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A thread for updates on people from the past.
Article in today's SF Chronicle on Janis Ian (she's at Yoshi's SF 9/16):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/12/PKB612O94M.DTL

[RGMike]

A thread for updates on people from the past.
Article in today's SF Chronicle on Janis Ian (at Yoshi's SF Sept 16):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/12/PKB612O94M.DTL

I was astounded that she's only 57 (even tho' I shoulda known that).  Of course she was 16 when "Society's Child" hit...

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Q&A with Roberta Flack, who's finishing a Beatles tribute project
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/14/LVIP12G5NB.DTL

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Tom Jones to release first album in U.S. in 15 years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_en_ot/music_tom_jones_1

[Tinka Cat]

Al Stewart released a new record yesterday.  Yes, he's been way under chart radar for a long time, now.  Most people will recognize a few of his songs (The Year Of The Cat and Time Passages, mainly), but he's been cranking out the well-crafted songs ever since the late 60s.  A good number of them deal with historical figures (Warren Harding, Lord Grenville, etc.) so he's educational as well as fun!

I saw him at the Sausalito Arts fest a couple weeks back, and he'll be at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Dec 12.  Rock on, softly!

[RGMike]

Al Stewart released a new record yesterday.  Yes, he's been way under chart radar for a long time, now.  Most people will recognize a few of his songs (The Year Of The Cat and Time Passages, mainly), but he's been cranking out the well-crafted songs ever since the late 60s.  A good number of them deal with historical figures (Warren Harding, Lord Grenville, etc.) so he's educational as well as fun!

I saw him at the Sausalito Arts fest a couple weeks back, and he'll be at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Dec 12.  Rock on, softly!

Glad to hear he's still working. His pre-"Cat" stuff ("Roads to Moscow", "Nostradamus") was very big on NYC prog FM and is some of the smartest music of that period. I was happy when he broke thru but unfortunately with commercial success comes a certain backlash, and radio lost interest after "Time Passages".

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Joan Baez back on chart after 29 years
It's been 29 years since Joan Baez last appeared on the U.S. pop album chart, but her long hiatus ended this week when the folk singer's first album in five years debuted at No. 128.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/music_nm/baez_dc;_ylt=A0WTUdGYcNRIc24AHQGVEhkF

[RGMike]

Joan Baez back on chart after 29 years
It's been 29 years since Joan Baez last appeared on the U.S. pop album chart, but her long hiatus ended this week when the folk singer's first album in five years debuted at No. 128.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/music_nm/baez_dc;_ylt=A0WTUdGYcNRIc24AHQGVEhkF

So her last album, the one KFOG was playing a year or 2 ago, didn't chart? Hrm.

[ggould]

Joan Baez back on chart after 29 years
It's been 29 years since Joan Baez last appeared on the U.S. pop album chart, but her long hiatus ended this week when the folk singer's first album in five years debuted at No. 128.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/music_nm/baez_dc;_ylt=A0WTUdGYcNRIc24AHQGVEhkF

So her last album, the one KFOG was playing a year or 2 ago, didn't chart? Hrm.

There's an older album KPIG plays the title track a lot called "Play Me Backwards" I really like.  I don't know if it charted either.

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Elvin Bishop jams - and makes jam
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/19/PK8D12S056.DTL

[RGMike]

Phoebe Snow:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/23/DD8313LCQJ.DTL

[RGMike]

In case you were wondering whatever became of Robbie Nevil, he's one of the songwriters for High School Musical 3 !!  From the NYTimes review:

The best of the score’s several songwriters are the team of Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, whose auto junkyard anthem, “The Boys Are Back,” echoes Thin Lizzy’s 1976 hit “The Boys Are Back in Town” filtered through Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” and is frenziedly performed by a male chorus executing post-break-dance acrobatics on the hoods of rusted cars. The genre, which might be described as sugarcoated bubblegum hip-hop, may be disposable, but it is extremely catchy and rhythmically elastic.

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LaBelle (Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx & Sarah Dash) to tour behind first new disc in 32 years:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/29/DD0C13PIT0.DTL

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Where are they now?  Stars of Elections Past: updates on Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Geraldine Ferraro, Bob Dole, Katherine Harris:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl115

[Gazoo]

LaBelle (Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx & Sarah Dash) to tour behind first new disc in 32 years:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/29/DD0C13PIT0.DTL

Patti TORE IT UP on the National Anthem at Game 5 (Part 1) of the WS in Philly.