Music Tampa Bay Playlist

Connections

Events and appearances by LOCAL ARTISTS

Note: Suncoast Blues Society Shows now at this LINK. USA Entertainment listings, including karaoke & others at this LINK.

UPDATES AND REMOVAL OF OUTDATED INFO MAY BE DELAYED AT TIMES BETWEEN NOW AND MID SEPTEMBER.

This Weekend

Friday 09.03.10

5:00PM David J Potts Green Iguana Ybor City

6:00PM Fred George & Don E Mak Courside Grill Tampa

7:00PM Mike Calzone "R"-Bar Treasure Island

7:00PM Lenny Austin (& Janie) Horse & Jockey Pub South Pasadena

8:00PM Papos, others - Open Mic - Tre Amici @ The Bunker Ybor City

8:00PM Chicken Chasers Gulfporch - front of Blind Dog Productions - Gulfport

9:00PM Sarasota Slim/Nitro Jam Screwie Louie's Madeira Beach

9:00PM Jimmy Griswold Niagra Tap Largo

9:30PM Mojo Gurus, Taint Beach Bar Clearwater

10:00PM Sweet Spot Sarasota Beach Club Sarasota

Wendy Rich/w Big Mack Attack opening for Tinsly Ellis at Skippers Tampa

Bobby Palermo Dockside Lake Tarpon Resort Tarpon Springs

Will Erickson & Local Roots w/10th Concession, No Ordinary Cats Jannus Live St Pete

Saturday 09.04.10

3:30PM Charlie Morris Peninsula Inn Gulfport

5:00PM Rebel Pride Bike Fest Historic Downtown Plant City

5:00PM The Tempests Gators John's Pass Madeira Beach

7:00PM North 2 South Cha Cha Coconuts The Pier St Pete

7:00PM Mike Calzone "R"-Bar Treasure Island

7:00PM Bobby Palermo American Legion Post 7 Clearwater

8:00PM Hip Abduction 8th Annual Gecko Fest Gulfport

8:00PM Jodell & the Mountain Road Band Remington's Steakhouse Wesley Chapel

8:30PM Fred George & Don & Mak Upper Deck Weeki Wachee

9:00PM Have Gun Will Travel Ace's Lounge Bradenton

9:00PM Sweet Spot Screwie Louie's Madeira Beach

9:00PM Earth Bombs Mars Dunedin Brewery Dunedin

9:30PM Lenny Austin & Motel Funk Cricketer's Dunedin

10:00PM Cope Local 662 Central Ave St Pete

10:00PM Jimmy Griswold Ella's Folk Art Cafe Tampa

Four Star Riot Jimmy B's Beachcomber Resort St Pete Beach

Sunday 09.05.10

4:00PM Steve Arvey & Mike Davis Ella's Folk Art Cafe Tampa

5:00PM Sandy Atkinson Jam Sunset Grill 9th St North St Pete

8:30PM Rebel Pride Labor Day Bash Bent Elbow II Largo

Dunedin Doggie Rescue DOG WASH - Dunedin Brewery

musicians displayed in blue font heard regularly on MTB.

UPDATES AND REMOVAL OF OUTDATED INFO MAY BE DELAYED AT TIMES THRU MID SEPTEMBER.

Appearances listed are principally derived from scans of MySpace webpages, weekly & advance calendars promoted by the Suncoast Blues Society, direct communications from artists and other sources. All are subject to change without notice in this column. Not responsible for errors in locations, times or other details. For questions about appearances, refer to the venue indicated or artist websites & MySpace pages. Send your concert/live show info to rick@musictampabay.com

Top 10

(Voting during week of Aug 23-29)

UPDATES AND REMOVAL OF OUTDATED INFO MAY BE DELAYED AT TIMES BETWEEN NOW AND MID SEPTEMBER.

