W♥M: John Paul White

04/12/2019

Red, White, and Blue 2019

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John Paul White: The Hurting Kind

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John Paul White (better known as formerly one-half of folk duo The Civil Wars) was next, White coming out first alone, commenting “If you’re wearing a suit, then you’re warm” in the late . .…

JOHN PAUL WHITE
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Grammy Award winner John Paul White (not to be confused with John Paul Jones) released his new solo album The Hurting Kind today (April 12) via Single Lock Records. The new single, “I Wish I Could Write You A Song,” premiered via CMT in celebration of the release.

White will also be kicking off a 2019 US tour.

If you’re not familiar with his live show, we caught the singer at Basilica Block Party 2017 in July and wrote, “John Paul White (better known as formerly one-half of folk duo The Civil Wars) was next, White coming out first alone, commenting “If you’re wearing a suit, then you’re warm” in the late afternoon sun…. White’s quiet and mostly sad songs seemed a little out of place on a festival’s big outdoor stage next to a highway (“that’s a first”, he quipped), but for the patient and attentive, the dividends were abundant.”

Tour dates:

April 12 Florence, AL Shoals Community Theatre
April 14 Tallahassee, FL Word of South Festival
April 17 Chattanooga, TN Songbirds North
April 18 Athens, GA The Foundry
April 19 Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hall
April 28 Huntsville, AL Panoply Arts Festival
May 3 Asheville, NC Ambrose West
May 4 Durham, NC Motorco
May 5 Norfolk, VA Goode Theatre
May 6 Richmond, VA The Camel
May 8 Washington, DC Union Stage
May 9 Annapolis, MD Ram’s Head
May 10 Ardmore, PA Ardmore Music Hall
May 11 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
May 13 Boston, MA Once
May 15 Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird Music Hall
May 16 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
May 17 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
May 18 Birmingham, AL Lyric Theatre
May 25 Martinsville, OH Nowhere Else Festival
June 1 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry
June 5 Little Rock, AR South On Main
June 6 Denton, TX Andy’s Bar
June 10 Phoenix, AZ Musical Instrument Museum
June 11 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House
June 12 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up
June 14 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
June 16 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
June 18 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
June 19 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
June 23 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
June 25 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads
June 26 St. Louis, MO Delmar Hall
June 27 Lexington, KY Manchester Music Hall
July 18 Abingdon, VA Abingdon Market Pavilion

Nils Lofgren: Blue With Lou

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Lou Reed

What is going on with Lou Reed? The Velvet Underground pop icon is walking on the wild side, teaming up with Metallica to produce an upcoming album called Lulu. …

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Master rock singer-songwriter-guitarist Nils Lofgren is famous for being a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Crazy Horse, and frontman of Grin. Recently, it was announced that Lofgren will be releasing Blue With Lou, a dozen of collaborated songs with the great, late Lou Reed.

The story behind the album, according to Lofgren, is that the two wrote and worked on the music in Reed’s New York apartment. It laid to rest, until Reed called Lofgren up at 4:30am:

Reed: ‘Hey, Nils, it’s Lou Reed. I’ve been listening to the tape you sent, and I love it. I’ve been up for three days and nights straight. I haven’t slept. I’ve been working on your tape. I’ve completed 13 sets of lyrics that I love.’

Lofgren: ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me.’

Reed: ‘If you wanna get a pad and pencil, I’ll dictate them to you.’

Of course, the song remained in their private collection, until after Reed’s death in 2013, Lofgren entertained the idea of putting those recording to an album. He says, “They got left by the wayside. Years went by, and it kept nagging at me. I thought, look, Lou’s not here to deliver these lyrics. He was inspired when he did this. It would be a shame not to share it.”

This May, Nils Lofgren will kick off a US tour in support of Blue With Lou:

May 10 Minneapolis, Mn Dakota
May 11 Milwaukee, Wi Potawatomi Casino
May 12-13 Chicago, Il City Winery
May 15 Cincinnati, Oh Longworth-Anderson Series
May 16 Kent, Oh Kent Stage
May 18 Boston, Ma City Winery
May 19-20 New York, Ny City Winery
May 21-22 Alexandria, Va The Birchmere
May 24-25 Nashville, Tn City Winery
May 26-27 Atlanta, Ga City Winery
May 30 Austin, Tx 04 Center
May 31 Houston, Tx The Heights Theater
June 1 Beaumont, Tx Jazz & Blues Fest
June 2 Dallas, Tx The Kessler Theater

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Blood Red Shoes

Brighton’s Blood Red Shoes to open. The last time we saw the duo (guitarist Laura-Mary Carter and drummer Steven Ansell), they blew us away with their anthemic song “Light It Up”. .…

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The girls from Miss World (Natalie Chahal) and (Laura-Mary Carter) have formed the new band Shit Girlfriend.

