Success from Fail Street?
Martha Velez: Making Music with Icons
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Well, I finally got there. Eric Clapton and Fiends and Angels. A most recent review, I’ll read it to you!! “For years, the album, Fiends & Angels, has been one of the best kept secrets from the late 1960s blues-rock scene. Finally, in 2008, the independent CD label,Wounded Bird, which specializes in albums that the majors no longer reissue, released this MARTHA VELEZ gem.! Until then, it had fetched rather pricey number on auction sites, it was one of the defining blues-rock albums of the times, bringing together an almost perfect combination of singer, players and producer for a raw blues outing with unbridled energy. And some of the best playing by some of England’s best musicians. The personnel included, Eric Clapton, guitar and Jack Bruce, bass from Cream, Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Band on the drums, and Jim Capaldi from Traffic on drums; Brian Auger, on organ; Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac on piano, That’s just a portion of the list. Yikes! that was a Blues A list.” So, how did I get there, you may ask?!
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“Success From Fail St.?” is a poetic, memoir of an American songstress inviting the reader onto her life’s stage. It’s a creative hybrid in form and a uniquely American story. It questions the ideas of “success.” Dr. Velez-Reid, explores historic moments while providing insights into the truths of iconic musicians, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and others, with whom she recorded blues and reggae music. She’s a Depth Psychologist with a rock n’ roll history.
About the Author
Dr. Martha Velez-Reid, PhD - Songstress/Psychologist, Actor, Teaching Artist/Spoken Memoir - Winner of the Los Angeles Award for Playwriting and Acting, for her play Power of the Powerless/American Heartbeat. Broadway: Lead in HAIR. Off-Broadway: Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, Shadowbox. TV: E.R., L.A. Law, aka Pablo, Falcon Crest. Films: Star Maps, Safe (Julianne Moore), Fatherhood (Halle Berry/Patrick Swayze), 187 (Samuel L. Jackson). Sire/Warner Bros. Recordings w/Eric Clapton (Fiends and Angels), Bob Marley/Wailers (Escape From Babylon) PhD in Depth Psychology, M.A. in Clinical Psychology. Harvard Teaching Certification. Member: AEA, SAG, Dramatist Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women and more.