When the nominees were announced for the 59th Grammy Awards earlier this week, a number of country artists found their names in some unexpected categories.
Read MoreSinger-songwriter opens up about friendship with Hillary Clinton, discovering EDM and the time she hired a P.I.
Grateful Web recently had a humbling opportunity to speak with Amy Helm, mandolinist, singer/songwriter, and bandleader of The Handsome Strangers. She also cofounded Midnight Ramble Band, whose roots began with her father the late and great Levon Helm, an Arkansan who met a gifted group of Canadian musicians and inevitably formed The Band in 1964.
Read More“Heart of Soul” is the first video from the album with the same title.
Ruhr Valley Meets Los Angeles – Soul Doctor from Schwerte Records Debut with US Session Legends!
German singer Theo released his sensational soul album on 21 October 2016!
Read MoreFor some of music’s best-known artists, Thanksgiving Day 1976 was anything but a restful holiday.
Instead it was a long, frenzied but ultimately triumphant day as the famed roots-rock act The Band came to San Francisco to perform its final concert at legendary promoter Bill Graham’s Winterland Ballroom. Dubbed “The Last Waltz,” the show featuring a who’s who of rock’s greatest artists would become one of the most famous concerts ever, in part because director Martin Scorsese recorded the event in his groundbreaking 1978 documentary of the same name.
Read MoreFrom Bob Dylan’s near-drowning to an affair with Carly Simon, revelations from guitarist/songwriter’s tell-all ‘Testimony’
Read MoreThe Bataclan concert hall in Paris has reopened with a performance by Sting, a year after Islamist militants killed 90 people at the venue.
Read MoreChristine And The Queens‘ Héloïse Letissier has spoken to NME about her next album.
The French musician released her debut ‘Chaleur Humaine’ in the UK in February, having originally issued the French edition in June 2014. Letissier appears on the cover of this week’s NME.
Read more at https://www.nme.com/news/music/christine-queens-talks-creepy-sexy-next-album-1846507#QeMOlJPl7Qv3C3BV.99
Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned nearly 50 years, died Monday at the age of 82. Cohen’s label, Sony Music Canada, confirmed his death on the singer’s Facebook page Thursday evening.
Read MoreHochleistungssport: Angélique Kidjo gibt einen Powerabend im Konzerthaus – und besingt die Widerstandskraft und Schönheit der Frauen in Afrika.
Read MoreAmnesty International and renowned Iranian music band Kiosk are calling on artists and members of the public around the world to join a #FreeArtists campaign to demand that Iran immediately and unconditionally release jailed artists, including a musician and a filmmaker who are on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
Read More»Ruhrpott meets Los Angeles! Soul-Doktor aus Schwerte nimmt Debüt mit US-Session- Legenden auf. […]« Theo nennt sich der deutsche Musiker. Damals in den Achtzigerjahren machte er fetzige Soul-Musik unter dem Bandnamen Raoul Vandetta & Soulfingers. Vabanque, 1982 erschienen, war eine heiße Scheibe und 1990 folgte der mit "En Vivo" betitelte Liveplatten-Beleg für die schweißtreibenden Konzerte der Combo. 2016 holt der Frontmann zum großen Schlag aus.
Read MoreEin Dutzend Stücke hat der deutsche Sänger und Pianist Theo Spanke für sein Album „Heart Of Soul“ eingespielt. Unter seinem Vornamen veröffentlicht er das Album, das unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher US-amerikanischer Studiomusiker entstanden ist.
Read MoreEin Doktor aus Schwerte ruft nach Los Angeles ins Aufnahmestudio: Theo präsentiert "Heart Of Soul"
Ruhrpott meets Los Angeles – Soul-Doktor aus Schwerte nimmt Debüt mit US-Session-Legenden auf!
„Heart Of Soul“ ist ein Album, wie es einem nicht alle Tage begegnet. Wenn es so etwas gibt wie das perfekte traditionelle Album, das den Spirit der Sechziger und Siebziger einfängt und doch ganz frisch und zeitgemäß klingt, dann erfüllt dieses zwölf Songs umfassende Werk alle vorgenannten Prämissen.
Read MoreDer Sänger, Gitarrist, Produzent und Songwriter Carl Carlton feiert als musikalischer Leiter für Amnesty International und als Soundtrack-Komponist nationale und internationale Erfolge. Der fast zwei Meter große umtriebige Kreativriese ist in der Welt zu Hause – und stemmt mit inspirierender Leidenschaft auch seinen Auftritt bei Klassik-Pop-et cetera.
Read MoreAfter a lifetime of playing in bands, Amy Helm has taken on the role of frontwoman. While life in the spotlight was unfamiliar at first, Helm hit her stride with a 2015 debut album, “Didn’t It Rain,” and an international tour that stops at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, July 24. New York–based group Fife & Drom will open the night, and Ms. Helm is set to perform with her band, the Handsome Strangers, at 7:30 pm. In a recent interview with The Times, Ms. Helm said she is excited to return to the Island after fondly remembered trips as a child.
Read Moreor more than 50 years, Marianne Faithfull’s blues have both obscured and informed her music. From her melancholy first single, the Jagger-Richards penned As Tears Go By, which launched her as the blue-eyed, flaxen-haired poster girl for sadness, through to the tremulous Rich Kid Blues, recorded when Faithfull was, ironically, destitute, unhappiness has stalked the 69-year-old with virulent ardour.
Read MoreSelbstironisch ist er geworden, er spöttelt übers Alter, nippt an „elektrolytischen“ Getränken („kein Whiskey“) und witzelt spöttisch mit seinem Gitarristen Carl Carlton – wie Westernhagen ein Urgestein der Deutschrock-Szene – über die guten alten Zeiten, als Platten noch Platten hießen und im Regal standen. Zwei entspannte Dinosaurier der deutschen Rockszene, die offenbar keinerlei Angst vor dem Aussterben haben.
Read MoreThe album that brought The Blind Boys Of Alabama to the mainstream gets a 15th anniversary reissue with bonus tracks.
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