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If you like pop tunes with a good beat and catchy lyrics try the music of Jag Star…

Jag Star formed in 1998 rocked out of Knoxville, TN., until recently when they moved to Nashville to be involved in the songwriting atmosphere. Their genres are pop, rock, alternative, and indie. They have toured 15 countries besides the U.S. and have played for our troops several times.

Sarah has won several awards for songwriting.

She won the USA Songwriting Competition for overall winner in 2002 and 2006. In the 2001 John Lennon Songwriting Competition she was runner up and she won the 2007 Next Big Hit Competition, which inspired iTunes to give Jag Star a week’s feature spot.

The band recorded “A Different Road” for the MTV show Newport Harbor, which was featured December 12, 2007.

On to some of their poppin’ tunes…The chiming cymbals in the song “Something Different” sound great and the guitar is driving on the down-stroke. Sarah reminds me of Lisa Lobe. The guitar drives a little harder in “Does Anybody Know” and the drumbeat is a bit more prominent. The opening guitar riff is nice.”Ridiculous” is a jumpin’ tune. “Disguise” opens with a spoken line and then a keyboard riff; it’s a more dramatic song than the others mentioned.

Band Members:
Sarah Lewis the singer/songwriter/keys
Just J on guitars
Brad Williams on drums
Drew Gilch on bass
Jay Daniel on bass

Jag Star’s influences are Garbage, Imogen Heap, No Doubt, Maroon 5, and The Killers.

Hear Jag star at CD Baby or their MySpace page

Discography
The Beginning Release Date 2000
Crazy Place release Date 2001
Cinematic Release Date 2004
The Best Impression Of Insanity 2006

Upcoming Shows
Mar 7 2008 8:00P
Norfolk Marriott Waterside Norfolk, Virginia
Mar 29 2008 7:00P
FT. BENNING COLUMBUS, Georgia
Apr 23 2008 8:00P
Eastern KY University RICHMOND, Kentucky

Website: Jagstar
MySpace: Jagstar

Ok, Woody Guthrie fans, I told you that more posts about Woody would be coming up on Deltachord’s Blog; especially posts about which artists have-written music for his lyrics that he didn’t compose music for. And here goes. First we’ll explore what the Dropkick Murphys have done with some of Woody’s lyrics. Dropkick Murphy fans are also welcome to explore.

But first, a little about The Dropkick Murphys…they originally played for kicks in Boston in a basement under a barber shop. They have recorded Cd’s with quite a few groups like Oxymoron, the Business, Face To Face, Agnostic Front, Bruisers, Anti Heroes, and the Ducky Boys.

On Blackout, which came out in 2003 they recorded “Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight” and they did a video for the song. Woody actually wrote the “Blackout” lyrics about WWII blackouts in London. According to Rolling Stone writer John D. Luerssen the band’s guitarist Ken Casey said they wanted to do the song they made “Blackout” the most hard driving song on the album because they wanted it to be very different from what Woody’s approach would have been.

“The record still contains rousing tunes rooted in Irish music & American Folk (Black Velvet Band & The Dirty Glass) and destined to be a Boston Bruins call to arms classic called “Time To Go”.” (Epitaph Records) Blackout is their fourth album. Which was also released on 10″ vinyl boasting 5 songs.

Bruce Springsteen is a Dropkick Murphys fan because they are so loyal to their fans in that they have built a community of people that they consider friends. This aspect is part of their roots in the working class and Irish heritage appeal and they live it. They are from Quincy, a suburb of Boston. The Dropkick Murphys play punk that includes bagpipes and tin whistles. Their repertoire includes political songs, friendship ballads, and bar songs.

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William Chatterton Dix, wrote the lyrics to What Child is This in 1865.

He employed the popular tune Greensleeves to set his lyrics to, which was a popular tune to use. That Dix decided to write a Christmas hymn is interesting because Christmas wasn’t celebrated by the Puritans They didn’t want anything to do with “High Church” or anything that smacked of rituals around them.

That tradition came later.

Dix wrote this and many other hymns when he became very ill for several months. Altogether, he wrote over 40 hymns during his life time.

He was named after the poet Thomas Chatterton of whom Dix’s father wrote a biography. Dix worked at an insuramce company in Glasgow, Scotland. He was born June 14, 1837 in Bristol, England and died September 9, 1989 in Cheddar, Somerset, England.

