#Davi Millsaps

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Andrei Kirilenko swats Baron Davis of the Golden State Warriors (c. 2007)

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Fundie and Adjacent Families I Follow: Babies Due in May

Alli (Perez) and Stephen Trewell are expecting twins. These babies will join a big brother and sister.

Aaron and Gracie Keyes are expecting a son named Brooks Davis "Davis". Davis will join an older sister.

Tannan and Mitchell Millsap are expecting their fifth child, a girl. She will join 3 big sisters and 1 big brother

Savannah and Cole Labrant are expecting their fifth child, a boy. Hewill join 1 big brother and 3 big sisters.

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Best Albums of 2018

Highest honors:

"May Your Kindness Remain," Courtney Marie Andrews.

"Negro Swan," Blood Orange.

"boygenius," boygenius.

"Good Thing," Leon Bridges.

"Port Saint Joe," Brothers Osborne.

"By the Way, I Forgive You," Brandi Carlile.

"Hell-On," Neko Case.

"Chris," Christine and the Queens.

"Freedom," Amen Dunes.

"Double Negative," Low.

"Be the Cowboy," Mitski.

"Dirty Computer," Janelle Monae.

"Sparrow," Ashley Monroe & "Interstate Gospel," Pistol Annies.

"Golden Hour," Kacey Musgraves.

"Ventriloquism," Meshell Ndegeocello.

"SASSAFRASS!" Tami Nielson.

"Hope Downs," Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

"Soil," serpentwithfeet.

"Clean," Soccer Mommy.

"What a Time to Be Alive," Superchunk.

High honors:

"Invasion of Privacy," Cardi B.

"Head Over Heels," Chromeo.

"Last Building Burning," Cloud Nothings.

"Look Now," Elvis Costello & the Imposters.

"Passwords," Dawes.

"God's Favorite Customer," Father John Misty.

"Sweetener," Ariana Grande.

"See You Around," I'm with Her.

"Dying Star," Ruston Kelly.

"Vide Noir," Lord Huron.

"Dirty Pictures (Part 2)," Low Cut Connie.

"Girl Going Nowhere," Ashley McBryde.

"Room 25," Noname.

"Wide Awake!" Parquet Courts.

"Honey," Robyn.

"Young Romance," Roosevelt.

"The Window," Cecile McLorin Salvant.

"Devotion," Tirzah.

"Isolation," Kali Uchis.

Honors:

"A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships," The 1975.

"Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino," Arctic Monkeys.

"Tell Me How You Really Feel," Courtney Barnett.

"Hollywood Africans," Jon Batiste.

"7," Beach House.

"The Mountain," Dierks Bentley.

"Find a Light," Blackberry Smoke.

"Sex & Cigarettes," Toni Braxton.

"Black Velvet," Charles Bradley.

"All Nerve," The Breeders.

"Camila," Camila Cabello.

"The Thread That Keeps Us," Calexico.

"Caution," Mariah Carey.

"Twin Fantasy," Car Seat Headrest.

"Everything Is Love," The Carters.

"She Remembers Everything," Rosanne Cash.

"Wanderer," Cat Power.

"Desperate Man," Eric Church.

"Providence Canyon," Brent Cobb.

"Historian," Lucy Dacus.

"Cactus," Elise Davis.

"Scorpion," Drake.

"Encore," Anderson East.

"The Crossing," Alejandro Escovedo.

"Ruins," First Aid Kit.

"High As Hope," Florence & the Machine.

"Nearer My God," Foxing.

"The Now Now," Gorillaz.

"Anthem of the Peaceful Army," Greta Van Fleet.

"Mr. Jukebox," Joshua Hedley.

"My American Dream," Will Hoge.

"Hive Mind," The Internet.

"Primal Heart," Kimbra.

"Go to School," The Lemon Twigs.

"I'm All Ears," Let's Eat Grandma.

"Wouldn't It Be Great," Loretta Lynn.

