Ringo Starr's 11th Annual 'Peace & Love' Birthday Celebration on July 7 circles the globe
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On July 7, 2019 Ringo Starr returned to Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles for his annual Peace & Love Birthday event where he joined fans gathered for a Noon #peaceandlove celebration. The dream is to create a wave of Peace & Love across the planet, starting in New Zealand and ending in Hawaii. Ringo began these in 2008 at the Hard Rock Café Chicago and last year he celebrated the 10th Anniversary at the Hard Rock Café Nice. In the ensuing years it has grown enormously with #peaceandlove events all over the world, and this year had over 30 events in 26 countries (listed below).
“I’ve said it before but I really can’t think of a better way to celebrate my birthday, or a better gift I could ask for, than peace and love. It’s so great how every year it keeps growing, with the wave of peace and love starting in the morning on July 7 in Australia and ending in Hawaii, with celebrations in all the time zones in between. I am so happy to be back at Capitol Records, and for our great sponsors who are carrying the message of peace and love around the world, like the David Lynch Foundation, Life is Good, SiriusXM, Modern Drummer and Starbucks. I also want to thank each and everyone of you for continuing to help spread peace and love, Ringo.”
The event included tribute performances by Ben Kyle from ROMANTICA with Sara Watkins who performed “Act Naturally” and “It Don’t Come Easy”, and Southern California rock and roll band The Jacks performed “You’re Sixteen” and “Speed of Sound”. There was also a special premiere of an original song about peace and love composed for the occasion by students of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in partnership with the South Central LA Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center. The song will later premiere online as a video featuring music students as well as guest artists and friends.
Catch up with all things Ringo Starr here.
'The Pretenders With Friends' coming Friday, July 12
The Pretenders featuring Chrissy Hynde performs with special guests
Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Kings of Leon and Incubus!
Blu-ray / DVD / CD package available July 12th featuring
bonus interviews with band members, slide show, trailers & more
Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling band The Pretenders featuring the Legendary Chrissy Hynde performs with special guests including Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Kings of Leon and Incubus, recorded live at the Decades Rock Arena in Atlantic City, NJ.
Songs include "Brass in Pocket"; "Message of Love" by Incubus, "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" by Shirley Manson, "Precious"; "Candy" by Iggy Pop and Chrissy Hynde", "Talk of the Town"; "Back on the Chain Gang"; "Drive" by Incubus; "Mystery Achievement", "Fools Must Die" by Iggy Pop, and "Middle Of The Road" encore performance featuring The Pretenders with Iggy Pop, Incubus, Kings Of Leon and Shirley Manson.
Songs include "Brass in Pocket"; "Message of Love" by Incubus, "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" by Shirley Manson, "Precious"; "Candy" by Iggy Pop and Chrissy Hynde", "Talk of the Town"; "Back on the Chain Gang"; "Drive" by Incubus; "Mystery Achievement", "Fools Must Die" by Iggy Pop, and "Middle Of The Road" encore performance featuring The Pretenders with Iggy Pop, Incubus, Kings Of Leon and Shirley Manson.
Complete details HERE
Samantha Fish shares "Bulletproof" video via Guitar World; 'Kill Or Be Kind' album due Sept. 20, 2019
Genre-defying guitarist, singer, and songwriter Samantha Fish unveiled the video for "Bulletproof," the lead track from Kill Or Be Kind, her debut album for Rounder. The album, which will be released on September 20, was produced by three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington and mixed by two-time Grammy winner Steve Reynolds.
As she told Guitar World, "'Bulletproof' is about losing touch with yourself when you try to make everyone else happy. It's a little bit of an observation on society's standards and the music industry - how people can criticize every little thing, and because you're in show business you're expected to be bulletproof as an individual."
"Vulnerability being taken as weakness, you put on a mask to steel yourself," she continued. "It's a facade, but we all do it anyway."
Watch the video HERE
Anyone who has ever heard Fish's previous albums knows that she has earned a place in the top rank of contemporary blues guitarists and that her voice can wring the soul out of a ballad and belt out a rocker with roof-shaking force.
While those virtues are fully in evidence on Kill Or Be Kind, each of the songs on the album does far more than simply provide a setting for Fish's pyrotechnics. They tell captivating stories, set up by verses that deftly set the scene, choruses that lift with real feeling, and hooks that later rise up in your thoughts, even when you're not aware that you're thinking of music at all. It's the kind of songwriting that emerges when raw talent is leavened by experience and aspiration, and when a committed artist genuinely has something to say. Those qualities make Kill Or Be Kind a genuine artistic breakthrough for Fish.
Fish sought out high-quality songwriting collaborators for the album - the likes of Jim McCormick (who has worked with Fish before and also written for Luke Bryan and Keith Urban); Kate Pearlman (who has worked with Kelly Clarkson); Patrick Sweeney; Parker Millsap; and Eric McFadden. The result is an album on which each song is distinct, but the complete work hangs together as a coherent, entirely satisfying statement.
Fish propels "Watch It Die" with an insistent guitar riff, but near the song's end two female background singers lend the song a haunting soulful feel. Meanwhile, "Love Letters" moves on an insinuating, stop-time riff in its verses until it bursts in passion on its chorus. Both songs use horn sections for finesse and texture. "Love Letters" also introduces one of the album's central themes: the allure of losing yourself in love - and the dangers of it. "Keep waking up in the bed I made," Fish sings. "Forget the pain when you wanna play/I'm back to broken when you go away."
The title track, a seductive ballad, offers a lover a stark choice: "Make up your mind/I can kill or be kind."