Their latest single is called “Dress Like Cher”, available exclusively as a splatter vinyl for Record Store Day (via PNKSLM Recordings).

In related news, Chahal released her debut LP Keeping Up With Miss World, while Blood Red Shoes released their fifth album Get Tragic on their own Jazz Life label earlier this year. We’ve seen Blood Red Shoes a few times, and their last appearance in Oct 2018, we said, “Brighton’s Blood Red Shoes opened the show, the stage completely lit in a deep green (which remained unchanged throughout their entire set), possibly due to the fact that the artwork for their forthcoming 2019 album Get Tragic is also in the same green tone. They didn’t play any of those 2019 songs, it’s really not the time to start promoting those singles, but instead concentrated on their various hit singles.”

Blood Red Shoes’ tour dates:

19 April 2019 – 21 April 2019 Paaspop 2019
25 April 2019 Botanique - Chapiteau, Brussels, Belgium
31 May 2019 – 01 June 2019 Way Back When 2019
08 June 2019 – 10 June 2019 Pinkpop Festival 2019
27 June 2019 – 30 June 2019 Festival Garorock 2019
25 July 2019 – 28 July 2019 Kendal Calling 2019
26 July 2019 Les Nuits Secretes, Aulnoye-Aymeries, France
26 July 2019 – 28 July 2019 Les Nuits Secrètes 2019 Aulnoye-Aymeries, France
27 July 2019 Les Nuits Secretes, Aulnoye-Aymeries, France
28 July 2019 Les Nuits Secretes, Aulnoye-Aymeries, France

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07/15/2017

Basilica Block Party Day1 at Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis (07 July 2017)

Brandi Carlile Setlist

The Things I Regret
Raise Hell
Again Today
The Eye
Keep Your Heart Young
My Song
Dreams
Amazing Grace (traditional /John Newton cover)
That Wasn’t Me
The Mother
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash cover)
The Story
Turpentine
Going to California (Led Zeppelin cover)

-- Encore --
Wherever Is Your Heart
Mad World (Tears for Fears cover)

The Shins Setlist

Caring Is Creepy
Australia
Name for You
Mine's Not a High Horse
Girl Inform Me
Gone for Good
Mildenhall
Saint Simon
Kissing the Lipless
So Now What
Painting a Hole
The Rifle's Spiral
Half a Million
Phantom Limb
Simple Song

-- Encore --
The Fear
New Slang
Sleeping Lessons

NEEDTOBREATHE Setlist

Great Night
Feet, Don't Fail Me Now
No Excuses
Money & Fame / Whatta Man (Salt‐N‐Pepa cover) /band intros
Wanted Man
Drive All Night
Something Beautiful (acoustic)
Stand by Me (Ben E. King cover) (acoustic)
Lay ‘Em Down
Hard Love
The Outsiders
Brother

John Paul White Setlist

I Remember You (solo)
Black Leaf
The Martyr
The Once and Future Queen
Hate the Way You Love Me
Fight for You
Hope I Die
I've Been Over This Before
Simple Song
What's So
Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) (Dan Seals cover)
Can't Get It Out of My Head (Electric Light Orchestra cover)

Friday, July 7

Brandi Carlile
NEEDTOBREATHE
John Paul White
The Roosevelts

The Shins
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Cobi

Night Moves
Jaedyn James & the Hunger
Nick Jordan

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Basilica Block Party

The 20th Anniversary of the Basilica Block Party is taking place on Friday (July 11) and Saturday (July 12). I have mentioned before that it's not a great place to see music (because of the talkers....

“Can I get a witness?!” How about 10,000+ of them—

On one of the best weather weekends of the year thus far, thousands descended on the grounds of The Basilica of Saint Mary in downtown Minneapolis for the annual two-day Basilica Block Party.

The festival began in 1995 as a fundraiser to help pay for the structural restoration of The Basilica and today, proceeds from the event benefit The Basilica Landmark, which preserves, restores, and advances it for all generations. In addition, a portion of all proceeds go to The Basilica’s St. Vincent de Paul outreach program, which provides services to those in need.

Ten acts were spread across three stages for each night- the Main Stage (sponsored by Great Clips) located in a back lot behind the building along the highway, a Church Stage (sponsored by Preferred One) out front, and a smaller local stage (sponsored by Star Tribune) .

Star Tribune Stage

Nick Jordan opened the local stage, named the area Best R&B singer last year by City Pages and who has his latest EP, Dividends, due out next month, with a release show set for the 7^th St Entry on August 4. Jordan has a polished sound that melds r&b, funk, soul, and house, and is compelling live.