"Among the Ghosts," Lucero.

"One Stone," Trixie Mattel.

"The Tree," Lori McKenna.

"All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do,” The Milk Carton Kids.

"Other Arrangements," Parker Millsap.

"Golden," Kylie Minogue.

"Kin," Mogwai.

"Tearing at the Seams," Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.

"Last Man Standing," Willie Nelson.

"Volunteer," Old Crow Medicine Show.

"Liberty," Lindi Ortega.

"Oxnard," Anderson .Paak.

"C'est La Vie," Phosphorescent.

"The Tree of Forgiveness," John Prine.

"All Aboard," Punch Brothers."Daytona," Pusha T.

"Loner," Caroline Rose."Care for Me," Saba.

"Sunset," Amanda Shires.

"Years," Sarah Shook & the Disarmers.

"Route One," Sigur Ros.

"E.G.O.," Lucie Silvas.

"Bloom," Troy Sivan.

"Lush," Snail Mail.

"FM!" Vince Staples.

"Karma for Cheap," Aaron Lee Tasjan.

"13 Rivers," Richard Thompson.

"Record," Tracey Thorn.

"Life Is Good on the Open Road," Trampled by Turtles.

"Western Movies," Traveller.

"WARM," Jeff Tweedy."Offerings," Typhoon.

"In a Poem Unlimited," U.S. Girls.

"Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin," Various.

"Bottle It In," Kurt Vile.

"Healing Tide," The War and Treaty.

"Heaven and Earth," Kamasi Washington.

"My Dear Melancholy," The Weeknd.

"Greetings from the Wild Frontier," Wild Feathers.

"Yolk in the Fur," Wild Pink.

"One Drop of Truth," The Wood Brothers.

"The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs," Wye Oak.

"There's a Riot Going On," Yo La Tengo.

"Suspiria," Thom Yorke.

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Checkout the trailer for the NEW Jim Lujan animated film "THE FULL FUNGUS" COMING OUT IN THE SUMMER OF 2024!

Chino Diamond, Los Angeles private eye, is on the trail of a missing piece of fabled jazz music (by late jazz legend Mink Fungus) and his only hope at succeeding is to track down the estranged son of the composer, who holds the music, before the mob does.

Feature length animated crime comedy

Animated and Directed by Jim Lujan

Starring the voices of:

Charley Rossman (Chino Diamond)

Deacon Burns From Kounterclockwise (Mink and Wilt Fungus)

Malia Kerr (Brandi Fungus)

Jim Lujan (Larry Carlile/ Koviak)

Tom Racine.

Ken Mora

Kim Hendrix

Nissim

Scott Serkland

Lisa Huff

Kaya Rogue

Christopher Runciman

Ben Davis

Gary Hodges

Chris Ward

Jose Cabrera

Lonnie Millsap

Michael "Bake" Baker

Martin Gantt

Sharon Angela Curtis

Missi Steco

Mike Perez

Abdullah Drake

Cory Kerr

Kevin Cross

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Favorite Americana and Roots Albums of 2023

It's that time of year again when publications drag out their annual Best Of 2023 lists. Here at Concerthopper Album Review Central, we love these as they always give us something new to listen to and put on our Christmas list. But, as with every year, we avoid the “Best” label on our list in favor of “Favorite.” This is simply because, even keeping ourselves limited to Americana albums, there are just too many released every week for us to ever hear them all. Here's hoping you find something new to grab at your local indie record store to stuff in those stockings! Where we reviewed the album, we have included a link. Where not, we've included a YouTube video of a highlight song from the album.

10. Cidny Bullens- Little Pieces One of the best things about music is its ability to give you a chance to understand the experiences of a demographic not your own. In the case of Cidny Bullens, Little Pieces offers an opportunity to walk in the shoes of a transgender man, both the struggles and joys. It's all wrapped in a mix of power pop and roots music that'll keep your toes tapping.

