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Aloha faithful Midwest
BEAT readers. It is
now August, and summer is drawing quickly to a close. School supplies are
on sale, Ozzfest
is a beer-soaked memory, and I think Marshall Fields has their Christmas
decorations up already. All of that aside,
it’s that time of the month where you grab a new copy of this beloved
magazine and flip directly to what you read it for… AUGUST
5 After a scratched
release date, the new LP from Blues
Traveler titled Truth Be Told is ready to ship… Get the Picture? ... well, the boys in Smashmouth
sure hope so! If rockabilly
is to your liking, check out Full Gospel Rockabilly from The Found Cats… A new series of albums
on The Right Stuff label covers
all aspects of the blues. Blues
Kingpins releases will arrive from Fats
Domino, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, B.B. King
and Ike Turner… You can
bet the bank that BEAT blues columnist Eric
Steiner will be ALL over these releases! After two of this
band’s tracks recently appeared on the new David
Lee Roth album, the time is right to release Hellbound Train Live:
1969- 1972, a collection of works from legendary British blues
rockers, Savoy Brown.
Beat boss Tom Lounges will surely be beating on the record store doors at
midnight for that one!!! And to round out the
first Tuesday of the 8th month, an EP from The
Derek Trucks Band titled Soul
Serenade, will find its way to stores for your listening pleasure. AUGUST
12 Produced by husband Neil
Giraldo –– Go! –– is the new
release from sexy rock siren Pat
Benatar… Kenny Rogers will go Back
to the Well for more hits… Wynonna
Judd will deliver What
the World Needs Now is Love…
I have two favorite
picks this month. Here
is the first! A remarkable
3-CD set from Bela Fleck & The
Flecktones titled, Little
Worlds. The
crazy bluegrass styling of this award winning veteran group of pickers
will entice any serious music fan!
There will be a 2-CD
commerative set spanning the 30 year career of southern rock legends Lynyrd
Skynyrd arriving just in time for the band’s X-ROCK
sponsored 30th
Anniversary Tour stop on August 29 at the Lake County Fairgrounds,
hosted by our very own Tom Lounges...
And there will be a
boxed set from The Doors
which will cover all of their studio recordings. AUGUST
19 Billy Bob Thornton will release his Edge
of the World album in mid-August.
I think he’s a good actor, but I hate when actors try to be rock
stars too (like ummm... Phillip
Michael Thomas, Keanu Reeves, Don
Johnson, Jim Hillegonds and Kevin
Bacon... enough already!
Back in action after
their nearly tragic highway accident last year, Alien Ant Farm, has a new CD ready to take along on your end of
summer picnic in the park. TruAnt
was produced by brothers Dean and
Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple
Pilots…
The Dandy Warhols would like to give
you a warm Welcome to the Monkey House… the Chris Duarte Group goes on a Romp…
I don’t know about you, but I think that It’s About Time for a new album from Kenny Loggins… Amy Grant
will enlighten us on Simple
Things… Coal Chamber will Give
The Devil His Due…
And there will be new
live recordings issued this day from Billy
Squier and The Ramones,
plus the re-release of the legendary 1986 Wembley Stadium concert by Queen. AUGUST
26
New DVD’s arrive
today from Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash
and Cher… Love & Life is the new Puff
Daddy-produced effort for Mary
J. Blige… Punk troubadours Rancid
will prove to be Indestructible…
Disney teen queen Hilary Duff
will undergo a Metamorphosis…
And finally, we come
to my other pick of the month… Word
of Mouth Revisited is a tribute to the Word
Of Mouth Band which was
once fronted by legendary bassist, Jaco
Pastorius. The
album features guest bassists Victor
Wooten, Jimmy Halsip, Victor Bailey, Marcus Miller, and the band even
plays around an original Jaco bass line on “Wiggle
Waggle.” Sad to
say, Jim Hillegonds does not contribute to this album due to contractual
issues with the Ass-Clown
Orchestra…
That does it for me
folks. Send fan mail, comments and criticisms to: davegrove@midwestbeat.com Thanks for reading… See you all next month!
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