Lee Brice With Kyle Bennett

May 10, 2012 · Posted in Alabama Football · Comments Off

Lee Brice with Kyle Bennett
Event on 2012-05-12 19:30:00

Supporting Acts: Kyle Bennett

Lee Brice

When Lee Brice first entered the country consciousness with the Top 30 hit "She Ain't Right" in 2007, his voice carrying over FM radio waves like honey trickling through lines of melody etched in leather, his rugged sound and raw emotion spoke for a new generation of Nashville recording artists. "I love what I'm hearing on the radio today," Brice said. "People aren't trying to be perfect or slick anymore. It reminds me of records back in the day, when everything sounded like it was played live. I'd love it if someday people could look back on what I'm doing now too and say, 'When Lee Brice came around, something changed in a positive way.'" As follow‐up singles "Happy Endings," "Upper Middle Class White Trash," and "Love Like Crazy" have doggedly climbed the charts, Brice has continued to change the landscape of country with images inspired by the Carolina backcountry where he was raised-of a tightly packed car heading from Myrtle Beach into the sunset, of a trailer park full of Cadillacs, of 58 years of marriage lived in a 2‐story house on Maple Street. Not only has Brice established himself as one of the most promising new voices in country, he has proven himself as one of Nashville's top tunesmiths, with cuts by Jason Aldean, Adam Gregory, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, and Garth Brooks to his credit. "More Than A Memory," the Garth Brooks smash that became the first song in Billboard chart history to debut at #1, seems more like a dream to Brice, who names Garth as his first major musical influence. As a young boy, Brice was raised on Gospel in church and the harmonies of Alabama, The Oak Ridge Boys, and the Statler Brothers at home, largely sheltered from the popular music of the day. "I got my first clock radio when I was twelve," Brice recalls, "just as Garth was becoming huge. He's the reason I first picked up a guitar to write, and he had a definite effect on my writing." Later on, Brice drew inspiration from an ever‐widening sphere of artists including Hank Junior, sure, but also Aerosmith and the Dave Matthews Band, Coldplay, John Mayer, Brian McKnight, Tom Petty, 3 Doors Down, Whitney Houston, Edwin McCain, and Ray Charles-a list you might well assemble by grabbing randomly as you wander through the bargain bins at your local record store. Yet for Brice, a common thread links them all: "They're all great, which appeals to me because I want to make every song I do as great as I can too. They all make music that you can believe in." Besides music, Brice had another love in his youth-football. His father, a star player in high school, had passed on an offer to play for Clemson University in order to marry and open shop as an electrician. Lee picked up where his dad left off by enrolling at Clemson and making it onto the team, long‐snapping for punts and then moving to center, until fate changed the game plan. After playing the first game of his senior year, Lee woke up one morning unable to straighten his right arm. "I'd been snapping the wrong way, 500 times a day," he explains. "They had me in surgery the next day, took out all this cartilage, and that was the end of that." He could have stayed and finished his civil engineering degree; instead, Lee resolved to chase his other dream. He'd kept playing music during spare time at Clemson and had even spent spring break in Nashville, checking out the town and its possibilities. During that visit he met and performed some of his tunes for songwriter/producer Doug Johnson, who told Lee, "I see that you love music with every bone in your body, so unless you love civil engineering as much as you love music, you need to be here. And if you do come to Nashville, I'll stand by you from the moment you get here." With Johnson as his mentor, Brice made the decision to leave Clemson that summer and take his chances in Music City, where he sharpened his writing, played out at songwriter circles, and booked co‐writing sessions with some of the top talent in town. Brice continues to work closely with Johnson, who produced the forthcoming debut album, Picture of Me, and penned the current Top 30 single "Love Like Crazy." Powered by musicians hand‐picked for the session, with Johnson bringing the same sensitivity and feel for the material that distinguished his productions for Clay Walker, John Michael Montgomery, and Hank Jr., Picture Of Me alternately flows like a stream of memory or pounds like the tide along the Carolina shore. From the soulful intimacy of "These Last Few Days," to the devilish drawl of "Sumter County Friday Night," Brice is equally adept at capturing the tender excitement of brand new love as he is at raising hell with "country girls and redneck boys" anticipating the night to come in the sunset glow of a Dairy Queen. Altogether, Picture Of Me provides a snapshot image of a promising young artist who's due for his shot at stardom. "When I first started writing, it was so I could have my own songs to sing. And when I first started singing, it was to sing the songs I wrote," Brice explains. "I'm so blessed to have the songwriting cuts I've had, but I'm here to be an artist, and I can't neglect that passion." Brice's passion shines bright in the album's title track, exposing his roots and declaring his dreams with definitive Southern swagger. "'Picture Of Me' is literally me, where I'm from, how I was raised, who I loved, the things I've been through…why I am who I am," Brice says. It's a picture of growing up on the edge of a cornfield at the end of a long dirt road-gritty and grainy and country to the core, worth a thousand words and more.

