Volume 15 — Issue 11

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Open Noon to past sunset
Sunday-Thursday
Sun-Thurs 12-6
and Midnight on Fridays
& Saturdays
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4573 Rt. 307 East, Harpersfield, Ohio
440.415.0661
Three Rooms at $80
One Suite at $120
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Vacation or Get-Away!
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with Private Hot Tubs
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June 24 - July 15, 2015
Debonne Vineyards to host the First Annual Seafood & Wine Festival
Debonne Vineyards, Ohio’s largest estate
winery, is planning their first annual Seafood
& Wine Festival set for Friday, July 17th from
5-11 p.m. The festival will feature their award
winning estate wines paired with delicious small
plates from area restaurants including Rennick’s
Meat Market, Grand River Cellars Winery &
Restaurant, and Scales & Tails Food Truck, just
to name a few. Each will feature a couple of
different dishes to offer to the public for a small
fee. If you are not a seafood fan, not to worry,
the Grill at Debonne will also be featuring their
regular menu as well. The festival itself is free
but their will be a small parking donation to the
local Boy Scouts.
In addition to great wine and food the
festival will feature a craft show that begins
mid-afternoon until sundown featuring juried crafts from local artisans. Teathered hot air
balloon rides will also be a highlight that evening. If you would like to take a balloon ride
the winery recommends that you call to reserve your space. A new addition to the winery,
Whispery Pines horse drawn carriage rides will also be a featured event. Patrons can relax
and take a 20-30 minute carriage ride through the vineyards. There is an additional fee for the
balloon rides and the carriage rides.
Finally, to rock the night away, Artifex will by playing in the new concert pavillion from
6:30-10:30. Plan to join us for a night under the stars listening to great music, drinking fabulous
wine and enjoying delicious cuisine.
For more information go to www.debonne.com or call Debonné Vineyards at 440-466-3485.
This Summer, Worthy Cause Wednesdays at M Cellars Winery
M Cellars in Geneva, Ohio is dedicated to giving back to the community this summer.
Beginning in July, visit the winery during extended Wednesday hours 5:00pm-8:00pm
and a portion (20%) of each purchase will be donated to a special cause. “There are many
organizations in this area making an impact on the community, we thought it was time to lend a
hand” explains Matt Meineke owner and winemaker at M Cellars. He continued, “We are happy
to provide a location in the community for these organizations to highlight their great work.” M
Cellars is currently working to line up deserving organizations for most Wednesdays in July and
August. Organizations will be present at each Worthy Cause Wednesday to offer information on
their missions.
The Ashtabula Art Center will kick off this summer’s Worthy Cause Wednesday series on
July 1st. Since 1953 the Ashtabula Art Center has been providing the community a place to enjoy,
learn and participate in the arts. In the 1970’s and 80’s the Art Center expanded to the multimedia complex it is today at 2928 W 13th Street in Ashtabula, Ohio. The center offers programs
year round in dance, theater, music and visual arts. “What goes better with the arts than wine?!
We are thrilled to partner with M Cellars in this new venture and are eager to tell their customers
all about what’s happening at the Ashtabula Arts Center this summer” offered Lori Robishaw,
Executive Director for the center. Worthy Cause Wednesdays continue July 22 to support Zonta
International (Ashtabula Chapter), founded in 1919, Zonta International is a leading global
organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy.
Then on July 29 awareness and contributions will be raised for Greyhound Adoption of Ohio.
GAO is the largest and oldest greyhound adoption organization in Ohio.
M Cellars was founded in 2007 by Matt and Tara Meineke. The family is hands on in
every aspect of the business and is dedicated to growing vinifera grapes for use in all their wine
production. The winery is well known for its Meritage, a full bodied Bordeaux style blend and a
late harvest Traminette. Matt’s wine has earned many medals at national and international wine
competitions as well as prestigious awards such as “Best Winery” on Cleveland’s Hotlist.
During the summer M Cellars is open 7 days a week. Visit the wineries website (www.
mcellars.com) for a full schedule of summer events. For more information on Worthy Cause
Wednesdays or other winery events please contact the winery at 440-361-4104.
June 24 - July 15, 2015
Connect 534 was designed around
creating and marketing new events
along State Route 534; The City of
Geneva, Geneva Township, Genevaon-the-Lake, and Harpersfield
Township. Connect 534 is working
hard to promote local businesses and
involve the community in new and
revitalized events and programs.
4th of July
Block Party
The Harpersfield Covered
Bridge Ellsworth Pavilion
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Food, live music, fun giveaways,
corn hole and much more!
Summer Splash
Coastal Art Walk
The Lodge at Geneva
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Looking for coastal themed artists!
Email sarah@connect534.com for
a VENDOR APPLICATION!
Christmas in July
Join the 534 Corridor as we
celebrate the Christmas Holiday
Season the ÜiiÊvÊÕÞÊÓäÌt
ÇÉÓ£\ÊMovie Night at Memorial Field
ÇÉÓÎ\ÊConcert in the Park
ÇÉÓ{\ÊChristmas in July Comedy
Night at Pairings Ohio!
ÇÉÓ{ÊEÊÓx\ GBA Sidewalk Sale
& Pictures with Santa
ÇÉÓx\ Christmas in July party
at High Tide Tavern
ÇÉÓÈ\ YPAC 20-30-40's Club Party
at The Manor
Any businesses or organizations
looking to host and promote an
event or special please contact
Sarah Bals, Event Coordinator
Email: sarah@connect534.com
440.466.0019
Summer Savings Brochure
Connect 534 is hosting a brochure
full of specials from businesses
along St. Rt. 534!
Check our website for more information!
www.connect534.com
or contact: Sarah Bals
email:Sarah@Connect534.com
(440)466-0019
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8 ....................................... Bluesville
11 ............. What’s on the Shelf? City
13 ................................. On The Beat
15 ......... Now We’re Talkin’ - Bruce Kulick
16 .............. What’s on the Shelf? Reggae
19 ..................... Rock ‘N Roll Circus
21 ......Music Review - Lynrd Skynard
22 ............................. Positive Light
23 ........................ Mind Body Spirit
24 ................................. Stay In Tune
26 ............................. Movie Reviews
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June 24 - July 15, 2015
By Don Perry
The 36th annual Tri-C JazzFest
The 36th annual Tri-C JazzFest, presented by KeyBank, comes to Playhouse Square, July 9th -11th for a
sizzling weekend of entertainment. The festival features nine ticketed concerts inside the theater district’s historic
venues and two days of free outdoor shows on U.S. Bank Plaza.
The JazzFest is now in its 2nd year as a summer weekend extravaganza, after more than 3 decades as a springtime
tradition.
Tickets are available through the Playhouse Square Box Office at 216-241-6000 or online.
Fri. June 26th
ELKS Lodge #208
Ashtabula
Dominick Farinacci Quintet/Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with special guest Take 6
July 9, 7:30 pm CONNOR PALACE
Dominick Farinacci was attending music classes at Tri-C when he was discovered by
Wynton Marsalis at Tri-C JazzFest. He graduated Juilliard on full scholarship and launched
his career in Japan with a prolific run of eight albums. Currently, he serves as Global
Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center, working to integrate jazz into communities in the
Middle East.
Take 6 is the most awarded vocal group in history with 10 Grammys, 10 Dove Awards
and a Soul Train Award. Known for its crystal clear harmony, innovative arrangements and
funky grooves, Take 6 performances bubble into a brew of gospel, jazz, R&B and pop.
John Clayton (JazzFest artist in residence) earned his degree from Indiana University,
has toured with the Count Basie Orchestra, and served as principal bassist in the Amsterdam
Philharmonic Orchestra for 5 years. Among his many achievements are a Grammy Award
for his arrangement of Queen Latifah’s recording of “I’m Gonna’ Live til I Die” and he
played bass on Paul McCartney’s CD, “Kisses on the Bottom”.
8-12 pm.
Fri. July 3rd
Ferrante Winery
6-9:30 pm.
Sat. July 11th
Laurello Vineyards
7-10 pm.
Cleveland Centennial Celebration of Robert Lockwood Jr.
July 10, 5:30 pm OHIO THEATRE
An icon on the New Orleans music scene, Walter “Wolfman” Washington is known for his searing guitar work and soulful vocals. His
singing and guitar playing contain the Crescent City’s unique hybrid of R&B, funk and the blues. Like the greatest bluesmen, Washington
channels his everyday life into his music and plays with pure heart. Washington will pay tribute to Cleveland blues legend, Robert Lockwood Jr.
(1915-2008).
Smooth Jazz Double Bill
Jul 10, 7 pm CONNOR PALACE
Brian Culbertson began his musical journey at the age of 8 on piano, adding drums at 9, trombone at 10 then bass at 12. Brian has released
15 more albums, toured the world, and performed with industry all-stars like Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, Michael McDonald and Barry
Manilow.
Keyboardist, composer and producer Brian Simpson’s sophisticated harmonics sense and keen ability to craft a song that stands the test of
time, have made him the go-to man for many. Through the years Simpson has been revered for his ability to compose unforgettable melodies and
irresistible grooves.
Blessed with a honey-toned mezzo-soprano and a magnetic stage presence, Maysa’s alluring vocals, candor, humor and purity as an artist
make her a rarity in this business. She has collaborated with artists including Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan.
Saxophonist, composer and producer Euge Groove has been called upon for his musical prowess by the likes of Tina Turner, Luther
Vandross, Joe Cocker, Tower of Power and Huey Lewis and the News.
Peter White has earned a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape. He
combines elements of jazz, pop and classical guitar to create a singular sound.
Baltimore native, sax man Kim Waters’ primary influences were jazz icons Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Herbie
Hancock, George Benson, Paul Desmond and Cannonball Adderley. His soul-imbued melodies and seductive grooves make for consistently
inspired performances.
Guitarist Nick Colionne was twice named “Best Live Performance” at the JazzTrax Catalina Island Jazz festival. He was a recipient of the
Wayman Tisdale Humanitarian award, and won the 2007 International Instrumentalist of the Year award.
“Creole Joe” with C.J. Chenier, Nick Sample and Ray Parker Jr.
July 10, 9:45 pm OHIO THEATRE
When Joe Sample returned to his hometown of Houston, Texas, he was drawn back to the “La La music” with which he grew up. Southeast
Texas and Opelousas is known as the birthplace of La La music, which later became known as Zydeco. He refers to his music as “Creole Folk
Music” which incorporates Cajun accordion, Delta Blues and good old Texas two-step.
~Continued on page 20
June 24 - July 15, 2015
For full schedule
DonPerrySaxman.com
or
www.facevaluemusic.com
TourS
Tour the
wineries of
Geneva and
The Grand
River Valley
Covered Bridges,
Amish Country, Outlet Mall Shopping
and Other Destinations Available
Nancy Hamper
Barrels & Bridges Tours
440-488-6250
BarrelsAndBridgesTours.com
14 Passenger Bus
and 7 Passenger SUV
available for tours of
the Northeast Ohio region.
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Mon-Thur.PMsFri 5pm-12am
Saturday 12pm - 12am
Entertainment Every Saturday!
Take II
Sat, June 27
Come and enjoy a
bonfire on Friday
& Saturday.
Smores available!
A very relaxed winery.
We have created a series of Friday afternoon ‘palate training’ and ‘food and wine pairing’
sessions. Each is 90 minutes long and will both hone participants’ tasting skills and help
them select the best wine to complement their next [and future] dining experience[s] and
will be taught by OWPA’s talented staff and eventually by some of our Tastemaster pros.
Steak Fry • July 18
Call for reservations.
Taking
reservations
for
Summer
B&B
Hot Tub
Rooms!
Ken Neimi
Sat, July 11
Come enjoy the music
and see our
New Outside Patio!
