While I generally try to stay abreast of most of the new music, and having a daughter in college has been really been extremely helpful, sometimes I feel like I am slowly sinking and getting more and more out-of-synch of the evolutional march of the new stuff. Rolling Stone and the new on-line Paste Magazine helps me fill in the blanks.
For my wife's birthday last week, we went over to Norfolk and saw a blues singer, Ruthie Foster, whom I have been hearing much about over the past year. She played at the Attucks Theatre on Saturday, a restored African-American small venue that we usually visit a couple of times a year.
Foster, a young woman out of Texas seems to have paid her dues for some years on the small venue/festival circuit and is on the verge of the "big-time". Playing Norfolk was a little bit of a homecoming for her because she had served in the Navy for at least one term and had been stationed at Norfolk's Little Creek Naval Base. So she had a lot of friends in the place so the place was excited.
It was a fine evening and, wow, she can really sing. She had an all-woman group of relatives I believe, and played alot of covers and some songs she wrote. She closed with "No Woman No Cry" that went on wonderfully for ever and I couldn't find a copy of it for this post. But she sang this Reverend Gary Davis song that is a favorite of mine that was available.
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