Ohibo Paronti

 

 

Bass player and singer with Ohibo Paronti, Jazzy Africana Songwriter musician, producer. The NEW Ohibo Paronti Album The Ballad of Gould out 29/4/22

The album, the third from Ohibo, has been inspired by a front-page newspaper article from the Empire News, dated 26th March 1933. The ten songs all link to form one complete story about the tragic life and death of Ivy Gould at the hands of her estranged and violent husband Abel. Research into those involved, together with the newspaper article, enabled the songs to be written around facts, together with ‘artistic license’ to ‘fill in the gaps.’ 

The initial song ideas were passed to Keith and Ian by Allan and were developed in the studio to the recorded works you hear on the Album. The journey is designed to show how perceived joy and happiness can turn into deep sadness and horror, before giving a final song of eternal hope for all.
 
Forty years ago, Aberdare’s Rhode Island Red had a colourful past from being told to be quiet by boxer Howard Winston to waking the dead at a funeral parlour, cue the realisation that they were not the only band touring that moniker.  
 
Unfortunately, they had just produced a pile of merchandise so with the help of some public house graffiti they picked a band name that wouldn’t be replicated elsewhere.
 
Newly christened Ohibo Paronti, the group performed BBC Wales showcases and high-profile gigs including Hammersmith Odeon led to them being muted as support for a forthcoming North American tour with the mighty Queen, but then the wheels fell off when a management change at the record company left them out in the cold.
 

https://swnd1.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballad-of-ivy-gould

https://www.facebook.com/ohiboparonti

 

Lawson Vallery

 

Lawson Vallery was born in the southern US state of Louisiana, but soon after his family moved to Texas, that is where he grew up, always moving from town to town as the family followed the great Texas oil boom of the 40’s and 50’s. Beginning in the early 50’s most of his entertainment came from listening to the Grand Old Opry and Louisiana Hayride on the radio or going to movies featuring singing cowboys like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Tex Ridder. It seems that he knew from an early age that a singing cowboy was what he really wanted to be, so he began to document his young life in the form of poems and lyrics.

Then at age 15 Lawson left home and struck out on his own. He went to work on an oil tanker and began to see the world. At 17 he joined the military and saw even more of the world, and all the while writing about his adventures and travels. When he returned from the military in 1964, he went to work as a welder on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and all the while continued to write about his life and the lives of he met along the way.

In 1975 his oil platform experience brought him to Norway where he began working in the North Sea and Norway became his home. Even during all the years that he spent working in the oil industry around the world. Norway was home. In 2011 he published a book of poems and lyrics based on some of his worldly experiences.

Then in 2016 he decided to finish that dream he had started more than 65 earlier. He would finally try to become that singing cowboy he had always wanted to be when he grew up. He released his 1st album in 2016 and now his new one, "Texiana", is out.

Since 2016 he has played for a lot of people in a lot of places. He says that he has no regrets for waiting so long to start, because the of life he has lived provided him with enough stories to keep on writing songs for what ever time is left. And now with a very talented and experienced band he can share some of those stories in the form of country music.

 

 https://open.spotify.com/artist/6o1shjj1Wxg88LC6cZgs2P

 https://www.facebook.com/lawsonvalleryband

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

 

 

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

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/

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/

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