The songs "Dirty," "Love Your Lies" and "Fair-Weather" explore similar themes - how deceit, self-deception and shifting expectations can alter the course of life and love.
The affecting ballad "Dream Girl" stands the endearment of its title on its head and explores the dilemma of a love not coming to fruition.
On "She Don't Live Around Here Anymore," a soul ballad once again bolstered by tasteful horn parts, the singer confronts the feeling of being used and finds empowerment in walking away.
"You Got It Bad (Better Than You Ever Had)" is about working towards your dreams and the knifes edge we often walk to reach our goals.
"Trying Not to Fall in Love With You" finds the singer not wanting to rush a relationship - and therefore undermine it. "
Having completed an album that she believes in so strongly - "This is me coming through, my personality," she says - Fish is eager to bring it to the world. "I got the moon in the back of my mind, and I want to shoot for it!" she declares. "I want to reach over genre lines and get out to as many people as possible. This album is so broad - and it's all me. So I'm just hoping it catches people and appeals to them."
Fish is currently on tour. A full list of dates is below. More dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
Pre-order link HERE
Kill Or Be Kind Track Listing
1. Bulletproof
2. Kill or Be Kind
3. Love Letters
4. Watch it Die
5. Try Not to Fall in Love with You
6. Fair-Weather
7. Love Your Lies
8. Dream Girl
9. She Don't Live Around Here
10. Dirty
11. You Got It Bad
Samantha Fish On Tour:
7/12/19, Tremblant, Quebec, Tremblant International Blues Festival
7/13/19, Greenfield, MA, Green River Festival
7/27/19, Fort Smith, AR, Peacemaker Music & Arts Festival
8/09/19, Louisville, CO, Louisville Street Fair
8/10/19, Angel Fire, NM, Festival Eclectica
8/16/19, Warren, PA, Rally in the Valley
8/17/19, Cockeysville, MD, Hot August Music Festival
8/23/19, Paola, KS, Paola Roots Festival
8/24/19, Freeland, MI, Freeland Blues Festival
9/05/19, Urbana, IL, Ellnora / The Guitar Festival
9/13/19, Telluride, CO, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
9/14/19, Telluride, CO, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
9/21/19, Louisville, KY, Bourbon & Beyond
9/24/19*, Portland, OR, Revolution Hall
9/25/19*, Seattle, WA, Neptune
9/27/19*, Stateline, NV, Montbleu Resort
9/29/19*, San Francisco, CA, Fillmore
10/01/19*, Chandler, AZ, Chandler Center for the Arts
10/03/19*, West Hollywood, CA, Troubadour
10/04/19*, West Hollywood, CA, Troubadour
10/05/19*, Solana Beach, CA, Belly Up
*w/Marc Broussard
Mac Powell and the Family Reunion
release new song "Mess of Me"
Debut Album Out July 26th via Thirty Tigers
Mac Powell and the Family Reunion |
This summer, Mac Powell and the Family Reunion will release their full-length debut album Back Again on July 26 via Thirty Tigers. Led by the former lead singer of Grammy-winning, multi-platinum selling group Third Day, the new band is southern roots and American rock. It's a collection of foot-stomping, hand-clapping tunes that pay tribute to Mac's early musical inspirations from his childhood, including Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Jim Croce to name a few. Today they released their new single "Mess of Me" which Taste of Country called "a song that sounds like what might happen if the Beatles collaborated with the Allman Brothers Band."
Listen to "Mess of Me" HERE.
Pre-order/pre-save Back Again and receive the new single instantly HERE.
"I wrote this song while looking back and remembering when I first fell in love with my wife, Aimee," Mac told Taste of Country. "Remembering what it feels like to want so bad to be with someone and that you would do anything in your power to make that happen. Sometimes that love can make us a little sick and crazy - keeping us up late at night and making us do things that we wouldn't normally do."
Mac and the Family Reunion released their debut single "Back Again" last month, a country rock travelogue that captures the group's dynamic live presence. Billboardcalled it "a blend of country, rock and gospel, brought to life with Powell's gritty, soulful voice." It was followed by the release of "Whoo!" featuring country music legend Craig Morgan. Parade Magazine named it "the perfect song for summer."
"Like most people, I grew up listening to my Mom and Dad's record collection," said Powell. "There was singer-songwriter stuff, some country and southern rock. I always liked artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, James Taylor, The Eagles, or even the Stones, who weren't country per se, but who sometimes leaned more towards that sound. That's what was stirring my mind and my spirit."
To that end, he formed Mac Powell and the Family Reunion after Third Day's final shows in 2018, utilizing musical "brothers" who had been recording and playing live with him in support of his other solo projects, including his 2012 self-titled debut and 2014's Southpaw. Recorded in Atlanta with producer/musical director Jason Hoard, Powell and his bandmates purposely kept a raw edge to the record. The result is a welcome looseness and down-home charm to Back Again that finds the band equally comfortable between gentle ballads and hand-clapping, toe-tapping country pop.
To further support the record, Powell and band plan on hitting the road this fall. In the meantime, catch them during select dates this summer including a special hometown release show in Marietta, GA followed by Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
Tour Dates:
07/25 - Marietta, GA @ The Strand Theater
07/26 - Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry
08/11 - Spring Hill, TN @ Rippavilla Plantation
08/17 - Salem, OR @ Riverfront Park
08/18 - Chehalis, WA @ SW WA Regional Fair
08/22 - Meadville, PA @ Crawford County Fairgrounds
08/23 - Prestonsburg, KY @ Mountain Arts Center
09/10 - Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Valley Fair
09/21 - Paoli, PA @ AbbeyFest
09/26 - Modesto, CA @ Gallo Center for the Arts
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