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Once again I can report that 2007 is exiting with some serious celebrations. We had a fun evening last Thursday with Rex Peoples & X Factr setting the mood for the weekend. The following evening, Mojambus opened with riveting and exhilarating set before Jason Ricci and New Blood shook the rafters and brought a full and particularly virulent case of JRS to Boulder (see full explanation: http://www.bouldershomeoftheblues.com/News10.html). However, it was in the car en route to the Outlook for that considerable evening, when I got a wonderful early birthday present in the form of a phone call from one of my oldest friends regarding her son, my eleven-year-old “nephew” in HONEY: Hey, Deanna. What’s up? DEANNA: I have something to tell you about Mason. When I picked him up at school this afternoon, his music teacher pulled me aside and said, “Mason has a new love.” I said, really? What? And the teacher replied, “The Blues.” Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday, Aunt Honey [ok, actually he and his eight-year-old sister, Paige, call me Aunt Money, but that’s a whole other story], happy birthday to me! I spent the majority of my holiday weekend rifling through all of my CDs trying to come up with the perfect list to burn a mixed CD for the boy. This is grand news, indeed! I’m so happy I could cry. I would also welcome any suggestions as to what I should put on this disk. Perhaps we can make it a community effort, as I happen to believe in the “it-takes-a-village” philosophy of childrearing, and the earlier we can hook them, the better the future looks for the blues. Mason now wants to play the bass or guitar, but he’s been playing the violin for a while, which I understand he would currently prefer to abandon. Deanna is reluctant, and became more so when I reminded her guitarists make more money and get more chicks (I think it was the part about the chicks that chilled her blood). Speaking of guitarists getting chicks, Shawn “Guitarski” Starski celebrated his 28th birthday on 12/25, the poor bastard. Dan, Pat, Jean, and I gave him a card and extended our pity for him having to share his birthday with someone so much better known. You’ll get there Shawn, you’ll get there. Happy birthday again. And as long as we’re talking birthdays (ok fine! I’m the only one talking birthdays, but indulge me), I do believe mine is TOMORROW!!! 12/27, come out and get your party on with the Delta Sonics! I have a feeling some other musicians might be stopping by and sitting in. Who? Come and find out. And have some cake. And don’t be late. I got a new dress. The CD Release Party for Dan Treanor and Jack Hadley Friday night should be a lot of fun, and I’m really looking forward to it. I hope to see you there. I’m keeping this week’s edition a little short. I ate too much yesterday and still feel mentally sluggish. So sue me. I’ll be back next week to start telling you about what’s coming up at the Outlook in Two Thousand and Great. (This is contingent on Dan remembering to tell me.) Honey Sepeda email  Visit our site and sign the | Check Out Jason's Latest Ink  Some excerps from the article in the February / March 2008 Issue: Jason: "I realized that blues music for the Kimbroughs and the Burnsides was a cultural tradition. They were born into it, and I wasn't. And I had to make that okay in my life. That was hard, because I had such a love of the music." **************** "There's no question that drugs and alcohol played a part in me living the 'blues mythology'. And eventually it becomes a very real part of your life. Your options are: You're going to jail, you;re going to die, pr you're gonna get sober." **************** Author: Young by blues standards (he's 33), Ricci has experienced a lifetime's worth of highs and lows. From his days on the streets to his current standing as a rising star on the blues scene, music has remained a grounding force in Ricci's life. He has armfuls of tattoos and brightly died hair, and he got his start playing harmonica in a punk band ("I wasn't a very good singer, even by punk standards," he says, and I think the band picked that instrument for me because they know it couldn't really mess up the songs that bad"), but blues is Ricci's true love. Ever the boundary-breaker, Ricci sees similarities between the two seemingly disparate styles of blues and punk. "Blues bands are a lot like punk bands," he insists. "they [both] seem to really mean what they're talking about. the punk world is about sincerity and speaking your mind, and the thing that attracted me to the [blues] was that integrity and honesty." With that, Ricci drives home the compelling argument for playing his music his way. "I don't wann get up there and do some kind of an act where I pretend that I've done this or that," hs says. "I think there just needs to be more people rocking, and telling people, 'You know what? We're rocking!' I mean, we've got funny hair, and we dress funny, and we go instage, and we rock."
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