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Iโll be updating this page periodically to include music thatโs piquing my interest at the moment. Song of the day: โPretty Babyโ by Blondie.
Tag: Charlie Sexton
Go Away With โฆ Molly Leary
For Molly Leary, giving up her music career in Austin to move back to Californiaโs Gold Country was a no brainer. Both her young daughters had been diagnosed on the autism spectrum and California had the kind of resources to treat children with special needs that werenโt available to them in Texas. Another bonus was that Learyโs family lived nearby. Though she still performs occasionally when her boyfriend โ the guitarist and songwriter Charlie Sexton โ asks her to join him on stage, the entrepreneur said sheโs fulfilled curating her one-of-a-kind online clothing store Squash Blossom Vintage.
Young stars shining for talents alone
Back in the mid-1980s, 17-year-old Charlie Sexton was in a unique situation. The guitar sensation headlined at clubs across the country but was legally too young to order a beer at any of them. He was encouraged to trade his rootsy blues style for synth-driven rock and had a minor hit with โBeatโs So Lonely.โ
Spin Control: Dogstar, Frente and Sponge
Visually, Dogstar is all about Keanu Reeves, but the movie star bassist takes a back seat to vocalist-guitarist-lyricist Bret Domrose on record. Live, Domroseโs vocals tend to get drowned out by Reeves and drummer Rob Mailhouse, but the mix on this record fixed that problem.
Celestial โ In Concert, Arc Angels Earn Their Wings
Call them a supergroup, and the Arc Angels will shrug off the compliment. โMaybe weโre an almost supergroup,โ says vocalist-guitarist Charlie Sexton. โWeโre not there yet.โ
ROCK: Issue stakes claim to top
A huge stars-and-stripes banner emblazoned with the Arabic numeral โ1โ and โMaterial Issueโ served as a not-so-subtle backdrop for the Chicago trio when it kicked off a national tour over the weekend with concerts at the Oak Theatre.
Rockinโ in the New Year
As a pre-teen, Charlie Sexton studied guitar with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now 23, the former solo artist is teamed up with two members of Vaughanโs band Double Trouble, as well as another Vaughan pupil.
Hark! Arc Angels flying in for New Yearโs Eve show
โI wave a banner for Charlie (Sexton),โ David Bowie said, calling from Liverpool, England. โI like him a lot. Heโs a good kid and very talented. Yes, heโs very pretty, but he didnโt need to be oversold. (MCA) saw him as a one-man Duran Duran, which was a big mistake. Charlieโs a blues boy and thatโs where he really shines. Arc Angels probably is the best thing for him at this point in his career.โ
Sidewindersโ guitarist credits Peace Corps experience
Many musicians say they learned how to rock โnโ roll in their garages. But Sidewinders guitarist Rich Hopkins may be the first to have honed his guitar skills during a three-year stint with the Peace Corps.
Sexton trades country for rock
โI was your typical bossy older brother,โ Charlie Sexton said, laughing. โBut Will really loved music. Soon after learning bass, he switched over to play lead guitar, too. I tell him a little bit of what I learned, but heโs my younger brother and I donโt want to give him a hard time. So I usually wait until he asks for my advice before I go butting into his life.โ
โCharlie Sextonโ album review
Charlie Sextonโs self-titled debut album doesnโt make as strong an impact as his debut โPictures for Pleasure.โ But just when youโre ready to accuse him of suffering from the sophomore slump, Sextonโs skillful guitarwork and deep, emoting voice convince you heโs worth believing in.
TAMI Show finally hits its groove
โTAMI Show sounded so professional I thought they had already been signed,โ Nigel Harrison said in a phone interview. โWhen I found out they werenโt, I couldnโt believe it. I called up Chrysalis and told them they had to hear this band.
Tonio K.
Tonio K.โs latest album, โNotes From The Lost Civilization,โ is a cohesive collection of songs. Utilizing the talents of his friends Sexton, Peter Case, Billy Vera, Booker T. Jones and T Bone Burnett, Tonio K. takes his music less seriously than critics whoโve at turns dubbed him a poet and a jester. K.โs music falls into a happy medium somewhere between serious art and giddy pop.
Tour unleashes a second Sexton
โI think I was very lucky because I knew what I wanted to do at a very young age,โ Will Sexton said. โMy mother was very encouraging about everything we chose to do. So when Charlie and I were 10 and 8, weโd be dragging our guitars to clubs with our mom. Some people thought that was kind of funny but we were dead serious about our music. Hard work pays off. So when people say, `Youโre awfully young to have a record deal,โ I think, โYeah, but Iโve been playing more than half my life.'โ