6 cool things in music this week include Deadhead Bill Walton, Madeleine Peyroux and history of Flyt Tyme

A half-dozen cool issues in music, from two factors of view:

Toni Sauber of Rochester:

1 Shady Cove, “Shady Cove.” Nice summer season straightforward listening, and subsequent up is “Shady Cove II,” out there for pre-order. The Portland, Ore., band’s First Avenue efficiency again in November wowed me.

2 Marinero. The Los Angeles singer/songwriter has a brand new album popping out titled “La La La” in 2025. Actually enthusiastic about this. His “Hella Love” album is about saying goodbye to like. Simply loosen up and sway to the music.

3 Madeleine Peyroux. Trying ahead to the jazz chanteuse taking part in on the Dakota on Oct. 24-25. I take pleasure in her “Secular Hymns” on vinyl.

Jon Bream, Star Tribune critic:

1 Invoice Walton saluted. The basketball Corridor of Famer-turned-sportscaster, who died Could 27, was the most important Grateful Lifeless fan, figuratively and actually. He attended greater than 850 Lifeless concert events and cited them on his many broadcast appearances. Lifeless & Firm honored Walton with particular graphics at their Could 30 efficiency on the Sphere in Las Vegas, and San Diego Union-Tribune critic George Varga recounted his many musical encounters with Walton in his hometown. In a 1992 interview with Varga, Walton defined his love of the Lifeless: “I beloved the velocity, the dancing, the rhythm, the creativity. It is identical to being on a basketball group. Basketball, like good, artistic, rock music, is rarely the identical.”

2 “Tales From the Northside: Tales of Flyt Tyme,” Capri Theater. What a deal with to listen to the historical past of the Minneapolis band Flyt Tyme (later Flyte Time, which advanced into the Time), with Jellybean Johnson, cut-up David Eiland, the luxurious vocalist/saxophonist Cynthia Johnson and others. Mayor Jacob Frey spoke eloquently concerning the Minneapolis Sound, and a second panel mentioned educating youth about music. And there have been performances, by Twin Cities younger individuals in addition to Zay Starr, Dalé and Ty Prophecy and, after all, Jellybean and mates.

3 Joyann Parker, St. Paul yard live performance. What a trouper to play outdoor on the finish of a wet Sunday. Not solely did the excellent St. Croix Falls, Wis., singer/songwriter introduce some new materials (beloved “Beginning Line,” a rustic gospel quantity about somebody who strayed and is getting again to faith) however her guitarist Mark Lemoine gave a heroic — and formidable — efficiency, carrying a turtle-shell again brace and neck stabilizer after breaking his again days earlier in a car accident.

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