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There’s no way J. Michael Dolan (:23) There’s no way that I will allow gossip, rumors, hearsay, or the hidden agenda of others to guide my choices and influence my decisions. There’s no way that will I allow the constraints of money (either the struggle to make it, or the fear of losing it) to steal away my creative energy and distract me from my mission. There’s no way that will I allow an antique group of “technophobic” advisors, self -proclaimed marketers or “last gasp” managers direct my future, or represent me, or my brand. There’s no way that will I allow the voice of doubt to question my every move, or the lure of procrastination to stall my worthwhile projects. Important because I'm a committed artist and a dedicated entrepreneur and nothing will stop me from expressing and manifesting my outrageous goals and impossible dreams!
discontent J. Michael Dolan (:19) I get antsy when I’m content. I start looking for something to create or design or disrupt. It’s in my nature. And as artists & treps I assert that it’s in yours too. While others are busy analyzing it, financing it, building it and selling it, we’re busy writing it, designing it, imagining it, and creating it. Then, most often, we disrupt it and recreate it again, over and over until we get it right. It’s who we are and how our creative “right brain” works. Not like an excuse, more like a “self realization.” Important because the closer we get to understanding why we are the way we are, the freer we become to express who we are, as artists & entrepreneurs.
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Just when it starts working J. Michael Dolan (:14) I often run into this situation with my clients: when they finally reach a certain “comfort zone” and their “winning formula” is just starting to work, instead of sticking with it, they slowly begin to sabotage their circumstances, alter their course, and convince themselves that “this isn’t it”— that there must be a better or different way to achieve their goals. Important because most of us artists, entrepreneurs, and crazy geniuses are endlessly tempted and repeatedly drawn to veer off the main highway and take a bumpy ride on the road less traveled. Which can be a priceless experience for the short trip, but a costly detour for the long haul.
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MICHAEL JOHNATHON SONG FARMER
(POET MAN RECORDS USA) BY STEVE GOLDSTEIN
Michael Johnathon is the creator and host of the weekly WOODSONGS OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR, shown and heard around the world on public broadcasting stations, the Armed Forces Network, and from their website at WoodSongs.com. Since 1998, this modern day folk troubadour has been providing an all volunteer, grassroots forum for the famous and not-so-famous to let their talents shine. With his latest release, SONGFARMER, Michael Johnathon’s talent shines alone. As a way to promote WoodSongs Front Porch Association (WFPA), Michael took inspiration from the folk music of the late 50s and early 60s and recorded the entire 10 songs on iPhone 6p. WFPA was created “to spread the music and spirit of the Front Porch into schools and communities around the World.” This is achieved with the help of “Song Farmers;” artists who use their talents to enrich their families and make their communities better. You are right there on the Front Porch from the first track with Michael welcoming us to a comfortable “Sunday Afternoon.” “Gun” is a bluesy, common sense plea for sanity in a belligerent world. The Front Porch is the place to be, complete with chirping birds on “Autumn Song.” “Hippy Luv” conjures up rainbows and ice cream, and celebrates the positive virtues of hippie life. Michael offers a fresh take on the classic “Little Maggie” with his own vocal and clawhammer banjo treatment. “Sunrise” brings Front Porch hope for the future of a dark, strange world. “Rainbow Wife” is a boogie blues tribute to a colorful, true love. “Pray,” co-written with Don Rigsby, says that even though life has you tired and worn out, there is spiritual redemption and understanding with love. “SongFarmer’s Front Porch Rocking Chair Rag” is just that, on the banjo. We are left up to our ankles in “Pamper Creek,” a humorous tale of a woman-loving man in the mountains of Kentucky and the 48 children that were the rewards of his passions. Michael’s genuine folky tenor vocal is accompanied by either his skillful guitar picking or his long neck Vega 5-string, with occasional harmonica. The songs are honest and delivered from the heart. Michael Johnathon really accomplishes the feeling of sitting next to him on the Front Porch surrounded by nature, while making a strong case for the power of music. After listening to SONGFARMER, you may just want to go hug your favorite tree . songfarmers.org | michaeljohnathon.co
