Photos along the Music Trail
Monday, December 6, 2010
King Records
Monday, November 15, 2010
The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Dan Faehnle
Monday, August 17, 2009
Bill Bartlett
Lemon Piper when "Green Tambourine" topped the charts, and, in 1977, when his band Ram Jam recorded "Black Betty," among the most covered songs in rock history. For many years, Bartlett has lived quietly outside the college town of Oxford, Ohio, and has rarely played in public. In fact, he hadn't sung "Black Betty" in decades when he appeared at Cincinnati's "Summer of Love" music festival on August 15, 2009 to deliver a blistering version of his classic. "Everybody wants to know who Black Betty is," Bartlett yelled from the stage. "I think she's Bettie Page, with that black hair and those straight bangs. If you never heard of her, go to Google."
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Blue Wisp
vanishing from the American landscape. The Blue Wisp Jazz Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, created in 1977, is among the nation's oldest. Since
2000, the club has been in a former cellular telephone storefront on Eighth Street. The club's co-founder, Marjean Wisby, was a club fixture
until her death in 2006. For almost 30 years, the club has housed the venerable Blue Wisp Big Band, led by former Stan Kenton drummer John von Ohlen. Over the decades, the club has mirrored the economic changes in jazz. With few touring jazz acts these days, the Blue Wisp maintains a close relationship with the jazz faculty at the University of Cincinnati.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Blues on the Porch
This blues mural from 2009 on a porch on Fourth Street in Richmond, Indiana, is three blocks away from where country blues legends Blind Lemon Jefferson, far left, and Charley Patton, far right, recorded in 1929 at Gennett Records. At Patton’s recording date, he debuted his classic “Spoonful Blues.” In the 1960s, as guitarist with British rock trio The Cream, Eric Clapton, center mural, recorded “Spoonful” (a version modified by Willie Dixon in the 1950s). Three months after Jefferson recorded in Richmond, he died in a Chicago snowstorm.
The Incredible Scotty Anderson
Unknown to the public, Scotty Anderson has a global following with guitarists, thanks largely to sound and video downloads on the Web. The late Chet Atkins once quipped, “Scotty plays Chet Atkins better than I do.” For 30 years, Scotty’s blistering country-rock technique has drawn the praises of such guitarists as Brian Setzer, Eric Johnson, John5, Lonnie Mack, James Burton, and the late Danny Gatton. A Kentucky boy who grew up in a family of mountain pickers, Scotty shies away from touring opportunities, but attracts the faithful where he’s most at home - in small bars and outdoor venues around Cincinnati, Ohio.