Albums like Fine Rude Thing, the new release by Milwaukee's Paul Cebar, provided the primary soundtrack of my mid-20s. Cebar's sound is rooted in a divine combination of Creedence, Otis Redding and the Faces. When my life started getting complicated, however, my taste for party-oriented roots music diminished. It's a drag- Fine Rude Thing is a good time. Perhaps I'll add regaining an undiluted enjoyment of cheerful bar bands to my list of long-term goals.
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I reviewed a concert by Kenny G and the Kansas City Symphony at Helzberg Hall on Friday.
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From my friend Chris Doolittle: I don't know if you remember Symetrix from the late 80's and early 90's but a friend of mine, Eason Pritchard, is an old high school friend and the band's leader. His drummer and friend, Jerry Bayton, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer… Eason asked me to help him finish these few songs he has been working on for a couple of years before Jerry left for treatment in New York earlier this month. This mission was accomplished. Now I am trying to spread the good word to all and especially my music friends about this release as all proceeds go to Jerry's treatment. There are only 3 songs and I play lead on the first two.
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Making Movies made a video for "Pendulum Swing."
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Kansas City pianist Mark Lowrey filmed a performance of a new composition.
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A video was made for D/Will's "Pure."
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My favorite album of the first three weeks of 2014 is the self-titled outing by the supergroup De La Tierra. RIYL: Sepultura, metal en Español, Deftones.
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NPR's coverage of GlobalFest is impressive. And why didn't any of you jerks tell me about Brushy One-String?
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Fusion lives! "Just Call Me Nige" is a track from Mehliana, a collaboration between Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana.
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A new album by Neneh Cherry will be released next month. The advance track "Everything" is RIYL: Four Tet, the future, Dessa.
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I hadn't realized that Anthony Braxton was (the best kind) of hippie until I heard his fascinating speech at the 2014 NEA Jazz Masters Concert. Braxton's segment begins a bit before the one-hour-17-minute mark here.
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I'm a Rick Rubin fanboy, but I have to call him out for whatever role he played in spoiling Jennifer Nettles' That Girl. The new album might have been as impressive as Gwen Stefani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby. had Nettles' enormous voice not been allowed to overwhelm the mix. RIYL: ibuprofen, Ethel Merman, epic production fails.
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"CS60" is a track from BadBadNotGood's forthcoming album. RIYL: Jack DeJohnette's electronic albums, jazz with a young and enthusiastic audience, OFWGKTA.
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I don't want to be "that guy," but really, Jazz Fest?
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A$AP Ant "See Me" fails to impress me.
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I was excited to hear that Plague of Babylon was Iced Earth's "heaviest album in years." It's not all that. Legion of the Damned's Ravenous Plague is more like it. RIYL: Vader, punching walls, Morbid Angel.
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The trailer for Mary Chapin Carpenter's new orchestral album is appropriately overblown.
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I recently discovered Ausmuteants' 100 Ausmuteants Fans Can't Be Wrong?100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can. RIYL: T.S.O.L., the spirit of rock and roll, 999.
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Kansas City Click: My official picks are published here.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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