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The Please Please Me Shake A Little Harder in 2013

By Tom Semioli

Stop, look and listen to Jessie Torrisi, the sultry, sexy, super-charged singer / songwriter / guitarist / band leader of Austin trio Please Please Me and you’d think she was born and raised to be a roots rocker ala Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, or Ryan Adams. Now for the truth – she’s from Philadelphia, and made her bones playing drums in one of New York City’s most notorious glam / punk / shock-rock outfits in the 00’s– Unisex Salon. “I woke up one day…

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Added by Thomas Semioli on January 16, 2013 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Freight Train Boogie Show #142 with Shelby Lynne, Jim Cuddy, Boca Chica and Greensky Bluegrass

FTB podcast #142 features the new album by SHELBY LYNNE called Revelation Road. Also new music from JIM CUDDY, BOCA CHICA and GREENSKY BLUEGRASS. Here's the …

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Added by Bill Frater on December 2, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Shelby Lynne, Allison Moorer: Side by Side on the Road, Starting at Hardly Strictly Oct 3

Each woman has had a storied career, marked by intensely emotional vocals, songs that dig deeper towards the heart of the human condition and very different career trajectories, yet at their roots Grammy-winner Shelby Lynne and Oscar-nominated Allison Moorer are sisters -- and the common blood is what binds their disparate kinds of roots music together like a mandrake root.

After years of enlisting each other's help on various projects and one-off shows, Lynne and Moorer are going… Continue

Added by Holly Gleason on September 8, 2010 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

Gay Does Not Ruin a Career

So Chely Wright is gay. Hmm, that’s not the one I thought it would be, I always figured it would turn out to be Terri Clark or Wynonna Judd. In any event, who cares? Do you like her music or not? If you do, fine, buy it, if not, then don’t. I’m not a fan of her music, though I do own one of her older CD’s. But I’m thinking if I did like her music, I don’t think her being gay would stop me from buying it. I’ve bought k.d. lang music (openly gay) and I’ve bought Shelby Lynne music (rumored to be… Continue

Added by Honky Tonk Junkie on May 9, 2010 at 10:02pm — No Comments

Peter Wolf Interview: Still Lookin’ For A Love, Midnight Souvenirs

“When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: ‘Never say you will not drink from that glass again.’ ”

– Faye Dunaway, Academy Award-winning actress and Wolf’s former wife, in her 1995 autobiography, Looking for Gatsby

“You never say never.” – Peter Wolf

Same subject (L-O-V-E). Same sorrowful scenario (L-O-S-T). Totally different playing partners.

Peter Wolf,… Continue

Added by Michael Bialas on April 3, 2010 at 1:35pm — 17 Comments