MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: January 6, 2021 888
An undated photo of Parkers Nightclub on Aurora Avenue North. (Courtesy King County Department of Assessments)
Music stirs many great memories from my youth growing up in Edmonds and our region. Sadly, I will show my age and some of you may be able to recall some of the same memories from the many live early venues and establishments. These are just a few locations.
The Spanish Castle Ballroom in Seattle offered a wide variety of performers. Herb Alpert, Roy Orbison, to name just a few, along with many early rock bands of the day. The Wailers, The Sonics, and Merrillee Rush are just a few names that played there. A young guitar player named Jimmy Hendrix (later changed name to Jimi) would show up regularly to try to jam with the bands to master his craft. On his album
The not-singing bird
With endless silence. David Olney
People say it was a poetic exit. I assure you, NOBODY wants to die onstage figuratively or literally. On Jan. 18, Americana pioneer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, pre-pandemic streamcaster, actor, and my longtime client and good friend David Olney died of an apparent heart attack midsong. He was center stage between Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in the Florida panhandle. His last words: “I’m sorry.” His mantra, however, was, “Always be true to the song.”
Understanding the covenant between the audience and performer, David earned rapt attention from folks wondering how to classify what they were witnessing. Was it country? Folk? Blues? Vaudeville? Scottish newspaper
Caylee Hammack tries to accentuate the positive By Melissa Ruggieri, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published: December 31, 2020, 6:00am
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ATLANTA The roller coaster of Caylee Hammack’s year started with a delayed debut album and scuttled tour dates with Reba McEntire and Luke Bryan and ended with the release of said album and a collaboration with one of her musical heroes.
The burgeoning country star feisty, self-aware, gregarious a few months ago teamed with Art Alexakis of ’90s band Everclear for the video for her country-rock cruncher, “Just Friends.” It’s another superstar pairing for Ellaville native Hammack who, in 2019, gathered with Miranda Lambert, Elle King, Ashley McBryde and Tenille Townes for a charming remake of Elvin Bishop’s 1975 hit, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.”
Just like another one of the lovers who fueled Taylor Swiftâs musical themes and schemes, I was seduced, sedated and stuck on Swift with on first listening of âFolklore.â
With an opening piano introduction straight out of a Bruce Hornsby playbook, seamstress Swift spins yarns that stitch her regrets, âWhat ifs?â and âWhat could have beensâ of lost loves into a warm narrative cardigan sweater that everyone would love to wear.
Composed and recorded in a year of quarantine, lockdown and postponed concerts, Swift writes and sings about previous lovers and affairs from high school home rooms to her current four-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. He is Swiftâs songwriting partner listed as William Bowery on three songs on âFolklore,â from Republic Records.
Country singer Caylee Hammack trying to accentuate the positive
Caylee Hammack attends the 54th annual CMA Awards at the Music City Center on November 11, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for CMA/TNS)
ATLANTA The roller coaster of Caylee Hammack’s year started with a delayed debut album and scuttled tour dates with Reba McEntire and Luke Bryan and ended with the release of said album and a collaboration with one of her musical heroes.
The burgeoning country star – feisty, self-aware, gregarious – a few months ago teamed with Art Alexakis of ’90s band Everclear for the video for her country-rock cruncher, “Just Friends.” It’s another superstar pairing for Ellaville native Hammack who, in 2019, gathered with Miranda Lambert, Elle King, Ashley McBryde and Tenille Townes for a charming remake of Elvin Bishop’s 1975 hit, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.”