What Child Is This
What child is this, who, laid to rest
On Mary’s lap, is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,

While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:
Haste, haste to bring him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,
Come peasant king to own Him,
The King of kings, salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

Raise, raise the song on high,
The Virgin sings her lullaby:
Joy, joy, for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

Interesting Link

Moody Blues/What Child Is This?
Christmas Album/A Gift of Life/A Charity CD released in 1992
Moody Blues

Greensleeves is an Old English ballard written in an Italianate musical style. This song form is called Romanesca, which “was most popular with Italian composers of the early Baroque period “according to Wikipedia.

Although, Greensleeves is said to be of anonymous authorship, which is typical of old ballads, several authors wrote versions of it and went to the printer with them starting in the 15th century.

In September 1580, Richard Jones got a license for “A new Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves,” with the Registers of the Stationers’ Company. Edward White did the same on that day with “A ballad, being the Ladie Greene Sleeves Answere to Donkyn his Frende.”

Jones licensed another “Greensleeves,” called “A Merry Newe Northern Songe of Greene Sleeves,”in December 1580.

William Elderton interjected his point with “Reprehension against Greene Sleeves,” in February, 1581.

Jones licensed a parody of “Greensleeves”in August 1851. In 1584, Jones released yet another version, “A New Courtly Sonet of the Lady Greensleeves,” which was included in a collection entitled A Handeful of Pleasant Delites. It was this version that became the traditional ballad, this according too The War of the Printers.

In Nevill Coghill’s translation of The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) he says that green was the color for lightness in love in Chaucer’s time.

“What Child Is This,” was set to the music of Greensleeves, which will be explored in the next post.

Note: Old English was the dominate language of England and southern Scotland from the mid-5th century to the mid-12th century. The Brythonic languages were spoken before the Saxon influence.

Greensleeves
A new Courtly Sonet, of the Ladie Greensleeves.
To the new tune of Greensleeves

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves

Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
And I have lov-ed you so long
Delighting in your companie

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

I have been ready at your hand
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have both waged life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

I bought thee kerchers to thy head,
That were wrought fine and gallantly
I kept thee both boord and bed
Which cost my purse well favouredly

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

I bought thee petticoats of the best,
The cloth so fine as might be;
I gave thee jewels for thy chest,
And all this cost I spent on thee.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy smock of silk, both fair and white,
With gold embroidered gargeously;
Thy petticoat of sendal right,
And these I bought thee gladly
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy girdle of gold so red,
With pearles bedecked sumptuously;
The like no other lasses had,
And yet thou wouldst not love me
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy purse and eke thy gay gilt knives,
Thy pincase gallant to the eye;
No better wore the Burgesse wives
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy crimson stockings all of silk,
With golde all wrought above the knee,
Thy pumps as white as was the milk
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy gown was of the grossie green,
Thy sleeves of satten hanging by,
Why made thee be our harvest Queen.
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thy garters fringed with the golde,
And silver aglets hanging by,
Which made thee blithe for to beholde
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

My gayest gelding I thee gave,
To ride where ever liked thee,
No Ladie ever was so brave
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

My men were clothed all in green,
And they did ever wait on thee;
All this was gallant to be seen
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

They set thee up, they took thee downe,
They served thee with humilitie,
Thy foote might not once touch the ground
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

For everie morning when thou rose,
I sent thee dainties orderly;
To cheare thy stomack from all woes
And yet thou wouldst not love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Thou couldst desire no earthly thing,
But still thou hadst it readily;
Thy musicke still to play and sing
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

And who did pay for all this geare,
That thou didst spend when pleased thee,
Even I that am rejected here
And thou disdainst to love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Well I will pray to God on high,
That thou my constancy mayst see,
And that yet once before I die
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves.

Greensleeves, now farewell! adieu!
God I pray to prosper thee,
For I am still thy lover true,
Come once again and love me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves

Hello Dear Reader,

You’ll remember that one of my first posts was about Mojo Myles. You will find it under blues/Funk/Jazz/Swing, in case you missed it.

Well, Mojo Myles fans here’s a gig update on this multi-instrumentalist. He’s been busy this year and has two gigs coming up soon at Keegan Ales in Kingston, NY.

Friday, 11/30/07, 8:30-11:30pm

Location: 20 Saint James St., Kingston, N.Y.

Phone: 845-331-BREW

Friday, 12/08/07, 8;30-11:30
Location: 20 Saint James St., Kingston, N.Y.
Phone: 845-331-BREW

Mojo

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Some say that Vinyl records are dinosaurs that are preferred by audiophiles and producers of electronica. Why would they prefer vinyl over CD’s? What about MP3’s?

