King, Cat Stevens, King Curtis, Joe Cocker, James Brown, Michael Bolton (yikes!), Roberta Flack, Tom Jones, Quincy Jones, Isaac Hayes, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Jeff Beck, Gil Scott-Heron, Todd Rundgren, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones and ...
The list of performers includes Dan Fogelberg, John Prine, John Hartford, New Grass Revival, Alan Rhody, Mickey Clark, Ry Cooder, Doug Kershaw, Grady Nutt, Gil Scott-Heron, Lacy J. Dalton, City Lites and the Doc & Smitty Band. The Red Barn has ...
As Gil Scott Heron said: If they really wanted peace, we’d have peace. Anyone who believes the recent meeting in Annapolis was meant to produce peace surely will believe the corporate media’s propaganda. I’m sure that Common Dreams ...
The mission statement for my record was to look back at rootsy music from people like Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong and Gil Scott Heron," he says. "All of that music has really cool storytelling and great information coming from the players." Lately ...
Years ago, Gil Scott-Heron uttered the words, "I had said I wasn't gonna' write no more poems like this." The poem was about Bro. Jose Campos Torres, a 26-year-old Latino ex-U.S. Marine found handcuffed and drowned in the bayous after a 1976 ...
... AMPT MUSIC SHOWCASE SERIES AND FESTIVAL Tour Celebrates The Best In Emerging & Established Music With Panel Discussions, Celebrity Q&A’s and Showcases in New York, Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago Donnie, Kenna, Luis Resto, Gil Scott-Heron and Don ...
Gil Scott-Heron long ago warned that the revolution will not be televised, but it will have a great soundtrack. In the spirit of Public Enemy’s Chuck D and The Clash’s Joe Strummer, along comes M.I.A., a 30-year-old musical and visual artist of ...
... first radio single, "The People," finds Common explaining why and for whom he creates music, with and for whom he creates music, with a backdrop of majestic strings, tasty keyboards and a vocal sample from the great poet/songwriter Gil Scott-Heron ...
... Alston has also delved heavily into the spoken word field, producing several poetry and music events at the Detroit Institute of Arts, which led to him performing with the EmRuop poetry troupe and in concert with the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron and ...
Billy Bragg, Phil Ochs, Ani DiFranco, Woody Guthrie, and Gil Scott-Heron come to mind. And from Latin America there’s Victor Jara, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Piero, Mercedes Sosa, and many more. When we are in a house that’s burning ...