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BY ROB DICKENS He’s released around sixteen studio albums since his debut (Black and White) in 1969. His two biggest hits ‘Polk Salad Annie’ and ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ were penned about that time (reportedly written in the same week!!) and there have been so many covers of those songs, I would imagine that there’s been a steady flow of royalty income for many years. His last release 2013’s Hoodoo showed no signs of his light diminishing. What’s left to prove for Tony Joe White? Rain Crow (Yep Roc Records) sees his familiar swamp groove to the fore, with fuzzed-up guitars, belting percussion and that half-talking, dusty, baritone voice dominant. As he gets older, his music is getting meaner and gruffer and that is what makes Rain Crow such a pleasure. Take the opening track ‘Hoochie Coochie Woman’ – it lays a steady groove that won’t let go, the evocative lyrics cover it all – swamp land, cooking ‘crawdads’ voodoo trances, tattoos and moonshine. The closing track ‘Tell Me a Swamp Story’ might well be White’s anthem. In between we have that laconic voice, drums, bass and keyboards laying down the stripped back groove for nine songs, all around the 4 to 6 minute mark. Plenty of room for provocative story-telling, but there’s no excess to be found here. ‘The Bad Wind’ tells of murder and near insanity, while ‘Middle of Nowhere’ (co-written with Billy Bob Thornton) reflects on a child’s view of life around him many years ago, with the constant ominous presence of ’the crossroads’. The album was recorded in White’s own studio (Church St) in Franklin, near Nashville and his son Jody is producer. Bryan Owings (drums and percussion), Steve Forrest (Bass) and Tyson Rogers (keys) join White senior’s guitar and harmonica. TONYJOEWHITE.COM
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BY ROB DICKENS It is stripped back and measured, but Kaia Kater has a lot to say. Her new (and second) album Nine Pin delves into issues faced by African-Americans today and reflects on her own heritage duality. Born of African-Caribbean descent in Québec, she has deep ties both to Canadian folk and Appalachian music through her time spent in West Virginia. Only twenty-three years of age, her voice is rich and low, part Rhiannon Giddens and part Nina Simone and, armed with just a banjo, she speaks with quiet authority. Recorded (amazingly) in just one day in Toronto, Nine Pin was produced by both Kater and Canadian artist Chris Bartos (The Barr Brothers, Jonathan Byrd), who also produced her last album Sorrow Bound (2015). That is some achievement and, given the quality of what is on offer on Nine Pin, is a certain indicator of her singular vision. According to her media release, Kater felt that this actually lent focus to the project: “This album was written to be something to listen to from start to finish”. The opening track is a scene-stealer - 'Saint Elizabeth' is a personal journey with mature vocals reminiscent of Sarah Jarosz and the song intensifies beautifully with cutting electric guitar and trumpet. Caleb Hamilton’s trumpet again is striking in the hard-hitting 'Little Pink'. There is the happy family instrumental jig of 'Fine Times at Our House', the wistful and lightning-quick 'Passing' and 'To Come', as well as the home-sick harmonies of 'White'. 'Paradise Fell' touches on the Black Lives Matter movement. Nine Pin has many attractions - the personal narratives of today's age, the beautiful banjo, the unusual Appalachian/blues meld and the laid-bare arrangements. Kaia Kater is wise and talented beyond her years, a vibrant new voice for these troubled times. kaiakater.com | robdickens101.com
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By Scott Yeager, Sound Magazine You want some honesty? Call Abe! Abe from Deftones dropped by STEAM Magazine to talk about the band’s ups and downs over the years, their name, the current state of the band and their exciting new tour in support of their latest record, Gore. It’s been over twenty years since their first record and you can catch them play songs off of their first and last album and everything in between at Concrete Street Amphitheater!
STEAM: I’ve been a Deftones fan for a while now…What do Deftones fans call themselves? Do you guys have a name for them? Like the toners or something? ABE: We call them the most beautiful people in the world. (Laughs) No, honestly we don’t. We just call them homies or friends.
STEAM: I’ve always loved the name Deftones…it’s so simple… ABE: I hate it. It’s a f@#$ed up name.
STEAM: Wait, really? ABE: Yeah, but it’s our name and it ain’t going anywhere. It’s like, man are you serious? That’s our name? But you do you want to hear a funny story?
