‘I’m adept at indulging my own imagination. And to make that effective, and not just totally indulgent, you surround yourself with musicians that are better than you.’
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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Truth & Salvage, Cedric Burnside top Revival Fest bill
This week’s big news, of course, is the Savannah Stopover/Music File Productions Americana-rama event, Revival Fest, Sept. 14th at the Paint Shop and nearby open space at the Georgia State […]
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Face to face with the Collective Face
‘I think the advantage of having a repertory company is that you have a family bond… With a rep company, you know beforehand who is going to playing the parts in a season.’
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Kylesa’s back in shades of Ultraviolet
“We just kind of write what comes out,” says Phillip Cope. “At this point, we don’t worry about exactly where it’s supposed to fit in.”
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Summer Solstice Festival: 3 days of music
Zach Deputy: “It’s hard to find people that have the same kind of feel or vision for music that you do, when your vision is not narrow.”
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Curtain Call: DJ Queenan’s return
‘I absolutely love light, fluffy theater, I adore it, but I want the things we do at Bangers & Mash to have more meat to them.’
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Bill DeYoung remembers Ben
He commanded respect; one quick shake of his massive right hand and you knew you were in ‘no bullshit’ territory.
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A new beginning for Junkyard Angel
‘We cut 14 songs in three days,’ explains Stewart Marshall, one of the band’s singer/guitarists.’We really just hammered ’em out.’
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Ben Tucker, R.I.P.
‘I learned to become a jazz singer working with him… He gave me freedom. Basically, without actually saying the word, I was allowed to just fly, and isn’t that what jazz is all about?’
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A proper jazz sendoff
Ben Tucker probably would have laughed loudest at the stories his family, friends and colleagues told about him during Monday’s memorial service at Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Reuben Tucker […]
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Summer movies: Some like it cool
Savannahians have another option — classic films on the big screen in the lush and luxurious Lucas Theatre, and right around the corner, in the Trustees Theater.
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New music: KidSyc solo, Damon & the boys
Recorded at home in a 48-hour period, it utilizes beats from a California producer named Este, a bunch of his Savannah friends singing and rapping, and his own fertile, word-association brain.