Stand Up for Love: Destiny s Help

â And how can I pretend that I don't know what's going on... when every minute, every minute another soul is gone.â Sounds familiar? This is an excerpt from the lyrics of a Destiny's Child's song entitled â Stand up for Love.â The song was released under Columbia records last 2005. This inspiring and empowering pop music got hyped up due to its message that was used in the wake of one of America's worst calamity, Hurricane Katrina. Stand Up For Love, written by David Foster, became popular with its positive and engaging message that managed to instill a sense of cooperation and patriotism among the American people. It has somehow relieved the Americans from the stress and anxiety that was brought by the calamity.

Start At Home To Begin A New Career In Music

Hope you have been practicing singing in the past week and your vocal chords are now prepared to take on the nuances of getting on with the real thing- the actual recording. Moving on from where we left off the last time around â " here are the rest of the gadgets you will need to set up your very own recording studio. Gadget 2 - Your Microphone: While your standard microphone may be adequate to chat with your long distance friend, you may require something more technical for your recording needs. Youâ ll need one that will record your music perfectly. Microphones are the most important feature in recording your music because their quality varies widely and they are what you hear.

How to Choose a Good Unlimited Music Downloads Site

Unlimited music downloads are available for anyone nowadays at online music download sites. Such sites usually offer lifetime or yearly memberships to members who can then get hold of unlimited music downloads for the duration of their membership. Music enthusiasts all like to use such membership sites to download music online. This is understandable since it is so convenient and affordable for most users. What this article would reveal are some of the handy tips we can use to choose a solid site for unlimited music downloads. 1. Membership Fee Typically, these sites would charge you a one-time fee for unlimited music downloads. If you come across a site that charges you extras or a monthly fee for unlimited music downloads, you may want to move on to another.

Al Lerman Fathead, Canada s Finest

Canada, our neighbor to the north was one of the first countries to be favored with regular visits from our early blues musicians. Seven time Maple Blues Award nominee, Al Lerman can recall his earliest exposure to the blues. Given his first harp when he was eleven years old, he would go with his brother-in-law to the Riverboat, a coffee house in Toronto's Yorkville district to listen to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. If money was short, and Al couldn't afford the cover, he would go to sit on the back steps, his ear pressed to the door and sit regardless of the weather.  There was times he recalls sitting in the rain, listening to this music that had him hooked He remembers seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee maybe 30 to 40 times, or whenever they came to his area.

Arsen Shomakhov: From Russia With Blues

When and how was Blues music introduced in Europe? Was it introduced by early twentieth century European travelers who, returning to their respective countries took with them what they thought was a novel American sound, or by Black soldiers who participating in military theaters of war during WWI may have entertained the European ally during a lull in combat, who, remembering the songs shared introduced what they had heard to the European musician? Or has it always existed in Europe, introduced with the migration of African Muslims as their influences spread throughout the world, as a growing number of ethnomusicologists and academics now think. * How or when is obviously a matter of academic study.

Billy Gibson Band: Live At The Rum Boogie Cafe

Billy Gibson is a headliner on Beale Street, one of the must-see performers playing in Memphis. Playing three nights a week on the fabled stage of Rum Boogie Cafà at the corner of Beale and Third, he welcomes all noted musicians who come through Memphis to sit in and get a taste of the lore of Beale!  Born in the heart of the blues in Clinton, Mississippi, the blues is really in Billy Gibson's blood! At 7 years of age, almost upon instinct, he persuaded his grandmother to take him to a local department store where they bought his first harmonica. Not knowing anything about harmonicas, he selected the most attractive harmonica with the brightest colored packaging.

Johnny Rover: A Long Ways From Home

. Brazil is a long way from Chicago (a measured 5276 miles as the crow flies), but not so far that this young artist didn't feel that Chicago blues influence. He started playing the blues harp at 15, Â by listening to harmonica blues masters such as Little Walter, and Big Walter Horton, and learned the basics from Brazil's leading harmonica players. At 17 years of age, Johnny played at what has been Brazil's largest blues festival. Once he picked up the harp he could not put it down. "Addicted" to playing the harp, he followed the pull of its magic north until he had arrived in California where he had discovered many of the contemporary blues harp masters lived.

Mark Stafford:Flying With The Bird

Mark Stafford's tone on the harmonica is fat. It is huge, it is strong. It soars with the seeming ease of an eagle riding the thermals high above the earth. It's only fitting that he has been nicknamed "the Bird." Ask comparison, think William Clarke. Clarke could soar on harp. This is a comparison that Mark Stafford often hears. His reaction, he's complemented to hear his name and Clarke's in the same sentence. Maybe modesty and a genuine desire not to be typed as a William Clarke wannabe keeps him from accepting this comparison. Mark has been playing for over thirty years. Given his first harmonica when he was ten, he didn't start playing in a band until he was in his early twenties.

Mikey Junior and Stone Cold Blues:

This Young Don of the Blues Harp Won't Be Refused Picture Sonny Corleon on the blues harp--Marlon Brando's characterization of Don Vito was too old to draw a comparison here--and you have Mikey Jr. From his hats, his tailored Italian suits to his pinky rings, Mikey Jr. is a young cat with a distinctive personae. This look attracts people, his harmonica playing gets them hooked. Despite his age, he demonstrates a mastery of the blues harp that belies his years, and he heads a family (his family) accompanied by some of the most accomplished blues musicians on the East coast. When we were first given his name, and we pulled his website up, our first impression was "too cool!

Jamie Wood: It Don t Mean A Thing If It Don t Have That Swing

Getting the Scoop On Holly-Wood Confidential CHC We have just gotten a pre-release of your third CD entitled "Hollywood Confidential". "Holly-Wood" is obviously a play on your last name, and makes reference to "Tinseltown" Â that great center of cinematography, Please tell us about this new CD. Jamie Wood Well, as you know, blues-based swing is our passion. So this time, on Hollywood Confidential, we wanted to keep that swing thing going, but give it a little more punch by adding the horns. I think we achieved our goal. It's really fun and upbeat, which is what we wanted. I also love R&B so I wrote Song for Mr. X. It's a little more of a 50's sound but I think it fits well with the other songs.