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ABE: When we were just done with our first record, before it came out we went to the label to kick it and talk sh%@. The A&R guy at the time was friends with Kirk Hammett from Metallica, and Kirk knew about us ‘cause we’re from the Bay Area. And Kirk told our A&R guy that we shouldn’t call ourselves Deftones, we should call ourselves Cleanser and we were like… “f@#$ that!” We love you Kirk, but we are not going with that name. Deftones it is!
and over time and all these years we’ve been able to play all these places, from the smallest club with 50 people to three hundred thousand people in Rio. The goal is to go and rock, and have a kick ass f@#$ing show. It’s so much fun to play these amazing, huge European shows but it’s cool to drop into a club and play for eight hundred people. I don’t know that there is any difference other than just wanting to go rock it.
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You guys have the SEPTEMBER 23rd That’s a g r e a t Concrete Street Amphitheater, Corpus Christi new reco r d , story. WWW.DEFTONES.COM G o r e , Maybe which I that’s why am sure Metallica fans want brought to hear. But you also have years and years you out on the Summer Sanitarium Tour, of beloved songs and records to fit in as to make up for that awful idea… well. How do you guys go into balancing a ABE: Maybe. Wow, that tour. That was a set list and a touring catalog when you rough one… have a new record out? ABE: I think we’re in a fairly cool and STEAM: You guys have done a ton of unique position. Even with the fact that festivals and co-headlining shows lately but we can play the new music and people are now you are back on the road on a full still down to hear it. We’re not going to headlining tour of arenas like Concrete play the whole record. It’s cool to have Street here in Corpus Christi. Is there a eight or so records of material to make a different mentality that goes into a tour set list that maybe varies from the night like this? before. I learned long ago that you can’t ABE: The whole goal is just to have a kick please everyone. We take songs off and it ass show the best we can. We come from pisses some people off but you can’t keep the clubs, the smallest clubs in the world
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everyone happy. Will drop in some new stuff and then maybe two weeks later we’ll pop some different new stuff in, it’s really just a big pot of stew. We try to keep it fun and exciting.
STEAM: Speaking of playing an entire record, it’s really cool to see all these iconic rock albums from the 90’s hitting their 20th anniversaries. To celebrate that, a lot of bands have been playing shows where they run these albums straight through, and it’s awesome ‘cause you get to hear a ton of songs you might never have heard live otherwise, ‘cause they never really made it onto a tour. Last year KoRn played their debut album straight through here in NYC and the year before that Offspring was doing Smash. Have you guys talked about doing any of those shows since you’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of a lot of your major albums and have hit some already? ABE: Not really talking too much about it but we’ve done them before. Four or five years ago we did like three nights in Vancouver where we played a record each night. This past year we played Around the Fur in its entirety. We played all those songs before but it is cool to do the homework and study and learn all the songs. That’s actually what I’m doing tonight; laundry and studying tonight and then I fly to Nashville for a couple weeks of rehearsals. I’m doing a lot of studying, there’s a lot of sh%@ to learn.
STEAM: I remember what I would consider to be the apex of your guys’ popularity and you can tell me if you agree. It was when White Pony came out and you guys did an in-store appearance at the now defunct Virgin Megastore in New York City. The line was longer than you would see for a Britney Spears or a Jay-Z at the time. I got there several hours early and it wasn’t even early enough. Do you remember that? ABE: I remember that vividly! We played Letterman the next night. That was an amazing time. That used to be pretty common though. We used to do that kind of stuff all the time, in store appearances and performances. We actually just played in Amoeba Records in LA recently.
STEAM: That period, with MTV
TRL, was surreal because you had hard rock acts like Deftones on the same platform as Backstreet Boys and these other mainstream pop acts. Rock was truly intertwined with the mainstream like we haven’t seen since. Is it weird to compare today and the successes that you and other bands have had since, with that period? Is it a gift and a curse because it was such an enigma of a boom period for everyone as far as pop culture
relevance was concerned that all the success in the world that a band might have is always going to be judged up against that by comparison? ABE: It’s a trippy thing. Everyone these days comments on sh%@ all day long. People are just so used to that. But man, just ‘cause you can, doesn’t mean you should. It’s just the way we are as a society these days. Everyone comments on things all day long. It’s funny man. That was a great time. Backstreet Boys fans listening to Deftones. And then of course, things change too. That was a great time for many things but that doesn’t mean they can’t be great tomorrow, it’s just different.