Open10am-6pm Mon-Thurs
later on Friday & Saturday • Closed Sunday
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6/27 Brick House Blues Band
6/28 Those Guys
7/2 Randell Coumos
7/3 Take II
7/4 Swamp Buggy Band
7/5 Back Trax
Live Bands
7/9 Take II
Fri & Sat.
7/10 Jay Habbat
7/11 Incahootz
7/12 Spoon Too Soon
7/16 Earl Hall
7/17 Tom Todd
7/18 Black Jack Gypsies
7/19 Jay Habbat
1520 Harpersfield Road
Geneva • 440-466-1248
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Pairings, Ohio’s Wine and Culinary Experience in Geneva and the Ohio
Wine Producers are offering a summer series of wine education and
food and wine pairing classes.
and up
Summer Specials at the Winery!
MONDAY: Taco Night
TUESDAY: $2.00 Any Burger
WEDNESDAY: Wing Night
Buy 1 lb. Wings, Get 1 lb. Free!
THURSDAY: Pasta Bar is Back!
FRIDAY: AUCE Fish Fry
Cole Slaw & French Fries $7.99
SATURDAY: Prime Rib Night $14.99
SUNDAY: BBQ $5.99
Each of the classes begin at 3:30 and will conclude by 5 pm.
Reservations are required....$45* per person per class
Each participant will receive a souvenir Schott Zwiesel crystal wine glass, wine glass
charm, tasting guide,
wine bottle shopping tote, wine and food pairing information, recipes that complement
regional wines, the latest issues of WineBuzz and Sip magazines, a certificate of completion and
a $3 certificate good for lunch at Pairings!.
Perfect Pairings: June 26, July 17 and 31
Learn to taste like a pro: match 6 major food elements with 6 Ohio grown wines including
Riesling, Chardonnay, Vidal Blanc, Semilion, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Making “Scents” of Wine July 10 and 24
This wine aroma and sensory experience will feature nearly 2 dozen aromas and tastes found in
cool and moderate climate grapes grown in Ohio. It will focus on approximately 10 elements
found in white wines and more than a dozen found in red wines. The session will end with
a tasting of 4 Ohio grown wines illustrating the elements presented and be complemented by
samples of 4 Ohio made artisan cheeses.
Reservations for these Ohio Wine Producers coordinated events can be made by calling 800227-6972 or by visiting OhioWines.org
Patriotic Red-White-Blue Sangria
Support our local wineries and honor our founding fathers with this color theme of a red, white
and blue beverage.
Ingredients
1 750ml bottle white wine
3/4 cup apricot-flavored brandy
6 tbsp thawed lemonade concentrate
1 cup sliced red grapes
1 cup whole strawberries
1 cup blueberries
Mix together the white wine, sugar, brandy and lemonade until well mixed.
Add in the red grapes, strawberries, and blueberries.
Refrigerate overnight.
Serve the next day from a large pitcher filled with ice.
The items create a red and blue set of colors floating
in a “white” drink!
June 24 - July 15, 2015
Hours:
Summer hours
Wed, &- Thurs
12-6pm
Monday
Thursday
12-6,
Fri 12-10pm
Friday
12-10,
Saturday
Sunday 12-7
Sat &12-9,
Sun 12-9pm
636 Route 534 South
Harpersfield, Ohio 44041
440-361-4573
www.kosicekvineyards.com
See our ad in the Winery Guide on
Page 2 for our
Entertainment Schedule
Now Open 7-days-a-week!
Open at Noon on Fridays!
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Pizza of the Month:
Hawiian Pizza $8.49
Burger of the Month
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By Cat Lilly
Eli Cook
Wilbert’s • Wednesday, July 8
“Everybody knows the story of
the crossroads, where blues guitarists go
at midnight to trade their
souls to the devil for
musical prowess. It’s just
a myth, of course, but if
it were true, 21-year-old
firebrand Eli Cook could
have bragging rights,
as his scarifying solocountry blues chill like a
hellhound on your trail.”
- Dave Rubin, Guitar Player
Magazine
The legendary Son House was known to
say “Blues is a feelin’…” Eli Cook’s music echoes
that same raw honesty--and it’s driving him to the
forefront of modern blues. With his super slick slide
guitar sound and a husky voice that is both sexy and
heartfelt, this Virginia bluesman shines brightest in
concert. His distinctive blend of contemporary and
old-school styles has been called by John Mayall
“unique and mystifying.”
Eli Hudnall Cook was born in Nelson County,
Virginia, on April 24, 1986. He grew up in a world
of “old cars, chain-saws, and guitars” in a Blue
Ridge Mountain hollow where radio still reigned, and
telephones and television failed. Eli took up the guitar as
a teenager. Following the tradition of the great blues men,
he performed in churches and late-night gospel revivals
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with only his
acoustic and
deep baritone
voice from
the age of 15.
He still never
forgets to “take
you to church”
at some moment in his performance
today.
Eli describes his music as “blue, blue,
Blues.” Phil Reser of BluesWax describes Eli
as “a young gun with an old soul who storms
through slide guitar romps, tackling the Blues,
and sounding like his generation’s Son House
or Elmore James. He’s not just playing the same licks as his mentors, but adding his signature
sound and style to the art of the Blues.”
However you describe Eli’s music, it has ushered him onto many a wonderful stage.
He frequently opened for B.B. King, has shared the spotlight with Johnny Winter, Shemekia
Copeland, and Robert Cray, and has performed on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy center
in Washington, D.C.
Today, Eli tours nationally and his recordings are played on radio stations all over the
world. The all-acoustic, original-roots “Moonshine Mojo”, his debut album recorded in 2004,
has become a collector’s item, featuring renditions of classic blues tunes like Muddy Water’s
“Mannish Boy” and John Lee Hooker’s “Huckle Up”. “Miss Blues Child”, recorded in 2005,
was picked up by New York’s Valley Entertainment on their Sledgehammer Blues label
in2007 and earned a feature article in Guitar Player Magazine. The heavy blues-rock release
“ElectricHolyFireWater”, 2007, was ranked one of the best electric guitar recordings of the year
by New York’s AxeCaliber. “Static in the Blood”, 2009, is a lush R&B recording with roots
deep in gospel and blues.
During this time he was invited to open for B.B. King on King’s east coast tour. Since
then, Eli has shared the stage with Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Parliament-Funkadellic, Gary
Clark Jr., Taj Mahal, John Mayal, and many others. Citing influences as diverse as Kid Rock
and Jay-Z, Eli continued to introduce the blues to the listener of the new century. In 2011
Eli released “Ace Jack & King”, a return to roots-blues and heavy guitars. The album took
the blues world by storm, clinching both an interview and a review on the Hit List of Vintage
Guitar Magazine. All Music Guide proclaimed that Eli could be “the best blues singer of his
generation.”
Eli signed with LA-based label Cleopatra Records in 2013 to begin work on his 5th
studio album, featuring guest appearances by Tinsley Ellis, Reese Wynans of Double Trouble,
rock legend Leslie West of Mountain, and Artimus Pyle of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The album,
“Primitive Son”, was released in Spring 2014.
Sultry, bluesy masculine, with plenty of loose coolness, Eli Cook shines brightest in
concert, and has the power to electrify the Delta’s soul. He’s got a super slick slide guitar sound
and a husky voice that is sexy and heartfelt. “If you like your blues straight up and in your face
without sugar coating or posturing, Eli Cook is your man.” - Robert Silverstein, 20th Century
Guitar.
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• July 5th & 6th
Steve Earle was in town
with Shaun Colvin last Fall
and told the Music Box crowd
he planned to record a blues
album and vowed to return
to Cleveland after that. He
made good on both counts.
Terraplane, his sixteenth
studio album, was released in
February and Earle takes the
stage at the Music Box Supper
Club two nights in a row
with his band, the Dukes (and
Duchesses) on July 5th and 6th.
A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Steve Earle quickly
became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash,
Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and
countless others. In 1986, his debut record, “Guitar Town,” shot to No. 1 on the country charts
and immediately established the term “New Country.” An array of releases followed, including
the biting hard rock of 1988′s “Copperhead Road” and the minimalist beauty of 1995′s “Train
A Comin’,” as well as the politically charged 2002 masterpiece “Jerusalem,” plus the Grammy
Award-winning albums “The Revolution Starts…Now” (2004), “Washington Square Serenade”
(2007) and “Townes” (2009), an album of Townes Van Zandt covers that earned him a Grammy
for Best Folk Recording.
In the strictest sense, Steve Earle isn’t a country or folk artist; he’s a roots rocker. At first,
Earle appeared to be more indebted to the rock side than country, as he played a stripped-down,
neo-rockabilly style that occasionally verged on outlaw country. However, his unwillingness to
conform to the rules of Nashville or rock & roll meant that he never broke through into either
genre’s mainstream. Instead, he cultivated a dedicated cult following, drawing from both the
country and rock audiences.
Earle’s acceptance by the rock community didn’t please the country establishment in
Nashville. After a series of career and personal setbacks, Earle signed to Winter Harvest in1995
and released the acoustic Train a Comin’, his first studio album in five years. Train a Comin’
received terrific reviews and strong sales, despite Earle’s claim that the label botched the album’s
song sequence. The attention led to a new record contract with Warner Bros., who released I
Feel Alright in early 1996 and El Corazon in 1997; both garnered strong reviews and respectable
sales. Earle had returned from the brink and reestablished himself as a vital artist. In the process,
he won back the country audience he had abandoned in the late ‘80s. The Mountain, a bluegrass
record cut with the Del McCoury Band, followed in 1999, and a year later Earle returned
with Transcendental Blues, produced by T-Bone Burnett. He continued to pump out albums, and
tour heavily throughout the new decade.
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A man of many talents, Earle branched out and proved himself a pretty convincing actor
in dramatic roles on HBO’s The Wire and the acclaimed television series Treme. A song he
wrote for the series, “This City,” was nominated for both Grammy and Emmy awards. He also
inked a two-book publishing deal with Twelve. The first will be a memoir, while the second will
be a novel. In the spring of 2013, Earle re-teamed with longtime collaborator and co-producer
Ray Kennedy and his road band, the Dukes (And Duchesses) to release The Low Highway to
worldwide acclaim.
Now two years later – the blues album. If playing the blues requires real life suffering to
be authentic, Earle has more than paid his dues. Addiction, broken marriages, prison, and all
manner of drama have infused much of his work with darkness. Even so, he doesn’t cast himself
as a sad sack on all of Terraplane’s eleven songs. Instead, he kicks off the CD by slurring and
stuttering his way through “Baby Baby Baby (Baby)”, a boozy blues tune that brews up images
of Delta juke joints, and romps it up on “Ain’t Nobody’s Daddy Now” — a new song steeped in
rootsy ragtime. Terraplane isn’t a blues album that mopes; it’s a blues album that moves.
It’s also a showcase for the members of his longtime backup band, the Dukes, an
alt-country supergroup whose members include Kelley Looney — Earle’s bassist since
the “Copperhead Road” days , Will Rigby on drums, and husband-and-wife duo the Mastersons,
who handle lead guitar and fiddle. They recorded Terraplane at House of Blues Studio D in
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Nearly sixty years old, he’s learned how to make the most of a voice that’s been weathered
by decades of hard partying and harder touring. He sounds raw, ragged and real, backed by a
band whose time on the road hasn’t worn away a looseness that seems to suit these new tunes.
Earle huffs, puffs, croaks and croons, and the tightly wound sound of the Dukes sets off Steve’s
growling delivery of lyrics at times wistful, at times downright menacing - the blues like only
Steve Earle could do it.
