Welcome
to The Groovacious News and Music Blog by Lisa Cretsinger owner of
independent record store Groovacious Records in Cedar City, Utah celebrating 26 years in business.
March
3, 2018
Best
Sellers at Groovacious Records for Feb 27-Mar 3, 2018
Tech
N9ne “Planet”
Beth
Hart & Joe Bonamassa “Black Coffee”
Willie Nelson "God's Problem Child"
The
Greatest Showman - soundtrack
Calexico
“Thread That Keeps Us”
David
Bowie “Blackstar”
Steel
Woods “Straw in the Wind”
U2
“Songs of Experience”
Willie
Nelson and the Boys: Willie's Stash, Vol. 2
Yelawolf
“Trial By Fire”
New
Releases Coming to Groovacious Records March 9, 2018
Between
the Buried & Me
Albert
Hammond jr.
David
Byrne
Jimi
Hendirx
Brad
Mehldau
Matthews
Southern Comfort
Ministry
Nightwish
– collection
Of
Montreal
6
String Drag
Suicidal
Tendencies
3
Days Grace
Nathaniel
Rateliff
New
Items In Stock:
Karaoke
Machines along with the many Turntables in stock. I can order special
items.
Lisa
is Enjoying the New:
Loma
on
SubPop
Sue
Foley “Ice
Queen” on Stony Plain Music when it comes back in stock! Sue
Foley is a multi-award-winning musician and one of the finest blues
and roots artists working today. She is a veritable triple-threat of
musical talent as a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. The Ice Queen
features a trio of legendary Texas guitarslingers, Jimmie Vaughan, Z.
Z. Top's Billy F Gibbons and Charlie Sexton, as well as a host of
other Lone Star State all-stars. Foley holds the record for the most
Maple Blues Awards in Canada and has earned three Trophees de Blues
de France. She has also garnered several nominations at the Blues
Music Awards from The Blues Foundation.
Samantha
Fish “Belle of
the West” on Ruf Records. Recorded in the relaxed, rural
creative atmosphere of the legendary Zebra Ranch Studios in the North
Hills of Mississippi with producer Luther Dickinson (of North
Mississippi Allstars fame), with whom she worked previously on her
2015 album Wild Heart. The studio team included some of the region's
most iconoclastic musicians, including Dickinson, solo artist and
Jack White associate Lillie Mae, much-traveled juke-joint blues
artist Lightnin' Malcolm, Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus,
upright bassist and beloved solo artist Amy LaVere, Tikyra Jackson,
Trina Raimey and Shardé Thomas, granddaughter of the legendary
Southern bluesman Otha Turner. produced
by Luther Dickinson
There
many things do and see here in Cedar City & beyond between the
resorts, area schools and museums, theater & private clubs and
bars, I recommend checking the calendars on social media and through
the visitor center at: www.visitcedarcity.com
A
few events I'm planning to attend this week are:
Monday
March 5: Cedar City Arts Council Arts Social at Festival Hall second
floor of Heritage Center Theater 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Wednesday
March 7: Southern Utah Museum of Art – SUMA, 24th
Art Auction at Rusty's Ranch House in Cedar Canyon 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Friday
March 9: Iron County Acoustic Music Associate – ICAMA presents
Marty Warburton's Bluegrass Jam at Community Presbyterian Church 7:00
PM to 10:00 PM
My
Life as a Music Peddler:
It
is my experience that music comes to us when we are ready to receive
it.
I
might hear of a band or artist for weeks and months years even and
never listen to their music until one day, there it is, the timing is
right and it all falls into place.
For
me music does not reside in the background. It's all around me all
the time and I’m always listening, aware of what is playing
everywhere, at the restaurant, the grocery store, doctor’s office,
a friend’s house or car, waiting in line. I listen closely. I
think about it, let it draw me in emotionally. I invest.
When
I discover an artist and they have a large catalog to explore I want
to hear all of it from the beginning right up to the present and back
again. I want to read the liner notes, who the players are, the
producers and who wrote the songs and where they were recorded. I
make connections to other albums and musicians. It’s fun. It adds
depth. Tim and I talked about these connections all day everyday, we
spent hours and hours exploring music. There is always more to know
about creative people and the art that they make.
I
have a friend who is learning to play guitar. He’s done some
research and discovered musicians to admire, he’s listening closely
and watching. He is also moving from the house he’s lived in for
over twenty-seven years. He is packing up dishes saying goodbye to
people and places. He stumbled upon a song that made a connection
lyrically and musically too, “L.A Freeway” by Guy Clark, it talks
about getting away from the rat race for a simpler lifestyle, trading
concrete for a dirt back road. I've sold and moved around Guy
Clark's records for years but for some reason I never took the time
to really listen to him seriously. My friend and I listened to “L.A.
Freeway” together and through this shared interaction I heard Guy
Clark with fresh ears.
Groovacious
has always carried books to sell, beat poetry, literature, music
books and biographies. With Guy Clark on the brain I was interested
to see that my distributor stocked the new biography “Without
Getting Killed Or Caught – The Life and Music of Guy Clark” by
Tamara Saviano published through Texas A&M University Press. I
ordered a some for stock and one for myself too. I finished reading it this morning.
Guy Clark led an interesting life deeply immersed in music and
art. He was a massive influence on just about every single
songwriter including many many many of my
favorites. My paths and that of Guy Clark have crossed several
times through the people we have met and known in our lives yet I
never met him, didn't ever even see him play. Maybe Tim did. Tim
didn't tell me about all of the musicians he ever met or saw.
Interesting
how music comes to us. Guy Clark is my latest obsession. He’s got
a nice full sized catalog to explore and I am ready.