9. The Arcadian Wild- Welcome Is it Americana? Folk? Jazz? Chamber Pop? You'll ask yourself those questions throughout your first couple of listens of Welcome. After that, you'll decide you don't care. Whatever genre you place them in, The Arcadian Wild has delivered a fun album of intelligent tunes that challenge listeners in the best way possible at every turn.

8. Whitney Rose- Rosie After an illness hospitalized her and prevented her from touring in 2023, Whitney Rose poured that pain into her latest studio effort, Rosie. The result is an album that flawlessly blends classic country and '60s pop (think Skeeter Davis) in a way that is a natural maturation from her last album, 2020's We Still Go to Rodeos.

7. Hello June- Artifacts A major step forward for Hello June. Primary songwriter Sara Rudy proves her album title is apt as she digs deep into her own experiences for an intensely first-person album of highly literary lyrics. From a dying love (“Faded Blue”) to a dying parent (“Interstate”) to an ode to her newborn nephew (“Sometimes”) to a stellar cover of John Denver's “Country Roads (Take Me Home)”, there's plenty to recommend here.

6. Parker Millsap- The Wilderness Within You Parker Millsap, already one of Americana's most willing explorers, just keeps expanding his boundaries on The Wilderness Within You. The album, often a musing on stepping away from the electronics addiction to reconnect with people, surprises with its technological flourishes, pulling from New Wave and Krautrock on songs like “So Far Apart.”

5. Doolin'- Circus Boy It's not often you hear the term “French Celtic Supergroup.” But that's Doolin' for you. However, on Circus Boy, the band expands beyond its Celtic roots into Folk Pop (“The Darkest Way”), Americana (“Circus Boy”), French pop (“L'amour Sorcier”), and Calypso (a cover of Harry Belafonte's hit “Man Smart, Woman Smarter”). The result is one of the most fun albums on this list.

4. Dom Flemons- Traveling Wildfire Dom Flemons is Roots Music's most dedicated historian. He began (alongside Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson) his work of unearthing the almost-forgotten history of black string band music with Carolina Chocolate Drops and has continued to do so with his solo records for Smithsonian Folkways. But Traveling Wildfire also shows off Flemons' love of traditional country, from the ambling waltz of “Slow Dance With You” to the Marty Robbins-esque western story song “It's Cold Inside” alongside his historical remembrances like “Nobody Wrote It Down.”

3. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway- City of Gold Wanderlust is the loose theme of City of Gold, the new album from Molly Tuttle's bluegrass project Golden Highway. Co-written almost entirely with Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, Tuttle, and her stellar all-star band blast through a set of tales about gold rush pioneers (“El Dorado”), a road trip between two lovers trying to mend a widening gap (“Yosemite”, featuring guest vocals from Dave Matthews), and a lament for the loss of the wild and crazy festival fans who have given way to selfie-snapping scenesters (“Where Did All the Wild Things Go?”)

2. Cinder Well- Cadence While it's not the #1 album of the year so far, it's a near thing. No album bowled me over like Cadence in the first half of 2023. I was familiar with Amelia Baker's “doom folk” project from her excellent previous album No Summer, but nothing prepared me for the dark explorations of the “thin places” in our reality where magic, not always positive, happens. Songs like “Two Heads, Grey Mare” and “Gone the Holding” practically drip with the Old Ways of Baker's home on Ireland's coast. 1. Jason Isbell- Weathervanes One of these days, Jason Isbell is going to release an album that's “just” really good. This isn't that year and, like every other release year since I've been doing Album of the Year lists, he comes out on top. Backed up by The 400 Unit, who just continue to make the case that they're this generation's Heartbreakers, Isbell continues to write fully fleshed-out characters in four-minute rhymes. There's the opioid-addicted protagonist of the standout song “King of Oklahoma,” the girl coping with the fact that her racist town “won't get no better, will it?” on “Cast Iron Skillet, a man breaking down about how to raise his child in a world where schools get shot up every other day on “Save the World,” and so much more. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are the kings of rock and roll right now and they don't look interested in surrendering the throne anytime soon.