STEAM: How are you guys as a unit today? ABE: Man, we’ve all changed so much. We’ve all had families for many years. We have so much fun. We have lived through so many ups and downs, rock and roll clichés; I don’t even have to name them, deaths, drugs, ups and downs, all these things. Having lived through all that and come out on the other side and appreciate that we are still able to do it. I mean, yeah, when we’re in the studio, we bicker and fight but that’s always how it’s been. We have a great time together after all these years. It’s a unique and special position to be in, and something we really appreciate. We love each other, man. A lot of laughter, a lot of sh%@ talking too, but we love each other. That’s what being brothers is all about.
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Photo of Sleeping Beauty Following successful 2015 Northern American Tour, the troupe is coming back to the US with the world’s favorite fairy tale! The 2016 35 -city North American tour has 5 performances in Texas of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” and the “Swan Lake.” The Russian Grand Ballet brings these classic ballets to life with Russia’s brightest ballet stars to perform the full-length productions. Tickets are available now and can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com. The Russian Grand Ballet’s Artistic Director Constantine Pinchuk and Public Relations Manager Anastasia Heathcote took a few minutes to talk about the troupe, the significance of the productions, and the upcoming tour. Can you give me some background on the Russian Grand Ballet troupe? Russian Grand Ballet was founded by and incorporated graduates from the Great Russian choreographic schools of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev. The principal dancers of the company came from the upper ranks of the great ballet companies and academies. Today, the Russian Grand Ballet Theatre is its own institution, with over 50 brilliant dancers. We are highly dedicated to the timeless tradition of classical Russian Ballet. What makes the Russian Grand Ballet stand out from other troupes? The main idea of our theatre is to maintain the traditions of classical ballet. The main difference, I think is the understanding of what kind of a ballet dancer do we have to see as a part of our troupe. It must be a highly talented and dedicated profes-
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Amazing Ballet Facts A male dancer lifts over 1-1/2 tons worth of ballerinas during performances. Most ballerinas wear out 2-3 pairs of pointe shoes per week. One tutu costs up to $2,000 to make. The same tutu requires 60-90 hours of labor and over 100 yards of ruffle. sional, who love their profession, who is passionately obsessed with it. The art of ballet, on my point of view, is mostly suitable for young, energetic people with a sparkle in their eyes, who treats the traditions of classical ballet with a great care and thrill. Russia is known for great ballet. Why is this? Why is ballet so important to Russian people? The ballet is undoubtedly a product of the French culture and French choreographers. But thanks to the Russian genius – Tchaikovsky - ballet as an art got a new milestone in the development and became known as the Russian ballet. Why did you select Swan Lake as a production for your tour? We know, that the interest for the Swan Lake is enormous. The earliest of the Russian "Big Three," Swan Lake is an important part of the
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repertoire of all of the major classical ballet companies in the world. Everyone can recall the main Swan lake Theme and the Little Swans dance theme. It is a beautiful fairy tale, also full of technical and dramatic challenges. And it's been said that dancing the lead in Swan Lake, for example, is like climbing Mount Everest or playing Hamlet. The principal dances two roles — the black swan and the white swan — and both birds go through a lot: changing from swan to human, falling in love and getting tricked and jilted, not to mention the duets and solos. At one point, the Swan Queen, danced by the Honored Artist of Ukraine Olga Kifyak, performs 32 fouettes. Not only it is beautiful to watch the famous dance of the Little Swans, but also dancing in unison holding onto other dancers is extraordinarily difficult! And don't forget most of this dance is done on pointe. The dance was meant to imitate the way cygnets huddle and move together for protection. Four dancers enter the stage in a line and move across with their arms crossed in front of one another, grasping the next dancer's hand. They move sideways, doing sixteen pas de chat. Ideally the dancers move in exact or nearexact unison. At the very end, they break their chain and try to "fly," only to drop to the ground. So, the bottom line is: Swan Lake is a masterpiece of classical ballet and on my personal opinion it should be experienced at least once in one’s lifetime. Why did