Jim Alfredson
This Too Shall PassIn Memorandom 2009 via Big O Records
Chet is under the humble impression there are only two kinds of music: music that is real, which moves you and that you can feel; and music that doesn't. He prefers to spin the former.
Live set of "runners" or traditional Tex-Mex accordion-based songs which are included (3 total) in each show.
Wanda Jackson, with her back up band from N.Y. the Lustre Kings, plays at the Orbit Room in Grand Rapids on May 15.
Wanda Jackson on why bands are still doing music that was written 45 years ago. Jackson describes one of the styles she still performs, and in fact helped pioneer, as "'50s rock." "I think it will live on, really, forever because it's just classic and good stuff. Clean and innocent--for the most part. This music is so opposite from the stuff they're doing today. Not everybody likes what they're doing today. That's where we fill in that gap."
Terrance Simien (born September 3, 1965 in Mallet, Louisiana) is an American zydeco musician, vocalist and song writer. He and his band won the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for 2007. He is considered to be one of the most gifted vocalists, engaging performers and innovative recording artists in American roots music. (Wikipedia)
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Reunited version of Mike Morgan & the Crawl, featuring Lee McBee, currently on tour in Europe.
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