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Teresa James & Terry Wilson Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

They may sing the blues but they sure make me happy. Grammy nominees Teresa James and Terry Wilson treated us to our first live mini-concert in Game Changers history. And it was spectacular! With their brand new album of reimagined Beatle songs, With a Little Help From Her Friends, which debuted at #9 on the Billboard Blues chart at the fore, the last third of the show was devoted to cuts from said album, and one of my favorites of theirs, Don’t Make A Habit of It. Joining them was longtime Rhythm Tramps guitarist Billy Watts (Eric Burdon, John Mayall), and drummer, Richard Millsap (currently touring with John Fogerty). Special thanks to Louie Kovic for making it happen. 

Celebrating Teresa’s nomination for Contemporary Female Blues Artist of the Year, from The Blues Foundation, we talked their early years in Texas, separately and eventually together. Terry, who goes back with my beau, 50+ years, then London calling and forming Back Street Crawler with Paul Kosoff (Free) and John Bundrick (The Who), to playing with Eric Burdon, which Teresa eventually did as well. There were lots of bands, sessions, and tours for both, with parenting taking precedence for a number of years, limiting Teresa’s roading for a spell. She recorded with Eric Burdon, Spencer Davis, Tommy Castro, Stephen Bruton, Randy Newman, Neil Diamond, and many others and performed with Levon Helm, Lloyd Jones, Delbert McClinton, and Eric Burdon & the Animals to mention just a few, and did many before-mentioned sessions. 

A gifted and proficient songwriter, composer, producer, and bassist, Terry never stops working and creating. Numerous albums for different artists are currently in the works and another upcoming kick-ass studio album with Teresa and the Rhythm Tramps will drop in September.

Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps play regularly in LA. For upcoming shows, music, and access to all things James/Wilson visit  TeresaJames.com

These folks are the real deal. The music, the songs, that voice. WOW! I could listen to them all day. And many days, I do! 

Teresa James & Terry Wilson Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

Wed, February 15th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streamed Live on The Facebook

Replay here:

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #730

first posted in facebook august 21, 2019

alissa mckendrick -- "untitled" (2018)

"resentment" ... alissa mckendrick

"i only give you a hard time 'cause i can't go on and pretend like i haven't tried to forget this but i'm much too full of resentment" ... beyoncé, curtis mayfield, walter millsap III, candice nelson

"alissa mckendrick titles her current show 'resentment.' a complex idea, the subject of heated philosophic discourse, resentment summarizes a relationship. it defines our sense of powerlessness, when all we possess is anger, which we direct equally to others and to ourselves. in art, this anger often takes the form of caricature, which demolishes revered icons from the past. in the case of mckendrick, resentment inspires her to reconfigure a particular style, inverting its original meaning" ... alfred mac adam

"now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you and the smell of their roses does not remain and all of your children start to resent you" ... bob dylan

"we see an undefined red field in which a katherine hepburn-like figure poses insouciantly, dressed to a T in her stylish blouse, slacks, and heels. two apes stare at her; she is framed in their line of vision. a spoof of fashionista narcissism to be sure, it may also be a reminder that the utopia of the fashion photo is a means of hemming women into stereotypes and positioning them as objects of a voyeuristic gaze. if the resentment in this image arises from the apes’ gaze, it also comes from the fact that there is no apparent escape from the red field, there is no alternative" ... alfred mac adam

"because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist” ... chimamanda ngozi adichie

"i don't feel safe in this world no more i don't want to die in a nuclear war i want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man" ... ray davies

"hand me a ... banana ... queen jane?" ... al janik

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2006 Amp’d Mobile AMA Supercross, L - R Branden Jesseman, Davi Millsaps, Chris Gosselaar. St. Louis

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Who will be Supercross Champion in 2018? Cast your vote ...