Gramaphone (vinyl) record buffs will tell you about the nuance of sound that you get with records as opposed to digital sound. The audio on vinyl can’t be compressed to extremes like with CD’s. And a sampling rate is used to produce CD’s, but the higest rates can’t embody all of the data that an analog groove can. Thus the nuance. Some say.

You have got to admit that the art on album covers beats a CD. At least the ones that were works of art. None-the-less, you get better pictures of the band or singer anyway.

There are those that say that it is really about analog vs digital. Thus the MP3 is King or Queen or the Big Wheel. What do you think?

References:

http://puddlegum.net/top-five-reasons-why-vinyl-will-outlive-cds/
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/1947253&from=rss

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My first post after my welcome message was entitled “The Big Beat: Do Drums Rule Rock?” Well, guess what? You have a unique chance now to decide for yourself because recently a new DVD has been released by Hudson Music called “Classic Rock Drum Solos.”

This DVD contains historical material that will blow your drum loving mind. Your going to see the development of rock drumming as it breaks from its jazz roots to rock’n roll to rock to hard rock and the beat goes on throbbing into its other various incarnations of “the big beat” as Fats Domino would say.

Here is the list from harmony-central.com of some of the Drummers on the DVD.

Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge), Ginger Baker (Cream), Don Brewer
(Grand Funk Railroad), Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull), Ron Bushy (Iron Butterfly),Ralph Jones (Bill Haley & The Comets), Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Keith Moon (The Who), Sandy Nelson, Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Neil Peart (Rush), Cozy Powell, Danny Seraphine (Chicago), Michael Shrieve (Santana), Steve Smith (Journey), Mel Taylor (The Ventures), Jimmy Vincent (Louis Prima), and Shadow Wilson (Louis Jordan).

So if you Dig the Drums Like Crazy Man Crazy, you gotta see this DVD and hear the beat.

References
http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Hudson-Music-Drum-Solos.html
http://www.drummercafe.com/content/view/154/9/

Fat Man Squeeze will be playing their unique brand of bluegrass music at the Loxley, AL Arts & Crafts Festival on Nov. 11, 2007 at 2:00pm. To listen to some Fat Man Squeeze sounds go to http://www.myspace.com/fatmansqueeze and savor songs like Obi Wan Kenobi or Johnny Carson. They also play country and southern rock.

Steve Bauer an acoustic/bluegrass artist does a pretty ballad called What Would I Do, which you can hear at http://www.myspace.com/stevebauer909. You can also listen to a great rendition of Find the Cost Of Freedom, which is a Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young song.

He will be playing w/The Wayfarers at the Loxley, AL Arts & Crafts Festival at 1:00pm on Nov. 10, 2007.

Resources:
http://www.bluegrassfestivalguide.com/

References:
http://www.myspace.com/fatmansqueeze
http://www.myspace.com/stevebauer909
http://www.myspace.com/thewayfarersband909

Woody Guthrie–a great music pioneer of the U.S. is deceased but his music is in a revival, which started with wire recordings of a concert, he performed at the YM-YWHA’s Fuld Hall in Newark, New Jersey, for about 25 people.

These two spools of wire recordings are the only extant examples of Woody performing live. The wire recordings were sent to the Woody Guthrie Archives in N.Y. in 2001, by Paul Bowerman. He had recorded Woody’s performance as well as other people during the period between the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s. It was his hobby.

The Foundation’s decision in 2003 to release the recordings for the public to enjoy was a boon for Woody fans. Eighteen wired tracks were cleaned and edited by Airshow Mastering. These tracks offer songs, stories, and conversation.

The new release also includes songs by Jorge Arevalo Mateus, previously unpublished photos of Woody and his wife, Marjorie, and technical explanations of the restoration procedure.

More concerning Woody’s revival will be published here soon.

Examples: Woody and the Dropkick Murphys, Woody and the
Klezmatics etc.

References:
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/livewirepressrelease.htm
Woody Guthrie: Dead and Kicking
By Geoffrey Himes
New York Times News Service
via Press-Register
Mobile, AL
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/merchandise/klezmatics.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(Dropkick_Murphys_album)bum

The Album:
THE LIVE WIRE: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
Released:10/6/07

Organizations:
Woody Guthrie Coalition
www.WoodyGuthrie.com

Hear Woody Guthrie:
http://www.artistdirect.com/
http://www.rhapsody.com/woodyguthrie

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