you select Sleeping Beauty as the second production for your tour? We know that the interest for the Sleeping Beauty is enormous. The Sleeping Beauty is an important part of the repertoire of all of the major classical ballet companies in the world. Everyone can recall the main Sleeping Beauty Theme. It is a beautiful fairy tale, also full of technical and dramatic challenges. The Honored Artist of Ukraine Olga Kifyak will dance the Princess Aurora, with The Honored Artist of Ukraine Eugeniy Svetlitsa as Prince Désiré. There’s a good reason why Sleeping Beauty is so often called the ‘ballet of all ballets’ – the combination of pure romanticism, the story about love and deception and Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet music all continue to reach new generations of audiences. Obviously, Sleeping Beauty is a masterpiece of classical ballet and, again, on my personal opinion it should
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be experienced at least once in one’s lifetime. Can you tell me the significance of Swan Lake in the Russian culture? The "Swan Lake" was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s first ballet. The premiere took place in February of 1877. Surprisingly enough, the audience didn’t take it too well. At some point it got forgotten and only after the composer's death, an experienced conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre - Drigo revised and adapted the music of Tchaikovsky. The choreography was split between Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa. So, it is a very interesting question: who added the Russian Soul component into the history of the German Prince Siegfried and the swan queen with a French name Odette, performed by Italian Pierina Legnani? All of his life spent in Russia, Marius Petipa deliberately avoided the Russian theme. But Lev Ivanov, a humble assistant of the Maitre, invented enchanted maidens in white, with crossed arms over ballet tunics and bowed heads - so that in a pose and the silhouette the audience could guess folded wings of a bird. He then added smooth movements of majesty and made them to sing the music with their hands. The viewers would instantly draw and image of songs full with melancholy, dancing mermaids, endless fields. Marius Petipa took an unexpected challenge from the gifted opponent, adding to the "Swan Lake" ballet scenes of the Ball at the Court and festivals. Petipa contrasted the Queen Odette, composed by Ivanov – with the black counterpart, Odile; elegiac languor was contrasted by a delicate deceit; gentle swans were opposed by intricate waltzes and colorful riot of the Hungarian, Polish and Spanish dances. For the first time, Russian ballet received female’s part, composed by different choreographers. That is, by the way, considered to be a key test to become a ballerina. Since the 1895 premiere of the revised Swan Lake it is a recognized lyrical apex of the Russian Ballet. It had at least four authors: two composers and two choreographers. Are most of your dancers Russian, or do you have dancers from a variety of countries?
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Our theatre is an international project, so is our troupe - Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Moldova, Japan, Germany, etc. The main thing for us is not a nationality, but a dancer’s passion for dance and his, or her professional qualities. At what age did your dancers start training? In most cases, ballet dance school accepts children from 6 to 8 years old, paying attention to physics, such as lifting of the foot, turnout of the hip and flexibility of the whole body, important things in the ballet profession. But as shown by life experience, to every rule there are exceptions, and it all depends on the talent, desire to work and learn, and therefore sometimes children of 11, or even 12 years old get accepted. The legendary Rudolph Nureyev started practicing at the age of 16, for example. How do you stay fit while on the road (that must be important for dancers?) Ballet is a hard work, so yes, it is very important to keep ballet dancers fit, just like athletes. Even while on the road we do classical dance lessons every day, which allows us to keep in shape and that is what the classical ballet begins with. Where have you most enjoyed preforming while on tour? China, Spain, Mexico – we enjoyed it all. There is always something fun and exciting happening, while on tour. We get introduced to different cultures and get to introduce the audience to the ballet. I remember, how during our performance on the island of Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius) the mothers, and I mean all of them, would put their hands on their children’s eyes during Pas De Deux. Or, how amazed we were in Mexico to see only women with their many children coming to the event, no men would join them. This is our second North American Tour and we are happy to be back here after such a warm welcome last year.
