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american roots nooz
...enjoy reading the latest Roots Review at http://american-roots.blogspot.com
American Roots Live with Nasty Ned

Come join the fun!

Tonight!
...and every Wednesday night at 9 pm
with guest hosts John Powers & the Arturos

Crossroads
78 North Ave.
Garwood, NJ
908-232-5666
http://www.xxroads.com

...Wednesday night will also feature Tweed Schade & Cochise and the Sugar Daddies,(CHECK THIS LINK http://www.rockabilly.net/ ) plus blues from Greece with Spiros Soukis and a whole host of American Roots All Stars! Don't miss it.

CHECK THE LINKS SECTION FOR TWEED SCHADE !

Thursday night!
...and every Thursday night at 9 pm

The Bluetone Cafe
683 Walnut St.
Easton, PA
(610) 258-5812
http://www.bluetonecafe.com

This Thursday's guest hosts are John Powers & the Arturos - back to back - and a great cast of American Roots All Stars! There is no other show like it anywhere!

Read Roots Reviews at http://american-roots.blogspot.com...or view the photo gallery at http://www.nastyned.com/
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NOTE: The American Roots Movement needs volunteers to perform the following tasks:

1. Personal assistant to Nasty Ned. You must be well organized, have an easy going personality, love for music, proficiency in MS Word and Excel and a home computer. Willingness to travel from time to time would be helpful. This could turn into a full time, salaried position for the right person. Please send resume in body of email to nastyned@att.net No attachments please.

2. Volunteers in both locations to help with the raffle process and to greet patrons at the door with a smile.

3. Volunteer familiar with securing government grants for the performing arts.

Please send all volunteer inquiries to nastyned@att.net.

And please continue to support everyone who works hard to keep the Roots alive.

Subscribe to Elmore Magazine "Saving American Music" http://www.elmoremagazine.com/

Listen to the LOW BUDGET BLUES SHOW with Richard Skelly, every Thursday night at 8 PM on 88.7 FM, WRSU, Rutgers State University - and online at http://www.nj.com/wrsu/ as Richard spins your favorite new and old blues records including some from Nasty Ned!

Get hip to what the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation is doing. Visit them at http://www.jsjbf.com

...also visit the United Jersey Blues Network,VISIT THEM AT http://www.ujbn.com

AND the NY/NJ Blues Society and the Buck's County Blues Society.VISIT THEM HERE http://www.bucksbluessociety.com/

See how they're making a difference ...and how you too can Help Keep the Blues Alive!

Contact Nasty Ned... nastyned@att.net

American Roots Ambassadors:
Duane Chez... http://360.yahoo.com/duanechez
HoneyBoy Dupree... http://www.honeyboydupree.com
John Powers... http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=67238


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Web Site Gives Struggling Musicians a Chance

By BRIAN ROONEY

BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 8, 2006 — While the old record companies with their roots in wax struggle to survive, a Web site that rocks tries to reinvent the business.

Rehearsals.com, operating out of warehouses and airplane hangars across the road from Burbank airport, tries to bring back diversity to the sound of popular music.

"The music industry right now is in a moment of arrested development," says Johnny Caswell, president of Center Staging Corp., and a founder of Rehearsals.com.

With the rise in unpaid downloading and the decline in music sales, record companies rarely take risks with unknowns. The way the surviving big record companies now do business, it costs so much money to launch a new act that they have to be certain they'll score millions in sales before they give someone a shot.

Rehearsals.com is trying to turn that upside down, giving music acts relatively inexpensive exposure on the net, generating sales.

Rehearsals.com gives free studio time to promising acts that allow themselves to be videotaped and put on the Web site.

The idea for the Web site grew out of Caswell's main business of providing rehearsal space and renting instruments and equipment to musicians. With some of the biggest acts in the world and some promising unknowns traipsing through his studios, Caswell got the idea to try to put their rehearsals on the Internet.

Caswell knows music. He's a veteran of the old Philadelphia music scene, with two records that hit the charts.

Echoing the current complaint that everything on radio these days sounds the same, Caswell and his partners work to find a way to launch new acts that can't get a break from the record companies, and to bring back old ones that will still connect with an audience.

Caswell compares the power of the Internet to FM radio, which saved music lovers from the monotony of short-playlist AM radio.

"Remember that?" the fast-talking Caswell asks. "FM radio came in and saved us from that short playlist. We're at that crossroads again."

The fare on his site is a mix of performances, rehearsals and appearances by legends like Tom Petty, Burt Bachrach and the Manhattan Transfer.

But the site also serves as a potential launching pad for acts that get no traction with the record companies
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I'M MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS BLOG

I AM MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS SITE AND MY MSN SITE

1 I SWITCHED TO A GOOGLE ACCOUNT

2 THIS IS THE NEW BLOGGER BETA VERSION

3 I'M USING TAGS AND MORE HYPERLINKING

4 TITLES LINK INTO MIRROR POSTS OR RELATED SITES



THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER TO FIND MY SOURCES,TO GOOGLE AND TO FIND ME.

ALSO I HAVE UPGRADED TO A BETTER TEMPLATE ,FOR BETTER LOOKS, NAVIGATION, AND OTHER GOODIES .

I WILL ALSO POST MORE SUBJECT MATTERS HERE AS YOU NOTICED I POSTED ABOUT MA RAINEY AND I WILL EVEN PROVIDE SOME STREAMING MUSIC LINKS .