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Steve Earle fans are already intimately familiar with The Mastersons: The husband-wife duo of
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By Alan Cliffe
Going into the City: Portrait of a
Critic as a Young Man
Author Robert
Christgau
In the year when Elvis broke, there was a
young guy in Queens who was more impressed
d
with both the Five Satins and Dostoevsky.
The since-lost essay he wrote on the latter
artist’s Crime and Punishment seems to have
been a humdinger. Then again, he had already
established himself as a literary critic of some
audacity the previous year, at thirteen, with an
oral report entitled “Why ‘Casey at the Bat’ Is
a Better Poem Than ‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.’”
Precocious or just cocky, or both, young
Robert Christgau was on his way to finding
his true vocation, even if it did not yet exist
in 1956. It seems to have been on its way.
According to Christgau, now the author of
a
memoir called Going into the City, one of
the seminal rock-critical texts had already been written.
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Preface to the 1800 Lyrical Ballads collection he co-edited. Something about Wordsworth’s
thoughts on metered verse that incorporates “the real language of men in a state of vivid
sensation” seems to have struck a chord with a man who would spend his life writing about
rock ‘n’ roll. The other founding text he mentions is his onetime lover Ellen Willis’s 1968 essay
on Bob Dylan. Wordsworth or Dylan, “Casey” or “The Rime,” Dostoevsky or Elvis—well,
maybe that recurring or should be and. At some time between Wordsworth’s foundational text
and Willis’s, a distinction between high art and popular art began to break down, at least in the
minds of some fans and critics, Christgau included. If a certain art form is no less of an art form
for being popular, what’s a smart guy who’s into it, writes well, and doesn’t play an instrument
to do? An answer, at least in retrospect, seems obvious.
The rock critic, and such a one as a real writer—if it was on Christgau and some of his
contemporaries, most of whom seem to have been friends of his, to invent the category, he and
they came of age in an inventive time.
The guy from Queens went to a place where inventive people go, namely Manhattan.
The East Village, to be exact. That would explain this book’s title. Christgau says living there
“meant committing to the emergent bohemia of [his] coming-of-age.” That bohemia, like other
bohemias, was bound up with a somewhat disreputable art form; unlike previous bohemias, it
became, along with the art form around which it centered, a mass phenomenon. (That is why
I’m writing in an entertainment paper about Robert Christgau and not Stanley Crouch.) And the
man from Queens was just fine with that. He has done other kinds of writing, but his life’s work
followed from rock ‘n’ roll’s morphing into rock, meaning, in his usage, that which followed
musically from the ascension of the Beatles.
Christgau had been skeptical of the cult of authenticity of the early-sixties folk boom, and
aside from early Dylan he disliked its music. In those years, also the time of the interregnum
between early rock ‘n’ roll and the British Invasion, he was primarily a jazz fan. He leaned left
himself, but it never occurred to him that acoustic ballads of whatever pastoral or thirties-lefty
flavor are somehow more “authentic” than music that employs the idioms of its time. Not to
mention the sound technology of its time, such as—drum roll please—amplification. Certainly
the Beatles did not strike him as inauthentic, and the years following their breakthrough,
which he calls the high sixties, would overlap the time of the aforementioned breakdown
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of distinctions between high and low. And the “low” went to some very interesting places,
including the heights. Christgau says that his first rock show was five scruffy guys from London,
four dollars a ticket in ‘64—who would later put out an LP called Aftermath that for a time he
considered the best album ever made. His 2015 take on it shows that his critical chops are still
in good order; his feminist-influenced, or Ellen Willis-influenced, thoughts on “Stupid Girl” and
“Under My Thumb” are nuanced and smart. Monterey Pop, Sergeant Pepper and who knows
how many big moments and extraordinary albums would follow. The music of the heights was
popular, and Christgau brought to his writing on that music a critical idea that would inform his
work for the long run. For him, contrary to a notion widespread among both folkies and rockers,1
commercial popularity did not and does not imply sellout. He’s never used the word “pop” as a
pejorative. This is a man who wrote in 1972, when the rest of the hipper rock audience had been
listening to free-form FM for some time, that when in the car he only listened to AM radio.
I have touched on Christgau’s critical assumptions because he is the kind of critic who will
take a critical-theoretical stand and lay it out. A good thing, and certainly right for the years
of Christgau’s coming of age. A subculture that conceives of itself as insurgent in some way,
which both hippies and politicos did—for a while—and becomes a mass phenomenon despite its
minority status, is going to need thinkers inclined to try to connect the dots. That subculture—
really, a complex of several subcultures—threw up several critics of whom Christgau speaks,
including himself, Ellen Willis, Jon Landau, and Greil Marcus—who made it their business to
consider the realms where art, commerce and politico-cultural insurgency intersect. So, this is a
life story; perforce it is also an intellectual history and a tale of how a writerly specialty invented
itself.
A critic must also be a fan, as I am certain Christgau would agree, and if Christgau is
theoretically inclined, this does not mean that either his criticism or his memoir is dry or outof-touch. The memoir might inspire you to seek out the criticism, a good deal of which is easy
to find, but it is primarily a memoir. Christgau covers his life from its prehistory up to 1985,
when he was forty-three. He speaks of his birth family, mother with cultural aspirations, father
a fireman whose Depression memories kept him hardworking; extended family solid if not
without a black sheep or two, both sides not many generations removed from Germany; life as
a bookish but not unsociable young guy, the accelerated schooling of a bright if occasionallydistracted student; girls, then women; religion falls away, philosophy enters. He preferred Mailer
to Kerouac but now plays some Kerouac-worthy riffs on the hitch-hiking travels of his twentysecond year. The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case pleased young Bob
but seemed distant. A teacher explained its implications. In the same year he heard Joe Turner’s
“Shake, Rattle and Roll,” courtesy of Alan Freed. No explanation was needed.
Christgau became one of those rare English majors who make their post-college livings
primarily from writing and editing rather than teaching. (He mentions in passing that books don’t
really have editors any more. It would seem so. His use of “impact” as a verb, and sentences
such as “[M]e and Dietz got two of them” struck this English major/critic a mite peculiarly. But
the lapses are rare.) And he is one (rare) nineteen-forties baby who has kept current on popular
music. In later chapters he speaks engagingly of his several decades as critic and reviews editor
at the Village Voice. I hadn’t realized how many good writers he’d played mentor to. And he
seems not to have lost his touch when it came to writing about dissident subcultures that he was
not part of, including punk and rap scenes American and British.
The humbly self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics, nineteen-forties baby and
teller of tales, ends this one with the arrival of a nineteen-eighties baby. I don’t know his
daughter, but I do know that to deserve the aforesaid title it is necessary, if not sufficient, to
dislike Yes and love the early Clash. On these points, and many others, he qualifies.
1I was going to say “left-leaning longhairs,” but that would probably work better as a band
name.
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2015
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One more weekend for One Acts at Arlene’s Broadway on Buffalo
Locally-written short plays will highlight “A Collection of One Acts” which will be
presented at Arlene’s Broadway on Buffalo (ABOB) in Conneaut that began June 19th. The
production continues June 26 and 27. All shows are at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 7.
The production will feature 10 short plays running the gamut from sheer silliness to
poignant drama. Plots include: A man who takes life advice from a toy; A dysfunctional game
of charades; Therapy at a mental institution; A multi-generational sojourn; Workers complaining
about their boss, who’s a real witch; A script writer with writer’s block; A tense phone call from
a man in trouble; And conversations with people who should never be let out on their own.
Titles include:
• “Ice Cream Snapshots” by Felicia Leonard.
• “Mixed Nuts” by David Bucci
• “Dade,” “Roomie Day” and “I Don’t Get the Reference” by Douglas Anderson
• And “The Meatball Says No,” “Time Capsule,” “Monkey Business” and “As Written” by Clay
Nielsen.
Due to some strong language and subject matter in a couple of the plays, ABOB rates this
production PG-13.
ABOB is located at 236 Buffalo Street in the Conneaut downtown area. It is located in a
former church and features the warmth and ambience of stained glass and polished woodwork,
while also boasting fully modern technical capabilities. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for
students. For more information, visit www.broadwayonbuffalo.com or see our Facebook page.
Rooftop Wine Party – Cleveland’s most elite summertime wine tasting
Please join us for Cleveland’s most elite summertime wine tasting at the Music Box Supper
Club on July 10th. Three of Northeast Ohio’s largest wine distributors are joining forces to put
on this unique and exclusive event.
Pair a delicious glass of wine with our beautiful outdoor rooftop patio and riverfront views.
Your ticket includes a bottomless glass, so no wine goes untasted. Special Guests and Wine
Specialists Glenn Dorflinger, Sean Cathcart and Andrew Eggars will all be here for a special
presentation, to talk wine, and answer your questions. Light fare will be provided, but guests
are encouraged to make a reservation at the Rusty Anchor before or after the event www.
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for a perfect atmosphere.
The event will take place rain or shine. If inclement weather occurs, the event will move
inside to our concert hall. Wine will be available for purchase by the bottle along with selected
specials. RSVP for this special event now for yourself and a friend.
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University Circle Cultural District is the place to be on Wednesdays
oWOW.com, Cleveland’s “Timeless Rock” and WOW (Wade Oval Wednesday) are teaming
to present three weeks of local rock and reggae, beginning Wednesday, June 24, from 6-9 p.m.
Kicking off the oWOW series, Wednesday, June 24 is popular Cleveland band Welshly
Arms, whose song “Love In A Minor Key” is receiving heavy airplay on Northeast Ohio’s
online rock radio station. The following Wednesday, July 1, the infectious party reggae of
Carlos Jones and The Plus Band take the stage, followed by Brent Kirby and His Luck, July 8th.
Kirby’s “Our Town”, a song about the grit and spirit of Cleveland is also in heavy rotation on
oWOW.
oWOW will be on site with live cut-ins and reports from Wade Oval Wednesday from 5-9
p.m. Stop by the oWOW tent to say hello and meet our personalities.
Since 2007, this Wednesday-night party at Wade Oval, in the heart of the University Circle
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and music lovers enjoying the live music, movies and late-night hours at the area’s cultural
institutions.
This year’s WOW series runs from June 17 to Aug. 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. The free weekly
events will feature one band per week, plus two movie nights, including a screening of
“Paddington” on July 15 and “Big Hero 6” on Aug. 12. Special nights include a celebration of
the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 22.
The WOW experience also includes the chance to visit the cultural institutions surrounding
Wade Oval that stay open late on Wednesday nights, offering discounts and special events.
There will also be activities for children including a bounce houses and rides on the Euclid
Beach Rocket Car. Food vendors will include locals Constantino’s Market, Murray Hill Market,
Ninja City and Piccadilly. But as always, visitors are welcome to pack their own picnic and
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Hard Rock Rocksino Shows
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The legacy began some 41 years ago in Jacksonville,
Florida, and halted for a decade by the 1977 plane crash
that killed three band members, including Ronnie Van Zant
and Steve Gaines. Since then, the band tragically lost Allen
Collins, Leon Wilkeson and Huey Thomasson, yet Lynyrd
Skynyrd rocks on with original member Gary Rossington
joined by Johnny Van Zant, Rickey Medlock, Mark “Sparky”
Matejka, Michael Cartellone, Johnny Colt, Peter Keys, Dale
Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase.
And so Skynyrd stands, “still unbroken.” “People may say, ‘they need the money,’ well I
don’t think any of us need the money,” Van Zant says. “It’s just that we love the music, it’s
bigger than the money, and it’s not even about that any more. We have to make a living, sure,
but it’s about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.
There’s nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love
this music.”
Adds Rossington, “We’re still standing, still keeping the music going. We wanted to do the
guys who aren’t with us any more proud, and keep the name proud, too.”