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Why do they call you Jo hell? Well, my name is Joel and I was trying to come up with uniqueness to my name. I thought Jo Hell was good and there's an old saying that “the blues is the devil's music” so the name fit in that way. Back in the days, in Mississippi and the South, and even in the Ray Charles movie where he was playing music in a bar and someone comes in and yells, “hey, that's the devil's music!” So I thought it was funny since I play Blues and rock and roll. You are from Montreal and you have traveled everywhere and performed everywhere. I was looking at your bio and I mean everywhere! Yeah, I've been to Belgium and I have played everywhere from Montreal to Texas, out to the west coast, the east coast, all over Canada, and I have gone to Mexico. So how did you end up in Austin? Long story short… I had been playing on the Montreal blues circuit for about 10 years and a friend of mine told me to go down to Texas, in Austin they have a park with a Stevie Ray Vaughan statue and they play a lot of Blues down
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rock I'm a very big rock and roll fan! there. I traveled down to play for a few copies, so I keep coming up with new AC/DC, Aerosmith, classic rock. years but not to stay. One time on the material. I'll do those for a little while road back I was telling my bass player but everything's got to change to bring I read that you played with Pinetop we gotta go down South we need to out new things. (Muddy Waters) and a few other blues find a place to play music and live. On greats. That's great! You have a live album another trip we met the owner a I was with his band for a couple of recorded from your Belgium trip. How Nuno’s, which was on 6th Street back in shows, so officially yes I played with did that come about? the day, who recognized me him in my old Canadian I've only been there twice but I have from jamming it at the bar band. I also have the chance played around there at a number of there's an old and he offered me a gig at to jam with Hubert Sumlin places on each trip. And I really liked Nuno’s and a place to stay saying that the (Howling Wolf), Uncle John the recording that they did of us at a until we had everything Turner (Johnny Winter), Budblues is the show, so I took it to Boiler Room Studisettled down. So Nuno's dy Miles (Jimi Hendrix) and a os, here in Austin, who mixed it for me. devil's music really started it all for us. bunch of other older cats like I have stopped selling it; actually I sold that. I don't remember all out of my stock and haven't reprinted. And how long ago was that? their names but it was along those lines. It was really good. I did another album 12 years. I had been coming here since called Rocking Land and sold out of 2003 but 2006 was my official non-stop That's very cool to be able to say. that one as well. Right now we're workworking here. When you do shows do you play mosting on new material. ly originals or do you do covers? We have seen you playing at the Bat It really just depends on the venue. Are you looking at recording in AusBar on 6th Street in Austin. Good stuff! Sometimes I'm asked to play fifty/fifty, tin? Very bluesy, very rocky. sometimes it more originals. Well right now I have no idea. I'm still Yes, I play there three nights a week and sometimes more. We are mostly a How many albums SHOWS blues band playing with a rock and roll do you have out? Lone Star Grille, Cedar Park 9/3 attitude. I have three major Bat Bar, Austin 9/6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21 recordings; big stuWho are your biggest influences? The Back Porch Grill & Tavern, Grapevine 9/17 dio, big works. But Well there are a couple of them in the there are about 6 or 7 VFW Post 4341, Freeport 9/23 Blues World; Freddie King was a big smaller projects that I stepping stone for me as well as Stevie Neon Moon, Bay City 9/25 have done too. EveryRay Vaughan. Then a few old school Murky Waters, Gulfport MS 9/30 thing I have put out rock and rollers, Little Richard and Murky Waters Ocean Springs, MS 10/01 has sold at least 500 Chuck Berry. And when it comes to
constantly. Yes, I'm on social media but the website really is the best way to get information.
working on the new material and getting the production down, but we have a lot of material that were putting together. Besides playing at the Bat Bar and around Austin, I see that you will be on a three state tour. Will you be headlining shows and playing with local bands? Yeah, it’ll be just us and we’re starting here in Texas where I'll do the coast and head east. The turnaround point is in Mississippi and I'm still working on a few dates in Louisiana. After that I have a few dates in California. I know we can reach you through Facebook, Twitter, ReverbNation, and so on, but I really like your website. Thank you. I just had it revamped and I'm very happy with it. It's completely updated and it will be kept up-to-date
Well, we covered new material, the new website, and you upcoming tour and heading to California, so what else do you have going on right now? Oh there is one more thing. I have been asked to write a couple of songs for movie project and what happened is that I ended up writing about six or seven songs. I don't really know if the guy is for real or if the movie’s for real but that's okay, because I came up with these new songs which you can hear three of them for free on the website. Those are my newest and I believe they're very good. Is this the first time you've been asked to write for a movie or something like that? No, I've been approached by many people but nothing's been very serious. I do appreciate the request as it gives me motivation to write in a new direction.
