking about, one of the Greatest American Artists ever, who also released a new album not too long ago:
“When ______ steps on stage, he brings America with him. America in song images…”
“_____ is our quintessential oral folk poet, in the original Greek sense, a "maker" of "things that are made." Like the first great Western songster, Homer, _____ takes from old songs and makes new ones, and then keeps remaking them.”
Want another one?
“_______ has said that he is a spokesman for no one, that his songs are not about or for other people, that the music he makes would be real even if no one were listening.”
Give up yet? Do you need something more obvious?
“As _____ told Allen Ginsberg in an interview, "Nobody's ______."
Let me finally fill in the blanks for you – I’m talking about Bob Dylan.
He just closed the Austin City Limits Festival. What a lucky crowd in Austin!
Shall we get podsafe again? I guess podsafe is music with a condom on….no seriously, it’s music I can play in the podcast and not get sued for. It’s a nice way to wage war on the big nasty music industry.
Let’s do Corey Harris, who I have found before on music.podshow.com. Today I get his stuff from his publicist, podsafe. Harris falls into the categories of reggae, world, and blues. Today’s song is Heathen Rage.
Buy his album Zion Crossroads: http://www.telarc.com/Blues/title.asp?sku=CD%2D83656
http://www.myspace.com/coreyharrismusic
http://www.coreyharrismusic.com
Could Coachella be going to Australia? Yes, and for summer 2009!
If you have plans to go down yonder to the Chattahoochee River, just south of Atlanta, GA for the Echo-Project Festival, remember that they’re trying to make it carbon-neutral. Make the festival and enjoy some eco-tourism if you go. Festival organizers are looking for volunteers to help them clean the river.
You can now own a piece of the Monterey Jazz Festival. Recordings will soon be made available for purchase! There are tapes of festival recordings, whether you knew that or not. I didn’t. Through a $350,000 grant the recordings are going to be converted to digital and sold.
The festival itself is happening this weekend at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Artists include John McLaughlin, Los Lobos, Diana Krall, Terence Blanchard, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins and others.
For schedule and ticket information, call (925) 275-9255 or www.montereyjazzfestival.org.
Ricky Scaggs just played Dollywood with Dolly Parton herself in Pigeon Forge.
Look for Dolly’s new song, “Better Get Living” to hit radio right about now.
I’ve talked about how we like to share travel information for the musical tourists who listen to the podcast, so check this out! For Austin City Limits, there’s an Austin Kiddie Limits for the children.
Moms and dads can check out City Limits for the music, then take the kids to Kiddie Limits for arts & crafts, cheap food, kid music, fun and games.
We found an article for you about how Austin City Limits is a good music festival because it was without the 2007 Music Festival must-have – mud.
Can I just propose a lot more winter music festivals where I live, in Phoenix, Arizona? There’s plenty of room here and definitely no mud.
Now we go to the UK for some news about how music festivals are damaging the palaces there, including Kensington Palace. It seems it’s not good for historical palaces to be exposed to lots of vibrations, stomping feet and fireworks.
Makes you feel almost guilty, doesn’t it?
Trent Reznor has told Chinese fans to download his music for free and vows to sell his music independently through his website.
AWESOME!
Does it pertain to American fans too? I don’t know how many people in China might listen to this podcast…
Here’s the exact quote:
"As for the special situation in China, it does not seem to be easy to obtain Western music via legal channels, so I have the following suggestion for our fans: If you can find and buy our legal CDs, I express my thanks for your support. If you cannot find it, I think that downloading from the Internet is a more acceptable option than buying pirated CDs. Our music is easy to find on the Internet, and you might not need to spend much effort to find most of our songs. If you like our songs after you've heard them, please feel free to share it with your friends. As I have put all my effort and heart into my music, I sincerely hope that more and more people can share the enjoyment with us."
Which music festival artist said this?
“I love the festival setting. The whole family can come and it's affordable in you don't have to pay 50 bucks and be over 21 just to get in.”
None other than festival lover Jo Dee Messina.
Show notes bonus:
Check out the Fresno country music fest going on today.
Since I’ve been talking for a while, it’s time once again to break for some podsafe music. This time, I’ve made quite a coup in obtaining something podsafe from the Brian Setzer Orchestra!
http://www.briansetzer.com
http://www.myspace.com/bsowolfgang
Buy This, Baby!
The song is called “One More Night With You.”