Showing posts with label acoustic guitar magazine. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

ASSOCIATED PRESS, PASTE, ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAG LAUD PETER MULVEY’S NEW ALBUM, 25TH ANNIVERSARY AS RECORDING ARTIST

NEW ANI DIFRANCO-PRODUCED ALBUM ‘ARE YOU LISTENING?’ OUT NOW ON RIGHTEOUS BABE RECORDS

Music press is embracing Peter Mulvey’s new album ‘Are You Listening?’ – out last week on Righteous Babe Records and produced by Ani DiFranco – and Peter’s 25th anniversary as a recording artist. Paste Magazine posted a video session yesterday.

Here’s what we’re hearing:

“Mulvey has been honing his craft for many a decade, and it shows. He can play some badass guitar, sing to touch your heart, and write a song that will knock you down, and by knock you down, I mean lift you up.”
- Ani DiFranco

“Plenty of clever twists… This singer-songwriter marches to his own drum, even when there isn’t one... With ‘Are You Listening?” it’s hard to stop.”
- Steven Wine, Associated Press, March 14

“Goodness gracious, Peter Mulvey sounds great.”
- Paste Magazine, March 24, 2017

“Timely and important… a true musical craftsman.”
- Sarah Zupko, Pop Matters, March 22, 2017

“Dynamic.”
- Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Acoustic Guitar, December 19, 2016

“Wry, sly.”
- Peter Chianca, Gatehouse Media, March 22, 2017

“Life affirming.”
- Elmore Magazine, March 28, 2017

“Poignant.”
- Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, January 20, 2017

Peter Mulvey Tour Dates

April 1 - Beal House - Kingston, MA
April 2 - Nelson Odeon - North Cazenovia, NY
April 5 - Once Ballroom - Somerville, MA (Multi-Artist ACLU Benefit)
April 6-8 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA
April 21-22 - Yellow Cab Tavern - Dayton, OH
April 23 - the Kentucky Center - Louisville, KY (Tibetan Freedom Concert)
April 27 - The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI
April 28 - Szold Hall at Old Town School Of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
April 29 - COLECTIVO COFFEE - Milwaukee, WI
April 30 - Brink Lounge - Madison, WI
June 1 - Hezekiah Stone's Coffeehouse - Leicester, MA
June 3 - Flying Cat Music - Phoenicia, NY
June 4 - Sellersville Theater 1894 - Sellersville, PA
July 28 - Woodwalk Events Barn and Gallery - Egg Harbor, WI

Monday, April 16, 2012

LONGTIME CANTABRIDGIAN BLUESMAN PAUL RISHELL TO PERFORM AT ALBUM RELEASE CELEBRATION MAY 6 AT TEMPLE ISAIAH IN LEXINGTON AND CATERED BY BLUE RIBBON BB

ACOUSTIC GUITAR SHARES FIRST MP3 FROM 'TALKING GUITAR,' OUT MAY 8

Longtime Cantabridgian and Blues Music Award winner Paul Rishell, who sat in with Howlin' Wolf at a club in Inman Square in the '70s and is a patriarch of the Boston blues and folk scenes, will celebrate the release of his new album 'Talking Guitar' (May 8 / Mojo Rodeo Records) with a concert May 6 at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA. Rishell will be joined by longtime musical partner Annie Raines on harmonica, Jesse Williams (Duke Robillard, Joe Louis Walker) on bass, and other special guests to be announced. The event will kick off with a reception catered by Blue Ribbon Bar-B-Que

Acoustic Guitar Magazine , whose review of the album is forthcoming, shared the first mp3, a rendition of Lead Belly's "Fannin' Street (Mr. Tom Hughes Town").

'Talking Guitar' also sports interpretations of songs from the repertoires of Blues Hall of Famers Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, and others in addition to two Rishell originals.

A Rishell guitar pupil, Susan Tedeschi recorded an "unplugged" version of Paul's "Blues on a Holiday" with Paul on guitar. With Raines, he has opened for Ray Charles, Asleep at the Wheel, Susan Tedeschi, Leon Russell, Dr. John, and John Sebastian. They were also featured members of the J Band, led by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful.

WHO: Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
WHAT: Album release show for 'Talking Guitar'
WHERE: Temple Isaiah, 55 Lincoln Street, Lexington, MA
WHEN: 6pm, May 6, 2012
TICKETS: $20, via Brown Paper Tickets