Sunday, July 29, 2012

Vote for Bernie!

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This isn't nepotism. If I didn't agree with the reviewers below and believe Bernie deserves the award, I wouldn't be sending this.

Enjoy, and Vote! -Ed

From: Bernie Pearl [mailto:berniepearl@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:11 PM
Subject: Vote for Bernie!

Click on You Tube icon above to view live performances of three songs found on Bernie Pearl's
"Sittin' on the Right Side of the Blues" .

Hello Blues Pals: We're about to move into the second month of voting for the
2012 Blues Blast Music Awards. "Sittin' On the Right Side of the Blues" is nominated for
the "Best Traditional Recording" award.

If you haven't already voted, you have until midnight, August 31 to cast your vote, but why wait?
Vote Now: http://www.TheBluesBlast.com . It's easy to do, it's free, you use your e-mail address, not your name, you will receive Blues Blast e-mag at no cost (you can also opt out), they don't share this information with anyone, you immediately become eligible for free blues gifts, and you can make one dedicated blues guitarist and his bassist, very, very happy. Please read on.

Mark Thompson, reviewer for the Crossroads Blues Society (Illinois) wrote me:

"You are the only solo act nominated - and the only one performing acoustically. That would indicate that your music really hit home with those people that decide who gets nominated.
I would say that this speaks volumes about your music."

And, indeed, many fans, friends, and Blues Music professionals have voiced their support. I have no idea how the vote stands now, and I don't know if I will ultimately tally the highest number, but if I stop now I will for sure not get to Buddy Guy's in late October to receive the award. Besides, friends, it is truly gratifying to receive notes of recognition for our work, and just asking for your consideration is deeply satisfying.
Here are some quotes from several published reviews of the CD. We're very proud of them:

Stephen A. King, Living Blues
".Pearl's music and voice evoke the unpretentious, truth-telling qualities of the blues... soulful and spiritual. (His) guitar virtuosity is evident..."

Mark C. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange (FAME.com)

"...crystal clear evocations of the deepest origins of the blues,
wellsprings Bernie is impeccably schooled in. his guitar work is just stunning ... sophisticated in so many ways that it'd take pages to parse and praise."

Vote Now: http://www.TheBluesBlast.com

Jim Kanavy, Blues Blast Magazine
"His guitar playing flows like the muddy Mississippi and his voice and vocal style evoke the emotions to match the music. He carries on the blues tradition of taking favorite bits and melding them into something new."

Joel Fritz, Golden Gate Grooves (S.F.)

"In particular, his slide playing in open tuning is marvelous.

He has a crisp attack, expressive vibrato, and impeccable time.
Pearl has the ability to approach an existing song from his own point of view and make the listener think about it in a different way."

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Mick Rainsford, Blues in Britain

"Pearl delivers a traditional blues masterclass,

his compelling vocals underpinned by some of the finest guitar picking and slide-work you are ever likely to hear."

Bill Wilson, Billtown Blues Notes (PA)

"Bernie Pearl, in a word, is a master. More than a simple CD, Sitting on the Right Side of the Blues captures a moment in time.a moment that should not be missed by any fan of traditional blues."

Vote Now: http://www.TheBluesBlast.com

Mark Thompson, Crossroads Blues Society of Northern Illinois

"His powerful singing continually diverts your attention from his masterful guitar work. Blues lovers who are looking for a more traditional blues sound should snap this one up right away."

Art Johnson, Critic, Teacher, Musician, France

"One of the stellar pieces on the CD for me is Bernie's composition, "Outside Boogie". In my opinion it is one of the most progressive acoustic blues guitar compositions ever written. If Thelonious Monk had played guitar it would have sounded just like this."

Vicente Zumel, La Hora Del Blues, Spain
".deep passion and credibility.he is born to play and live for the blues.something special other musicians are unable to communicate."

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Vote for Bernie!

Mark C. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange (FAME.com)

"...crystal clear evocations of the deepest origins of the blues,
wellsprings Bernie is impeccably schooled in. his guitar work is just stunning ... sophisticated in so many ways that it'd take pages to parse and praise."

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Vote for Bernie!

Mark C. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange (FAME.com)

"...crystal clear evocations of the deepest origins of the blues, wellsprings Bernie is impeccably schooled in. his guitar work is just stunning ... sophisticated in so many ways that it'd take pages to parse and praise."

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"...crystal clear evocations of the deepest origins of the blues,
wellsprings Bernie is impeccably schooled in. his guitar work is just stunning ... sophisticated in so many ways that it'd take pages to parse and praise."