will open a new chapter in his fifty year musical career with the release of his searing new album Potato Hole (4/21/09) on Anti- Records. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Booker T. ![]() To Release Potato Hole On April 21 During Featured Run on Late Night Jimmy Fallon Show Joining Booker and the Truckers for the taping were Bettye LaVette, whose last album also featured backing by the Truckers, and the ever-present Trombone Shorty and Ben Ellman of Galactic who is producing a new CD for Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue. In addition to playing the Festival itself, they performed for a television taping the night before the Festival opened. made his debut performance at Jazz Fest with the Drive-By Truckers, who are the backing band on his current hit CD. Rosebud Artists could be found performing in a wide variety of formats during the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (April 24 - May 3).īooker T. Rosebud Artists Everywhere At New Orleans Jazz Fest Booker's Fuji Rock appearance was sandwiched between two separate runs of festivals across Europe in support of his new CD. Approximately 42,000 fans had visited to pay their respects at his funeral on May 9, 2009. Known as "Japan's King of Rock," he collaborated with Booker T. In addition to playing his own set, he also was featured in a tribute to the recently deceased legendary Japanese rock musician Kiyoshiro Imawano before 35,000 fans. Booker just returned from his debut performance at the Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, Japan. recently recorded a session for World Café Live on NPR, featuring songs from his highly acclaimed new release, Potato Hole. ![]() On World Café Live, Fuji Rock & Europe Festsīooker T. Congratulations to all the nominees!īooker T. Rosebud has been fortunate in that generally our artists score between 4 and 6 Grammy nominations every year but 10 is definitely a new record and we are Thrilled, especially considering the fact that Rosebud artists only released 14 eligible CDs this past year. for both Potato Hole (Best Pop Instrumental Album) and a track from that album, "Warped Sister" (Best Rock Instrumental Performance) Please see the full entry > Artists honored with nominations include Booker T. We're thrilled to announce that Rosebud Artists received 10 Grammy nominations for this year's awards taking place on Januin Los Angeles. In his four star MOJO review of New York Is My Home, Jeff Tamarkin wrote, “Visionary Heart could have been a lost Doc Pomus composition.” That is high praise, indeed, as Dion and Kempner’s songwriting is compared to that of the writer of such classics as Elvis Presley’s Little Sister, Save The Last Dance For Me by The Drifters and A Teenager In Love, Dion & The Belmonts’ first Top 5 hit.ĭion will perform Visionary Heart with the Roots on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on the night of the release, April 8.10 Grammy Nominations for Rosebud Artists! Like the album, both A and B-sides were produced by Jimmy Vivino and Dion. The track will be released by Richard Gottehrer’s Instant Records through The Orchard Music Group and is coupled with I’ve Been Watching, a Dion composition that is not on New York Is My Home. I hope my friend is proud of the way I’ve carried on.” I was talking to Scott Kempner one evening and Visionary Heart was completed the next day. This song is my way of carrying it forward, years later. It was an ongoing guitar war, to see who could play loudest and fastest and hold a chord the longest. On the bus, on stage, backstage, it was a running conversation between friends. He notes, “The Winter Dance Party would be Buddy Holly’s last tour but we didn’t know that. ![]() Dion has referred to the song as “an imagined conversation between me and Buddy Holly.” Visionary Heart was inspired by the life, death and legacy of Dion’s friend Buddy Holly and by the fact that Dion was with him on the last night of his life. Legendary singer Dion will release the track Visionary Heart from his album New York is My Home on April 8.
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