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bowl and chopped into a pulp. The pulp then goes into a bag that is put into the press. The bag is porous so when it’s pressed the pulp stays in while the juice is released.
We found the coolest shop! It’s on Broadway Street just off the 410 highway in San Antonio, tucked between a sandwich shop and an auto shop and a construction company is where you’ll By Tamma Hicks, STEAM Magazine find One Drop Reggae the fruits and vegetables are kept Shop and Juice Bar. colder by a using a hydraulic grindFor the second time in as many months I have er so the enzymes in the juice are learned that the salesman is not always just a more intact and deliver the nutrisalesman and so the owners of One Drop Regents to the bloodstream much fastgae are not your average juice bar people. A little er. The machine that we use is a over a year ago Josh Mundhal (aka Likkle Shanx, Norwalk which was developed by reggae recording artist) and his wife Shereka, who spend their time between San Antonio and Jamaica, decided to take their lifestyle and music and share it with others, by opening One Drop Reggae Shop and Juice Bar. You're a reggae artist with number one hits in Jamaica as well as performing all over the US and in Jamica; so how did you decide to mix reggae music and a juice bar? Reggae and the juice bar are tied in by the Rastafarian lifestyle. One Drop Reggae is the classic roots style of the genre, that’s where the name comes from. Rasta people eat “ital food,” which is food from the Earth that is whole and unprocessed and reggae is what led me to the natural food. Juicing is one of the main things in the natural diet. Ital means natural food from the earth, along the vegetarian line. I know that you use the cold press process. I know that it's different than the average home juicer, so can you explain that difference? In most home processors, the fruits and vegetables are spun and ground at a high speed causing the food temperature rise. In the cold press
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Norman Walker. He developed this process in the thirties. The Gerson Institute uses cold pressed juices in their therapy program to treat various conditions and diseases and have had a great amount of success. Is there a reason why you serve in mason jars? My guess is that they seal very tightly, maintaining the juice properties. Yes, that and it cuts down on the
use of plastic. Plastic permeates a chemical into whatever you put in it, and besides we want to cut down on plastic because it just ends up in the landfills and then into the waters. And plastic never goes away. My daughter who has a sensory sensitivity, it’s not that she doesn’t like the taste of something but that texture bothers her, really likes the Buffalo Soldier; which honestly surprised us! What are the ingredients and how much is in a mason jar? Each mason jar equals out to about two and a half pounds of fruit and vegetables so when we press a batch of the Buffalo Soldier it typically takes one giant watermelon about 6 pineapples and 3 bunches of mint. The mint is pressed with the pineapple so they're infused together. Organic produce is essential when you're juicing and really the greens are the ones you want to drink, because you don't want to overload on all the sugars in the fruit. Well, that’s the next question; how do you get juice out of mint or kale or parsley or other leafy greens that you use? Do you have to add water? We don’t add water or sugar to anything; you get 100% pure juice. So the greens are a two-part process. The cold greens are put into a
Besides the great juices and smoothies you make can you tell me more about the shop? I know that you carry handmade jewelry, tshirts, music by many reggae artists, and these cool purses. Do you import these items or is there someone here in the states that make them? We know people in Jamaica that make them so we import. The Purses are made out of a gourd, kind of like a pumpkin or squash. And now about the reggae side! I know you have a recording area, you have a great sound system, and a stage. What kind of entertainment do you have? On Wednesdays we have Kenyo Poetry which is kind of an open mic, but usually there is a set lineup. These shows are mostly poetry reading with a few musicians, singer/songwriters that come in. On the Final Friday of each month (September 30th) is an open mic that is more musically involved. Every Saturday we have “Reggae on Broadway, “which is a fun all ages kind of thing. It gets people out and enjoying themselves. That’s typically when we haves shows. Our last big show was in July when Warrior King was here. All of our evening shows start at 9 pm. I can imagine that it was a great show because the audience is so up close with the artist. Do you get up and perform during the Open Mic or other shows? Not normally, but I've done it before. Usually I'll open for the acts that we bring in. Do you have any shows scheduled for September? Nothing nailed down yet, but if you watch our Facebook and our website you'll see what's happening.
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