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RNZ News
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Nashville Babylon: Saturday 17 May 2025
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. The late Queen of Blues - Etta James Photo: Supplied On this week's show there's classic soul from Betty Harris and Ann Peebles, blues from Elmore James, a new solo track from the Go Betweens' Robert Forster, a reggae classic from Keith Rowe plus Junior Parker covering the Beatles. Music played: Artist: Sir Douglas Quintet Track: She's About A Mover Composer: Sahm Album: Mendocino Label: Smash Artist: Dave Alvin Track: Johnny Ace Is Dead Composer: Dave Alvin Album: Eleven Eleven Label: Yep Roc Artist: Status Quo Track: Down Down Composer: Rossi / Young Album: Single Label: Vertigo Artist: Ann Peebles Track: I Take What I Want Composer: Porter / Hayes / Hodges Album: Straight From The Heart Label: Fat Possum Artist: Betty Harris Track: Trouble With My Lover Composer: Toussaint Album: The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul Label: Soul Jazz Artist: Junior Parker Track: Taxman Composer: Harrison Album: The Outside Man Label: Capitol Artist: Robert Forster Track: Strawberries Composer: Robert Forster Album: Strawberries Label: Tapete Records Artist: Keith Hudson Track: Groovy Situation Composer: Rowe Album: Single Label: Black Swan Artist: Bap Kennedy Track: Drunk On The Blood Of Christ Composer: Bap Kennedy Album: Lonely Street Label: Lonely Street Discs Artist: Dick Gaughan Track: Ruby Tuesday Composer: Jagger / Richards Album: Sail On Label: Greentrax Artist: Freddie King Track: Meet Me In The Morning Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Larger Than Life Label: RSO Artist: Big Maybelle Track: Pitiful Composer: McCoy Singleton Album: Single Label: Savoy Artist: Elmore James Track: The Sky Is Crying Composer: James Album: Single Label: Fire Artist: Etta James Track: Misty Blue Composer: Bob Montgomery Album: The Dreamer Label: Verve Artist: The Noveltones Track: Left Bank Two Composer: Wayne Hill Album: Left Bank Two Label: De Wolfe Music
RNZ News
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Nashville Babylon: 10 May 2025
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Alabama Shakes Photo: David McClister Photography, LLC. On this week's Nashville Babylon, there's soul from Etta James and Otis Redding, new music from the Altons and Jason Isbell, reggae courtesy of Althea & Donna, plus classic cuts from John Prine and Guy Clark. Music played: Artist: Jimmy Hughes Track: High Heel Sneakers Composer: Higgenbotham Album: Single Label: Fame Artist: Etta James Track: Tell Mama Composer: Carter / Daniel / Terrell Album: Tell Mama Label: Chess Artist: Alabama Shakes Track: Hold On Composer: Alabama Shakes Album: Boys and Girls Label: ATO Artist: Catfish Haven Track: Crazy For Leaving Composer: Catfish Haven Album: Tell Me Label: Secretly Canadian Artist: Clarence Carter Track: The Road Of Love Composer: Carter Album: Single Label: Fame Artist: LaVerne Baker Track: You'd Better Find Yourself Another Fool Composer: Nugetre / Dowd Album: Single Label: Atlantic Artist: Jimmy Reed Track: Shame Shame Shame Composer: Reed Album: Single Label: Stateside Artist: Dr Feelgood Track: She Does It Right Composer: Johnson Album: Single Label: United Artists Artist: Ian Dury Track: Clever Trevor Composer: Dury / Jankel Album: New Boots and Panties Label: Stiff Artist: Althea and Donna Track: If You Don't Love Jah Composer: Campbell Album: Uptown Top Ranking Label: Front Line Artist: Otis Redding Track: For Your Precious Love Composer: Brooks / Brooks / Butler Album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads Label: Atco Artist: The Altons Track: Del Cielo Te Cuido Composer: The Altons Album: Heartache In Room 14 Label: Daptone Artist: Jason Isbell Track: Bury Me Composer: Isbell Album: Foxes In The Snow Label: Southeastern Artist: Guy Clark Track: That Old Time Feeling Composer: Guy Clark Album: Old No. 1 Label: RCA Artist: John Prine Track: All The Best Composer: John Prine Album: The Missing Years Label: Oh Boy Artist: The Noveltones Track: Left Bank Two Composer: Wayne Hill Album: Left Bank Two Label: De Wolfe Music
Axios
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
A small museum on Jefferson Street honors Nashville's Black music history
