When
Bo Diddley died on June 2, you might have heard a story about how
that name came to be.
Billy Boy Arnold, the harmonica player and singer who will be performing with Jody Williams at Mississippi Valley Blues Festival (and who will be receiving the RiverRoad Lifetime Achievement Award), says he knows the real story.
"I
do some of my grandfather's stuff, but I up it a notch."
The
Dodos exist at the nexus of world music, country blues, heavy metal,
and songcraft, and while it is
as strange as it sounds, it's also pretty natural.
One
of the most beloved albums of the 1970s, Billy
Joel's
The Stranger,
get a labor-of-love reissue next week from Columbia Records' Legacy
imprint. Celebrating 30 years since its original release and double
Grammy win, the remastered edition is available in a book-style case
boasting a live CD recorded at Carnegie Hall from June 1977, and in a
special limited edition featuring a bonus DVD with promotional videos
for the album's title track and "Just the Way You Are," and 10
songs filmed for the BBC's Old
Grey Whistle Test
television show from the following March. Also looking back with a
"bottle of red, and a bottle of white" is a 30-minute documentary
on the DVD with Joel and producer Phil Ramone.
Justin
Townes Earle's debut EP, last year's Yuma,
was a thrown-together affair, but it was a conscious component of his
development.
