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Friday Video Mashup!
It’s friday, so we thought we would leave you with something fun for the weekend. Doug MacLeod – “You Can’t Take My Blues”: The Curios – “Pickle”: RR artist Joel Fan has been making news lately because of his tour with A Far Cry Orchestra. Here’s a video of him talking and performing for children during an educational concert:
Valentine’s Day is Approaching
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away. Do you have a gift for the special someone? Or perhaps you’re looking for a little background music for a romantic dinner? We have the perfect album suggestion for your celebration — Mike Garson and Jim Walker’s album “Pied Piper.” Music is always a perfect gift, but even if you’ve already got your gift, Pied Piper makes for a fantastic Valentine’s Day album. With track names like…
Upcoming Fresh! Release – “Brand New Eyes” by Doug MacLeod
Coming Soon on Fresh! From Reference Recordings: Brand New EyesDoug MacLeod Also featuring:John Smith, guitar/vocalsBob Jones, bassFrank Peterson, drumsDenny Croy, bass (track 3)David Kida, drums (track 3) Tracks:Brand New Eyes; Something Dark is Walking; Train of Change; Midnight in Memphis; ZuZu Woman; One Eyed Owl; Somewhere South of Somewhere; I Rolled a Nickel; The Nature of the Man; Some Old Blues Song (aka I Can Count on My Blues); Welcome In Your Home Doug MacLeod,…
Check out Doug MacLeod’s new website!
Upcoming Fresh! From Reference Recordings artist, Doug MacLeod has launched a new website! Make sure and check it out at http://www.doug-macleod.ca! You’ll be able to see the new album art, view a countdown clock, and even hear a track!
KC Metropolis interviews Keith Johnson and David Frost
A fantastic interview came out Tuesday in the KC Metropolis Journal, featuring our Britten’s Orchestra recording with the Kansas City Symphony. Today we want to share a little of that with you, and then encourage you to visit kcmetropolis.org to read the rest. It is well worth your time! From KCMetropolis.org:INTERVIEW: Achieving that Grammy SoundBy David Peironnet David Peironnet: “Dynamic range in its extreme” is a quote from your press release accompanying the Kansas City…
Some Quotable Quotes about Doug MacLeod
As you should know by now, Doug MacLeod’s new album is coming out next month on Fresh! From Reference Recordings, so today we thought that instead of us telling you about him, we’d let others do the talking: “Doug MacLeod, now there’s a man who can really play the blues.” -Grammy Lifetime Award Artist, David Honeyboy Edwards “Aside from being one of the finest guitar players in the business, MacLeod really connects with his audience.…
A hint of things to come
Here at RR we’ve got some recording projects up our sleeves, so we thought we would drop a hint at one of those today: That’s the only hint you’ll get today…
See Doug MacLeod Live!
Well, we’ve told you a little about our upcoming Fresh! artist Doug MacLeod, but if you want a real taste of his music before our release, you can check him out live! Friday, January 28, 2011 DOUG MACLEOD AND DENNY CROY @ Lucille’s Smokehouse BBQ4828 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 90803 (United States) – Map562-938-7427 Set: 7:00 PMAll Ages Saturday, January 29, 2011 DOUG MACLEOD IN CONCERT @ Fret House309 N Citrus Ave, Covina, CA…
The Curios – Pickle
Sometimes a ditty just gets stuck in your head, and the other day, the ditty happened to come from the first Fresh! From RR release “Pillow Book” by The Curios. The song we were so enthralled with was an instrumental track called “Pickle”. So for fun, we thought we would share it with you, and created this video featuring both the recording of Pickle and live audio and video from The Curios working on the…
Reference Recordings’ CES 2011 Report
Reference Recordings’ Sean Martin brings you our CES 2011 Report: Well, another beginning of the year has gone by and in the blink of an eye so has CES/THE show. As usual the exhibits were a blur of too many incredibly interesting ideas and not enough time to check them all out. Reference Recordings titles were being sold at our Canadian distributor Liberty Trading’s booth in the Flamingo Hotel. Marcia and I did our best…
Praise for Exotic Dances from the Opera SACD
Sometimes you stumble across things that simply make your day, and today we stumbled across a wonderful article of reviews in the UK’s “Tottenham Journal“. In the article, the author, Barry Forshaw, gives his “pick of the latest classical CD releases.” When looking through, we were delighted to find this little bit about our Exotic Dances from the Opera SACD: From the Tottenham JournalBy Barry Forshaw: “EXOTIC DANCES FROM THE OPERA Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue/Reference Recordings…
A Testament of Freedom – MLK Jr. Day
As a tribute for today’s holiday, we feature our album “Testament” and the Turtle Creek Chorale ensemble. While reading the liner notes you will find these songs speak the same sentiments of hope for our nation that Martin Luther King Jr. embodied in his life. John Ardoin, Dallas Morning NewsTestament – Introduction “I hear America singing” wrote Walt Whitman But what was the song he heard? A New England carol, a southern spiritual, an Appalachian…
Doug McLeod – That Ain’t Right
Here’s a fun/funny video for your weekend featuring upcoming Fresh! from RR artist Doug McLeod: Happy Friday and have a great weekend!
Michael Gandolfi Speaks about Line Drawings
The Concord Chamber Players will be releasing a new album on Reference Recordings this year, and one of the highlights of the album will be Michael Gandolfi’s new piece “Line Drawings.” So in excitement for this album (which is still a few months off), we wanted to link you to the Concord Chamber Music Society’s Music Player where you can listen to an enlightening 8 minute segment of Michael Gandolfi talking about this work. Click…
Upcoming FRESH! artist nominated for Blues Award!
FRESH! From Reference Recordings is very excited about our new release coming in March. We will be featuring Blues guitarist and singer Doug MacLeod! Today we wanted to tell you about his nomination for the “2011 Blues Music Awards” presented by The Blues Foundation. Doug MacLeod has been nominated for “Acoustic Artist of the Year“! Others nominated in the category are Eric Bibb, Guy Davis, John Hammond, and Paul Oscher. So to celebrate this achievement,…