With a catalog of over 60 albums, sales beyond 30 million worldwide and their beloved
classic American rock anthem “Sweet Home Alabama” having over two million downloaded
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June 24 - July 15, 2015
By Helen Marketti
Bruce Kulick
Former KISS guitarist releases a new album and single
Bruce Kulick has been in the music scene for over 40 years. His humble beginnings were
with two close friends in the early 70s while growing up in Jackson Heights, New York. Kulick
along with friends, Mike Katz and Guy Bois formed KKB and recorded material in 1974. The
tracks sat idle for many years as each member went their separate ways. Bruce went on to play
guitar with Michael Bolton, Meatloaf, KISS and Grand Funk Railroad. There are six original
tracks and one new one, “Got To Get Back”. Fans will love the sound and the polished up
original tracks. The music is 70s made and inspired when life seemed simpler than it does today.
“I was really impacted by the British Invasion which completely changed the entire landscape
for music,” said Bruce. “The Beatles inspired me to play guitar. Thankfully, it wasn’t that
difficult to play and I took to it quite easily. My biggest guitar hero is Jimi Hendrix. He had to go
to London first to make it. Groups like The Who, Led Zeppelin and Cream had a huge influence on Mike and I. Mike is the singer/songwriter for
KKB and loved Jack Bruce of Cream. The new CD is dedicated to Jack. That entire era of rock kept us motivated to learn our instruments and be
creative. When I first heard “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin, it really turned me upside down. It is all still relative and still powerful.”
“I enjoy listening to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Chopin and Stravinksy. We are still affected by the classic music. It is so much a part of
our culture. It’s timeless,” explains Bruce. “KISS with or without make up, it doesn’t matter because the music keeps getting handed down to each
generation. It doesn’t scare me that we can talk about a 40-year career. In fact, it makes life more interesting.”
“Got To Get Back” is a song that Bruce is happy with in addition to being pleased with the entire CD project. “I gave Mike some ideas for the
song. It’s amazing what he did with it. We weren’t trying to be anybody but ourselves. We took older songs, polished them up, and wrote a new
song which all makes for a cohesive package. We were in our 20s back then playing that kind of music. It was pure and innocent without any
struggles,” said Bruce.
He continues, “Mike had held on to the tracks all of these years. I had a copy on tape from Radio Shack (laughs). I do archive everything I
have. I think it’s important to hang onto the work you do and have it digitized because it will last longer rather than keeping the recordings on
tape.”
“I am grateful to everyone who worked on this album. It was great to listen to each of our contributions come together. I wanted to share it with
the world. We all still keep in touch. Mike still lives in the ole neighborhood in New York and Gary lives in France,” said Bruce. “One thing that
was a bit frustrating was there weren’t that many photos of us together from the early days. Now everyone takes a photo of everything but back
then you didn’t think that way.”
Bruce takes a few moments to discuss what it has been like working with talented musicians
over the past 40 years. “When Michael Bolton and I worked together he had such drive and
dedication. You know with all of us creative types that we’re all a little crazy. (laughs) Michael
always said that you have to know your priorities and move in the direction you want to go. I
learned from that experience,” remembers Bruce. “When I worked with Billy Squire, he was
meticulous. He took notes on everything that he did that particular day so now when I record I
take notes, too.”
“I played guitar with Meatloaf on his Bat Out of Hell Tour. Meatloaf had been signed by
Cleveland International Records. He was signed by Steve Popovich who is no longer with us. We
started out playing in small clubs and getting booed and then eventually touring the world.”
“My brother, Bob did some ghost guitar work for KISS. He auditioned for them but they
decided to go with Ace Frehley. I had known Paul Stanley a little bit from seeing him socially,”
said Bruce. “During the summer of ‘84, they called me to do some ghost guitar work for them on
the album, Animalize. As I was leaving the studio that day, I remember Paul telling me not to get
my hair cut. I went to Europe with KISS thinking it would be for a couple of weeks and it turned
into 12 years. I am a part of the KISS family which is great.”
“Each of the artists I have worked with has certain strengths. That is why they are famous.
Gene (Simmons) and Paul (Stanley) gave me a huge lesson on image and professionalism.
I was already a bit of a perfectionist anyway because my dad worked quality control for the
government. I grew up with a little bit of pressure that everything had to be right,” recalls Bruce.
“Gene and Paul know how to present themselves. They are successful because of hard work. I
am very careful what kind of product I am going to make. It’s going to be as great as it can be
because if it has my name attached to it, it has to be of high quality.”
“I enjoy getting things done. I might do a meet and greet one day, a music clinic on another
and I want to make sure I am prepared. I want everything to look good from the flyer, the
promotion, the works. Don Brewer (original drummer for Grand Funk Railroad) works the same
way. He makes sure everything is of high quality, that we are paid and everyone has a good time.
I have been with Grand Funk Railroad for 14 years and I love it.”
Bruce’s new CD by KKB, “Got To Get Back” is available on iTunes, Amazon and through his
web site. “I have a limited number of a special packaged deal if anyone orders through my web
site. It includes a guitar pic, CD photo card and download card. I care about details. It’s always
exciting to hear from the fans.”
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By Pete Roche
The Reggae
Scrapbook
Some say reggae originated in the
late Sixties, the rambunctious lovechild of rocksteady and funk.
But it wasn’t until the midSeventies that Bob Marley and The
Wailers thrust the exotic musical
movement onto the world stage with
Catch a Fire, Burnin’ and Natty
Dread. Eric Clapton’s cover of “I Shot
the Sheriff” helped hip white arena
audiences to what they’d been missing.
By the time Exodus dropped in June
of ’77, all eyes were on the “Iron Lion
Zion” songwriter, ears primed for the
next “Buffalo Soldier” and “Redemption Song.”
Musicologists Rogers Steffens and Peter Simon were on the scene all along, documenting
both the evolution of the Jamaican genre and its international impact as the music swept across
the globe like a soul-tsunami. These curators of Caribbean culture frequented the islands that
spawned the sounds, cohabitating with reggae’s forefathers and their families and interacting
as much as they dared as enthusiasts and tourists, careful not to upset the status quo as
curious sociologists on assignment. These are the guys who went on the tours, conducted the
interviews, wrote the articles, and captured the images that brought reggae to a wider audience,
via their publishing connections in Western media.
Now—nearly half a century since Toots Hibbert first coined a catchphrase with “Do
the Reggay”—Insight Editions has released an updated version of Steffans and Simon’s
comprehensive 2007 travelogue, The Reggae Scrapbook.
“It just came to me, ‘Do the Reggay,” says the Maytals front man in his foreword. “I didn’t
invent it. It just happened.”
“Before that time (1968), we called our music ska or blue beat or rocksteady.”
The hefty, 150-page coffee table tome also boasts an intro by acclaimed author Stephen Davis
(Rolling Stone, The New York Times), whose books on Fleetwood Mac, Jim Morrison, and
Levon Helm raised the bar for rock biographies. Interviewing a 30-year old Marley on the eve
of one of his finest tours, Davis marvels at the singer’s “millenarian faith” and “unshakable
beliefs.”
“We just children of the earth,” says Bob. “But our minds all wiggy-woggy.”
“The devil have plenty influence. Jah lead to life! Righteousness shall cover the earth, like
water cover the sea.”
We’ve been devoted to da riddim since hearing Marley’s multi-platinum hits collection
Legend in high school. We broadened our tastes (and minds) with international legends like
Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer—and local (Cleveland) acts I-Tal and Carlos Jones. We picked
up Tosh’s No Nuclear War just because we thought the cover art looked cool—and proceeded to
wear out the cassette. Ziggy Marley’s 1988 album Conscious Party (“Tomorrow People”) was
an early favorite, too.
We thought we knew a lot on the subject, but the Scrapbook rights our ignorance. Where
did reggae really come from? What differentiates it from other popular musical forms? Who
were its principal forebears, practitioners, and patrons? And what’s all this Rastafari stuff
about, anyway?
The scrapbook traces reggae back to its “skavoovie” Sixties roots, then—relying on
Steffans’ text and Simon’s eye-popping images—traces its maturation, proliferation, and
veneration over the next four decades. We’re taken behind the glass with noteworthy producers
(Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid) and label execs (Chris Blackwell), share cramped studios with
prophet-like singers and musicians, and soak up local scenery in and around Kingston.
“It’s a celebration of the culture of Jamaica, whose musical legacy has enriched the world,” our
editors suggest.
“It is not an encyclopedic attempt to touch all the thousands of interesting bases erected in
the far-flung corners of the world.”
A little background helps, though—and Steffens / Simon provide, vis-à-vis a thorough
discussion of the facts behind Jamaica’s 1962 independence and the rise of boogie tunes, doowop, jazz, and island R&B. Carlos Malcolm is cited for popularizing usage of a second “jump”
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Bosco & Whiteford announce their summer tour dates in
promotion of their new album, Inside the Bottle.
This Country/Bluegrass/Americana duo are touring to
promote the release of their new album, Inside the Bottle,
which will be available for purchase at this show or online at
boscoandwhiteford.com.
Their show comes to Wilbert’s in downtown Cleveland
on July 7th, Friday, July 10th at 9 PM at the Hilltop Inn &
Grove, 11389 Genesee St, Alden, NY with local blues band,
More Heat! The following night, Saturday July 11th, the band
will play at the Ellicott Manor, 16 Ellicott Pl, Depew, NY.
Bosco & Whiteford, hailing from Carbondale, IL, have been
a staple to the Southern IL music scene since their formation
in 2007. The married duo, consisting of Kristen (Bosco) Whiteford on Upright Bass and Vocals
and Tim Whiteford on Guitar, Vocals, and Kazoo, performs mostly original music and are
inspired by Country, Americana, Ragtime, and Reggae.
“Their vocals feed off each other in a manner reminiscent of the late Johnny Cash and June
Carter”, said the Daily Egyptian in their 2014 article highlighting the band.
Their Story
Kristen and Tim met at an open mic at local Carbondale watering hole, Hangar 9, in late
2006. The couple was inspired by each other immediately, and began to write and play under
the name Bosco & Whiteford. After being contacted by CMT to be featured on the American
Idol style duet competition, Can You Duet, Bosco & Whiteford made it to the top twelve out
of thousands of duets, and returned home to Carbondale with Nashville inspiration! The band
released their first EP with the Nashvillestyle backing band, The New Stampede, in 2008.
Kristen Bosco became Kristen Whiteford in May 2009 when she and Tim tied the knot; they
have two kids, age 4 and 6, but that hasn’t slowed down this duo! Kristen took up the upright
bass in 2009 and the band added a fiddle and mandolin player (currently Tobias) to round out the
acoustic sound the band still sports today.
For more information on the band or to listen to or purchase music, please visit
boscoandwhiteford.com.
SCR turns on “Radio”
Steep Canyon Rangers will release “Radio” on Aug. 28 on Rounder Records.
Produced by Jerry Douglas, the Dobro master and member of Allison Krauss’ Union
Station, the disc will be the bluegrass band’s ninth. SCR also is set for a heavy touring schedule.
The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt (guitar), Graham Sharp (banjo), Charles R.
Humphrey III (bass), Mike Guggino (mandolin), Nicky Sanders (fiddle) and Mike Ashworth
(box kit). The 12-song disc was recorded at Asheville, N.C.’s Echo Mountain Recording Studio.
Songs on the CD are:
1. Radio
2. Diamonds In The Dust
3. Simple Is Me
4. Blow Me Away
5. Blue Velvet Rain
6. Looking Glass
7. Down That Road Again
8. Break
9. Wasted
10. Long Summer
11. When The Well Runs Dry
12. Monumental Fool
“Radio” follows the 2013 release, “Tell The Ones I Love.” Their 2012 release, “Nobody
Knows You,” won the Grammy Award for “Best Bluegrass Album.” The band has also been
nominated for and won multiple awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association,
including Entertainers of the Year in 2011 for their work with Steve Martin.
