Critic's pick: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
Scrooges beware. You won't be able to resist smiling at the holiday spirit that banjo great Béla Fleck and his Flecktones uncork on Jingle All the Way. In fact, you will be ear-to-ear grinning. And it will start with the album-opening Jingle Bells, no less. Seriously. Jingle Bells, for crying out loud. How can anyone put a distinctive spin on Jingle Bells?
Exposure to all types of music helped JJ Grey refine his
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
Even though he has made a lifelong home in the Sunshine State, there is something distinctly unsunny about the music of JJ Grey. That's not to say the Jacksonville, Fla., singer, songwriter, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist doesn't pack his Southern-steeped records with considerable warmth and jubilance.
It's that Christmas album time of year
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Why do recording artists make new Christmas albums? Seriously, three-quarters of them are usually full of songs that have been recorded a quarter of a million times already, and the rest are attempts at new seasonal tunes that are in reality what is known as filler.
Lexington's Christmas parade will march down Main Street Saturday
Jim Warren jwarren@herald-leader.com
Lexington's 2008 Christmas Parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Main Street and Midland Avenue.- CD of songs based on late pope's poems on sale
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