5 August 2008
Janiva Magness
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Janiva Magness lost both her parents to suicide and grew up on the streets and in foster homes until she found her salvation in the power of the blues. She calls her latest CD What Love Will Do, ‘a testament to the power of love’. Her commanding, totally committed voice drives a band that cleverly blurs the lines between soul music and rootsy blues.
Jeff Turmes’ guitar, bass and saxophones and Stephen Hodges’ fat drums lay down great grooves as Detroit-born Janiva radically reinvents songs previously done by Al Green, Annie Lennox, Bill Withers and Marvin Gaye with her hard-edged sound of hope. Her turning point was seeing Chicago West Side Bluesman Otis Rush perform in Minneapolis; she said: ‘Everything he played was with such complete commitment. I knew when I left that club that morning in the wee hours that whatever it was that happened to me that night, I had to have more of that experience.’
Playlist
Playlist
1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)
1422
CD Cut 1 - 'That's What Love Will Make You Do'
Campbell
Trice Publishing, BMI
Alligator ALCD 4924 ( in Australia, through Only Blues Music www.onlybluesmusic.com
email: onlybluesmusic@aol.com
worldwide: www.alligator.com )
Janiva Magness - 'What Love Will Do'
3:20
(Nicely rootsy blues funk with baritone sax led horn section, Wurlitzer piano, Albert Bing-like guitar in song of devotion despite everything in new version of Little Milton's 1972 song)
Segue
1426
CD Cut 1 - 'How Strong is a Woman'
Betty Crutcher
Rondor Music Australia
Mahalia Barnes and Ben Rodgers
Mushroom Music Publishing/Control
Liberation Music LMCD 0002 Through Mushroom ( www.liberation.com.au )
Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates - 'Volume 1'
3:34
(Austral perf and arr: Song of devotion to a man as opposed to 'women's liberation' with crisp funk band including horns)
MAHALIA BARNES GIG ALERT:
8 Aug 2008 8:00 The Bridge Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
9 Aug 2008 8:00 Heritage Hotel Bulli, New South Wales
10 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
15 Aug 2008 10:00 The Night Cat Melbourne, Victoria
16 Aug 2008 8:00 The Espy St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
19 Aug 2008 8:00 Icons - KARRATHA Karratha, Western Australia
21 Aug 2008 8:00 The Gaelic Club - Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates, Mr Percival
24 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
31 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
1432
CD Cut 1 - 'Big Brother'
Tina Harrod
Pub Not Spec
Vitamin Records VT 0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
Long fade to 7:05
(Austral perf and arr: Jazzy re-make of Stevie Wonder's cynical song about politicians with Hamish Stuart's drums, Matt McMahon's piano, Jonathan Zwartz's double bass and Tina's voice)
TINA HARROD GIG ALERT:
8 & 9 August, 2008
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Melbourne VIC
16 August, 2008
SIMA @ Seymour Centre Sydney NSW
19 September, 2008
The Vanguard Sydney NSW
Segue
1438
CD Cut 4 - 'Bitter Pill'
Lennox
Universal Music-MGB Songs ASCAP
Alligator ALCD 4924 ( in Australia, through Only Blues Music www.onlybluesmusic.com
email: onlybluesmusic@aol.com
worldwide: www.alligator.com )
Janiva Magness - 'What Love Will Do'
Fades to 4:05
(Funky bluesy remake of song Annie Lennox wrote and recorded on her 2003 CD, 'Bare' - driven by Janiva's voice and baritone sax here)
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CD Cut 8 - 'Night Spinner'
George Brooks
Earth Brother Music BMI
Distributed by Birdland ( www.birdland.com.au
Matt McMahon and Guy Strazz - '2@1'
5:05
(Austral arr and perf: Nice, airy duet for Matt's piano and Guy's acoustic guitar)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Matt McMahon and Guy Strazz - will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Wednesday, 6 August.
AND CD LAUNCH ALERT:
Aug 10 Matt McMahon/Guy Strazz CD Launch, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne
Sep (DTBA) Matt McMahon/Guy Strazz CD Launch, SIMA, Seymour; Centre Sydney.
August, 17 2008 Guy Strazz - Passionfruit at AB Hotel
AB Hotel cnr Bridge Rd / Glebe Pt Rd, Sydney, New South Wales
Cost : free
Segue
1449
CD Cut 11 - 'I Won't Be Around'
Bridgeman and Bridgeman
Robert Duffey Music/Third Story Music, BMI
Alligator ALCD 4924 ( in Australia, through Only Blues Music www.onlybluesmusic.com
email: onlybluesmusic@aol.com
worldwide: www.alligator.com )
Janiva Magness - 'What Love Will Do'
3:56
('You'll be sorry when I'm gone' song, slowly building, for Janiva's voice, and quiet electric guitar and electric piano and male background vocals)
Segue
1453
CD Cut 6 - 'Like I Care' (Wings)
Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky
Topic Records Ltd
Topic Records TSCD 571 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
Eliza Carthy - 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater'
3:29
(Zydeco-flavoured accordion in song that goes into Ska feel with words about being bored and depressed)
1457
CD Cut 8 - 'You Sound Pretty Good'
Jeff Turmes
Tight Shoes Music, BMI
Alligator ALCD 4924 ( in Australia, through Only Blues Music www.onlybluesmusic.com
email: onlybluesmusic@aol.com
worldwide: www.alligator.com )
Janiva Magness - 'What Love Will Do'
One and a half minute excerpt
(Good natured put down song of a guy who's 'just too old', with banjo, handclaps, electric slide guitar, riffing saxophones and compressed answering vocal)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