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June 27 - Cornhole Tournament & BBQ Dinner,
Conneaut Moose Club, 11 am - 5 pm
July 1-4 - July 4th Festival, Lakeview Park
July 4 - Fireworks over the Lake, Port of Conneaut
July 3 - Rock-n-Roll Class Reunion,
Conneaut Human Resource Center - 8 pm
July 18 - Feed Our Community,
Ramblin Rose Alpaca Farm, noon - 4 pm
July 18 - Steak Fry, Buccia Vineyard - 7 pm
Free Concerts at Conneaut Arts Center begin June 28!
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Roadtrip - The Mavericks, Skaggs join AmericanaFest lineup
The Mavericks and Ryder Cooder, Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs were recently added by
the Americana Music Association to AmericanaFest 2015.
They are among more than 150 performers scheduled to play at the festival Sept. 15-20 in
Nashville.
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, JD Souther, Margo Price, The Suffers, Sam Outlaw,
Donnie Fritts & John Paul White, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and The Wood
Brothers also recently joined the list of performers.
Showcase wristbands ($50, increasing to $60 on Aug. 15) allow admission into all showcase
venues, some sanctioned parties and special events. Festival and conference registrations
($365 for members/$465 for non-members) offer priority admission into all showcase venues,
sanctioned parties and events, daytime educational panels, come with one ticket to the
Americana Honors & Awards show at the Ryman Auditorium.
Artists announced for the festival today were: Adam Faucett, American Aquarium, Amy
LaVere, Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Band of Heathens, Buddy Miller, Buxton, Cale
Tyson, The Carmonas, Daniel Romano, Darrell Scott, David Wax Museum Dirty River Boys,
Donnie Fritts & John Paul White, Doug Seegers, Dreaming Spires, Dustbowl Revival, Eddie
Berman, Eilen Jewell, The Fairfield Four, Gill Landry, The Good Lovelies, Great Peacock,
Gretchen Peters, The Hillbenders, The Honeycutters, Humming House, JD & The Straight
Shot, JD Souther, Jeffrey Foucault, Jim Lauderdale, Jonathan Tyler, Josh Rouse, JP Harris,
Kacy & Clayton, Kelsey Waldon, Legendary Shack Shakers, Lewis and Leigh, Lindi Ortega,
Los Colognes, Low Cut Connie, Luther Dickinson, Margo Price, McCrary Sisters, Michaela
Anne, Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, Paper Bird, Pine Hill Project (featuring Richard Shindell &
Lucy Kaplansky), Pony Boy, Porter, Possessed By Paul James, Raised By Eagles, Ron Pope &
The Nighthawks,Ryan Culwell, Spirit Family Reunion, The Suffers, T. Hardy Morris, T Sisters,
Taarka, Those Pretty Wrongs, Town Mountain, Uncle Lucius, Whitney Rose and Willie Watson.
For more information visit Americanamusic.org
Underwood wins CMT honors
Carrie Underwood took home three awards during the CMT Country Music Awards on
Wednesday, June 10th in Nashville.
Underwood won Collaborative Video of the Year with Miranda Lambert for “Somethin’ Bad.”
She also took Female Video of the Year for “Something in the Water” and Video of the Year for
the same song.
The Breakthrough Video of the Year went to Sam Hunt for “Leave the Night On.”
Duo Video of the Year went to Florida Georgia Line for “Dirt.”
The CMT Performance of the Year was given to Bob Seger and Jason Aldean for “Turn the
Page.” from CMT Crossroads: Bob Seger and Jason Aldean.
Lady Antebellum scored with “Bartender” for the Group Video of the Year.
Male Video of the Year honor went to Luke Bryan for “Play It Again.
NOW, LBT lead Billboard charts
A “NOW” compilation album topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart for the week
ending June 27 with last week’s chart topper, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s “Django And
Jimmie” now fifth. Little Big Town remains atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with
“Girl Crush.”
“NOW That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8” was, of course, first on the country albums chart.
Zac Brown Band was second with “Jekyll + Hyde.” A Thousand Horses debuted in third with
“Southernality.” Sam Hunt was fourth with “Montevallo.”
Montgomery Gentry debuted at 13 with “Folks Like Us.” Carrie Underwood was up 4 to 17
with “Greatest Hits: Decade #1.” Kenny Chesney was at 22 with “The Big Revival,” up 3.
Hunt is second again on the songs chart with “Take Your Time.” Luke Bryan is third with “Kick
the Dust Up,” switching spots with “Sangria” by Blake Shelton, which fell to fourth. Kelsea
Ballerini is fifth with “Love Me Like You Mean It.”
Eric Church was a big mover with “Like a Wrecking Ball” up five to eighth. Jason Aldean also
was up five with “Tonight Looks Good On You” at nine. Thomas Rhett was at 12 with “Crash
and Burn,” up 3. Hunt also was at 16 with “House Party,” up 6. Chris Janson’s “Buy Me a Boat”
checked in at 17, up 4.
Keith Urban had the biggest chart shaker by far with his new single “John Cougar, John Deere,
John 3:16” jumping from 47 to 24.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Dailey & Vincent held first with “Alive! In Concert.” Robert
Earl Keen was second with “Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions.” Punch Brothers was
third with “The Phosphorescent Blues.” The Willis Clan was fourth with “Chapter Two Boots.” Ralph Stanley was fifth with “Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Sorrow.”
On the overall top 200, Hunt was 7th, ZBB 12th, A Thousand Horses 20th, NOW 22nd and
Little Big Town 28th with “Pain Killer.” The country and top 200 charts use different criteria.
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June 24 - July 15, 2015
Stadium Grill Welcomes 5th Annual
Rock-n-Roll Circus June 28th
By Trenda Jones
The Lake County Rock-n-Roll Circus has become a highly anticipated event for the
community as well as local musicians. The efforts of Mac Chafer (of Coldwell Banker
Hunter Realty) and his volunteer staff has launched this event into great success year after
year. The Rock-n-Roll Circus donates 100% of proceeds to its causes. This year’s recipients
are WomenSafe and Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital. The entire circus staff, bands,
sound company and venue donate their time and talent to provide a fun filled day of top shelf
entertainment, auctions, raffles and prizes for all who attend. Mac appreciates, perhaps more than
anyone, each musician who plays for the event. He played drums professionally for 22 years for
a number of bands. The latest he played with, The Window, was Majic Radio’s promo band with
fellow members; Denny Carleton, Randy Klawon, Jack Freeman, Al Globekar, Mike Wry and
Tom Mackell.
Among the line up every year is Richie Rich & the Rotaters-comprised of players from
several Cleveland based bands such as The Choir, Peter Panic, Penny Arcade, The Raspberries,
Brickhouse, Ruby & the Oswald’s, Sitting ducks, The Mods, Circus, Hot Shot, Frenz and
Speedometer.
The year was 1972, lead vocalist, Richard Anderson was living in an Oregon mining cabin
working as a lumberjack. He and friend, Al Fishkey were cutting a Douglas fir with a two man
saw. Suddenly two guys and a girl drive by, much to their surprise, its old friends from Mentor,
Ohio. One being Al Globekar! After a happy welcome, Al assisted in cutting the thirty-six inch
diameter tree. The tree finally fell, Al and Richard sat on the stump and talked, laughed and
reminisced. They decided that if they were still around in the year 2000 that they would start a
band together! The years passed as they remained friends, both working on different projects.
Then in 2006, they remembered their vow and Richie Rich & the Rotaters were born. The bands
line up consists of Richard and Al along with several “rotating” members including Ralph Kuta,
Randy Klawon, Stu Leyda, Jim Bonfanti, Norm Isaac, Norm Tischler, Billy Conklin and the late
Rick Harrison.
They have been a crowd favorite at each Rock-n-Roll Circus. “We’re not a jukebox band”
says Richard. “We use our own flare and interpretation of a song and choose material that is
unique.” Al says “It’s a fun band, we all get along great and there’s no ego’s. We’ve all known
each other for years and have a great time doing what we love to do.”
It all began for Richard Anderson in the seventh grade with guitar lessons. The first song
he learned was Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers. He moved on to sing, play bass and
percussion. In 1965, he met Jim Bonfanti in High School and the two played together in Penny
Arcade with Danny Klawon as well as in Lost Guardian and T.I.M.E. Al Globekar had several
musicians in his family. His father played guitar, his mother sang and recorded. As a boy he
was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, Duane Eddy and the Rolling Stones. Al is self-taught and
began with acoustic guitar at age 14. By 15, he was playing professionally with The Shanes,
Circus, Bon Voyage, The Secret, and Doors tribute, Beggars Banquet. Both have played outside
the Cleveland area. Richard at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go and The Troubadour in California and
Al in Oregon, Florida, Chicago, New York and did a European tour in 2003. These guys along
with many annual “circus” goers remember well northeast Ohio in the 60’s, in particular the
Lake County rock scene, Richard referred to it as “The Liverpool of the Midwest.” Both were
here from the beginning, playing places like The Hullabaloo and Painesville Armory. Joining the
Lake County Rock-n-Roll Circus will surely bring back memories of days gone by, reunite old
friends and introduce a new generation of music lovers to what 60’s rock-n-roll is all about and
how that era led us to the music we enjoy today.
Band Schedule:
12:30…Doors Open, start buying your raffle tickets!
1:00-1:30…Spoon Too Soon
1:45-2:45…Elm Street Blues Band
3:05-4:05…Richie Rich & the Rotaters
4:25-5:25…Blue Stone Union
5:45-6:45…Andy’s Last Band
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Ernie Krivda and the Fat Tuesday Big Band
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performances with his own groups at jazz clubs and festivals around the world.
Cyrille Aimee and Wycliffe Gordon and His International All-Stars
July 11, 2:30 pm HANNA THEATRE
Winner of both Montreux Jazz Festival and Sarah Vaughan’s International vocal
competitions, Cyrille Aimee has a distinct gypsy fire in her approach to jazz. As a child Aimee
snuck from her home to the nearby gypsy encampments to drink in the music of those who
followed the spirit of Django Reinhardt.
Wycliffe Gordon is a virtuoso trombonist who just so happens to sing and play 23 other
instruments. These days, Wycliffe is dedicating his music and performances to Louis Armstrong,
whose recordings are what first attracted him to jazz. He is a composer and dedicated educator
holding positions at Georgia Regents University and Manhattan School of Music.
Warren Wolf Quartet, plus tribute to Ray Brown with Benny Green, John Clayton and
Jeff Hamilton
July 11, 5 pm OHIO THEATRE
Baltimore native Warren Wolf began playing the vibraphone, marimba, drums, and piano
at the age of 3. He trained classically at the Peabody Institute before heading to Berklee College
of Music in Boston. He quickly caught the attention of Bobby Watson, Christian McBride and
Karriem Riggins and began touring and recording. Wolf has become one of the leading voices on
the vibraphone today.
Mentored by Ray Brown, pianist Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips.
In his words, he has “something to share today because I got to play with the hardest swinging
bassist and drummer in the history of Jazz”. Reunited with drummer Jeff Hamilton, who
rounded out Benny’s trio years with Brown - Benny pays tribute to Ray Brown, with bassist
John Clayton.
Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Sheila E. and Juan Escovedo
July 11 7:30 pm CONNOR PALACE
California native and legendary percussionist Pete Escovedo has spent a lifetime breaking down
barriers between smooth jazz, salsa, Latin jazz and contemporary music. He has toured with
Steve Wonder, the Temptations, Carlos Santana and others. He has recorded 9 albums including
2 with daughter Sheila E and has been featured in performances and recordings with artists
including Tito Puente, Herbie Hancock, Boz Scaggs and Prince.