The third annual Lorenzo Washington Gala to benefit the Jefferson Street Sound Museum takes place Thursday evening. Why it matters: Jefferson Street is Nashville's original Music Row, once home to over 20 music venues where iconic Black artists including Etta James, Little Richard and Ray Charles performed. Washington launched the nonprofit museum in 2011 to preserve the stories of the famous artists and local legends, including Marion James and Ted Jarrett, who performed on Jefferson Street. Zoom out: Washington, a businessperson who frequently attended shows at Jefferson Street clubs, has earned recognition from well outside Nashville for his work. He was given the prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Memphis-basedBlues Foundation earlier this year for his work at the Jefferson Street Sound Museum. Last year, the Bloomberg Map Lab profiled another of Washington's projects: a genealogy tree that mapped out nightclubs that used to operate on Jefferson Street and the artists who played there. Driving the news: In recent years, Washington has been recognized by state and local officials, several of whom will be on hand for this year's gala. At this year's benefit gala, which costs $161.90 to attend, organizers will honor the legendary country music harmonica player DeFord Bailey. His grandson Carlos DeFord Bailey is scheduled to take the crowd through a quick harmonica lesson. Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell tells Axios he met Washington shortly after he created the genealogy tree. "We've been friends ever since, and I'm attending the gala because Lorenzo is a living legend and keeper of memories that need to live on." What he's saying: Asked what it feels like to have the mayor, state leaders and the Blues Foundation and many others honor his work, Jefferson redirected credit to the artists who played in Jefferson Street's clubs. "I can just say Jefferson Street is being recognized more than it was," Washington tells Axios. "Everybody's jumping onboard with seeing that Jefferson Street has all of the history it has, and untold history." Flashback: In addition to the clubs on Jefferson Street, Nashville became known for expanding the reach of R&B music. In 1946, WLAC became the first radio station to broadcast R&B music, an especially noteworthy strategy during the Jim Crow era. "Night Train," filmed in Nashville, became the first syndicated TV show to focus on R&B music. When the government built I-40, it disrupted business and life on Jefferson Street, leading to the shuttering of live music venues. What's next: The Jefferson Street Sound Museum has made education a cornerstone of its work. The museum hosts events aimed at school-age children several times a year. Washington tells Axios his next goal is expanding the history of Jefferson Street and North Nashville into schools' history curriculum "so kids can learn about the Black community here in Nashville."
New York Times
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In Love and in Line: Couples Flock to Courthouses on Valentine's Day
It was just before midnight on Thursday and dozens of couples were waiting on and around the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio. There were men in cowboy hats and suit jackets, and women in classic wedding dresses and veils. They were there to get married. At 12:01 a.m. on Valentine's Day, the county clerk, Lucy Adama-Clark, began to officiate a brief, collective ceremony. At its conclusion, 125 couples kissed for the first time as married partners to cheers from friends and relatives. Then, to the sound of 'At Last' by Etta James, the couples took their collective first dance. The couples were among the first who flocked to city halls across the country to get married on Valentine's Day, which held special appeal this year as it fell on a Friday. 'It was a really good experience to be there with everyone else and just be surrounded by a bunch of people who are also in love,' said Nadia Martin, 29, who married Callaway Jones, 27, at the group wedding around midnight. For some, the date held special meaning. 'He was the very first valentine I ever had in my whole life' Melanie Ehrenborg Ordaz, 35, said of Juan Javier Ordaz, 39, whom she married at the group wedding in San Antonio. 'Last year was our first Valentine's together, so this year it was like, why not just go all the way.' Courthouse weddings, or civil ceremonies, have become more popular in recent years. Pinterest, the digital mood board, said there was a 637 percent increase in searches for 'civil ceremony photography' from 2023 to 2024, and Google data shows that searches for 'courthouse wedding' soared in January alone. The number of weddings held annually at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, where 75 ceremonies were expected to be performed on Friday, increased by 22 percent from 2022 to 2024. 'It's New York. We love New York!' said Lauren Oceguera, 28, who flew from Phoenix with Jose Oceguera, 34, to marry on Valentine's Day in downtown Manhattan — ball gown wedding dress, tuxedo and family in tow. In San Antonio, the county clerk's office offers four group ceremonies on the courthouse steps on Valentine's Day, the first starting right after midnight. Last year, 337 couples exchanged vows there, and even more were expected to do so on Friday. In Chicago, despite a Friday forecast calling for a chance of flurries and a high temperature of only 24 degrees, the Circuit Court of Cook County was preparing for a Valentine's rush. The court performs about 60 weddings in a typical week, but around Christmas and Valentine's Day, the number grows to 200 to 300. With Valentine's Day landing on a Friday this year, the court was expecting even more. To accommodate the surge, six judges were ready to perform ceremonies, twice as many as on a typical day, Circuit Judge Diann K. Marsalek said. Ceremonies are performed in offices and courtrooms, some of which were decorated for Valentine's Day. Judge Marsalek said that couples are attracted to the flexibility and ease of a courthouse wedding. 