Johnny Rivers toca sucessos dos anos 60 e 70
Foto: Gil Rodrigues/Photo Rio News
Johnny Rivers, nos anos 70, foi o primeiro artista internacional a tocar no Canecão.
Em 1998, tocou em São Paulo para mais de 60 mil pessoas, em um show gratuito no Parque do Ibirapuera.
O show deste sábado foi assistido por diversas celebridades. Entre os artistas que dançaram ao som do cantor estão Ney Latorraca, Lucinha Lins, Emílio Orciolo Neto, Daniela Valente, Rafael Almeida, Pérola Faria, Mônica Carvalho, entre outros.
- Redação Terra"
(http://musica.terra.com.br/noticias/0,,OI2894910-EI1267,00-Johnny+Rivers+lota+o+Canecao+em+show+no+RJ.html)
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ARTIGO RECENTE (2.10.2012),
PUBLICADO EM EXAMINER PONTO COM,
CUJO AUTOR É JIM BESSMAN:
"Fab Johnny Rivers 70th birthday show belies his age
- JOHNNY RIVERS
- OCTOBER 2, 2012
It was billed as Johnny Rivers Comes Home--A 70th Birthday Celebration, yet Johnny Rivers, who will hit that milestone Nov. 7, didn’t look a day over 1966.
That was the year of “Secret Agent Man,” and when he came on stage for a long sold-out show at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Friday night, the New York born, Baton Rouge-reared Rivers began a remarkable flashback with a slow instrumental take on his signature hit. It then led into “Midnight Special” and an ensuing evening full of classic ‘60s hits that sounded straight out of the radio of the Cadillac Coup de Ville of “Maybellene,” his hit cover of Chuck Berry that he saved for the end.
Rivers looked the same, too, 70 years-old notwithstanding, and with a band made up of the Fab Faux’s guitarist (and Conanbandleader) Jimmy Vivino, Late Show With David Letterman bassist Will Lee and drummer Rich Pagano—plus his longtime regular keyboard player Skip Edwards—he had topflight players capable of giving him a fitting Creedence Clearwater Revival-like swamp-rock/soul sound.
But Rivers always had a gentle, subdued and sincere soul vocal tone—and it remains incredibly intact, on rockers like his hits “The Seventh Son” and “Sea Cruise,” and especially the ballad hits like “The Poor Side Of Town,” “Summer Rain,” “The Tracks Of My Tears" (he played his hit Miracles cover solo on acoustic guitar, with everyone in the room singing along), and "Mountain Of Love," here combined with Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"; also on the blues/r&b cover tip were "House Of The Rising Sun," "I Put A Spell On You" and Oscar Brown's "The Snake."
The fab set closed with Rivers' hit cover of the Four Tops' "Baby, I Need Your Lovin’" (again with everyone singing along, this time with a long, extended ending), which merged into his cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis." Encore "Maybellene" gave way to a full "Secret Agent Man," followed by Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner."
Rivers, incidentally, had walked over to the nearby SiriusXM Satellite Radio facility earlier In the week to tape an hour-long career overview special with Mojo Nixon for his Mojo Nixon: The Loon In The Afternoon program on the Outlaw Country channel. Featuring Rivers’ solo acoustic performances and his interview with Nixon, the program will air Saturday at 5 p.m. ET and Sunday at 9 p.m. ET."
(http://www.examiner.com/review/fab-johnny-rivers-70th-birthday-show-belies-his-age)
(*) - Jim Bessman, Manhattan Local Music Examiner.
Johnny Rivers no Programa do Jô,
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