If there was ever any doubt about the ability of Heather Leigh to rock her way to the top in the MTB Top 10, her latest song, Wrecked should prove otherwise, remaining at #1 for the 2nd week in a row. High energy performers, Sweet Spot also continue to draw strong support from their fans. Madeira Girl remains at #2 also for the 2nd week in row. Last minute votes pushed North 2 South back into the top 3 with Good Girls Love Bad Boys returning to the #3 spot after an absence of several weeks. Note: Due to internal circumstance, votes cast after 7pm on Sunday are not included in the totals and could not be counted in determining an accurate listing of the Top 10 for this week only. Here is how the vote added up to that hour and date: 128 votes were counted for the week: #1 = 24, #2 = 19, #3 = 18, #4 = 17, #5 & #6 = 16, #7 = 8, #8 = 6, #9 =4. #10 = 0. All songs are kept in the Top 10 for a minimum of 2 weeks, and all songs in this particular list are carried over from the previous week, though normally there are some deletions and additions. 3 songs that are new to the daily music stream have been added to the Big Bay 99 as posted on the Playlist page. Voting each week determines the #1 song and order of songs in the Top 10 for the following week. One vote per day per listener.

Musicians Seek Ads, Classifieds & other artist resources can be found at the USA Entertainment link posted in the lower left column on this webpage.

Now Playing Widgets

MTB is considering the adoption of a widget display, such as in the example shown below, that tracks currently playing songs and displays artist, track name, album, and album art. Also displayed are a Buy link (or special link if track data is unavailable) and a Listen link. Functionality of these options is not yet fully developed.

Home Again
The Hip Abduction
Home Again

Buy

Listen

2 artists have so far expressed an interest in pursuing this option on the MTB website. Others are invited to comment or make their interest known by email to musictampabay@msn.com.

REVERBNATION

MTB has begun to explore the resources that are available at www.reverbnation.com. For the first time, an empirical analysis of music downloads by artists listed by global, national and local criteria exists in a form that can be sorted by music genre, including the category of all genres. The following list is a summary of local musicians heard in the MTB music stream, who can also be found there. Further modification of this list can be expected in the near future to include genre and relative ranking in the Reverbnation charts.

10th Concession
39 Stripes
Alex Wolfe Parnes
Barkin' Barney & the Tallboys
Calvin Oatsvall
Charlie Morris
Charlie Souza
Chicken Chasers
Christie Lenee
Consinity
Dave Harrill
David J Potts
DVS The Band
Earth Bombs Mars
Experimental Pilot
Franc Robert
Gale Trippsmith
Greg Lahasky
Guilty by Design
Hannah's Whirl
Heather Leigh
Hecate's Wheel
Jak Kelly
Jimmy Griswold
Julie Black
KORE
Leigh Humes
Lenny Austin
Maggie Council
Nick Neskovski
North 2 South
Offshore Riot
Orange Hour
Phil Traynor
Randy BluesmanHock's Bluesmachine & Friends
Rich Whitely
Richard MacLemale
Road Trip
Ronny Elliott
Sandy Atkinson
Scotty Lee Rexroat
Shelly Starks
Steve Vaclavik
Straightup Blues Band
Sunset Bridge
Tail Gunner Joe
Ted Lucas & The Misled
The Ditchflowers
The Hip Abduction
The Sheaks
Thrown Alive
Tom Mullally
Tom Scudiero
Tom Stephans, Big Tar Ball
Tribal Style
Variety Workshop
WD Han
Wendy Rich
Will Erickson & Local Roots

This list is still in development stage and may be missing some contributors to the MTB music stream. Artists who do not see their name listed are invited to contact the website to request an update. In the future it is expected that Reverbnation charts will be used extensively in evaluating music for webplay on Music Tampa Bay.

Pirate Radio - The Reality!

The movie Pirate Radio that was released in late 2009 is a sex, drugs and rock & roll romp set against a form of radio that previously was virtually unknown in the USA. Music Tampa Bay owes its roots to the very real Pirate Radio ship pictured above, which was anchored in the North Sea off the coast of England in 1966. It housed two 50,000+ watt AM radio stations, Britain Radio and Swinging' Radio England.