Jaedyn James & The Hunger followed, a South Minneapolis sprawling 10-piece funk love soul group in its third year, and who released their debut, RAW, in 2016.

Night Moves is a stalwart on the local scene, having formed in 2009 and still headed by the duo of John Pelant and Micky Alfano. The group’s latest Pennied Days has also spawned an EP, Carl Sagan-The Pennied Days Sessions (Domino Records) with UK tour dates upcoming for the slow groove, cosmically twangy group.

Preferred One Stage

Cobi, a Grand Marais, MN native who was once in the Boston indie-pop band Gentleman Hall opened the day’s entertainment on this front stage, notable for sloped grassy areas, where fans could watch casually. The bluesy singer released a buzzworthy single, ‘Don’t You Cry for Me’ last year, along with follow up, ‘Prophet Story’, ahead of a more full-length release and his loyal local fans gave his trio a warm reception.

Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness has seemed to fully shed his past successes as frontman for Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, gaining even greater acclaim in this latest musical venture. The pianist had the crowd with him from his beginning hit, ’Fire Escape’ and is in support of sophmore effort, Zombies on Broadway (Vanguard Records), released in February.

The Shins were among the most anticipated acts to see of the weekend, and the Portland band didn’t disappoint with a ninety-minute set supporting Heartworms (Columbia Records) released in March, and their first in five years. Playing just under half the new album, the band re-acquainted themselves with their audience, playing a diverse mix from their four other full-lengths as well, and any fears there were to some rust to shake off, (in terms of live performance) were quickly dismissed.

Great Clips Stage

The Roosevelts opened the main stage on a night that featured an Americana lineup as the Nashville-band played a short harmonic rock set with 70’s vocal influences, in support of 2016’s self-released The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn and who returns to the area for an Aug. 5^th fundraising appearance in nearby Hastings.

John Paul White (better known as formerly one-half of folk duo The Civil Wars) was next, White coming out first alone, commenting “If you’re wearing a suit, then you’re warm” in the late afternoon sun. The singer and his band are out in support of last year’s Beulah (self-released on Single Lock Records via RED Distrib), an effort he said first had no intention of doing, though the songs were forcing their way out of him.

White’s quiet and mostly sad songs seemed a little out of place on a festival’s big outdoor stage next to a highway (“that’s a first”, he quipped), but for the patient and attentive, the dividends were abundant. Highlights included ‘Simple Song’ (about his grandfather and from a Southern Family compilation) and covers of ‘Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)’ (by Dan Seals, but which he teased was by Luke Bryan) and his set-closing slow burn of ELO’s “Can't Get It Out of My Head’.

NEEDTOBREATHE is a South Carolina band we’ve covered several times in the last couple years, and continues to impress us live as they get bigger and more well known, in support of last year’s Hard Love (Atlantic Records), which is soon to reissue with even more content. The Christian leaning rock band led by the Rinehart brothers (Bo and Bear) is best seen in their own full headlining set, but even in a truncated outdoor festival appearance, treats the show as if they were in a sold-out arena.

Opening with ‘Good Night’ set the tone for a stomping good hour-long set and following with that ‘Feet, Don't Fail Me Now’ kept momentum in high gear. The audience was more secular this night, though several still held hands on high, during many of their more spiritual songs. The Rinehart’s middle two-song acoustic set made for a nice change, starting with ‘Something Beautiful’, the song successful enough to “get us out of a van and into a bus”. Finishing with the anthems, ‘The Outsiders’ and ‘Brother’, this was a band with enough poise and stage presence to easily headline the night.

BRANDI CARLILE remains such a musical fixture here, she considers it a second home (“it’s good to be back in my home-away-from-home!”, she exclaimed). She and her Seattle-based band (featuring as always, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth) is in support of her own latest, The Firewatcher’s Daughter (ATO Records) and Cover Stories (Legacy Recordings), a compilation of other artists covering songs from 2007’s The Story. “We’ve all been together for such a long time, us and you, haven’t we?” she gushed, ever impressed by the positive outpouring from the local crowd during her ninety-minute set.

‘Keep Your Heart Young’ was actually written in town by Tim Hanseroth and caused a sing-a-long, ‘Dreams’ took us back to her busking days at Pike Place Market, ‘The Mother’ was written with her young daughter in mind, and a Johnny Cash cover kept the crowd clapping along with fever (“you guys are taking years off my life”, Carlile expressed).

Though deviating slightly from the setlist, a couple of covers helped close the evening, including a sparse take on Led Zeppelin’s ‘Going to California’ to end the main set, and John Paul White coming back to help sing their cover of Tears for Fears’ ‘Mad World’, a subtle statement on the current world state of affairs and a low-key version that sounded part TFF/ part Gary Jules.