Bill Copeland
The Throwdown Blues Band like to turn up the intensity; entertain enrapt Tap audience
The Throwdown Blues Band like to turn up the intensity; entertain enrapt Tap audience By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews The Throwdown blues band hit The Tap in Haverhill, Massachusetts last night, and they kept the dinner crowd focused on them all night long. This band will never be one of those acts that gets ignored while […]
Lickity Split host BBQ Under The Fireworks blues jam July 3rd
Lickity Split host BBQ Under The Fireworks blues jam July 3rd on South Shore beach; fireworks erupting while band plays on By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews This blues jam has been hosted by Satch Romano’s blues band Lickity Split for the last three years. About three hundred plus people showed up last night to party with […]
Live Review: Track 44 played solid blues to an outdoor deck audience at The Tap in Haverhill, MA
Track 44 played solid blues to an outdoor deck audience at The Tap in Haverhill, Mass last night By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicPress Playing the outdoor deck at The Tap in Haverhill is usually a pleasant gig for any blues band. Last night was a bit of a challenge for Track 44. Their regular rhythm section […]
Live Review: Talent shines as Wantu Blues Jams hosts Ladies Of Blues At Fratello’s in Manchester, NH
Live Review: Talent shines as Wantu Blues Jams hosts Ladies Of Blues at Fratello’s in Manchester, NH By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews This was a masterstroke on the part of the Wantu Blues Jams. The popular rise of women singers and musicians are becoming a new trend in national and local music scenes. Last night’s Ladies […]
Steamy Bohemians present another successful Jerkus Circus variety show
Madness. Simply madness, in a really perverted, entertaining sort of way. Steamy Bohemians put on another of their Jerkus Circus variety shows at Ralph’s Diner in Worcester last night. The singing, comedy team of Niki Luparelli and her partner Lainey SchoolTree, in their tight, shiny yellow dresses and shoulder straps, poured on their own decadent […]
Track 44 played solid blues to an outdoor deck audience at The Tap in Haverhill, Mass last night
Playing the outdoor deck at The Tap in Haverhill is usually a pleasant gig for any blues band. Last night was a bit of a challenge for Track 44. Their regular rhythm section couldn’t make it, so keyboardist Dan Sevush and guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Pircio had to rely on substitutes. The stand in on bass was Kevin Lilas, and drummer Steve Peabody stepped up to the skins for this gig. Peabody fits in with just about any band. It’s not uncommon to run into him two weekends in a row with a totally different band and he always pulls it off.
Lori Diamond forges strong identity with latest CD Mystery
Lori Diamond is a singer-songwriter who creates lush emotional atmospherics with only her voice, piano, and sparse accompaniment. She used to be a rocker and a funky live performer, but now she is in “a chill vibe.”
Ten Foot Polecats make a lasting impression on their fans with debut CD
This new CD titled I Get Blamed For Everything I Do has a vintage blues sound all the way through. This blues trio has been breaking a lot of ground and touring relentlessly since breaking off from another blues band called Hoodoo Revelator.
Retro CD Reviews: CDs that I wish I had reviewed when they first came out
It’s time to clear my desk of CDs that bands give to me long after they recorded and released them. Because these CDs are still new to people who have not heard them yet, which is often the case with local artists, I think it is well worth our time to take a retrospective look at them.
Hurricane Alley returned to Whippersnappers in Londonderry NH last night; served up the fun
Hurricane Alley is a cover band that plays a broad cross section of classic rock material from the late 1960s to around the early 1980s. Band leader, Dave Shaheen, sings lead vocals on about half the songs and he plays rhythm guitar. Lead guitarist Reid Travaskis sings the other half of the songs. The switching up between two lead singers gives Hurricane Alley more variety and it is part of the band’s strength. Another strength is Reid Travaskis’s lead guitar playing, which was finely accented, precise, and clean during most of the songs, though there were a few that didn’t come off too well.
