2005 May

Steve Amick

At the Michigan Songwriters' Festival at the Ark last January, Ann Arbor native Steve Amick sang "I'm Sorry for You (If You Don't Live Here)," his rousing and only slightly ironic chronicling of a few of...

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Andrew Bishop

There was a time when most jazz musicians concentrated on doing one thing really well. Some combined composition with instrumental prowess, and woodwind players may have doubled on a variety of saxophones, clarinets, and even...

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Blammo

When I was a kid, my friends and I listened to the likes of Heart and Pat Benatar — real women who wrote and performed their own music with conviction and power. I still love to see women of power on stage. Whit Hill and...

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The Duhks

People often compliment the Duhks on their bass player — even though the band rarely uses a bass. Most of the bass sounds you hear in their music come from the Cuban cajón, a box drum that anchors the Latin...

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Ann Arbor Sacred Harp

My dad is not a singer, but without any apparent effort, he can sing a harmony to just about any song. Broadway show tunes, TV commercials, "Midnight at the Oasis" — he hears it once and somehow knows where to...

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