The St Pete Times published a story in conjunction with the release of the movie about the stations on this ship and its link to MTB. An on-line version of this story, including an audio track on-air archive recording and recent interview can still be found at this LINK. It describes, in part, how this 4-1/2 decades old intrusion into UK music culture evolved through a life-long broadcast career in the US, including more than 25 years as on over-the-air radio programmer in a half dozen states, including Florida and the Tampa Bay area, culminating in what is heard today on this website.

"Pirate Dude" Says...

How to feel miserable as an artist

Constantly compare yourself to other artists

Talk to your family about what you do and expect them to cheer you on

Base the success of your entire career on one project

Stick with what you know

Undervalue your expertise

Let money dictate what you do

Bow to societal pressure

Only do work that your family would love

Do whatever the client / customer / venue owner / patron / investor asks

Set unachievable, overwhelming goals to be accomplished by tomorrow

Copied from the website of the Pinellas Musicians Coalition (link elsewhere on this page) – author not identified. MTB Comment - can be applied to just about anyone engaged in any endeavor.

MTB Upgrades & Changes

SYSTEM UPGRADES

Music streaming and website operations were moved to a new server during the summer of '09, providing for triple previous music library storage space, and 4 times previous bandwidth. Accordingly, streaming bitrates now meet or exceed FM quality at 128 kbps @ 44,100 Htz.

Music Library listings (link in panel at left) have also been updated and are being kept relatively current. At the start of 2010, approximately 750 songs are listed and in active rotation on the MTB playlist, with hundreds more on the shelf, and still more coming in all the time.

09.09.09 MTB revised the current music playlist link in panel at left) to the "Big Bay 99". In this same week, a new On Demand podcast audio player was added to the homepage, providing for instant availability of selected program features.

10.23.09 MTB initiated live streaming, providing programming direct from Pro Star Studios, St Pete during a live performance. Additional modifications have been made to enable this feature on a regular basis in future programming.

Finally, MTB now also provides an interactive music voting option, to give listeners a voice in determining how songs should be ranked in the Top 10, including selection of the #1 song in the weekly on-line streaming playlist. This feature was also used in selecting the #1 song of 2009 after a year-end review of the top 100 songs of the year replaced regular programming in late December and early January.

5 Years & 1000 Songs on MTB

Two major milestones were reached, almost simultaneously, this year. Just after Music Tampa Bay observed it's 5th Anniversary of music streaming (as of March 6th, 2010) , the 1,000th song was also added to the MTB Music Library. The total number of local artists in the music stream now exceeds 250.

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vote now for your favorite top 10 song. it's easy. check the ballot box below.

"If you've clicked, you've voted, thanks".

One vote per listener per day! Any attempt to exceed this limit will NOT be accepted at the MTB server, and votes can not be recalled once they've been entered. Results determine the #1 Song and order of selections in the Top 10 for the following week.

Feature ArtisTs   - James Hawkins -



James Hawkins appropriately describes his art as "simple music for complex times". He was born in Kentucky, but now lives south of the bay in Venice, often seen all around the Tampa Bay area at coffee houses and open mics. He claims his influences as Harry Chapin and Woody Guthrie, among others, and is heard every Saturday at 9am on Sarasota Community Radio Station WSLR at 96.5 FM, and on-line at WSLR.org. Fans can learn more by checking out his website at www.JRHawkins.com.
One track each hour in the MTB music stream.







Future Feature Artists that will be heard in weeks ahead include Rich Whiteley, Jak Kelly, Jeff O'Kelly, Jose Primero, and Steve Vaclavik. Artists who submit CD's to the PO Box above are eligible for future webplay as the MTB Feature Artist of the Week.

PLAYLISTS - The current weekly Big Bay 99, including the Top-10 & #1 Song of the Week above are posted on the Playlist page. Check the link in the column at left. Also on this page, the Top 100 Songs of 2009 and 2008. And at the bottom of the page, info for artists who might wish to submit songs for webplay or take a look at the criteria used for ranking songs.