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Top 5 Plays of the Night: October 29th | NBA Highlights

NBA Top 5 Plays of the Night | October 29, 2019

Check out the top 5 plays from Tuesday night around the league, featuring Jabari Parker, Cam Reddish, Anthony Davis and more! (more…)

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Top 5 Plays of the Night: October 29th | NBA Highlights

NBA Top 5 Plays of the Night | October 29, 2019

Check out the top 5 plays from Tuesday night around the league, featuring Jabari Parker, Cam Reddish, Anthony Davis and more! (more…)

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Happy New Year! Babies Due in 2024 (So Far!)

Unknown Month

Gabby Barrett and Cade (Foehner) are expecting their third child. This child will join 2 older sisters.

Emily (Haight) and Justus Stangl are expecting their first child.

Tori (Bates) and Bobby Smith are expecting their fifth child. This child will join 2 older sister and 2 older brothers.

Hannah (Wissmann) and Jeremiah Duggar are expecting their second child. This child will join older sister Brynley.

Sophia (Trewhella) and Maxwell Trego are expecting their first child.

Rebecca and Levi Moravek are expecting their first child.

Susanna (Wissmann) and Drew Jarred are expecting their first child.

January

None

February

Esther (Keller) and John Shrader are expecting their 14th child. This child will join 9 older brothers and 4 older sisters.

Elli (Perez) and Andy Cieslak are expecting their first child; a son.

March

Jessica (Seewald) and Joseph Coates are expecting their first child.

Josie (Bates) and Kelton Balka are expecting their third child. This child will join 2 older sisters.

April

None

May

Alli (Perez) and Stephen Trewell are expecting twins. These babies will join a big brother and sister.

Aaron and Gracie Keyes are expecting a son named Brooks Davis "Davis". Davis will join an older sister.

Tannan and Mitchell Millsap are expecting their fifth child. This child will join 1 older brother and 3 older sisters.

Savannah and Cole Labrant are expecting their fifth child. This child will join 1 older brother and 3 older sisters.

June

July

Morgan and Paul Olligies are expecting their second child. This child will join an older brother.

Nurie (Rodrigues) and Nathan Keller are expecting their third child. This child will join two older brothers.

16 babies are expecting to arrive this year for our fundies! Here are the families that are expected to grow the largest this year!

2 new Bates babies (via Tori and Josie)

2 new Keller babies (via Esther and Nathan)

2 new Noyes babies (via Nurie and Levi)

2 new Wissmann babies (Hannah and Susanna)

2 new Perez babies (via Alli and Elli)

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2015 NBA All-Star Game

Madison Square Garden East 158 - West 163

EAST BENCH Kyle Korver (replacement for Dwyane Wade) Jeff Teague Kyrie Irving Chris Bosh Al Horford Jimmy Butler Paul Millsap WEST BENCH Russell Westbrook - MVP - 41 PTS, 5 REB, 3 STL DeMarcus Cousins (replacement for Kobe Bryant) Chris Paul Damian Lillard (replacement for Blake Griffin) Dirk Nowitzki (replacement for Anthony Davis) Kevin Durant Tim Duncan

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#1 LOS ANGELES LAKERS     VS.     #3 DENVER NUGGETS

• LEBRON’S LEGACY: LeBron James looks as focused and driven as ever at age 35 in his 17th season, as the spectacular chase-down blocks and alley-oop dunks attest. James will try to advance to the NBA Finals for the 10th time in pursuit of his fourth NBA championship. Only three players have appeared in 10 or more NBA Finals: Bill Russell (12), Sam Jones (11) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (10).

• SERBIAN SENSATION: Nikola Jokić entered the NBA with little fanfare as the 41st pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. He has no shortage of admirers now. The NBA has rarely seen a player like Jokić, a 7-foot, 284-pound center who handles and passes the ball like a guard, scores from anywhere on the court, makes high-arcing, one-legged jump shots and possesses an uncanny feel for the game. At 25, the Serbian big man is already a two-time NBA All-Star and two-time All-NBA Team selection.        

