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Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:00 |
Rob Jungklas fights through the darkness on his searing new album, Mapping the Wreckage
by Chris Herrington
Earlier this year, local songwriter Harlan T. Bobo released Sucker, a gem of an album that tracks the genesis and evolution of a relationship. A few months later, Rob Jungklas — perhaps Bobo's chief rival as sharpest lyricist on the local rock/roots scene — is releasing something of an unintentional companion piece, Mapping the Wreckage, a powerful yet intimate album that tracks the deterioration and aftermath of a relationship. Jungklas was weaned on the city's folk/blues scene in the 1970s, but…
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:00 |
by Chris Davis
"People always ask me what I'm doing these days, so I tell them, 'Whatever I want to do,'" says Marshall Grant, the original bass player for Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two. Fortunately for local music fans, one of the things Grant wants to do is share his stories about his life on the road with Johnny Cash. On Thursday, July 29th, at 7 p.m., the Memphis chapter of The Recording Academy is hosting Up Close & Personal, an intimate…
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Written by Go Memphis
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:18 |
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The Rhode Island Americana rock band Deer Tick has what some may see as a peculiar take on what a tour should be like. "I've been drunk the whole time," frontman John McCauley says of the band's current tour, slurring out of turn into the phone held by new guitarist Ian O'Neil. Their wild, booze-fueled shows more readily recall punk party boys the Replacements than alt country icons Uncle Tupelo. The band plays the Hi-Tone Cafe on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:05 |
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Taylor Hanson and his brothers, members of the pop group Hanson, started performing when they were youngsters and by the time they were teenagers, their music had gone multiplatinum. They're now all grown up and have a new album, Shout It Out, written and produced entirely by the brothers. The sound is still pop but has eased into a more mature version. Hanson performs Wednesday in Memphis at Minglewood Hall. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:19 |
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In the 1980s, Rob Jungklas seemed to be Memphis’ best shot at a pop resurrection, thanks to MTV staples like the soulful music lesson “Memphis Thing,” a song that stands today as a more-knowing, way-hipper counterpart to Marc Cohn’s unjustly more-celebrated “Walking In Memphis.” And now, staring down 60 and with a new album, Mapping the Wreckage, Jungklas proves himself in his prime. |
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 15:40 |
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In the midst of his Friday night concert at the Memphis Botanic Garden, a breathless, sweat-soaked Al Green, paused, and began repeating: “I love it, baby…I love it, bay-bee… I love it, bay-beeee!” Perhaps he was marveling at his grand-sounding backing band, or the scenic setting -- or, more likely, his own magnificent performance. Whatever the cause for Green’s enthusiasm, it was certainly shared by the 10,000-plus patrons who turned up to witness his annual homecoming. |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 16:33 |
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Downtown’s Ground Zero Blues Club will host a special send-off party for Memphis funk-soul greats The Bar-Kays on Monday, as they prepare to head back to the Middle East to perform for U.S. troops. The free event will be at 6 p.m. at the club at 310 Beale. The band will be touring bases in Kuwait and Iraq during the trip. This will mark the second time the Bar-Kays have traveled overseas to perform for U.S. servicemen and women since 2008. |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 02:06 |
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Few men knew Johnny Cash the way Marshall Grant did. As the bassist, co-founder and road manager for the Man in Black's classic combo, the Tennessee Two, Grant rode shotgun through the many highs and lows of Cash's career. On Thursday, Grant will speak about the early days of the Tennessee Two, as part of a Grammy-sponsored event at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 02:00 |
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When he looks back on his years running Midtown's now-legendary Antenna Club, Steve McGehee admits there was never any plan. "I was just running with a passion that I had for the music," says McGehee. A second Antenna Reunion festival kicks off Thursday with a meet-and-greet event at the Buccaneer and continues with two nightly concerts at the Hi-Tone Café and at the former Antenna site (now Nocturnal) on July 30 and 31. |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 02:00 |
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Hometown hero the right reverend Al Green returns to the local stage for a performance at the Memphis Botanic Garden. Green, still riding high from his critically acclaimed 2008 new-school collaborative album Lay It Down, performs as part of the Live at the Garden summer concert series. Also on the bill is Robert Randolph & the Family Band. |
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