ARTIST COMMENTS

Al Alvarez

Thanks for supporting Independent Artists in the Tampa Bay area and beyond. Here's wishing you great success...from Mason/Alvarez. Keep Strummin'

A Show Of Hands

All the band would like to thank you Rick and your staff for your time and effort to make a great station and giving us and all the other artists a place to shine and be heard....Keep up the good work and let the Artist be heard!!!

BAAMO (Laura)

Thank You so much for this amazing show of support! (It) just goes to show why we have the best kept music secret in the Southeast.

Baluja

MTB is a beautiful thing! Thanks for providing an outlet for the many artists in the Tampa Bay area.

Barkin' Barney

Been listening a lot lately, sounds great!

Blue Island Club (Colin Ward)

We have enjoyed listening to all the great artists on your station.

Bob Lever & Crossbridge

Sounds Great. Your support of the local Tampa Bay musicians is greatly appreciated.

Cindy / North 2 South

Many thanks to all of the folks who've been listening and supporting this great station and all of the amazing talent here....Here's to a great new year of continued expansion, new opportunity, and even more great music here on MusicTampaBay.com.

Colin Ward

Thanks for featuring my CD, The ICW Blues, on Music Tampa Bay. How kewl is that!

Constance

Thank you for everything you do for all the artists in the Tampa Bay area. I'm glad to be a part of it all, along with all these awesome talented musicians.

David DeBlois

Something very cool going on here.

David J. Potts

I just want to say how great this station is and what a privilege it is to be included amongst the many very talented acts included on the playlist....Keep up the great work! Beats the hell out of "commercial radio", that's for sure!

Dawn Willey

What you are doing for local artists is awesome.

Double M Band

MTB has really rolled out the red carpet for local independant artists!

F&F Blues Project

MTB is a Beacon for the Indie Tampa Bay Artists

Fremont John

Thanks for your continued support through recent years. You and MTB provide a wonderful support for all of Tampa Bay's talented musicians and singer/songwriters. As Neil Young says, "Long May You Run".

Gracie / Sunset Bridge

Very excited to be apart of this energy.

Greg Poulous

We are proud to be a part of MTB. What a great idea.

Harmonica Gregg

Thanks for everything you do.

Heather Leigh

Thank you so much for supporting indie artists.

Howard Ingham

Great idea. Thanks.

Jak Kelly

Your support of us local singer/songwriters is so much appreciated.

Julie Black

Thanks for supporting all the incredible music in Tampa Bay!

Larry Reidt

Love it all!

Leigh Humes

Love the site, and my has it grown. Thanks for supporting local artists.

Maggie Council

Thanks for all you do to support local music.

Maxx (Max Combs)

Great idea!

Mike Worrall / Stephans/Worrall/McKee

Thanks so much for your efforts on behalf of indie music in the Bay area

Paul Guy Bovee

It is an honor to be on Music Tampa Bay. So much good music here. (MTB) is a great friend to us all.

Phil Traynor

Thanks for being so supportive of local music!

Rebekah Pulley

Thank you so much for all your work supporting the local artists We truly do appreciate it.

Regina AaMacha

I feel honored to be included in such a great line up of professional musicians

Sarah Conness - (Lakeland Promoter)

You are amazing. Thanks for rockin!

Seasons Of The Wolf (Skully)

Thanks for the support on Music Tampa Bay. We appreciate it.

Sheila Kirsten Hughes

Thanks so much for adding our music. Yay!

Shelly Starks

Rick, thank you for keeping Indie music alive in Tampa Bay!

Soulfound (Ivan)

Great site. Keep up the great work!

Steve Arvey

Cant believe how many great artists live in this area!! Thanks for such a great site!!

Steve Dockendorf

Thanks, Rick, for playing my music and for your invaluable support of Tampa Bay local artists.

