Support NW Music Education with PG3, Jan 30, 2010

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PG3: Portland Guitar Three

Jennifer Batten | Terry Robb | Geoff Metts
ELECTRIC GUITAR SHOWCASE
and Benefit for Parkrose k-12 Music Boosters
Presented by Buko Magazine and Guitar Center
Peter's Room At The Roseland
8 NW 6th Ave., Portland
Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 8pm
Tickets: $15.50 in advance, $18 at the door*
Tickets Available through all Ticketswest Locations - Safeway, Music Millennium
To order by phone please call 503.224.8499 or visit www.ticketswest.com

An event dedicated to showcasing the unique stylings of 3 guitar masters coming from the NW, while helping support NW music education programs.

We are proud to present an annual showcase featuring some of the best electric guitarists Portland has to offer in this premier of PG3. Similar to Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's best-of-the-best guitar extravaganza, each artist will do a set of their own special selection of music then converge to play a set together for a grand finale. What better to start out than with these 3 great players. Their 3 distinctive styles are sure to keep the audience acutely interested in their juxtapositional presentations, then playing together on selected songs and swap solos.

Jennifer Batten:
Attaining world-wide acclaim as one of the world's best axe players. Best known as the "Golden Goddess of Guitar", having played lead guitar with Michael Jackson for 3 world tours, as well as several of his videos hroughout the 80's and 90's. Touring with Jeff Beck for 2 world tours ... wow!
She escaped to the N.W. and, lucky for all of us, she now calls Portland 'home'. Her new original release called "Whatever" is a title testimony of her discontent with the dog-eat-dog rat race of L.A. She has been touring her multimedia show around the country.

Terry Robb:
The consummate 'musician's musician', Terry has garnered utter respect from many accomplished guitarists around the globe. He possesses accolades that many covet. An incredibly gifted guitar player, Terry's licks run a literal gamut between Muddy Water's soul-filled simplicity to Hendrix' complex psychedelia. The logic of his soloing calls up anything from Zappa, Beck and Buchanan, to hauntingly and unfamiliar territory's like Sun Ra and John Fahey, all while leaving his own indelible fingerprint ... and he can shred like a mother!

Geoff Metts:
Achieving vast popularity as frontman and lead guitar player of Western Aerial, knocking out one hit show after another: Vans Warped Tour, Voted "Best of Portland" in the music category by PDXPosed, playing KUFO's Rockfest an impressive 3 times. Recorded Portland Trailblazers theme music and video on national television. Geoff was honored with an invitation to play "The Star Spangled Banner" for a sold out crowd of 25,000 at the Rose Garden Arena this year and continues to provide guitar instruction at Five Star Guitars. Geoff is probably the heaviest player around, easily filling the boots of both rhythm and lead simultaneously. His solos are at once crunchy as they are effortless.

Hand picked all-star backing band:
A.G. Donnaloia ( Liv Warfield, Lifesavas)
Jay Haser (Debra Arlin)
Kevin Rankin ( Animotion, Kleveland)

* purchased ticket holders are automatically enters them to win a $600 Fender Stratocaster, played at the show and signed by all 3 artists in a raffle!
Sponsored by Guitar Center@

Press Contact:
Ty Hitzemann
Buko Magazine
Music In The N.W.
503.729.6476
503.282.1682
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"Memphis Still Got Soul"

Johnny Rawls

Catfood Records

johnnyrawls12 If you love down-down Southern soulful blues, do yourself a favor and run out and buy the latest disc from Johnny Rawls entitled Memphis Still Got Soul. Rawls consistently releases fantastic recordings, as evidenced this last year with his Blues Music Award recognition for his previous release Ace Of Spades, taking home the prize for Soul Blues Album, while also garnering a nomination for Male Soul Blues Vocalist. And as great as that last album was, I have to say that in my opinion he has far exceeded it with Memphis Still Got Soul. This just may be the finest soul-blues album to come out in some time. It must be heard!

This album just oozes with soulful and sexual overtones that make Southern Soul so distinct and listenable. Rawls’ songwriting is superb. And the musicianship displayed by his veteran band hits the nail dead on its head on every sensational track on this disc. It calls for repeated plays and don’t worry about even thinking about it, you’re just going to keep it going on and on for some time.

The title track pays reverence to the soul sound that has emerged from Memphis past and present. It’s not going away and Rawls wants us to know just that. As the late O.V. Wright’s band leader for many years, “Blind, Crippled and Crazy” would certainly be a number that is close to Rawls’ heart and one that he would be most capable of recreating. And he does so in magnificent manner, very true to Wright’s own vein. The album is actually filled to the brim with classic soul overtones including “Give You What You Need” harkening to Stax and Muscle Shoals and “Stop The Rain” a real song of heartbreak with its slow-paced delivery that makes you feel Rawls’ emotion letting loose. He pulls out a Sam Cooke mood on the track “Don’t Act So Innocent” while informing his former fling that she is not so different than she used to be or better than himself. I really love the horn section making the songs burst with energy throughout the album; they send the soul right to the top. On a different note, the song “Burning Bridges” is a rocker in its own soulful way, with Motown guitarist Johnnie McGhee laying down some biting and nasty riffs. And yet, it fits right in with all the other selections on the disc. Just to let you know that he is nothing to forget about as a guitarist, Rawls shows his wares nicely on the following track “My Guitar,” obviously a song written before last year’s Blues Music Awards show as he states he never won a “Handy,” which is the former name for the award.

Memphis Still Got Soul is another outstanding release from one of the best soul-bluesmen around. This one is bound to be on my list of best of the year albums without doubt.

Total Time: 40:52

Memphis Still Got Soul / Blind, Crippled And Crazy / Give You What You Need / Take You For A Ride / Stop The Rain / Burning Bridges / My Guitar / Flying Blind / Blues Woman / Don’t Act So Innocent / Love Stuff

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