When rumors about the first ever BottleRock Napa festival began to circulate, they were impressive: early flyers listed Dave Matthews Band and Pearl Jam as headliners (neither was ever confirmed). Still, the festival had the attention of the Napa Valley and surrounding music lovers long ago. Once the final lineup had been released and tickets [...] The post BottleRock 2013 Review: Napa's Inaugural Music, Wine, and Food Festival appeared first on Spinning Platters .
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Natalie Maines , best known as the vocal centerpiece of the Dixie Chicks, makes her long-awaited musical return with Mother (May 7, Columbia), her decidedly non-country solo debut produced by Ben Harper. The rootsy, no-twang album is Maines' first full-length studio recording project since the last Chicks album in '06 and is a daring, dramatic change from her country and new-acoustic past. But this is, after all, the woman who once remarked, "Growing up, when people asked, 'What kind of music do you listen to?,' I'd say, 'Anything but country'. A collection of mostly [...]

Iconic bluesman Charlie Musselwhite has been belting out the blues on his harmonica since the 1960s. He has played the blues with the best of them, but in a guest appearance on a John Lee Hooker album in 1997, he met Ben Harper . It may have taken 16 years to finally get these two together to do an album (2013’s Get Up! ), but last Thursday at the 9:30 Club , they proved that the wait was worth it. There would be no opener this evening. Billed as “An Evening [...]
Ben Harper é um artista que os portugueses acarinham praticamente desde o início da sua já longa carreira de 20 anos, carinho que vem retribuíndo, com actuações míticas e inesquecíveis tanto a norte como a sul. Em Janeiro deste ano, lançou o seu álbum mais recente Get Up (Stax/Concord), em que se alia a Charlie Musselwhite, um histórico da harmónica blues e em dez originais nos faz regressar às margens do Mississippi no seu estilo único. Ambos se têm desdobrado em concertos pelos Estados Unidos, com destaque para a sua presença no Memphis Soul Concert [...]
It's been a decade plus since I cared for the BEN HARPER , but his performance of WE CAN'T END THIS WAY , on the Letterman show last night, despite being dressed head to toe in a cowboy outfit, really makes me happy. Support comes from the CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE .

Nine studio albums and 11 EPs later, musician Joseph Arthur is finally ready to release the album he's always wanted to. On June 11th, Lonely Astronaut Records will deliver The Ballad of Boogies Christ (and album title of the year goes to...), the tale of a fictional character based loosely on Arthur's own life. Recorded onto tape over multiple years in studios across New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn, Arthur says the album is "unlike anything I’ve ever done before. It’s a big production with horns and soul singers; a psychedelic soul record [...]
Upcoming Live Performances on MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC with host JASON BENTLEY Tuesday, April 23, Ben Harper is no stranger to the blues and, when he teams up with harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite, sparks fly. They’ll perform songs from their new project on Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am. Wednesday, April 24, The swoon-worthy sounds of UK musician James Blake captivated a small audience at Apogee Studios, as he performed songs from his excellent [...]
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This week's In The Spotlight is on Patty Griffin, where Jeff Tweedy waxes about audience talkers, Solomon Burke plays one of Griffin's favorite covers, and four relative unknowns win your heart.

Past editions of Brazil's Rock in Rio music festival have drawn upward of 1.5 million people, and this year's lineup should do little to curb enthusiasm. Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Metallica, Muse, Iron Maiden, and Bon Jovi will all perform headlining sets during the seven-date festival, set to run September 13-15th and 19-22nd in Rio de Janerio. Other performers include Florence and the Machine, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Slayer, Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, Ghost B.C., Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Ben Harper, Sepultura, The Offspring, [...]
Watch the clip above of Ben Harper with Xavier Rudd at Blues Festival NSW Australia performing in this past weekend's event Down Under, magical!

Australia's blues festival at Byron Bay is happening this weekend and Xavier Rudd is one of the headline acts. Check out his acoustic performance for Insider above. He was said to be doing some collaboration on stage with Ben Harper, did anyone catch it or have footage of it? Lovely weather on both sides of the hemispheres North here and South (Down Under) happening as well.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , New Music Spinner Instagram Natalie Maines has kept a relatively low profile since the Dixie Chicks went on hiatus in 2007, but her Mother solo debut comes out on May 7 and she covered the Pink Floyd track of the same name as part of the Spinner showcase on Wednesday night at ACL Live at the Moody Theater. [...]
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ARTIST: Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - [Album] DATE: 03-12-13 REVIEW BY: G. Murray Thomas Get Up! is an album that had to happen eventually; the question is why did it take so long? It unites two generations of bluesmen (Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite were born twenty-five years apart) and, in the process, demonstrates the universality of the blues idiom. Harper and Musselwhite first worked together in 1997 [view more]
Still not convinced that Dixie Chick Natalie Maines was going to try something dramatically new and different on her upcoming debut solo album? The powerful version of Eddie Vedder's "Without You is all the evidence you need (not to mention her cover of Pink Floyd's "Mother" that serves as the upcoming May 7 album's title track). Co-produced with Ben Harper (and recorded at Harper's studio), Mother will also feature two Harper-penned songs, a cover of Jeff Buckley's "Lover You Should Have Come Over" and "Free Life" by frequent Chicks collaborator [...]

There are some of you that will see there is a review of Ben Harper’s newest realease on Nine Bullets and immediately move on to something else. I accept that but I pity you. You may know Ben Harper from his “hits” or from that stoner hippy in your dorm room all those years ago. You may have been a fan in your younger years (that would be me) or you might just know that you don’t like him. If you haven’t already stopped reading scroll down and start one of the songs at the end of this post before [...]
Palladia premieres a 30-minute documentary about the making of Ben Harper's recently released collaborative album with Charlie Musselwhite this Thursday night at 9PM ET. The film takes a behind the scenes look at the pair's working relationship, their history together and how they created Get Up! Monday, March 4 [All Times ET] Fleetwood Mac - Live In Boston [AXS TV 8PM] Norah Jones on Jay Leno [NBC 11:35PM] Bad Religion on Jimmy [...]

Ecco l'annuncio dei primi nomi in cartellone per l'edizione 2013 del Pistoia Blues , storica manifestazione iniziata nel lontanissimo 1980 che quest'anno propone Ben Harper con l'armonicista Charlie Musselwhite e il ritorno in Italia dei Black Crowes . Quella di Ben Harper con Charlie Musselwhite il 4 luglio al Pistoia Blues sarà non solo la prima data europea del tour, ma anche l'unica in Italia in cui verrà presentato il nuovo album "Get Up!" , pubblicato dalla leggendaria Stax Records. Prima volta in Piazza Duomo a Pistoia per i [...]