Steve Vaclavik

It's an honor to be on your site. Thanks for all you do for the local original artist.

Vain Rachell

Thanks so very much for supporting local independent musicians and songwriters....It's refreshing to have a portal into which we can share our music with a fantastic audience while enjoying everyone else's.

Comments are welcome in the Guestbook on the Contact Page.

LINKS

Music Tampa Bay programming can now be heard on the IRN - The Internet Radio Network 7 days a week in Afternoon Drive Time from 3 until 6pm. MTB music can also be found at RealitySnap.com, a.k.a. TampaBayMusicScene.com. Now Playing song info and a link to the website, along with a wealth of inforrmation relative to the local music scene can be found at USAEntertainment.com. Read weekly updates about local artists heard on MTB at Tampa on-line blog, SticksOfFire.com. Links for all 4 of these sites are available by clicking on the icons displayed above. Other sites of interest below...

OTHER KEY LINKS TO FOLLOW...

Music Tampa Bay was established with the creation of the internet domain name on July 2nd, 2003 and became operational with streaming music by local artists on March 6th, 2005. The Music Tampa Bay name, logo and audio jingles are the property of the website owner as registered through GoDaddy.com on or before Labor Day, 2009. Music lyrics, compositions, arrangements, performances and recordings and associated photographs and/or logos are the exclusive property of the artists indicated or their designated representatives. Windows Media icon, along with those of various groups and entities described within the website are owned by those companies, organizations or individuals and used by expressed or implied consent. All other materials are considered free and open source with no known claim of ownership or copyright.

Features, Events & News

DELAYS MAY BE EXPERIENCED IN UPDATING OR REMOVING OUTDATED INFORMATION THROUGH MID SEPTEMBER.

Drill Baby Drill, Kill Baby Kill

Most of the oil from this year's massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now hidden from view, and beginning to fade from the headlines,, but its affects are certain to be felt by coastal residents, including seabirds and marine animals, for years and perhaps decades or generations to come. At least 7 Tampa Bay area artists have recognized this calamity and placed their concerns about the disaster into songs now being heard in the MTB music stream.

One such composition is an 8 minute masterpiece by the father/son team of Max and Wyatt Combs that was also produced as a music video, Fire on the Water. The video is on YouTube at this LINK. Be advised, as you might expect, it is difficult to watch in places, but well worth it. Another gulf oil song to come forth is from Heather Leigh, who asks the question in her song, Paradise Lost, that seems to have been largely lost in media coverage about the event, "What's the price of Paradise Lost?" The work is co-produceed with TV10 News Reporter Mike Deeson, and also features a video that can be seen at this LINK. Note, a short commercial precedes the clip, and it too contains images that can be difficult to watch. Next is a sort of a semi-novelty tune with a message that tells us "there's got to be a fall guy, (and) we already know his name". It's called Big Tar Ball, by Tom Stephans. Isla Del Sol musician Bobby Smith is also part of this group, pledging half the proceeds from the sale of his song written about the spill to the National Wildlife Federation. Called, Please Save Our Beaches, it also has an accompanying video at a website featuring his music at this LINK. MTB also learned recently that Tampa music magician, Baluja joined this lineup shortly after the epic began with a tune named for the oil rig that exploded and sank, causing the disaster, Deepwater Horizon. He says he knows it is "a little outdated now, but the ramifications will live on forever." The sixth song in this series is from from Gracie Grieshop of Sunset Bridge called Big Black Tears. She says it will be on a new album expected to be released soon. Rounding out the set of oil songs is a new effort by MTB favorite Charlie Souza, called Make It Right (in the Gulf of Mexico).

Charlie says "all proceeds from downloads go toward helping our effort to Make It Right in the Gulf of Mexico!". He sends these links: (1) for info - www.FloridaCoastline.net, and (2) downloads - www.cdbaby.com/cd/CharlieSouzaBand, (3) this LINK to hook up with a Facebook project under the same heading.