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9809 N Taylor Road
Mission, United States

Alabama Crimson Tide Football vs Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Football
Event on 2012-09-08 23:59:00

at Bryant Denny Stadium
920 Paul W Bryant Drive
Tuscaloosa, United States

Kd Lang With The Siss

May 7, 2012 · Posted in San Antonio Texas · Comments Off

K.D. Lang with the Siss Boom Bang
Event on 2012-05-22 19:30:00

at Majestic Theatre San Antonio
226 E Houston Street
San Antonio, United States

J.R. Helton on his new book “Drugs”
Event on 2012-05-23 19:00:00
J.R. Helton will be discussing and signing his new novel "Drugs" at Book Soup.

Jake is a functional drug user in America. He accompanies his coke dealer who beats up delinquent clients in parking lots, he shops for opiates at corporate health and beauty clinics, he falls in love with his wife during a series of mushroom trips in San Antonio and Austin, and he binges on nitrous oxide canisters to spectral visions of Julianne Moore. Along the way, Jake explains the effects of the drugs he’s done—on his
body and on his soul—as he lampoons an America that denies its own fondness for drugs.

This fictionalized memoir is written in a very straightforward and sincere style that looks at all of Jake’s experiences with a sharply observant eye and with absolutely no regret or remorse. It is not a moral tale of warning, but rather an honest and witty account of the effects that drugs have on the body, mind, and psyche. Jake takes us along on his many adventures with a thrilling sense of dark humor and a flair for reporting on even the
most outrageous situations in a hilariously matter-of-fact manner. His need to escape the stifling atmosphere of his strict household in suburban Texas makes his first foray into drug use an understandable step and it's clear to see that for Jake, drugs have provided him with the necessary release from reality.

The contemporary heir of William S. Burroughs’s classic Junky, Drugs shows us with sly wit and quietly forceful prose a side of America that remains hidden in plain sight.

J.R. Helton has been writing for thirty years. He has published a number of short stories, as well as the memoirs Below the Line and Man and Beast. A French collection of his work, Au Texas Tu Serais Deja Mort, was published in March 2011 by 13e Note Editions in Paris. He lives in Texas.

ISBN: 9781609804015
Price: .95

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Lee Brice With Kyle Bennett

May 5, 2012 · Posted in University Of Alabama · Comments Off

Lee Brice with Kyle Bennett
Event on 2012-05-12 19:30:00

Supporting Acts: Kyle Bennett

Lee Brice

at Las Palmas Race Park
9809 N Taylor Road
Mission, United States

Ben Taylor w/ Clarence Bucaro
Event on 2012-05-17 20:30:00
About Ben Taylor

As the child of James Taylor and Carly Simon, Ben Taylor was born into a musical world with much promise. His older sister, Sally Taylor, found her niche in the industry early on, but the younger Taylor never sought to follow the footsteps of his famous parents. His childhood might have been surrounded by recording sessions and tours across the world, but it wasn't in Taylor's mind to become a singer. It would be too easy and practically the normal thing to do, so he opted to ignore his brilliant genes and move on.

Taylor was raised in Manhattan and Martha Vineyard and spent time in various private schools before leaving them behind in ninth grade. By then he'd taught himself how to play guitar, but traveling the world and connecting with nature was Taylor's trye passion. Still, he had his hand in a few musical makings. Before he turned 20, Taylor's cover of the Beatles' "I Will" landed on the soundtrack to a domestic comedy featuring Paul Reiser, Bye Bye, Love. He eventually recorded an album for Epic's label, The Work Group, but it folded shortly after Taylor inked his contract.

A trip to the Caribbean gave Taylor the push he'd been wanting for so long. Armed with an acoustic guitar and a mindful of songs, Taylor shaped himself into the natural singer/songwriter his parents knew that he would eventually become. The younger Taylor says he used to try hard not to sound like his famous father, with a rough-edge sound he called "neo-psychedelic-folk-funk." But over time, Taylor realized that he was more comfortable following in his parents' musical footsteps. Now, he says, to be compared to them is an "incredible compliment."

