Joyce Reese Barefoot Girl CD

The tone of the song Rainbows is full of hope and happy memories. The song recounts how Don turned his feeling of loss into remembrances of good times and hopefulness. Don sees his wife in a misty rainbow, in the evening sunset, and when day turns into fantasy. The other songs are also love ballads expressing the myriad of feelings between lust and love. One of the cheekier songs is Give Me A Break. Listen to it and you will see why it is cheeky. The ...

GOODBYE: Like ships that pass in the night, a one night stand brings the morning after and the expectation that our paths may never cross again.BioWhat a Trip!Though born in Massachusetts, my formative years (8-18) were spent steeped in the melting pot of Jamaica W.I., where American and English hit parades shared the Radio Jamaica air waves with country and western music and reggae blasted in the dance halls at night!..Sunday morning concerts of gospel hymns sung by congregations in the back of stake bodied trucks on their way to many churches, driven by the beat of empty olive oil containers!religion fuelled by jungle drums.Then in 1963 during military service in Gelnhausen, I discovered German 'Oompah' music and felt the force of the first British Invasion, as it would be later called, spearheaded by the Beatles. There was no doubt about it, I had to play!I took up drums, practicing on my bunk bed and ironing board in the Army barracks, using the wooden rods from coat hangers for drumsticks, and I began to learn guitar. Every chance I got I went and heard bands!I was like a sponge.Following my discharge in 1966, I was in a bar when I heard a band in the back mutilating the Stones' 'Get Off of My Cloud'. I told them it sucked!they hired me and I never looked back.The next year found me with the same band in Washington, DC playing as a house band 6 nights a week in the '007 Lounge' on Pennsylvania Ave. at 14th Street. Doing Motown. We cut a demo in a studio in Georgetown with an engineer named Nelson Funk!I ...

Like most musicians these days, the individual members' calendars are crazy. Santala Crowder, a longtime member of the vocal group The Who Whos, plays bass with The Danglers and released her first solo disc Lost Souls Road in June 2007. The Sawbucks, Merk's Americana trio with ex-Motel Preachers Chuck Roscoe and Wayne Kenyon, will release their debut cd, Maybe Even Everything, in August. Elliott stays busy with engineering and production work, while Montez occasionally gigs in NY with Eugene Chrysler & the Hillbilly ...