Another local artist, Jay Kiernan is offering his own contribution to the pool of songs about the oil crises in a tune he calls Its All About Me, Naturally. He wrote the lyrics and created a music video to the tune of Gilbert O'Sullivan's, Alone Again, Naturally. The video can be watched at this LINK. Since it is not an original composition, the song is not being added to the MTB music stream.

Two other songs that were recorded BEFORE the oil crises but are relevant to it, are currently in the daily MTB music stream. One was among the top 25 songs of 2009 by Charlie Morris that seems to have foretold the crises, called Got Greedy. The other is a breezy and beautiful ballad simply titled Gulf of Mexico from Mike Calzone. Any musician or group producing an original song the reflects the current gulf disaster is urged to make a copy available for webplay on MTB.

BIRDSTOCK - a concert by some 40 bay area artists was held this summer to help the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, one of the bay area's premier wildlife rescue organizations and a key participant in efforts to save seabirds affected by the spill. Some musicians who were part of the event, and who are also featured regularly in the MTB music stream, include: Steve Arvey, Rebekah Pulley, Ricky Wilcox, Dean Johanesen, Jim Mason, Leigh Humes, Scotty Lee & the Treble Hooks, Ronny Elliott, Big Jim Allen, Sandy Atkinson, Wendy & the Soulshakers, Julie Black, Judy Tampa & Bunko Squad, & Something Special. Sponsored by the City of St. Pete Beach, the Beach Theatre and the Corey Ave. Merchants Association, all proceeds were to benefit the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary. Volunteers and donations to this worthy project are always needed. To help out, email jessicag@seabirdsanctuary.com or call 727-392-4291 or 727-254-0577.

TBT Showcases MTB Artists

With music covering genres ranging from country to pop to rock, and several variations in between, Will Erickson & Local Roots has now made the pages of the Tampa Bay Times Soundcheck. Their on-line profile is at this LINK. St Pete Jazz Genius Phil Traynor was also featured at this LINK, and Pinellas Park singer/songwriter Heather Leigh at this LINK.

Music Biz Encyclopedia

A new book by a local music publishing consultant is ready to make its imprint on an industry in transition. 21 Steps to Success in the New Music Biz should be available soon, if not already, at some local retail outlets.

Author Bobbi Janson is a singer-songwriter, publisher of music and books, producer and semi-quasi guitarist who also lives and is frequently seen at music events in the bay area. She also assists musicians through her association with Cre8HavocMusic.com, a music publishing agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles & Nashville. The book is described as "an encyclopedia of music biz knowledge...(with) lots of stories and a ton of information that will make you say—I can do that!"

BAAMO is Back!

After producing 4 great local compilation CDs, the Bay Area Artists & Music Organization (BAAMO) is poised to do it again. According to their website, submissions are being accepted now through September 23rd at Sonicbids. A $2 per song fee covers hosting and administrative costs. A whole lot more info is available on-line at BAAMO (click this logo for a link)...

Info also available at the BAAMO Facebook page is at this LINK.

International Song Competition

More than $150,000 in cash and prizes will be shared among the 66 winners, including an overall Grand Prize of $25,000 (US) cash and $20,000 in music equipment, services, and more. A new category this year includes entries for UNSIGNED ARTISTS. Entry deadline is October 6th. Click on the International Songwriting Competition logo below for more information and to submit an entry...

Local Artist CDs in Local Stores

CD sales by local artists in public retail outlets can be found in 3 known outlets, Tre Amici @ the Bunker in Ybor City and Asylum Music and The Disk Exchange on West Central in St Pete. The Local Artists rack at The Asylum looks like this...

The Disk Exchange just up the street from The Asylum has also been selling music by local artists for quite some time. Listeners who are aware of other stores also selling music by local artists are asked to advise MTB by any convenient means.

Music & Video Downloads -

The MTB Pod Player below may be used for podcasts, music videos & downloadable songs. Right now there is this offering by a great local talent....