STAY TUNED MORE FOR NEWS

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APLEASANTSYMMETRY'S MUSIC

"MA RAINEY"

Gertrude Pridgett was born into a showbiz family that performed in minstrel shows. She first appeared onstage in 1900, singing and dancing in minstrel and vaudeville stage revues. In 1902 she married the song and dance man William "Pa" Rainey and from then on became known as Ma Rainey. The couple formed a song and dance act that included Blues and popular songs. They toured the country, but primarily the South and became a popular attraction as part of Tolliver's Circus, The Musical Extravaganza and The Rabbit Foot Minstrels, where Rainey befriended a young Bessie Smith. In the 1920s Rainey was a solo star of the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit. It was not until 1923 that Ma Rainey signed a recording contract with Paramount. She was billed as the "Mother of the Blues", which wasn't far off the mark. Few historians can point to any real Blues singers before Ma Rainey. She ended up recording 100 songs between 1923 and 1928 on Paramount Records. During that time she was accompanied by many noted jazz musicians such as, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Ladnier, Fletcher Henderson and Coleman Hawkins. She continued working until 1935 and retired to Columbus, Georgia. Ma had been smart with her money and managed to build and operate two theaters; she also owned her own home in Columbus. Ma Rainey died in 1939, of a heart attack.
POST IS FROM REDHOTJAZZ CHECK OUT THIER LINK A LOT OF GOOD INFO AND MUSIC
SEE THESE LINKS ONE IS IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE SORRY I DON'T HAVE AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION YET PEACE ED
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Ma Rainey

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Roots Review 27 BY NASTY NED

Roots Review 27


Here's an example of the American Roots Music system.



Listen to the earliest sounds of Son House and Charlie Patton, then the distinctive blues guitar of Hubert Sumlin behind Howlin' Wolf, the electrified slide vibrato of Muddy Waters, then, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn then, come to American Roots Live at Crossroads in Garwood, New Jersey or the Bluetone Cafe in Easton, PA and hear Johnny Charles and Bernie BB Brauswetter whipping like two leaves on a tree in a hurricane - and you my friend have come full circle.

Two of them on stage together is an awesome experience indeed and one that you may have been fortunate enough to witness if you were at American Roots Live 27 Wednesday night down at the Crossroads. Yes, on stage together - shoulder to shoulder the two strat-masters rocked the house with JR Bradfield on bass and John Powers slappin' the skins.

Also, making their American Roots Live debut that night, and making their mark on our stage, was North Jersey's, The Congregation. We were mightily impressed by their musicianship, interesting material and arrangements and their professionalism. Playing witty, well crafted original songs, The Congregation's web site describes their music as a blending of blues, jazz, rock, soul and "cowboy themes" with a "distinctive flavor of pine trees and exhaust fumes"... they're right on - that's North Jersey, and that's The Congregation.

Thanks Evil Dick, Chuck, Sal and Rich. Hurry back!

Other inspired performances this night by Jukebox Jim Simino singing and playing his red Ovation double-necked guitar, Bones Sanford, Arlene Schar, Robert Z, Ed Pampani, Screamin' Mimi Nowak, Bob Del Rosso, Len De Piano, EJ Rice, Josh Gebhardt and John Powers who kicked off American Roots Live 27 with a crisp set of his original crowd pleasers including, Airplanes, Highway Lines and others.

On the Road

AR 27 saw three "back to back" performances this week. Bernie BB Brauswetter, JR Bradfield and Arlene Schar all made the drive to entertain audiences on back to back nights, Wednesday at Crossroads and Thursday at the Bluetone. They are the first to do so since John Powers did it for AR 24 and has committed to doing so again for AR 28.

Interesting things always happen when John Powers gets together with those musicians across the Delaware. Fan's should consider doing an ARLive "back to back" too.

Anyway, AR 27 at the Bluetone Cafe in Easton, PA was the place to be Thursday night if you dig dem live roots.

Joining us for the first time at American Roots Live Thursday was Dawn "Sugarfoot" Dengler playing drums and rounding out our guesthost band with AR All Stars JR Bradfield on guitars and vocals and Big Boy Kenny Nerbak thumpin' the bass.

JR Bradfield did the honors this night by beautifully playing the Star Spangled Banner on "stumpy", a guitar he hand crafted from an old tree in his backyard. Come see stumpy one night, JR will be happy to show you how his stumpavarious was made...

Outstanding performances at the Bluetone beyond those mentioned above were put in by American Roots favorites Billy K, Arlene Schar, Vern Mobely, Lori V, Sonny Young, Nick T, Leo, Danny B, Jason, Baja Zero, Eric and Chuck, Jeff, Jim, Jen and Niwana, Rob and of course the legendary Bernie BB Brauswetter.

Many thanks to our venues, ownership and staffs, all of the talented, dedicated musicians and singers who grace our stage week after week, our sponsors, supporters and friends, and the American Roots volunteers and ambassadors Powers and Chez and HoneyBoy Dupree who is gearing up for his show on October 14 at Alice Cooper Town with the Phoenix Blues Society, equipped with Elmore Magazines and the American Roots Movement message.

Please do your part. Come to the American Roots Live show nearest you and encourage your friends to do the same.

Keeping it real,

Ned


http://www.nastyned.com/

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