At age 3, Sheila E. picked up drumsticks and started making music. She became a top session
and touring musician by age 19, performing or recording with Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham,
Con Funk Shun and others. In the 1980s, Sheila’s work with friend Prince, including his seminal
album “Purple Rain,” helped catapult her to pop stardom. In recent years, she has served as
music director for the Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles.
Etienne Charles Calypso Review/Joey DeFrancesco Quartet
July 11 9:30 pm OHIO THEATRE
“Jazz is Creole music,” says Trinidad native Etienne Charles. The trumpeter, composer studied
at the Juilliard School in New York and is now professor of Jazz Studies at Michigan State
University. He has performed with Roberta Flack, Rene Marie, and Wynton Marsalis. His
Calypso Review will surely bring you to your feet!
By igniting the resurgence of the Hammond B3 in the 1980s, Joey DeFrancesco became the
new-age proponent of an instrument that had been pushed aside by high tech, lightweight
keyboards. Joey began playing organ at the age of 4 and while still a teen was invited by Miles
Davis to play in his band. He has toured with Benny Golson, James Moody, David Sanborn and
countless others. Joining his current group is Northeast Ohio’s Dan Wilson on guitar.
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By Pete Roche
Lynyrd Skynyrd Live Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd nearly called it quits after three
core members (and a couple associates) were killed in
a horrific plane crash in October 1977.
And really, who would’ve blamed them?
But the plucky southern rockers rallied in1987
after a decade-long hiatus: Recuperated guitarist Gary
Rossington came back as Skynyrd’s anchorman, and
singer Johnny Van Zant stepped in to fill the void left
by departed big brother Ronnie. Ex-Skynyrd drummer
Rickey Medlocke (of Blackfoot fame) signed back on
in 1996 as co-guitarist.
The Jacksonville-based ensemble soldiered into
the nineties and noughties, issuing eight additional
studio albums on sundry labels. The old verve was in
evidence The Last Rebel, Endangered Species, and Vicious Cycle, but passion and performance
could no longer guarantee radio hits in an age of hair metal, grunge, and alternative rock.
Undeterred by the paucity of hits, Skynyrd 2.0 (and subsequent upgrades) took to the sheds
and sports arenas to deliver the all-American anthems crafted by Ronnie and Rossington (and Ed
King and Gary Collins) to a new generation of beer-guzzling rednecks, weekend warriors, and
suburban stereo hounds.
We’ve haven’t done the math, but we’re guessing each of Skynyrd’s countless hits
compilations and live albums sold more units than their last studio effort, 2012’s Last of a Dyin’
Breed.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. We know Johnny Van Zandt and the guys (and gals)
still bring their A-game to every show, having witnessed the gang in concert last year (with Bad
Company) at Blossom Music Center in rustic Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Now we can add Sweet Home Alabama to Skynyrd’s half-dozen strong list of live titles.
Named for the band’s biggest hit, the double-disc (out now on Eagle Rock) combines inconcert cuts from two peak Skynyrd periods—and makes a nice library (or digital playlist)
companion alongside 1998’s Lyve from Steel Town (1998) and Lyve from Freedom Hall (2010).
The first CD (and first two tracks of the second) consists of a June 23, 1996 show at the
Open Air Festival at Freilichtbuhne Loreley, St. Goarshausen in its entirety—not a track missing
from the stellar set—as broadcast on Germany’s popular Rockpalast TV program.
Fronted by Johnny Van Zant (lead vocals), Rossington and Medlocke (guitars), the good ol’
boys tear through tracks from their 1973 debut (Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-erd) and ‘70s followups with a little help from Hughie Thomasson (guitar), Billy Powell (keys), Leon Wilkeson
(bass), and Owen Hale (drums).
“Workin’ for MCA” (from 1974’s Second Helping) chronicles the group’s time with their
former record label. Rossington sizzles on “I Ain’t the One,” Medlocke burns on “Double
Trouble,” and Thomasson scorches on “Down South Jukin’” (from the band’s Muscle Shoals
sessions). Johnny holds his own on “Double Trouble” (from 1976’s Gimme Back My Bullets)
and “I Know a Little” (from 1977’s Street Survivors), but Carol Chase and Dale-Krantz
Rossington augment the soundboard-quality recording with their lustrous background vocals.
Wilkeson’s bass somersaults over Hale’s heavy beats, pinning the rhythm on “Saturday Night
Special” and “Swamp Music.” Powell dabbles on honkytonk piano and organ on FM staples
“What’s Your Name” and “That Smell” before abdicating to the spotlight to Van Zant, who soars
on the churchlike “Simple Man.”
“Gimme Three Steps” and (J.J. Cale cover) “Call Me the Breeze” wrap the main set—but the
encore commences on the second disc with a crackling “Sweet Home Alabama” and eloquent
(and uppity) “Free Bird.”
The second disc’s bonus tracks (side D on the 2-LP set) are taken from another German show
some twelve years prior (December 5, 1974) at Hamburg’s historic Musikhalle, with Ronnie on
microphone (and Collins and King joining Rossington on guitar).
And if you question whether any one live Skynyrd set truly needs more than one version
of “MCA,” “Free Bird,” or “Sweet Home,” well…hey, you probably weren’t in the target
demographic of denim-clad, diesel-fueled, fist-pumping proletariats to begin with.
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The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief
A Step-By-Step Guide to Reducing and Eliminating Chronic Pain
By Nick Ortner
Do you suffer from chronic pain? If so, you’re not alone. In fact,
more than 100 million Americans deal with this life-changing issue
every day. And if you’re like most of them, you’ve tried all the normall
“solutions”: doctors, injections, medications, and surgeries. While
these all have a place in healing, they have fallen short in dealing with
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the pain epidemic. So what can you do?
In The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief, Nick Ortner presents
a startling alternative. He lays out a step-by-step plan that teaches
you how to use tapping, or EFT (emotional freedom techniques), to
reduce or eliminate chronic pain. Looking at the scientific research
surrounding pain, stress, and tapping, he opens your eyes to just how
powerful tapping can be, and then outlines tips and techniques to
address pain in both the short and long term.
Nick guides you on a journey that begins on the surface—tapping
to address the pain itself—and moves to the deeper issues that often
affect pain. With easy-to-follow tapping scripts and exercises, Nick
helps you heal the emotional pain and underlying beliefs that often keep
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An Interview With Author Nick Ortner
How does tapping relieve chronic pain?
There’s a lot of research being done at places like Stanford University that is giving us a better
understanding of chronic pain. Back pain is a great example. It’s the #1 cause of chronic pain,
with over 30 million Americans and many more around the world suffering from it. That pain is
often diagnosed as the result of a herniated disc, but studies show that a significant percentage
of people with a herniated disc have zero back pain. We don’t know for sure whether a herniated
disc even causes chronic pain!
Thanks to recent studies of chronic pain, we know that stress and negative emotions like fear
and anger increase pain. Those emotions are part of the body’s stress response, and that stress
response can also turn short-term pain, like pain we experience after an injury, into long-term
chronic pain. Tapping interrupts that stress response, including significantly lowering levels
of the stress-related hormone cortisol. By putting the body into a more relaxed state, tapping
allows the body to do what it’s meant to do, which is heal itself and relieve the pain.
Does tapping work on all kinds of chronic pain?
Yes, tapping can provide powerful pain relief for pain from fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic
migraines, RSD (also called CRPS), pain from an injury, surgery, degenerative conditions, and
much more. It works on pain throughout the body, and also on pain that has been chronic for
years, even decades. The list goes on and on. I always encourage people to just try it, and keep
using it until they get the relief they desire.
Does tapping relieve real physical pain, or just psychosomatic pain?
That’s an important question. The answer is yes, tapping relieves real physical pain. This is
not imaginary pain. It’s very real physical pain, and in many cases it’s excruciating. When
we discuss the mind-body science around chronic pain, we’re talking about how stress and
emotions work with the body to create real physical pain. It’s a new understanding of chronic
pain. Tapping targets that pain on a physical and emotional level, which is why it’s so effective
for pain relief.
How will tapping impact the future of chronic pain treatment?
Tapping provides safe, effective pain relief without any negative side effects, so there’s growing
interest in tapping from medical professionals who are open to alternative healing modalities.
More nurses, doctors and other health professionals are learning tapping and using it with
patients. My hope is that someday tapping will become part of standard medical treatment for
chronic pain and other conditions. It is an incredibly powerful treatment to use in hospitals,
pre and post-surgery, and of course as a preventive treatment. It has also had great results with
treating PTSD, which often is accompanied by chronic pain. Vets, as well as trauma survivors
are getting pain relief and overcoming emotional and mental trauma because of tapping.
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Wellness
B Patricia Ann Dooms
By
4-Directional
Science of Mind~~The Most Logical Foundation for a Holistic Lifestyle
Long before anyone ever heard the term “Law of Attraction”, or saw the movie, “The Secret”, or uttered the names of some of the greatest
teachers of our time—(Abraham / Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, Eckhart Tolle, and oh-so-many more), Science of Mind
came into being. It is not a religion, but a philosophy, a way of life—in complete accordance with the world’s oldest Scriptures—a Science of
Spiritual Psychology.
Ernest Holmes penned Science of Mind over 75 years ago. It is as relevant today as it was then, and it was as relevant then as anything,
anytime….that looks at the point where spirituality and science walk hand-in-hand through the visible and the invisible.
Ernest, in his introduction, discusses “The Thing Itself”, and supposes that the Divine Plan is one of freedom—that the dogma of religion is not
God-ordained, but is one of bondage.
In addressing that freedom, it is clear that abundance, joy, health, are our natural states of being and that anything less stems from fear. There
is nothing supernatural about the Study of Life, which Science of Mind is. We are meant to approach our lives with awe, and not with fear; with a
truly humble thought, but not with a sense that we are unworthy.
Science of Mind opens doors to our psyches that we have most likely never before entered. To begin studying it, we have the opportunity to
get acquainted with ourselves by answering an inner “questionnaire”:
What is your name?
Where do you live?
What is a thought?
Who is the thinker?
What are you; who are you?
Where do your thoughts come from?
Where do your thoughts go when you stop thinking them?
What is your memory?
Where does it stay?
What is First Cause?
What do you want most?
Do you know how to get it?
Are you willing to try?
First, let’s agree that your name is your identification tag which differentiates you from the mass and marks you as an individual.
Second, where do you live? Not that street address where you keep your ‘stuff’ and park your physical body, but where do you live—the real
you? That something that knows the address and tells the body to go home, sits in a chair, and has a rest while you go on thinking; that’s the real
you. Your body then, is the house in which you live.
When this questionnaire that Science of Mind guides us through is completed, we will know
that we are awesomely and wonderfully made, and that everything that is…or has ever been…
or ever will be… is the result of Cause and Effect, an immutable law……Effect always follows
cause. We know this today as The Law of Attraction.
The answers to each of the questions end up being a milestone on our journey of selfdiscovery, and each will bring us nearer to learning who we really are and the potentialities that
we carry into this lifetime.
We can’t learn all about life in a day, any more than we can live all of life in a day. The
point is to learn it as we live it. So….doesn’t it make sense to learn to live it intelligently, with a
certain definite direction, so that we may know where we are going, why we are going, and just
how to get there?
It has been said that a journey of a thousand miles can only be taken one step at a time, and
to study something as deeply profound as Science of Mind, is merely a detour in Life’s journey
and we have the rest of our lives in which to do it.
Science of Mind is not a new cult, creed or dogma; neither is it a new religion, but a
composite of that which has endured throughout the ages. It is meant only to be a new way of
meeting life, and preventing some of its problems, by a better understanding of what life is and
what part we play in its drama, and whether or not we have a choice as to the part we play.
