OHO, live at Bourbon Street On The Beach, Saturday, December 3, 2016
6:00 to 9:00PM
Original, rock/pop/jazz/folk-inflected music, a plethora of sophisticated cover tunes and some of the best food north of the Big Easy
Aug 15, 2014
10:00 PM Ocean City, MD
Johnny's Pizza & Pub
Baltimore's Iconic Rock/Pop/Folk/Jazz/Prog Musical Collective OHO
Jul 26, 2014
4:00 PM Ocean City, MD
Warrens Park
Baltimore's Iconic Rock/Pop/Folk/Jazz/Prog Musical Collective OHO
Jun 25, 2014
10:00 PM Ocean City, MD
Johnny's Pizza & Pub
Jay Graboski, Founding Member of Baltimore's Iconic Rock/Pop/Folk/Jazz/Prog Musical Collective OHO - solo
OHO's
"Ocean City Ditty," the
CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4
(and, if
you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD)
My latest solo release, '2014', can be downloaded digitally at:
(or you can copy-and-paste this URL directly to
your browser: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rayjozwiak4)
Over the course of his career, Maryland native Doug Alan Wilcox has traveled a road from solo acoustic artist through numerous electric bands of various stripes and back again, performing along the way at some of the country's more notable venues as well as countless small cafes and concert spaces.
The sound is a singer/songwriter stew of acoustic folk, blues, soul, and jazz — sophisticated yet as comfortable as a well-worn shirt. The message is uplifting - speaking straight to the human condition. Intimate, thought-provoking and on occasion, wryly humorous, Wilcox delivers music that will stick in your head — as well as your heart…
OHO's
"Ocean City Ditty," the
CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4
(and, if
you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD).
My latest solo release, Black & White Then Back,
can be downloaded digitally at:
(or you can copy-and-paste this URL directly to
your browser: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rayjozwiak3)
(based upon http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tomdews and http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tomdews2)
Georgia-born singer/songwriter/bluesman TOM DEWS puts guitar/simultaneous harmonica and vocals together to create a satisfying blend of original acoustic folk and blues. Growing up in South Georgia and Central Florida he soaked up roots rhythms and fished the Flint, Ocmulgee, Chatahoochee and Oklawaha rivers. After recent sojourns in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Dews makes his home now in Washington, DC.
Tom released his first recording, EPIPHANIES & EPITAPHS, after a successful tour in Ireland several years ago. The CD features original songs and instrumentals, some collected from years of playing coffeehouses and bars from Savannah to Minneapolis, and some stuff inspired by the time in Ireland. Reflecting on his musical adventures Dews says, " A novelist creates a fictive dream, and when done well there are revelations for the reader. My interest is in creating a mood, at once mirthful and melancholy - a sort of re-creation of the old 'hearth' experience. Created by artist and audience together, this mood-edifice can generate spontaneous improvisations that are nourishing for everybody - a sort of musical epiphany can strike its seal into the world."
Tom surrounds gritty vocals with deft acoustic guitar and haunting harmonica to provide a satisfying foray down the back roads of literate folk/blues. Collected on his third CD (DRIVING DREAMS), are songs of loss and regret, blues to soothe, and anthems of hope. He counts among his influences Mose Allison, Lyle Lovett, J.J. Walker, Delbert McClinton, Pierce Pettis, Keb Mo and Tom Kimmel. You’ll hear him in his familiar mode here doing the simultaneous guitar/harp thing in an inimitable way, but there are also two piano solo pieces and several National Resophonic instrumentals.
In 1996, Peter Gabriel's A&R associate Harvey Schartz presented Gabriel with a demo of (Joseph) Arthur's first EP, Cut and Blind. Gabriel and Schwartz arranged a live audition at The Fez nightclub in New York City, and Arthur flew up from Atlanta. The night was a success; not only was Lou Reed a guest in the audience, but within a few months Arthur was officially signed, making him the first American recording artist signed to Gabriel's label Arthur recorded his debut album at Gabriel's Real World Studios in England with producer Markus Dravs (Björk, Coldplay, Arcade Fire). The debut album Big City Secrets was released worldwide in spring 1997, and Arthur joined Gabriel's WOMAD tour in Europe. Big City Secrets displayed Arthur's often angsty and emotionally-wrought lyrics coupled with diverse instrumentation, which he himself described as "someone struggling to heal over experimental folk-rock", but went virtually unnoticed by the mainstream. Two years later, he recorded an EP called Vacancy, which earned him a Grammy nomination in 2000 for best recording package.
Whether you love that song or despise it, Peter, Paul and Mary were much, much more than that!
(from wikipedia.com)
". . .Manager Albert Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary in 1961, after auditioning several singers in the New York folk scene. After rehearsing them out of town in Boston and Miami, Grossman booked them into The Bitter End, a coffee house, nightclub and popular folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.
They recorded their first self-titled debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary, the following year. It included "Lemon Tree", "500 Miles", and the Pete Seeger hit tunes "If I Had a Hammer" (subtitled "The Hammer Song") and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?". The album was listed in the Billboard Magazine Top Ten for 10 months, including seven weeks in the #1 position. It remained a main catalog-seller for decades to come, eventually selling over two million copies, earning Double Platinum certification from the RIAA in the United States alone.
In 1963 the group also released "Puff, the Magic Dragon", with music by Yarrow and words based on a poem that had been written by a fellow student at Cornell, Leonard Lipton. Despite urban myths that insist the song is filled with drug references, it is actually about the lost innocence of
childhood. . .
The trio canceled several dates of their summer 2007 tour, as Mary took longer than expected to recover from back surgery and later had to undergo a second surgery, further postponing the tour.
