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As great as Tuesday’s Obama victory…there are yet still so many yearning for liberty and equality. Whether it be achieving Gay Rights, Tibetan freedom or defeating Congolese genocide…the struggles continue. None Of Are Free by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell…compliments of Solomon Burke. You better listen my brother ‘Cause if you do you can hear There [...]
James Taylor will release an album of covers, mysteriously titled Covers, on September 30th via Hear Music. Taylor will perform renditions of songs that span several decades, including a pair of Leiber-Stoller tunes (”Hound Dog” and “On Broadway”), Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and even the Dixie Chicks’ version of “Some Days You Gotta Dance.” “An album [...]
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or played by David Foster. A deal with the devil? He keeps wondering. Are you bored? What can I say? My David Foster experience is a breeze. [...]
" Kat's Korner: Linda Ronstadt, the very best " resulted in a huge number of e-mails. If you were a community member you got ":D" as a reply and nothing else. There just wasn't time. But as everyone seems to point out, despite what I thought, I name Bill in the piece. I must have done that when I was typing it up. No, I didn't intend to. He was the worst relationship of my entire life and I despise...
Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you haven't done before. — Margaret Mead “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron “We are the [...]
Trembling Blue Stars "Coming Up for Air" (The Go-Betweens cover) The Dirtbombs "King's Lead Hat" (Brian Eno cover) Girls Aloud "With Every Heartbeat" (Robyn cover) Guess who's going to the Robyn show in May? ME! Guess who's glad it isn't a Girls Aloud show instead? Me again! I'm also the one who wishes she could coax any of her singer-type guy friends to videotape themselves covering Robyn songs and...
RELATED ARTICLES: 20 Mar 2008 -- 12 Mar 2008 -- 22 Feb 2008 -- 20 Mar 2008 -- 12 Mar 2008 -- 22 Feb 2008 -- Mask, Mann & Weil's Musical of Special Mom and Unique Son, Opens March 21Greg Evigan and Michelle Duffyphoto by Ed KriegerThe real-life story of a disfigured boy, his tough mom and the biker community that embraces them, is told with songs in the new musical Mask, opening March 21 at Pasadena...
RELATED ARTICLES: 12 Mar 2008 -- 22 Feb 2008 -- 12 Mar 2008 -- 22 Feb 2008 -- PHOTO CALL: Movie-Turned-Musical Mask Hits Pasadena StageThe Pasadena Playhouse stages the new musical Mask, which is inspired by the 1985 film.Richard Maltby Jr. directs the show penned by the picture's screenwriter Anna Hamilton Phelan (book), Barry Mann (music) and Cynthia Weil (lyrics). "Mask is a musical based on the...
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 8-14: Hitting the HeightsIn the Heights stars Mandy Gonzalez and Christopher Jacksonphoto by Joan MarcusAnother week, another unorthodox musical embraced by Broadway critics.A couple weeks ago, it was Stew's coming-of-age rock concert Passing Strange. This week it's In the Heights, the musical tale of life on the northern tip of Manhattan by Broadway newcomers...
RELATED ARTICLES: 22 Feb 2008 -- 22 Feb 2008 -- Mask, Musical Tale of Mother, Son and Belonging, Begins World Premiere in CAAllen E. Read of MaskThe real-life story of a disfigured boy, his tough mom and the biker community that embraces them, is told with songs starting March 12, when Mask — the new musical inspired by the 1985 film — begins performances in California. Allen E. Read, a graduate of...
NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Irwin Z. Robinson, Chairman of
Paramount Pictures Music Publishing Group and Chairman of the Board of the
National Music Publishers Association and the Harry Fox Agency, will
receive the first NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program Visionary Award.
This award honors a business figure of note for their lasting and positive
impact on the music industry through innovative,...
Cast Announced for Musical Mask; Duffy and Read Are Mother and SonAllen E. Read, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, will play Rocky in the Pasadena Playhouse production of the new musical Mask, based on the movie about the real-life teen whose physical disfigurement did not get in the way of his humanity. Casting for the world premiere, to be directed by Tony Award winner Richard Maltby Jr. (Ain't...
Shelby Lynne Just A Little Lovin' Lost Highway If nitro glycerin could sing, we might not need Shelby Lynne. Lynne has been something of a critical darling ever since she left Nashville ...
The Crystals “Twist Uptown” Philly Records. Produced by Phil Spector. (1962) In early 1962, the Crystals recorded a Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil song called “Uptown.” Barbara Alston's strong-yet-sensuous vocals enunciated lyrics that were as steeped in topical subject matter, especially about the frustrations of life in the ghetto, as they were in romance. [...]
