Downbeast - music blog

Your Truly Humble Blogger has a new piece out in that thing we once called "P-R-I-N-T-M-E-D-I-A." The Oxford-American, Marc Smirnoff's perpetually endangered magazine devoted to Southern music and literature, has published its 11th Annual Southern Music Issue with "Blues Is A Kind of Revenge," a small piece by moi on the blues pianist Memphis Slim (with an accompanying essay by R.J. Wheaton on Slim's 1951 recording of "No Mail Blues"). Check it out on newsstands now.

Memphis Slim: Live in Baden Baden

Our friend in Berkeley Myra Melford has been making a variety of news lately: after signing with Firehouse 12 Records, the pianist/composer recently was interviewed by At Length magazine about The Whole Tree Gone, Myra's upcoming record with her Be Bread ensemble. Read a review of it here.

Greg Burk's Live Picks of the Week (Dec. 18-24)
Don Heckman's Live Picks of the Week (Dec. 14-20)
Brick Wahl's Live Picks of the Week (Dec. 16-23)
L.A. New Music Events (Dec. 17-Jan. 18)

See You Again in 2010!