Monday, April 25, 2022

Arlene Bailey

 


 

‘I was thinking about my childhood just yesterday,” says country-rock singer Arlene Bailey. “And when it comes to mental-health issues, there regularly seems to be some sort of a trigger from some childhood experience, but my childhood was idyllic, it really was. I couldn’t have had a better mam and dad.”

There isn’t, she believes, any easy answer to why she has suffered with mental-health issues from the age of about 15, only finally being diagnosed as having bipolar II within the last couple of years. “It’s just not always as black and white as ‘you went through something traumatic in the past’,” she says.

Arlene, now 43, brought up in Kildare, has just released her third album, Bailey, a collection of fierce, beautiful, country-rock songs in which she sings about love, lust, loss and pain, all with a deep reservoir of experience and hard-won knowledge in her voice. It is, she says with a laugh, “music that’s got a bit of arse to it”.

Her father’s side were singers, her mother’s side were musicians, and Arlene, from the age of about four, was a performer. “I sang mostly because of my dad,” she says now. “He recognised something in me. He’d give me stuff and say, ‘Listen to this, learn this’. A lot of it was American country. If we went on holidays — Salthill, Tramore — any opportunity he had to get me on stage with a band, he’d take it. I’d go up grudgingly, and then never want to get back down again.” Keep reading here

 

 https://linktr.ee/arlenebailey1

 

 

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Kid Norkjen

Kid Norkjen is a singer songwriter recording in Nashville. 5 albums is released. New single in 2022 January.

 


https://www.facebook.com/Kid.Norkjen

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Studeo

 


When Jeremy and Christine Stork first joined forces in the late '70s (in the popular cover band Casablanca)​, they had no idea what the future would bring, or that their union (both matrimonial and musical) would evolve into the beautiful, genre-defying mix of melody, vocals, and top-notch production which, as Studeo, ​has led to - in less than three years - multiple single, EP, and album releases, a record deal, and international acclaim​.  

​Bringing a wealth of talent and decades of experience (Jeremy played guitar for Melbourne's Moby Dick prior to the formation of Casablanca, opening for such legends as the ​Little River Band, AC/DC, and ​Skyhooks​; Christine has played in multiple cover bands and is a formally-trained vocalist), Studeo'​s songs are as refreshingly real as their love for the music and one another is enduring. 
 
Following 2017's release of not one but three ​EPs (including two songs which rose on international charts to levels previously unseen by an Australian independent act), ​Studeo ​signed with Bongo Boy Records, who included their song "Our Perfect Place to Be" on a compilation CD, "Love Is." That song went on to win the Jazz/Blues Song of the Year honors at the 2018 Josie Awards (considered the Grammys of Independent music), held in Dollywood​ in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. In August of 2018, the label released the duo's first full-length album, "These Are Our Days."

2019 saw the release of the duo's second full-length album, "You're The One," followed in 2020 by another full-length album, "Dancing On the Beach" and an EP, "The Storm."  Jeremy and Christine continued to expand their musical and songwriting horizons in 2021 with a new full-length album, "Life's a Journey."  The album's first single, "Secret Hideaway," won the "Jazz" category in the World Songwriting Awards for Spring 2021, and the duo was honored as well with the ​Akademia 2021 Rising Star Award for exceptional talent and perseverance in the field of music during extraordinary times. "Secret Hideaway" also picked up a very prestigious InterContinental Music Award for “Best Of Australasian Jazz,“ with worldwide winners chosen by a judging panel of multi-award-winning composers and songwriters who have worked with Ricky Martin, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Selena Gomez , Miley Cyrus, and Grammy-nominated artists and music supervisors.

https://www.studeomusicaustralia.com/

Friday, April 22, 2022

Buddy Guy


 

American blues guitarist and singer, born July 30th, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, and one of the pioneers of the Chicago blues sound. Began performing with bands in Baton Rouge in the '50s before moving to Chicago in 1957. He originally recorded for Cobra Records (and, under the pseudonym Friendly Chap, for Delmark Records) before moving to Chess, where he worked as a sideman and leader when Cobra folded. He moved to Vanguard in 1967, and then went on to work with a variety of labels. He is the brother of Phil Guy.

Buddy Guy has won six Grammy awards, 23 W.C. Handy Awards, and, in 2003, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, and into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008. 

 https://buddyguy.com/

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Kike Jambalaya

 


 

Singer, pianist and composer of rock and roll, boogie woogie, blues and country, born in Madrid. His first album was an EP, "Esto si que es Rock and Roll" (Black Star Records - Feb 1991) which was followed by Treaty of Estrecheces edited by La Fábrica Magnética in January 1992. In 1997 "Eldorado Producciones" released "We "Remember The King", a tribute album to Elvis Presley for the 20th anniversary of his death, from then on he focused his activity on concerts. 

 In 2013 he produces Back Home Again (Rockanbole), a collection of jazz songs from the 10s and 20s with "The Swanee River Band", a sextet that accompanies him in the purest New Orleans style, being the first part of his "American Trilogy". In June 2016 "Snap Records" released "Hard Times", the second part of the "American Trilogy", an album also produced by himself. At the end of 2017, "Snap Records" releases "Rock´n´Roll Brother!" again, this time produced by Kike together with Leo Sánchez, thus closing his "American Trilogy!". 

In May 2019 he released "Tiempos Traidores", a Spanish album with his own songs full of blues and "swampy" sounds. During 2020 he makes periodic digital releases of a series of Eps (PIANO SOLO) dedicated to intimate conversations with his piano through the favorite songs of his entire life: Blues & Boogie, Standards, Country Style, Elvis I & II, Hank Williams Preview I & II.

 https://twitter.com/kikejambalaya?lang=es

 

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

New Section: PODCASTS

From today the podcasts of JAM Radio are available on this blog. Latest broadcasts, the new releases, interesting episodes... all in the PODCASTS section of this blog.

 

 

I forget Myself

 


 Behind the name "I forget Myself" is a musician with over two decades of experience, writing and recording his own music. This is available on all major platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Bandcamp, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, etc. I have released two full-length albums so far.

He reviews PC games and is an active YouTuber, occasionally livestreaming to platforms such as Twitch and Steam.

He is an artist who loves painting as a medium. He creates original artwork, mostly abstract pieces.

He is a tabletop gaming enthusiast and enjoys painting miniatures too, particularly those made by Games Workshop.

He is also an aspiring fiction writer with a love of English literature, being an avid reader.

In terms of live experience he has played more than one hundred live performances throughout six actively-gigging bands for over a decade, mostly in the capacity as a guitarist and backing vocalist. The most notable band he was the bassist and backing vocalist for from 2007 – 2012 signed an album distribution deal with Sony BMG, headlined national music festivals, had a successful national tour and opened for US rock giants Underoath when they toured in 2008.

He has attempted forming a live band from 2018 to 2019, without managing to find suitable musicians he is now planning to play live shows solo and acoustically from 2022 onwards. Stay tuned for more details.

https://www.iforgetmyself.com/