• ANTHONY’S SONG: Anthony Davis is in the Conference Finals for the first time in his eight-year career, providing a fitting showcase for the ultimate modern-day NBA big man. Davis scores inside and outside, defends the rim and the perimeter, and handles the ball and moves exceedingly well. He has guard-like skills, which he developed as a youngster before a massive growth spurt in high school led to his transformation into a dominant frontcourt player.    

• MURRAY’S MOMENT: In February, nine players age 23 or younger played in the 2020 NBA All-Star Game – the most since the league’s first All-Star Game in 1951. Jamal Murray was not part of that group, but he is playing like he belongs among the league’s bright young stars. At 23, the Canadian guard has reached new heights during the season restart.  

• AS MURRAY GOES …: Jamal Murray’s performance has dictated Denver’s success in the playoffs. In the Nuggets’ eight playoff wins, Murray is averaging 32.4 points and shooting 55.1 percent from the field. In the Nuggets’ six playoff losses, he is averaging 20.0 points and shooting 42.1 percent from the field. Murray scored 50 points in one of those losses; he did not reach 20 points in any of the other five losses.  

• PASSING FANCY: LeBron James and Nikola Jokić are on the short list of the best passers at their respective positions in NBA history. Both have incredible court vision, see plays developing ahead of time and deliver the ball to teammates with precision. James, who led the NBA in assists this season, ranks eighth on the league’s career regular-season assists list – the only non-guard in the top 30. Jokić has averaged at least 7.0 assists in each of the last two seasons – an extraordinary number for a 7-foot center. ESPN analyst and former NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy says Jokić is the best passing big man of all time.    

• RONDO’S ROLE: Like LeBron James and Nikola Jokić, the Lakers’ Rajon Rondo is a phenomenal passer with an advanced feel for the game. Rondo missed the seeding games and the first round of the playoffs with a thumb injury, but he returned for the Western Conference Semifinals and made an immediate impact as a playmaker off the bench. Rondo is regarded for raising his game in the playoffs.  

• HOMEGROWN TALENT: Denver’s run to the Western Conference Finals underscores the franchise’s success of drafting and developing talent. NBA All-Star Nikola Jokić, rising star Jamal Murray, starting guard Gary Harris, Disney breakout rookie Michael Porter Jr. and key reserve Monte Morris were acquired through the draft. Jokić and Morris were both second-round picks. The Nuggets are hoping for another second-round success story with Bol Bol, the 44th pick in 2019, who turned heads with his play during the seeding games.

• THE FUTURE IS NOW: The Nuggets have been patiently building toward this moment. In 2015-16, the first season for head coach Michael Malone and Nikola Jokić, Denver won 33 games. The Nuggets then drafted Jamal Murray and upped their win total to 40 in 2016-17. As Jokić, Murray and other young players developed alongside veteran additions such as Paul Millsap, Denver improved to 46 wins in 2017-18 and 54 wins in 2018-19. They were on a 54-win pace again in 2019-20 when the season was suspended in March.

• MILESTONE WATCH: Game 1 will be LeBron James’ 250th career playoff game, third most in NBA history behind Derek Fisher (259) and Tim Duncan (251). James is set to pass Duncan in this series and has the potential to pass Fisher in NBA Finals 2020 presented by YouTube TV if the Lakers get there.

• CAVALIER ATTITUDE: LeBron James and Mike Malone forged a strong relationship during Malone’s stint as an assistant coach with the Cavaliers from 2005-10. James respected Malone’s worth ethic and appreciated his contributions to the team’s success. Malone would move on to assistant coaching positions with New Orleans and Golden State before landing his first NBA head coaching job with Sacramento in 2013.

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From the East to the West.