New album by Boston band produced by Martin Sexton, with whom they toured for much of the year BOSTON, Mass.--"Time hangs heavy on the vine/Let's make wine," Ryan Montbleau sings in the lulling, sensual verse that gives his group's new album its title. Ryan Montbleau Band has been tending its own musical vineyard for a few years, on the patient cusp of a breakthrough. Their distinctive, long-fermenting blend of neo-folk, classic soul, and kick- out-the-jams Americana finally comes to full fruition in Heavy on the Vine, due out September 21, 2010 on indie Blue's Mountain Records. It's an album that represents the product of--and further promise of--a very good year...

Chico's House of Jazz presents an evening with Stanley Jordan August 6th August 6TH, 2010 (ASBURY PARK, NJ)--Chico's House of Jazz is pleased to have Stanley Jordan as our forth act in our Smooth Summer Concert Series. There will be one show on the evening on August 6th at 9:30pm. Tickets are available now for our Smooth Stars Concert Series by logging on to ChicosHouseofJazz.com or at our box office at the club...

Ben Keith, a steel guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who played alongside Neil Young for nearly 40 years, has died of unknown causes. He was 73. Highly skilled on the electric guitar, piano, alto saxophone and pedal-steel, he contributed to countless Young classics including "Heart of Gold," "Rockin' in the Free World," "Tonight's the Night" and "Old Man." Young acknowledged Keith's passing onstage last night in Winnipeg, noting from the stage, "This is for Ben Keith," before playing "Old Man." "His spirit will live on. The Earth has taken him...

They may be only the paintings and other artworks created by a well-known rock 'n' roll guitarist, but the Butler Institute of American Art likes them--enough to give Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones an eight-week exhibition there that the museum says is the first American show of Mr. Wood's art. The institute, in Youngstown, Ohio, said it would present the exhibition, "Ronnie Wood: Paintings, Drawings and Prints," from Sept. 21 through Nov. 21. It will feature about 60 works by Mr. Wood, who also played with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces before joining the Stones...