Travers was unable to perform on the trio's tour in mid-2009 because of her leukemia, but Peter and Paul performed the scheduled dates as a duo, calling the show "Peter & Paul Celebrate Mary and 5 Decades of Friendship."
The Peter, Paul and Mary trio came to an end on September 16, 2009, when Mary Travers died at age 72 of complications from chemotherapy, following treatment for leukemia. It was the same year (2009) they were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In 2010, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, the surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary, requested that the National Organization for Marriage stop using their recording of "This Land is Your Land" at their rallies, stating in a letter that the organization's philosophy was "directly contrary to the advocacy position" held by the group. . ."
Writing to acquaint you with OHO and our music in hopes of securing future performance dates at _______________**.
OHO began as Baltimore's answer to Pink Floyd, an American underground icon, a band that came out of nowhere playing music the chroniclers swore was years ahead of its time. OHO sneaks around the musical conventions that have mummified so many others, unleashing sliders where you'd expect curve balls, fast balls where you'd expect change-ups. Part of it is their sense of humor, part of it their unerring humanity. A curious anomaly, the band was totally out of synch with current musical trends when they formed in late 73, a five-piece multi-instrumental, avant garde, acid-progressive band from Baltimore with a do-it-yourself lifestyle and album/label/outlook who were either seven years too late or seventeen years too early.
After almost forty years of evolution from precocious prog-rock darlings to pre-punk garage rebels, to folk-jazz free fliers to power-trio original and sophisticated-covers band, OHO (now consisting of founders Jay Graboski and David Reeve, reunited with thirty-year musical collaborator [1970s Ful Treatment] Ray Jozwiak and occasional, special, when-available, musical guests) now belts out a bevy of thought-provoking original material blended with classics and the cream of current, intelligent rock and roll, spiced with musical influences from everywhere-including the kitchen sink- for your dancing, dining and drinking pleasure. A physical and aural delight.
We hope to experience the pleasure of performing for your fine clientele at ____________** in the near future. Looking forward to hearing from you. A CD of the current incarnation of OHO is enclosed and and free download card (to experience the rich history of OHO) for your review and musical pleasure.
(from F.A.M.E. [Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise] January 2013 Newsletter by Tom Kohlhepp)
". . Pete Seeger... Man! Where do I start? No I'm serious, where do I start? Pete will be 94 in May and his career has seen 13 U.S. presidents come and go (think about that for a minute), and he's still going strong. I'll get some of the basic information out of the way first, and then get into some of the lesser known interesting facts that I’d like to share.
Pete was born May 3, 1919 in Patterson NY. He grew up in a household filled with both music and political activism. Both his parents served on the faculty at Julliard. His mother was a violinist and his father was a musicologist and conductor who was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and a conscientious objector during WWI. At the age of 17 Pete heard the 5 string banjo for the first time at a Folk song festival in North Carolina and his life was changed forever. He enrolled at Harvard University (his father’s Alma mater) and after two miserable years, he left in the spring
of 1938. He had Folk music in his blood by then and it was pounding away in head.
On March 3, 1940, a date that folklorist Alan Lomax once said could be celebrated as the beginning of modern Folk music, Pete Seeger met Woody Guthrie at a “Grapes of Wrath” migrant worker benefit concert. The duo formed “The Almanac Singers” who recorded many labor union songs among others. In 1942, Pete was drafted into the army and spent most of his time performing for the troops in the South Pacific. He married in 1943. It's said that behind every great man there's a great woman, and Toshi is that woman. They have been married now for nearly 70 years. In an interview once, she joked that she wished that Pete chased women instead of causes so she could leave him.
In 1948 Seeger helped form “The Weavers” made up of Fred Hellerman, Lee Hays, and Ronnie Gilbert. I remember the first time I saw the Weavers sing. Ronnie Gilbert would throw her head back and just belt out the song like there was an old deaf lady in the back row that she was singing too. God, she was great! In 1958 the Weavers and Pete Seeger parted ways and he started out on his solo career.
Pete was never in music for the money, but for the ability to make a statement and change people’s hearts and minds. The inscription on his banjo reads “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” Most people don't know that the reason he left the Weavers was because the other members agreed to do a cigarette commercial and Pete was against smoking. He stands for his principles. Granted, you might not agree with them, but you have to tip your hat to the man for his passion. His adherence to the sanctity of folk music came to a boiling point in 1965 when he literally tried to run over and pull the plug on a very electrified set of Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival.
One of Pete’s most famous songs is “Where Have All The Flowers Gone.” There's a great story about it that I'd like to share with you. He was at home reading a book called “All Quiet Flows the Don.” It's about the Don River in Russia and the Cossacks who lived along it in the 19th century. The Cossacks would gallop off to join the Czar's army, singing as they went. There were three lines from the book he liked so much he scribbled them down. “Where are the flowers? The girls plucked them. / Where are the girls? They're all married. / Where are the men? They’re all in the army.” Later, on an airplane flight, he was dozing and thought of the line “long time passing” that he had written for future use and scribbled down in his note book. He thought it would sing well with it. Then he said to himself, “When will they ever learn?” and shook his head. All of a sudden the light bulb went off and in 20 minutes he had the song. He had three verses taped to the microphone and sang it at Oberlin College in 1955. I said he had three verses. Where did the other ones we know come from? Ahh, read on Grasshopper...
One of the students in the audience at Oberlin had a summer job as a camp counselor. He took the song to the camp and sang it to the kids. It was very short and he gave it rhythm, which Pete didn't do. The kids played around with it and the counselor added two actual verses: “Where have all the soldiers gone? / Gone to grave yards everyone. / Where have all the grave yards gone? / Covered with flowers everyone.” The counselor’s name is Joe Hickerson and to this day Pete Seeger gives him 20% of the royalties from the song. How cool is that!. . ."
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