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Richard Gehr | May 30, 2007

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  • Los Angeles folknik Rickie Lee Jones's summer tour begins June 9 in Santa Rosa, California. Jones's rough and rapturous new album, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard, was inspired by the literal New Testament words of Jesus of Nazareth, resulting in some surprisingly secular country rock with improvised testimony.

  • Check out this trailer for Following the Ninth, a promising movie about the modern meaning of Beethoven's ninth symphony by documentary filmmaker Kerry Candaele. Far from a boring historical rehash, Following the Ninth explores the work's ability to inspire hope in oppressed citizens from China to Chile and elsewhere. [via The Rest Is Noise]

  • Seventy-nine-year-old Fats Domino performed for the first time since his home was destroyed by the Katrina levee failures. His half-hour May 19 appearance at New Orleans musical landmark Tipitina's was the long-awaited makeup for his no-show at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. All of which is merely an excuse to link to this great 1962 clip of Fats in Milan performing "Walking to New Orleans."

  • Hidden Track casts a skeptical eye on ten "second generation" rockers who "aim to pick up where their fathers' left off. Number one would be Dweezil Zappa, while number four turns out to be Joe Sumner, whose band Fiction Plane happens to be opening for daddy Sting's reunion tour with the Police.

  • Guitar guru and entertainingly pessimistic songwriter Richard Thompson's US tour for Sweet Warrior, the Fairport Convention co-founder's first electric album since 2003's The Old Kit Bag, begins June 8 in Aspen, Colorado.

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