'They can start celebrating immediately,' she said. San Francisco was also preparing for a deluge of lovebirds. Diane Rea, the city clerk, said that more than 250 appointments had been scheduled for Friday, with ceremonies to be performed in eight locations across four floors of City Hall. (A typical weekday brings in about 28 wedding appointments.) Mayor Daniel Lurie was to be among the city's 25 officiants. Ms. Rea said she was expecting 'joyful chaos.' 'It's definitely not an intimate moment when you do it on one of these days,' Ms. Rea said. But, she added, 'it's fun to be among a lot of people doing the same thing for the same reason. Particularly in this moment, we're all yearning for those feelings.' That was the case in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning, when dozens of couples lined up to say 'I Do.' Appointments had been booked solid for weeks, said Michael McSweeney, who has been the city clerk since 2009. Across New York City, 225 appointments were scheduled, he said. Among them were Jessica Goulart, 38, and Gilan Salehi, 35, who had booked a 9:15 a.m. slot in Manhattan on Friday, their sixth anniversary as a couple. They knew they wanted to get married on Valentine's Day and set a calendar reminder for the day it opened up on the city's reservation website. 'We grew up here, fell in love here, thought it would be a magical moment,' Ms. Goulart said. (Saving money on a lavish wedding was also a plus, she acknowledged.) At about 10 a.m., the couple emerged from the depths of the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, which houses the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, and were greeted by family and friends who cheered and blew bubbles. 'It was lovely and very fast!' Ms. Goulart said, before planting a kiss on Mr. Salehi. Kelly Willinger, 37, and Arthur Siddharta, 31, decided to marry in a civil ceremony in Manhattan on Valentine's Day, in part because it was convenient: Ms. Willinger, an assistant principal at a charter school in Harlem, is off next week for school vacation. The couple plan to have a bigger wedding later in Indonesia, where Mr. Siddharta's family lives. 'This is just for us,' Ms. Willinger said. For now, they sealed their vows with a signature New York move: by splitting a hot dog.
Axios
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Iconic Black musicians and their Nashville ties celebrated in library series
The Fisk Jubilee Singers saved their university from financial ruin with a historic international tour in the 1870s. Etta James recorded one of the most famous live R&B albums ever released at the downtown New Era Club in 1961. Young activists sang protest music anthems during their meetings while strategizing the Nashville Civil Rights movement. Charley Pride altered the course of country music by becoming the largely white genre's first Black superstar. Why it matters: Music City's ties to trailblazing Black musicians like those are on vivid display in a video series by the Nashville Public Library called "A Journey Through Black Music History." The library is bringing the series, as well as its extensive Civil Rights collection, back to the forefront as part of its Black History Month programming. Driving the news: Our Music Monday playlist this week is composed of the songs highlighted by the library's program specialist Elliott Robinson for the video series. Listen here. In addition to sharing the history of legends like James and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Robinson performs excerpts of their songs. The intrigue: James' live recording of "Etta James Rock the House" is an unheralded piece of Nashville music history. The album's 11 tracks were recorded at the New Era, a club located at the corner of Charlotte Avenue and 12th Avenue North, roughly where the HCA office tower is today. James frequently toured through Nashville, playing the New Era and clubs on Jefferson Street, which is considered Nashville's original Music Row. If you go: In addition to the video series, the downtown library's Civil Rights collection includes a mock segregated lunch counter and historic photos of Nashville's movement. Nashville Public Library branches are holding events throughout February to celebrate Black History Month including story time sessions for children and an abstract painting session in the style of artist Alma Thomas.