ABOUT CLARENCE BUCARO

Over the span of five albums literate and honey-voiced singer-songwriter Clarence Bucaro has crafted an impressive canon of uplifting Americana, garnering comparisons to Jackson Browne and Van Morrison. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter initially built his career on a robust 300-shows-per-year schedule. His warm and rustic aesthetic has a broad appeal and has made him compatible sharing stages with such diverse and established artists as Aaron Neville, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Gomez, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders, North Mississippi Allstars, Cowboy Junkies and Fountains of Wayne. His initial apprenticeship with singer-songwriter Anders Osborne—best known for penning Tim McGraw’s 3-million selling single “Watch The Wind Blow”—helped him define and refine his own down-home palette. Clarence’s upcoming fifth album is his most ambitious and diverse album to date. The lushly soulful Walls Of The World, released April 3rd 2012 on 20/20 Records, is a thematic piece using walls as metaphor for political and personal division.
Walls Of The World was produced by Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Björk, Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright, and Philip Glass) and Chocolate Genius. The album benefits from the complimentary approaches of Castillo’s penchant for organic ambience and Chocolate Genius’s knack for nuanced, moody electronic flourishes. The album was mixed by the highly-esteemed engineer Tchad Blake (The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Sam Phillips, Al Green, Suzanne Vega, among others) who brought out the bold hues in Clarence’s richly textured album. This dual-perspective production is a theme deeply mirrored in the fabric of the album; it appears in the lyrical theme of the two sides of division and the album was written in two spurts, from two perspectives of division. The first batch of tunes are informed as much by literature such as controversial Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and conflict journalist Asne Seierstad’s Angel of Grozny as they are from Clarence’s travel to Jerusalem, Cuba, Morocco, and Russia. The second batch of songs was written after the birth of Clarence’s first child and, broadly, the tunes examine the theme of walls and division from a tender and personal domestic vantage point.
The literature-informed reportage dates back to 2009 when Clarence travelled to Jerusalem and experienced the contrasts between the old-world majesty of Jerusalem and the squalor of the refugee camps of Ramallah and the West Bank—it was powerful how the physicality of a wall could create such division and opposite worlds for people who lived in such close proximity. In the lyrics of the sweetly melancholy “Walls Of The World” Clarence notes the universality in this holy war when he sings: See the same old fighting/the same old hard lines/we're cutting our throats on the same old divides. The struggles seem so personal and political but, in a grand sense, it’s also a class struggle and he wisely notes this, alluding to the Wall Street protests here at home. The haunting arid ambience of “Child Of War” with the chilling twangy guitars and deep-in-the-mix Chocolate Genius loops explore the horror of children who take on messianic suicide missions and find themselves sacrificing their innocence and carefree childhood to be political pawns in such tangled and tragic wars. Clarence chronicles this horror with bluntly poetic lines like What do you see through those eyes?/What do see through those eyes?/Blood for blood, limb for limb/When There’s No Way Out Vengeance Wins/What Do You See Through Those Eyes? The initial inspiration for “Child Of War” was, again, the Israel and Palestine struggle but the song also has kernels of inspiration from Asne Seierstad’s story of a Chechnyan orphanage, Angel of Grozny. The elegantly electric-folk tune “Two Men Down” is a tribute to conflict photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington who were killed in Libya in April, 2011 while covering the rebel uprising against Gaddafi’s forces. It’s not only an homage to the two men’s bravery but echoes Clarence’s artistic quest to seek the truth in his songs.
“The second batch of tunes brought together what it means to me to have a child in the world when you think of the subject of the song: ‘Child Of War,’” Clarence explains. “These songs were written after having my son and my perspective changed as I saw how having a child fits into a conflicted and divided world. So the two perspectives of the album became a marriage of observing the outside world with how it ties in to my personal own world.” Conflict and division in this clutch of tunes extends from the daily struggles of marriage in “Are We Gonna Make It Through The Night” to “Dangerous Secret,” a tune that details a woman’s struggle with gender-identity issues. “That song is based on a personal letter from a friend telling me about her struggles and fears of acceptance among family and friends with thoughts about transitioning. I took the letter with me on a trip to France and began writing the song there and finished with Freedy Johnston in Brooklyn,” Clarence says. Tracks such as “Same Small Threads” and “It’s Only Love,” written from the joyous and fulfilled feeling of a new parent, round out the album and provide a grounding counterpoint to the weighty issues discussed throughout Walls Of The World.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio Clarence left his hometown for New Orleans to follow his mentor, the Crescent City music icon Anders Osborne. From New Orleans he moved to LA before settling in Brooklyn. The stories in these journeys and Clarence’s passion for travel are documented from early critically acclaimed albums like his Anders Osborne-produced debut Sweet Corn and his Rounder Records sophomore album Sense Of Light to Clarence’s latest, Walls Of The World. This musical journey has sought to capture the human condition in the folk-storytelling heritage with a panoramic view of humanity. “I’ve always dove into the outside world for inspiration; social observation has always inspired me,” Clarence explains, “possibly encouraged by the punk music I used to love in the 1990s. I was inspired by the social commentary and conviction of a band like Bad Religion. In college I became interested in social movements and learned that music is as potent a weapon as any to speak to struggle and incite passion.” Studying the Civil Rights and Labor Movements led Clarence to the music of Woody Guthrie. He found the message in Guthrie’s music resonated with him the way punk first did in his formative years but the purity of the folk sound appealed to his maturing sensibilities and became an aesthetic touchstone for his own music. The growth in Clarence as a writer on Walls Of The World is not only in how sensitive of an observational writer he’s become—like on “Rose Of Jericho” where from seeing a woman on the subway in full burka he imagines her journey from her homeland to NYC—but also manifests itself in how he can turn the lens on himself and examine his condition with a mature level of objectivity. Walls Of The World is an interpersonal and personal travelogue scored by an ambient and soulful production aesthetic bittersweet enough to evoke the dissonance in the human struggle but warm enough for the music to fill you with hope.

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