Kitty Daisy & Lewis are a three-piece band comprising the teenage siblings of the Durham family. Their music is influenced heavily by R&B, Swing, Jump blues, Country and Western, Blues, Hawaiian and Rock 'n' Roll. The trio are all multi-instrumentalists playing guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, drums, trombone, xylophone and accordion between them.
Kitty Durham (15) is the youngest of the group and primarily sings and plays drums, harmonica, ukulele, banjo, trombone and guitar. Lewis Durham (18) is the middle child who sings and plays guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel and drums. He collects and plays/DJ's 78rpm records and has built a home studio for the band to record in. It consists of 1940's and 50's recording equipment such as 8 track tape machines and vintage BBC and RCA microphones. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis do not use computers or any digital format during the recording process. Daisy Durham (20) is the eldest of the group, who primarily sings and plays drums, piano, accordion and xylophone.
Earl Palmer, perhaps the most recorded drummer in the history of popular American music, died last Friday at the age of 84. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, the New Orleans native set the beat for an amazing variety of artists, including, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Frank Sinatra, Lou Rawls, Bonnie Raitt, and Sarah Vaughan. In recent years, in addition to continuing to play, he served as an executive officer of the LA Musician’s Union, working to ensure that older musicians received credit and royalties they were due.
We lost an immortal, one of the founding fathers of Rock & Roll.
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built an over 60-year-long career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday at his brother's house in Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.
Brown's career first took off in the 1940s with blues hits "Okie Dokie Stomp" and "Ain't That Dandy," but he bristled when he was labeled a bluesman.
In the second half of his career, he became known as a musical jack-of-all-trades who played a half-dozen instruments and culled from jazz, country, Texas blues, and the zydeco and Cajun music of his native Louisiana.
From Brain Damage: It is with much sadness that we bring you the news that Richard Wright passed away today (September 15th), after a short struggle with cancer. It goes without saying that he will be greatly missed. A founding member of the early Pink Floyd, his distinctive keyboard work was a cornerstone of the band's music, yet his contribution was of course so much greater than that, as a vocalist and songwriter, responsible for many significant pieces of music throughout the band's career. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
"Man Smart, Woman Smarter," composed by Trinidadian calypsonian King Radio, is one of the best known of all calypsos. Radio originally recorded it in 1936, during his first trip to New York. The song offers wry commentary on the battle between the sexes, one of the eternal themes of calypso.
Bobby's singin' but Brent steals the show on this version