Wild as all that may sound, Lifted is still the work of a master craftsman, and the album’s nimble arrangements and judicious use of special guests-from Gary Clark Jr. The writing is bold and self-assured, standing up to hard times and loss with grit and determination, and the playing is muscular to match, mixing pop gleam with hip-hop swagger and second line abandon. Recorded at Shorty’s own Buckjump Studio with producer Chris Seefried (Fitz and the Tantrums, Andra Day), the album finds the GRAMMY-nominated NOLA icon and his bandmates tapping into the raw power and exhilarating grooves of their legendary live show, channeling it all into a series of tight, explosive performances that blur the lines between funk, soul, R&B, and psychedelic rock. Take a listen to Lifted, Trombone Shorty’s second release for Blue Note Records, and you’ll hear that same ecstatic energy coursing through the entire collection. We were still sweaty and buzzing from the energy of the gig, and we definitely carried that vibe into the session with us.” “I had an idea for a new song right after the show,” says Shorty, “so the band and I decided to go straight into the studio and record it that night. It was after midnight when Trombone Shorty stepped offstage at the House of Blues in New Orleans, but he wasn’t done playing yet.
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Soon, though, her loneliness and restless imagination are seized by the vacant house on the hill. She even gives up her dream of flying an airplane, trying instead to fit in at the stuffy Ladies Aid quilting circle. Dolly tries to adapt to her new life by keeping the house, supporting her husband’s career, and fretting about dinner menus. When Dolly Magnuson moves to Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, in 1950, she discovers all too soon that making marriage work is harder than it looks in the pages of the Ladies’ Home Journal. Like Whitney Otto’s How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women’ s lives, and reminiscent of novels by Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, Keeping the House is a rich tapestry of a novel that introduces a wonderful new fiction writer. Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’ s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. I learned how to do comics by telling the story. I’m not a traditional cartoonist, in the sense that I didn’t start knowing how to do comics and then told the story. So it took a decade, but it sounds like you spent most of that time learning how to tell the story more than anything. I was writing the book on the side, so it wasn’t until I took a break from high school teaching two and a half years ago that I was able to devote myself to the book and finish it. The other reason it took so long was I had a baby and I moved across the country and I helped start a brand new school for recent immigrants and English language learners in Oakland, California. I had to take a long time to actually learn the medium of comics. Because I could write and I could draw, I figured maybe I could do a graphic novel. At the same time, I started reading some really seminal graphic novels like Maus by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. All before the killer discovers she’s a loose end that requires snipping. Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress.Īll they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep the by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. He’s a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift. Unless the “others” are of the female persuasion. Nick Santiago doesn’t play well with others. Just when things can’t get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor.who turns up murdered. And those hallucinations she’s diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they’re clairvoyant visions. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is.ĭivorced. |