Keith Howland, the current guitarist of the band Chicago, has just released his new project CD, just before starting Chicago Japan Tour. The project is called as "KeCraig", which is a brotherly jam between Keith Howland and drummer Craig Howland, his brother. The Howland brothers went into Keith's home studio over the Thanksgiving holiday and recorded the bortherly jam sessions with only guitar and drums. The result was beyond their expectation, thus Keith added some bass, “KeCraig” was suddenly becoming a legit project. Jeff Babko layed down some killer keys that glued the project together and produced the final result. As far as I have heard MP 3 clips, I am sure that there must be huge energy all through the album. Really COOL fusion album, never smooth jazz...Keith explains about this project as follows; "The new project is called "KeCraig" and features my brother on drums, Wheeler Castlebridge on bass, and the great Jeff Babko on keys. All instrumental and ranging from rock to jazz, this one is truly an improvisational jam that feels very live....cause it was. "
Label: GraceNote Records, USA
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Tracks: 1. Snake It Tuggly 2 Bugman 3. Mr. Muain 4. Kaflooey 5. Bujutie 6. What Are You Helmets Looking At? 7. Not So Sure 8. I Hate Heat 9. Dad!10. Clean Martino
John Townsend, known for his late 70's blue-eyed soul band with Ed Sanford, "The Sanford-Townsend Band" with a 1977 hit single "Smoke from a Distant Fire". Breaking his long silence as an artist, John was back with his solo album entitled "The Road Leads Home" in 2003. Before this solo release, John started the band with the Toler brothers; Dan and Frankie in mid 90's. The trio had been playing in Gregg Allman's solo band and when the Allman Bros. Band reformed in '94 and '95. Since then, Danny, Frankie and John have been playing in various bands together and have been threatening to do this for some time. For those less familiar with the entities involved: Danny and Frankie both had played with the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman's solo band and Dickey Betts Great Southern. Frankie had also done a stint with the Marshall Tucker Band.
Early January of 2005, Marco Taggiasco, Italy based arranger and producer appeared in front of me with his first solo album "Thousand Things" recroded in Feb. 2004 featuring young gifted vocalist named Andrea Sanchini. I wrote on this blog that the first track "Never Too Late (For Love)" on the album reminded me of Eric Tagg's melodies and that the voice of Andrea Sanchini is very similar to that of Bill Cantos. Thus, it did not take a long time before the record became a little cult item mostly in Japan and Northern Europe.
Robbie Dupree's brand new CD "Time And Tide" will now be officially released around the world! In Europe and Scandinavia, Zink Records, Sweden will release the album on April 23rd. Here in Japan, I am very pleased to publish that the brand new powerful label "MUSIC AIR INTERNATIONAL" will release this album as the very first release of the label on May 10th. The label has the satellite TV channel called "Music Air Network" on Sky-PerfecTV (Channel 271) which airs adult-oriented music videos, live shows and so on.
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