Is there an Arizona sound? Arizonans have done everything from cowboy songs to "Funky Broadway," Alice Cooper, Stevie Nicks, Mega Ran and "The Middle."
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Ned Sutton: Grandpa. ‘The Man. The Myth. The Bad Influence.’ The three white ducks, Huey, Dewy and Louie, hang together in a corner like a band, waddle and flop in unison, squawking a specific waterfowl rhythm that soon becomes a kind of dusty, backyard aria, which includes two young clowning grandchildren, an overhead helicopter, a hammock creaking in the breeze, several baby chickens in a coop, and Ned Sutton bitching about the rises in the yard, the hard dirt humps he finds difficult to step on to arrive at his chair. When he plops down, on this cool, March afternoon, he ll be there awhile, his mere presence providing extraordinary information.
He s iconic here, says Valley Fever DJ Dana Armstrong.
That s how Tucson bluesman Tom Walbank was able to round up no fewer than 28 artists, from Calexico and Howe Gelb to Kid Congo Powers, for a tribute album benefiting Foul, who started chemotherapy for throat cancer in February. He went public with his cancer and subsequent chemo, Walbank says. And I was wondering what I could do. So I started calling around to musicians I knew to get an album together of everybody covering his songs. And everyone rallied. No one was a diva. It came together in two weeks.
Arizona musicians willingly stepped up