Ernest Holmes Introductory text: “The Thing Itself…..How It Works…and How to Use It”
closes with words—though written nearly 80 years ago— as relevant today as the messages of
any of the world’s greatest educators, authors, prophets, and mystics throughout history:
“A new light is coming into the world. We are on the borderland of a new experience. The veil
between Spirit and matter is very thin. The invisible passes into visibility through our faith in
it….The Truth always sets us free, and Spirit always makes Itself known. Happy are we if we see
these things which, from the foundation of the human race, have been longed for by all aspiring
souls.”
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She makes Science of Mind a central focus in all of her healing work and educational programs.
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Well, it has rained enough in the past week and I’m ready for some sunshine. I’ve been putting the final touches on my new Shop and I’m
real happy about trying to get organized for the new Smoking Hot Guitar venture. With all of the rearranging of my tools from one shop to the
next, I have found a whole huge “garage sale” worth of stuff that I will be getting rid of. Make sure you mark this date on your calendar because
I’m liquidating all kinds of tools, hardware, wood, instruments and everything else that isn’t nailed down. The sale will be starting Fri, June 26th
and ending Sun at 4:00 on June 28th. It will be 4 days of selling everything I can. Believe me there will be some good deals!
Getting back to the guitar world, I have been busier than a one armed wall paper hanger. I have recently bought some instruments to re-sell
at some of the music festivals that I attend so the shop is overwhelmed with instruments. I don’t have any space left to put anything. All of the
benches have stuff piled all over and I’m starting to have a panic attack. When I see that much stuff I just think of all the work I need to do. It’s
okay though because there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The one nice thing is that now that I’m building up a new shop I can move some stuff
from my main shop and that will give me more room to add benches so that I have more work space. It’s nice to work from home, but sometimes I
think it would be easier if I were to rent a large building somewhere and not have all this limited space and clutter to always think about.
The repair for this week is building new nuts for
instruments. I have said it before, but I will say it again. The
best and quickest way to improve the tone of an instrument is
to install a quality bone nut/saddle. For the price and time it is
your best bet. A properly fitted nut cannot only improve tone
it can also improve the playability as well. In combination
with a well fitted compensated bone saddle you can take
an average guitar and make it sound surprisingly well. And
the fact that it will be easy to play will just make you want
to play it more. This coming week I will be performing a
workshop at the Blue Sky Folk Festival and I believe I will
be talking a bit about the importance of a well fitted nut and
saddle. I also have been debating on showing the traditional
method of bending sides with a hot pipe. There are newer and
probably more stable methods that most luthiers are currently
using, such as the Lmi heating blankets and the digital
temperature controller that gives the user a very precise heat
so that the chance of scorching or destroying your valuable
wood is almost completely eliminated. But in a workshop
setting this method is difficult to perform in a 45 min window.
The process can take up to couple of hours when you include
setup and cooling time to get the wood to “set” and put it in a
form . The old fashion way is actually faster and some luthiers are still using the method of a hot pipe to bend sides. I have often done it when I’m
only doing one or two pieces it’s much less complicated than dragging out all of the other tools and jigs that are necessary for the other method.
When I was at my instrument supplier the other day I always snoop around in the back corners to see what broken instruments that he might
have laying around that I can buy cheap. In the past I have got some pretty good deals on things that I might not normally purchase. I don’t sell
instruments outright like a conventional music store so sometimes my instruments will sit around for years before I sell them. Sometimes I will
fix them and try to learn how to play a song or two on them and then I will retire them to my music room in my house. I had the opportunity to
purchase a badly broken 32” harp. The main arm that carries the string load had somehow been broken off. It looked like a pretty clean break
and with a few splines to re-enforce the crack, I think I might have a new harp to try and play. Back in April when I was at the Riverside Music
festival there was a very talented musician that played the harp and played all kinds of folk songs and other cool music on his harp. I guess that’s
when I saw this broken harp, I had to rescue it so I could try to learn how to play something on it. It’s funny how my mind works. Most people
would buy a workable instrument to learn how to play it. I, on the other hand feel the need to fix it first. What’s up with that? I guess it’s a curse
that I will have to live with.
I’m still looking for people who may be interested in learning about the guitar repair business. Everywhere I go I meet people who tell me
that they have always wanted to try to build a guitar. I highly recommend that your first attempt should be more on the lines of seeing how well
you might be able to fix one first. By doing this you will learn valuable information that you can transfer over to your guitar building venture. It
is critical that you know how to set up a instrument properly or there is no sense in building one that you can’t play. I have many instruments that
need repair and I am always looking for someone that might want to help and learn a little along the way.
So till next time please remember to keep it in tune!
Thanks for Reading!
Patrick From Liam Guitars / Wood-n-Strings
June 24 - July 15, 2015
beat in his songs, which in turn impacted the double-time, horn-laden lunge of ska. We learn
how Anton Ellis, Bob Andy, and Delroy “Saddle Head” Wilson promulgated the fresh sounds
riddims at Studio One, and how Ken Boothe got the jump on Bread’s 1972 hit “Everything I
Own” decades before Boy George.
A compact history lesson walks us through Rastafari religion and ideology; some readers
might never have known that Ras Tafari was an actual person, who—upon being crowned
Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 as Haile Selassie—was hailed as the “conquering lion of Judah,”
a long-prophesied savior of the African peoples. Or that Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey
heralded Haile’s coming the same way John the Baptist preceded Jesus Christ’s professional
arrival in Jerusalem.
Male disciples took to braiding their hair in the “dreads” once favored by the Nyahbinghi
warriors who fought fascist Italians (pitting their rocks and spears against machine guns and
airplanes). And marijuana—ganja—was regarded a sacramental herb whose mind-altering
effects could bring users closer to the Creator. Western civilization was vilified as a “Babylon”
whose greed and military aggression manifested an ultimate evil; Rastafarians long to return to
the promised land of “Zion” under Selassie’s leadership.
“It is against my religion to not smoke herb,” Tosh tells Steffens, who once gifted the singer a
spliff the size of a cricket bat.
The Golden Age of Reggae commences with Desmond Dekker and The Aces’ novelty
tune, “Poor Mi Israelites,” Him & The Heptones’ vocal harmonies, and “toast” raps that
eschewed traditional, twee boy-meets-girl lyrics for thought-provoking verses with deeper
spiritual meaning. Dennis Brown, Earl “Chinna” Smith, Winston Rodney, The Versatiles, and
The Overtakers pave a rhythmic road; Johnny Nash signs Marley and Tosh to his JAD label—
but it takes a few years for the nascent Wailers to abandon their simple Caribbean cantos (and
clean-cut image) in favor of the weed-inspired soul scriptures that made them icons.
Perry Henzell’s 1972 exploitation film The Harder They Come is pinpointed as a
benchmark in reggae for its introduction of ghetto livity to a global audience—and for turning
actor / singer Jimmy Cliff into a cult figure. The Melodians take the musical baton and run;
Leroy Sibbles and the Heptones likewise take notes. 25-year old comic / musician Jacob Miller
makes his mark with Heartland Reggae before perishing in a car crash.
Middle chapters assign whole pages to impromptu dub master Johnny Osbourne, renowned
for cooking up spontaneous raps over ready-made beats. Coxsone assistant Lee “Scratch” Perry
goes from hired help to bona fide superstar (whose reputation insulates him from a nasty falling
out with Bunny Wailer). Marley backup singers the I-Threes get their due: Judy Mowatt recalls
the riots surrounding Zimbabwe’s 1980 emancipation; Marcia Griffiths enjoys a prolonged solo
career; and Rita Marley becomes matriarch of husband Bob’s Tuff Gong empire.
The sizeable entry on Marley himself comes with an at-a-glance timeline tracing his
life—from his birth in 1945 to his premature death (from melanoma) in 1981. We discover
that many thought young Bob possessed “psychic powers” even as a child, and that he and
Bunny became stepbrothers by virtue of their parents’ marriage (Marley’s mother and Bunny’s
father). The authors track the Wailers’ fledgling hits (pre-Beatles) and formation of their own
label, the acrimonious split with Perry, and early ‘70s success. We follow Marley’s solo career
(catching up with Tosh and Bunny later in the book), note his spiritual savvy and diplomacy
(he convinced rival leaders to shake on a treaty at his “One Love Peace Concert” in ’78), and
reconnect with his musical genius.
“Bush Doctor” Tosh proves an irascible “friend and freak” during a 1979 visit at the unicycling rocker’s home. Burning Speak and Black Uhuru (with Winston Rodney and Michael
Rose) carry reggae’s message into the ‘80s, where Rhythm Twins Sly Dunbar (bass) and Robbie
Shakespeare (drums) become the go-to guys for Channel One studio magic. Meanwhile,
singjay Eek-a-Mouse turns heads with his rapid flow and irreverent vocab; Freeworld
Hoodlums conquer Nigeria; No Fixed Address dominates the land Down Under; and Hassidic
Jew rapper Matisyahu cops reggae grooves for the noughties—thereby demonstrating the
music’s versatility (and lack of sociopolitical boundaries).
We’re given a segment on the Marley children (Ziggy, Ky-mani, Sharon, Damion, etc.),
many of who followed in their father’s footsteps, and get sneak a peek at the sound of reggae
to come from newer acts like Ark Band and Morgan Heritage. Molli Fire examines the rise of
the dub, dancehall, and electronic reggae popularized by Buju Banton, Super Cat, Lady Saw,
and “vigilante preacher” Ninjaman, and we’re treated to a map of notable music festivals held
annually everywhere.
The Reggae Scrapbook is a mandatory add to the personal library of any self-respecting
Marley aficionado—yet it’s also diverse enough to sate music lovers in general. The plethora
of pictures not only draws from vintage LP sleeves, concert flyers, studio logs, and dynamic
stage shots, but also of nonmusical young people (and elderly) just going about their business in
Trench Town.
In that sense, Steffens and Simon serve up a slice of island life that transcends even the music
itself.
Reggae Scrapbook is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Jurassic World
Universal PG13
I’ll be honest with you, gang, I really
didn’t expect to enjoy this latest dinosaur epic,
JURASSIC WORLD, mostly because, as I recall, I didn’t really like JURASSIC PARK all
that much and that one had both the element
of surprise and Steven Spielberg directing.
I figured it would just be a bigger, longer
version of the original with fancier computer
graphics more action and louder noise. Come
to think of it, all those things are true and yet...
If you recall JURASSIC PARK, giant corporate amusement park meets giant
corporate science and puts together a family
playland centered on dinosaurs brought to life
through the miracle of DNA cloning. At some
point something goes wrong and all those
reconstituted inmates at what we might call a
prehistoric petting zoo freak out and, well you
remember.
So now it’s decades later plenty of time
to have forgotten just how perilous the first
venture was and more entrepreneurs have
opened up a resurrected amusement park
called JURASSIC WORLD and have cloned
the DNA of the first movie to produce this
one.
We begin by assembling every cliché
in the book. Let’s start with two brothers, a
jaded teenager and an excited kid brother who
have just found out their parents are considering a divorce. They’ve been packed off for a
little vacation to the Dinosaur Park under the
not so watchful eye of their aunt who is also
the damsel in distress (Bryce Dallas Howard). She’s kind of the manager of this park;
she’s beautiful, smart, resourceful and just
happens to have a crush on the rugged hero
(Chris Pratt). He’s handsome and strong and
brave yet gentle and has bonded with some of
the creatures in the park, kind of a dinosaur
whisperer. We meet the guy who seems to be
in charge and reminds me somewhat of Jeff
Goldblum if Jeff Goldblum were an Indian.
