Pewee Valley’s Whiskey Bent Valley Boys answered a few questions for LMN:
Which is the first artist whose recordings you have all of?
“Stanley Brothers, Tommy Jerrell, Johnny Cash”
If you could keep audiences from saying one thing to you, what would
that be?

“Asking for man of constant sorrow from the movie brother where art thou’”
How many instruments of any kind have you owned and what was the oddest?
“between us all we have over 100 instrerments (sic), Mason has a huge collection of old time insterments, Gourd Banjo, Canjo’s , washtub bass
Have you ever used your rent/food/other important money to buy an instrument instead? What was it?
“Sold house hold items to buy a old parlor style guitar , 10 years ago “
Do you think it would help you to learn more music theory? Why not?
“Music theory would help us any, the music we play is raw and traditional old time mtn music”
Where do you think you’ll be in five years?
“we will be playing and honoring the old musicians that wrote a lot of this old traditional music, and playing our hearts out, hope to have many more records released, and playing many festivals and dates.”

The band was on WHAS’ Great Day Live recently. You can watch and hear them here.

In the tradition of previous Forecastle Festivals, the following parties are being offered (from the press release):

Consequence of Sound presents the Official Forecastle kickoff party, featuring indie pop duo Dean & Britta and electronic act Purity Ring. This 21-and-over event will take place on Thursday, July 12 at Club 116, located at 116 E. Main Street in Louisville.

Following their festival performances on Saturday, July 14, members of My Morning Jacket will make guest appearances as New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band graces the stage at an all-ages event on the historic Belle of Louisville steamboat, presented by Bell’s Brewery.”

Details on Friday’s after-party on the Belle, presented by Bell’s Brewery, as well as an additional Saturday after-party to be hosted at Club 116 will be forthcoming.”

Tickets for both events will go on sale Saturday, May 19 at noon at www.forecastlefest.com. Tickets for the official kickoff party at Club 116 will be $22 plus applicable service fees. Tickets to the Saturday after-party aboard the Belle of Louisville will be $50 plus applicable service fees.”

Over at The Paper, Sean Bailey has a long article about “local” music, including places to buy records. (Scroll past the screaming all-caps intro to get to the readable section.)
(Personal aside: I just cannot avoid thinking of late Thirties-era Germany when I see the logo for that paper. Kind of not my favorite period.)

Louisville may yet see another record store open, this one called Astro Black Records, at 930 Baxter Ave., specializing in, well, weird, records, especially vinyl. Never Nervous has the story.

This one is nearly pretty funny: A WWE-style call-out from Vaderbomb to Xerxes:
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Tnx to LouisvilleHardcore for the tip.

Brigid Kaelin made an surprise trip from Scotland for her folks and now she’s hanging around long enough to do a show at the Monkey Wrench on Friday, May 18.

Journalist, biographer and Elvis Presley expert Alanna Nash will give a brief presentation and Q&A session prior to the Clifton Center’s screening of the “King Creole,” a Wild and Woolly Film Series event, on Wednesday, May 16 at 6:30pm. The event is free for members of the Clifton Center and $5 for the general public. Appetizers and a cash bar will be available beginning at 5:30pm.

Bonnaroo has launched the new YouTube channel Bonnaroo365, where they will be “mixing the festival’s music, comedy and film offerings. Bonnaroo365 will feature new and unique videos everyday throughout the year.” In addition, current archives are available, with complete sets from various headliners, including My Morning Jacket’s 2011 set, which will only be available until tomorrow. May 15. Move fast.

VHS Or Beta came back to Kentucky, but only for a show at Buster’s in Lexington. UK’s student paper/website KyKernal.com published this review of the show, by Nini Edwards.

Joan Osborne has come to town, played and now is gone, in search of further sales of her new CD, Bring It On Home. Reviews like this one don’t hurt.

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