Justine Blazer To Perform Thursday In Saline Summer Music Series
20.07.11
Blazer, who tours all over the country and plays 200 dates a year, sings and performs and plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and harmonica, wrapping her five-octave voice around a modern country sound that resonates with her rock ‘n’ roll and... The national winner of the 2011 RAM Trucks Battle of the Bands, a 20-Time Detroit Music Awards nominee and winner of the 2007 Detroit Blues Challenge, her single and video “Red, White and Blue” has become an anthem for U. S. troops overseas. National recording artist Justine Blazer will perform 7 p. m. Thursday in another free concert in the Saline Summer Music Series , on South Ann Arbor Street between Michigan Avenue and Henry Street. “I’m very excited to play Saline again for the fourth year in a row,” she says.
Source: Patch.com
Recording of July 2011: So Beautiful or So What
06.07.11
but that's an argument for another day) to fashion a startlingly powerful collection of songs that successfully mix the jaunty near-danceability of his world-music adventures with serious lyrics about impending death, the vagaries of love, and,... It seems that Paul Simon, who will turn 70 in October, has begun to ask life's Big Questions in preparation for his own exit. Yet in this case, seeming is not reality, and at 69, Simon has returned to his polyglot musical influences (that he may or may not have heisted. Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What. Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, prods. Hear Music HRM-32814 (CD. the LP comes with a voucher for hi-rez downloads). Performance ****½. Sonics ***½ "Love & Blessings".
Source: Stereophile Magazine
Christmas Songs for Harmonica [With CD] NEW 
Many may credit the harmonica as being an outdated instrument in modern music, lying in the musical graveyard between the lap guitar and the oboe. However, San Francisco's Rin Tin Tiger has triumphantly resurrected the ol' pocket piano for their 2011