He does his best to keep things in order but...
Jurassic world has been open for a few years
and some of the excitement seems to have
worn off. To breathe new life into the place
the evil corporate big wigs have hired the mad
scientist to genetically engineer a new and
more terrifying dinosaur than ever existed in
the real world!
Worse yet, she’s a killing machine with a
brain which makes her almost impossible to
conquer!
Enter our next cliché character the nasty
bastard (Vincent D’Onofrio) who sees an opportunity to sell these smart dinosaurs to the
army as some kind of weapon!
Like its predecessor JURASSIC WORLD
is kind of a hybrid of WESTWORLD and
GODZILLA so you know pretty soon the
skullduggery between the mad scientist and
the military guy will lead to disaster when
Indominus Rex sneaks out of her pen and
wreaks havoc on the island.
There are a lot of extras much like the Star
Trek lieutenant in the film solely for the purpose of being eaten by marauding lizards, but
quite a few named actors wind up on the menu
as well. And finally, there are raptors, and kids
love raptors.
OK, we have special effects, non-stop
action, a truckload of clichés and no Spielberg
as director, so I’m wondering why I enjoyed
this so much.
Well, as predictable as they may be I
liked all the characters and was happy to see
the rugged hero and damsel in distress get
together and the two brothers finally bond.
The bad guys wound up as dinosaur chow and
the surviving innocent bystanders more than
likely found themselves beneficiaries of Tyrannosaurus Rex proportion lawsuits. I guess I
can say the special effects taking back seat to
the action was a pleasant surprise. I was never
bored and even slightly excited even in the
slowest parts of the film.
Yes, it’s most certainly paint by numbers action thriller but every stroke of the brush was
right on target.
B
June 24 - July 15, 2015
Slow West
A 24 Films PG13 88 min
I think we are all fascinated by both
the Old West and the often romanticized ideals portrayed in American and
European films.
We have seen the progression of
the Western hero from the days of Tom
mix Gene Autry and Roy Rogers the
spotless and straight shooting Cowboys through the 19 sixties into the
world of supposedly realistic antiheroes, defined by the characters played
by Clint Eastwood and others, as seen
through the camera lens of modern
directors including Sergio Leone.
SLOW WEST, a plodding and
surrealistic trek through the Old West
is the brainchild of Scottish musician
turned writer director, John MacLean, and actor executive producer
Michael Fassbender. This is another
of those films in very limited release
simultaneous with VOD. It is in
theaters but the closest one is in Grand Rapids or somewhere equally inaccessible. Still it
won a Sundance Film Festival Award for dramatic film so...
Its genre is listed as action thriller but don’t be fooled, there is very little action and
probably even less thrills to be had. This film, in my opinion, is a prime example of artistes
mistaking obtuse images and scenarios for deep thought. The story itself is relatively
straightforward. A young Scottish man Jay (Kodi Smith - McPhee) is crossing the US in
search of his lost love Rose. Somehow Rose has become a fugitive and is being pursued by
a particularly rough crowd of Indian hunters who are not above collecting a bounty along
the way.
Along the road Jay will team up with Silas (Fassbender), a mean and rugged desperado who agrees to accompany the young Scot to his destination for a price.
On that journey the two men will separate, reunite and experience a handful of situations
not particularly ruled by logic or reality.
One of the most incredible situations is the fact that Rose, the fugitive, assumedly
in great peril and on the run from this gang of killers has built a house smack dab in the
middle of the plain. It certainly seems to me a wiser plan of action would be subterfuge,
disguise and changing positions as often as possible.
Anyway, that’s where the climax will take place, a gunfight with many surprising
casualties and even more surprising repercussions. I realize there is a tendency by newer
filmmakers to represent the American Western as more of a dystopian society which, I can
easily assume it probably was. As with Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN, the point was
made at almost every turn that there are no happy endings.
I suppose someone could enjoy the surrealistic nature of SLOW WEST and especially
appreciate the beauty of the scenery. It was, in fact, filmed in New Zealand. Accepting
the pretentious nature, the snail’s pace, and lapses in reality is a decision you will need to
make on your own.
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received FM radio airplay with the live single “First I Look at the Purse”. They then began to
get AM radio airplay as well with a series of several hit singles in the 1970s, the most successful
of which were “Looking for a Love” (1971), “Give it to Me” (1973), a cover version of The
Showstoppers’ “Ain’t Nothin’ But a Houseparty” (1973) and “Must of Got Lost” (1974). Later
in the 1970s, the band signed with EMI America Records.
The group’s commercial fortunes improved in the early 1980s, first with the humorous Love
Stinks, then with their success with the Freeze Frame album which included “Centerfold” (#1
for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100) and then the title cut (#4). “Centerfold” also became
a major hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached #3 in February 1982. Wolf left the
group in 1983 over artistic disagreements.
The band went on to record one more album of new material, You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m
Gettin’ Odd, after Wolf left. He was not replaced, and Seth Justman took over most of the vocal
duties. The album produced one single — “Concealed Weapons”, and was not a commercial
success. The group then disbanded in 1985 after contributing the title song to the 1985 horror
film Fright Night.
Late 2014 and early 2015 saw The J. Geils Band on the road supporting the equally legendary
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet band, for select shows on his Ride Out tour, and this gave the
band the urge to hit the road again this summer.
As leader of ’70s British rock legends Mott the Hoople and as a hugely influential solo
artist, Ian Hunter is widely revered as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most compelling performers and
one of its most articulate songwriters. As the author of such immortal anthems as “All the Way
from Memphis,” “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “Cleveland Rocks,” and the voice of such
landmark albums as Mott the Hoople’s All The Young Dudes and Mott and the solo recordings
Ian Hunter and You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, he remains a hero to fans and fellow
musicians around the world.
More info: jgeilsband.net ianhunter.com
Tickets: $52.50/$62.50/$79.50
Tickets on sale now and will be available at the Rocksino Box Office, Ticketmaster.com, all
Ticketmaster locations, or by phone (800)745-3000.
All Rocksino Shows Are 21 & Over
HOUSE OF BLUES CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cellar Door Rendezvous featuring:
Seafair and the Querencia Orchestra, The Modern Electric, The Moxies, Ottawa
Friday, August 7 – House of Blues
Cellar Door is excited to unveil the details of Cellar Door Rendezvous 2015. In its third
year, our very own Cleveland music festival has expanded yet again. After a very successful run
exclusively at the Beachland Ballroom, this year the event is expanding in size and scope. From
August 4-9 there will be events happening every night that highlight the incredible music being
created right here in Cleveland. Some highlights include our main event, an all local bill at the
House of Blues on Friday August 7 headlined by the one and only Seafair with the Querencia
Orchestra (a 30 piece orchestra created for this show), along with The Modern Electric, The
Moxies and Ottawa; a FREE opening night party at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame centered
around a CLE music focused PechaKucha night featuring speakers from Cleveland’s past and
present. Speakers include Cindy Barber (owner of the Beachland Ballroom),
RA Washington (founder of Cleveland Tapes), Kathy Simkoff
(owner of the Grog Shop), Obnox (touring Cleveland
musician), and many more reaching various corners of the
industry and genres in the Cleveland music community.
For More Information Visit: www.cellardoorrendezvous.com
General Admission Tickets: $12 On Sale Now
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St.Paul & The Broken Bones
September 22 – House of Blues
On Sale Now
Grit, elemental rhythm, tight-as-a-drumhead playing, and a profound depth of feeling: these are
the promises of a great soul band. And St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliver on those promises.
Half The City is the compelling full-length Single Lock/Thirty Tigers debut of the Birmingham,
Alabama-based sextet, who have already created a maelstrom of interest with their roof-raising
live shows and self-released four-song 2012 EP. Produced by Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes,
and recorded and mixed in the storied R&B mecca of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the album
harkens back to the region’s classic soul roots while extending the form with electrifying
potency.
The band: Paul Janeway: lead vocals, Jesse Phillips: bass
Browan Lollar: guitars, vocals, Allen Branstetter: trumpet
Andrew Lee: drums, percussion
Ben Griner: trombone, tuba, Al Gamble: keys
Immediately, Half the City received critical acclaim from many national journalistic outlets
including Paste magazine, Garden and Gun, Southern Living, Rolling Stone, and NPR. In its
first week of sales, Half the City reached #62 on the Billboard 200 charts. After major stories
by NPR Morning Edition and a national television debut on CBS “This Morning: Saturday”, St.
Paul and The Broken Bones’ debut album reached #56 on Billboard 200 charts.
St. Paul and The Broken Bones is currently touring North America and Europe on their Half
the City tour. In addition to their own tour they have been tabbed by The Rolling Stones to be
their opening Act for their show that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on June 9, and the upcoming
show in Buffalo, New York on July 15, 2015.
http://stpaulandthebrokenbones.com
Ticket Information: General Admission Tickets $20
Tickets are available for purchase at the following locations: www.houseofblues.com, House
of Blues Box Office, www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and Charge by Phone:
800.745.3000.
The House of Blues Box Office (308 Euclid Ave.) For more information, call 216.523.BLUE
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THE THRILL OF DISCOVERY!
There are a lot of discoveries I’ve made
over the last hundred years, they get buried
in my deep, cavernous mind, and some have
fallen into the memory holes, but once in a
while one will pop to the surface, and I can
scoop it out with a garbage can lid and reobserve it, and feel the elation of the discovery
all over again!
One such discovery resurfaced recently;
“The 56 Second Discovery” and I would like
to share it with you! Ready?
A lot of things can happen in a minute,
but if you don’t have a minute to spare, try 56
seconds instead! A lot can still happen in 56
seconds and you won’t have the guilt of not
having a minute to spare! Without the guilt
of not having a minute to spare, you’ve just
gained four seconds that you can feel better
about yourself, guilt free, and all that in just
56 seconds! So all the four seconds that you
save throughout your day adds up! That’s
240 seconds every hour and 5,760 seconds
every 24 hours that you can feel better about
yourself… GUILT FREE!!
Your’re Welcome!
Another 56 second discovery was made
just recently while I was on an expedition. An
expedition with a quest to solve the hideous;
“Radiation-Proof-Liquid-Filled-Container-InThe-Wrong-Radiated-Position” mystery! This
repulsive anonymity haunted me for weeks,
and would happen every time I would place a
radiation proof liquid holding container filled
with un-radiated liquid, onto the automatic
rotating table inside the radiation machine, and
then set the radiation timer to precisely one
minute by pressing the automatic one minute
radiation and rotation timer start button!
(Answers on Page 28)
The radiation cycle would automatically
begin along with the auto rotation of the
automatic rotating table, radiating the unradiated liquid in the radiation proof liquid
holding container to the precise temperature
that is expected after a one minute radiation
cycle is completed!
However this particular radiation machine
has a cool down radiation removal cycle
that starts just as the automatic one minute
radiation/rotation cycle completes, but this
radiation removal cycle continues to rotate
the automatic rotating table a few seconds
more! This places the handle of the radiation
proof liquid holding container all the way to
the opposite side of the automatic rotating
table, facing the back wall of the radiation
chamber! This is unprofessional and just plain
unacceptable!
I don’t want to have the danger of placing
my hand into the radiation chamber while
trying to rotate the radiation proof liquid
holding container so that the handle is facing
me again, so that I may safely remove the
radiation proof liquid holding container, with
the steaming hot radiated liquid, from the
radiation chamber! Several weeks of placing
the radiation proof liquid holding container in
different positions on the automatic rotating
table failed to achieve the desired results!
I was forced to give up on the one button
convenience and instead preset the timer to
56 seconds and then press the start button. It
means pushing two more buttons, but I’m very
particular about my reheated coffee!
~Snarp
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~ Rick Ray
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