Toronto - After The Mountain Goats played their first song, I heard a fan behind me shouting out for "Going To Georgia." Seriously? Shouting out requests at a concert is a dubious activity at the best of times, but this was a demonstration of some serious overexuberance and/or impatience. Not to mention a serious misjudgement of how good John Darnielle's hearing was. Still, his enthusiasm could be forgiven, seeing as how The Mountain Goats had not been through town since 2007. Despite the long gap between visits, Darnielle and co. made a great impression on the packed crowd. They entered to [...]
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Take a look at the A-List bill that performed this benefit... Jason Aldean Luke Bryan Billy Ray Cyrus Miley Cyrus Montgomery Gentry Amy Grant Faith Hill Toby Keith Miranda Lambert Lynyrd Skynyrd Martina McBride Tim McGraw LeAnn Rimes Julie Roberts Blake Shelton Michael W. Smith Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood ZZ Top There have been benefit shows galore throughout the city since the flooding, but this seemed to be the BIG one. Affordable tickets were sold [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Singer and guitarist Will Owsley , who performed as a power-pop solo artist under his last name and played guitar for the likes of Amy Grant and Shania Twain , died Friday, April 30, Blurt reports. Owsley was pronounced dead at Williamson County Hospital in Franklin, Tenn. sometime around midday. According to the Tennessean , the 44-year-old's death was "an apparent suicide." "We are all reeling today from the news of Will Owsley's death yesterday," Grant said in a [...]
Singer-songwriter and studio whiz Will Owsley , the longtime guitarist in Amy Grant's band, died Friday of an apparent suicide, the Tennesean reported . He was 44. Services were scheduled for Tuesday in his native Anniston, Tenn. Highly regarded by power-pop aficionados and fellow songwriters, Owsley released two solo albums that were notable for their big melodies and bigger choruses. The first, 1999's "Owsley," was released shortly before the label, Giant, succumbed to financial pressures and earned Owsley a Grammy nomination for engineering. The follow-up was a DIY effort titled "The Hard Way." I [...]
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"What does The Weather Channel have to do with Christmas?" we hear you cry. Well, look at it this way — how would you know whether or not to expect a white Christmas, or whether the scene is set for sleighing, ice skating, et al, without a meteorological go-to channel? For the folks who spend most of their time predicting rain, wind, and whatnot, the holidays are the only time they get to have any fun, and their Holiday Party album shows it. This Christmas collection offers a host of great pop and R&B artists tackling your favorite [...]
Over the past two years, John Darnielle, the frontman for indie-folk band The Mountain Goats, has had to deal with a lot of the shit that comes along with living life on this earth. Apparently he has had to face some hard times including watching people close to him die. So in his effort to seek solace and comfort in those dark times, he turned to old religious texts and music. He spent a lot of time pouring over the Bible, of which he's had a longstanding love. Much to the chagrin of some of his peers, he found himself [...]
Amy Grant - I Will Remember You
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. I was curious to see if there were any tribute-style YouTube clips about the event, since it did take place before the advent of widespread online video. Surprisingly, there are quite a few; more surprisingly, most are not altogether different from the graduation montages I looked at a little while back. Both are sort of sad, wistful, and nostalgic, and accompanied by very similar tunes-but instead of fun in the sun, you get pictures of horror and loss and death. But then they take an odd turn. Let's take [...]
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Beginning in 1977, singer Amy Grant had become arguably the most popular act in Contemporary Christian music with a string of smash albums, including a pair that topped that genre's album chart. So it was quite a surprise when the singer, whose previous material had been more gospel-oriented, took a pop direction, adding more electric guitar and keyboards, for her 1984 album Straight Ahead . The album generated some backlash from her Christian audience, but it also got her some notice from pop and soft rock audiences. In 1985, Grant issued her ninth album, Unguarded , [...]
As I said in my last post, I'm having to divide this in two... Saturday, April 19, 2008 My cousin has come from West Virginia to visit my grandmother because chances are very good that she won't go home again until we take her casket to be buried next to my grandfather's. Her health has been failing for a long time and the prognosis is not promising. I hadn't seen my cousin since before Cecily's born, since before his father, my uncle, died. [...]
"Baby Baby" is a 1991 single by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant. It was released as the first single from the Heart In Motion album. Baby Baby http://audioscreen.blogspot.co m/
With the craziness of the ice storm and then the holidays I haven't been able to check in much here but each time I do I find lots of emails asking about an end of the year list. And instead of emailing everyone back individually, I thought I'd just post and tell you it's coming. I'm actually finished with it but it's the posting/uploading of it that takes so long. I've also taken on my
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