After ending this last year cranking out two long columns about musicians we lost, I feel the need to counterbalance. While I know that death is a part of life (indeed, life = death according to the laws of nature), it was not all that much fun to dig through the past year searching for musicians recently passed. It was, in fact, a bit of a downer. Reliving the news that I knew was not half as bad as discovering the news I had missed. All too many musicians I admire tripped off this mortal coil without so much as a thank you, Frank, it’s been fun, and I was more than a little unsettled with each discovery. But the past is the past, whether we like it or not, and it was not all bad.
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Frank Gutch Jr: 2013— A Look at the Best, plus Notes You Can Take To the Bank…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Best of 2013, Churchwood, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin & the Wildfire, Filligar, Frank Gutch Jr., gary minkler, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Allchin, Laurie Biagini, Lisbee Stainton, Maxi Dunn, Morning Ritual, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, Records, Rita Hosking, Sera Smolen, Sheldon Gomberg, Sweet Relief III, Tamikrest, The Abramson Singers, The Big Bright, the curtis mayflower, the fearless kin, The Incurables, The Toniks, Tom Mank on January 28, 2014 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: Behind the Sweet Relief III Album with Sheldon Gomberg; Janie Jones (It’s a Movie), Eef Barzelay, and Gemma Hayes; It’s A Beautiful Day, Today
Posted in Opinion with tags Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola, Ben Harper, David LaFlamme, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eleni Mandell, Frank Gutch Jr., Genevieve Toupin, Indie Artists, Indie Music, It's a Beautiful Day, Jackson Browne, Janie Jones, Joseph Arthur, k.d. lang, music, Records, Rickie Lee Jones, Ron Sexsmith, Sam Phillips, She & Him, Shelby Lynne, Sheldon Gomberg, Sweet Relief III, Tina Schlieske, Victoria Williams on November 12, 2013 by segarini
I have written about Sheldon Gomberg and his support of Sweet Relief before. For those who don’t know, Sweet Relief is a charity organization dedicated to helping musicians in need. It was founded by musician Victoria Williams to help her meet the financial challenges of a serious illness and gained a life of its own shortly thereafter, the funds going to a wider expanse and eventually going to all musicians, if they qualify. Yes, it is a business (though nonprofit) and has to have guidelines to exist and survive.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Re-Return of Nick Holmes; Oami: Back In the Game; Dan Miraldi: Rockin’ Cleveland; Lisbee Stainton: Bribing Her Way Into Next Week’s Column; and a Shitload of Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Albino Winos, Dan Miraldi, Day In the City, DBAWIS, Devil at our Heels, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eleni Mandell, emiko woods, Fire Tapes, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jacquie B, Jesse Dee, jim colegrove, John Stewart, Lisbee Stainton, Michael Mainieri, music, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, OAMI, randy burns, Records, Sheldon Gomberg, Soulful Crooner, Sweet Relief III, Tamikrest, The Living Sisters, Ticktockman, tom kell, white elephant, Word Games on September 10, 2013 by segariniNick Holmes is a friend of mine. I have never met him nor have I even talked with him on the phone but he is a friend, nonetheless. He sends me stuff. Anyone who sends me stuff is my friend. Send me some stuff and you’ll find out. It seems like only yesterday (it was over two years ago) that he sent me CD copies of two albums I, up to that time, never even knew existed: And it seems like just yesterday (because it was) that I received his brand spanking new CD, Sonar. There is a story behind Nick and his music and I hesitate to tell that story here because I have told it a few times and hate to repeat myself too much, but if you want to read a fascinating story about his early years in New York and how we became acquainted, follow this link.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 