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Favorite New Orleans Story So Far....
Jesse Jackson escorts some buses that have been dispatched to Loyola University to rescue some students who haven't had any access to video games or showers in more than 3 days. So, Rev. Jackson loads the students into the bus and as they are making their way out of the city, they enter an onramp to an interstate escape route and encounter a few dozen lost souls, who surround the busses and stop their forward progress. Rev. Jackson (as he told it on CNN) takes all of the students off the bus and, instead of transporting the lost crowd of citizens to some shelter, Rev. Jackson insisted that the students pray with the crowd. Which they did, whereupon Rev. Jackson and the student re-alighted on the buses and left.
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TOMMY LEPSON BAND
"A sweltering mix of good-foot funk, blue-eyed soul and Southern rock romps."
--Washington Post
Since 1991, the Tommy Lepson Band (Formerly the Lazy Boys) have been performing and recording originals, Blues
and Soul Classics and new versions of obscure R&B gems. With three C.D.'s to date (Live & Durty, Ready For This?,
and A.M. 53) the band has built a reputation for great vocals (Tom alone has won 11 "Wammies"), awesome
instrumental chops, and arrangements that combine American roots music styles with Latin Percussion.
Members of the band have appeared live with Bruce Springsteen, Joe Walsh (Eagles), Jeff " Skunk" Baxter
(Steely Dan, Doobie Bros), and opened for the Neville Brothers, Jeff Beck, John Hiatt, Willie Colon, and
countless others.
An evening with the Tommy Lepson Band, whether live or on Disc, is a musical journey that will rock you, move
you with emotion, tickle your funnybone and make you get up and shake your tailfeather, so come on out and hear
the voice that Little Feat's Shawn Murphy calls "one of the best"!
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SUNY@Albany, NY
QUASI formed by Janet Weiss & Sam Coomes, Portland, Oregon, '93. Experimented with various lineups in early live
appearances, while recording as a duo, eventually settling on the duo format in performance as well. Released
a cassette in '93, & a self-released CD (containing some of the material from the cassette plus additional
material, all recorded in the bands basement rehearsal space with "home recording" equipment). Released 2nd
Album, "R&B Transmogrification" (recorded in another basement with slightly nicer "semi-pro" recording equipment)
on Up Records in '97. Released 3rd album, "Featuring 'Birds'," (recorded in a "professional" studio {16 tracks!})
on Up in '98. Toured U.S., Europe, Australia, & Japan opening for & also serving as backup band for Elliott
Smith, '98-'99, as well as touring on their own in U.S. & Europe during the same period. Released 4th album,
"Field Studies," on Up in '99, continued touring. Released 5th album, "The Sword of God," on Touch & Go Records
in '01, returning to self-produced home recording, albeit with upgraded equipment. Released 6th album, "Hot Shit!,
" on Touch & Go in '03. Quasi albums continue to be licensed internationally through Domino (U.K.) & P-Vine
(Japan), & the band continues to tour actively, & are pleased with whatever successes they have achieved
while maintaining a personal, anti-corporate approach.
wsum 91.7 fm
University of Wisconsin@Madison
Simply put, the Lonesome Tumblers cocktail is one part folk song and one part traditional country,
mixed with two parts psychedelic punch. On the rocks, that is.
While recording their first full-length, the rustic songwriting of Little Billy Catfish (guitar, vocals, synth)
was tinged with experimental and shoegazer rock tendencies as friends from Chicago and Detroit laid down their
own contribution to his marked observations on the world.
Joe Patt (Them Wranch, Midnight Callers) recorded percussion tracks shortly before leaving town to bang out a
primal rhythm for a Country Teasers tour, and Brian Harper (Tekulvi) put his Chicago-via D.C. skills to work
with expert bass guitar work. Dave Acosta (Wolfbait) and Arlo Pickens (Bill Parker & His Motherscratchers),
departed their home of Detroit to knock everyone out with their exquisite lead guitar and banjo playing.
Chicago's Stereo Demonstrator released the band's initial effort while the Lonesome Tumblers found themselves
collecting enthusiastic reviews from crowds in Ann Arbor and Chicago.
While shows would begin deeply entrenched in roots music traditions, audiences would find themselves picking
their jaws up off the floor as the five-piece launched into pure psychedelic rock territory, scarcely seen around
the Midwest for quite some time.
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kcrw 89.9 fm
Eric J. Lawrence, MD
Los Angeles, CA