28 Jun 2005

Recipients of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's RiverRoad Lifetime Achievement Awards

By Administrator
The purpose of the RiverRoad Award (as the Mississippi Valley Blues Society [MVBS] "a river runs through it" guitar logo attests) is to honor those artists who have devoted their lives to bringing what we call "river" blues - music that runs deep with emotion, like a river of the soul - to anyone they meet on life's highways.
28 Jun 2005

Friday, July 1, Tent

By No Author
Joe Price - 5 p.m. Joe Price comes from Waterloo, where he first began to play slide guitar using a slide he sawed from the handlebars of a neighbor's bike. Pretty old-school for an Iowa boy. He found his way to Iowa City, where he managed to solidify his craft when blues legends such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Honey Boy Edwards, and Hound Dog Taylor passed through town on their Midwest tours.
28 Jun 2005

Saturday, July 2, Bandshell

By No Author
The Mercury Brothers - 2 p.m. The Mercury Brothers are Memphis-bound in early 2006 to compete in the International Blues Challenge after winning the local blues challenge and the Iowa Blues Challenge.
21 Jun 2005

New Record Captures Wicked Liz at Its Best

By Jeff Ignatius
Some bands are not cut out for the recording studio. They're great live, but when they get in that soundproofed room by themselves, they can't translate the energy. Often, the performances on studio CDs are too dry, and they reveal deficiencies in the songs that an audience isn't going to notice at midnight with a few drinks in them.
14 Jun 2005

Festival Showcases 60 Bands

By No Author
Mark Brenny of Brenny's Motorcycle Clinic has been building the annual Sturgis on the River festival into the Quad Cities' best showcase for local bands. And this year he's topped himself. For last year's event, Brenny booked roughly 40 bands on three stages.
14 Jun 2005

Can't Wait For The Blues Fest?

By Administrator
With the Blues Festival just two weeks away, it's crunch time for the Mississippi Valley Blues Society (MVBS). There are travel, lodging, security, and logistical concerns to address, contracts to finalize, and volunteer lists to compile.
07 Jun 2005

Spicing It Up at Gumbo Ya-Ya

By Mike Schulz
At Gumbo Ya Ya, the food might be hot, but the music is always hotter. (Quite a feat for an event serving Cajun sausage and spicy boiled shrimp.) That truism will certainly apply to this weekend's annual Mardi Gras in the District festival, at which nine bands will deliver crowd-pleasing performances of Cajun, zydeco, blues, funk, rock, soul, hip-hop, R&B, and reggae music.
07 Jun 2005

New Band Living Out Its Dream

By Farrah Welsh
Dreams certainly do come true for new country music trio Sugarland, which will play on Saturday, June 11, at Quad City Live. The band's debut album, Twice the Speed of Life, recently went gold and has had two top-15 singles.
24 May 2005

Can Bozarth Build the Buzz?

By Jeff Ignatius
Lon Bozarth would seem to have a lot of talents, with his extensive background in the live-music scene of Austin, Texas. Being gentle, politic, and modest aren't among them. Neither is making small plans. In those ways, Bozarth is a stereotypical Texan - straight-talking and thinking big.
24 May 2005

Singer and Pornographer: The Double Life of Neko Case

By Jeff Ignatius
Neko Case has an enviable career. She is a siren whose seductive voice might be the single most alluring instrument in music today - clear, robust, sexy, self-possessed, and expressive, with an endearing hint of nasally imperfection.

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