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[ticky]

Ok, Mike (my buddy from JWFC) turned me on to this woman. She is AMAZING!! I dont know if ya'll ever watch Rockstar Supernova, (I dont watch Reality TV at all) but she was on there with the other two guys in the video, Josh Logan and Magni and this video is She Talks To Angels (I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!) and she has the smokiest, earthiest voice I have heard since Janis Joplin. If you search her name in youtube, just about anything she does is amazing. Her name is Dilana Smith but she goes by Dilana
Check her out!
She Talks To Angels

[Mrs Henley]

I will check her music when I'm home!

[MikeA]

Here is Dilana's MySpace page.

If you are googling Dilana, you might try under Robichaux as well as Smith. I think Robichaux was her ex-husband's name...possibly her parents name, I'm not sure.

I was checking her "MySpace" artist page and I think that it was in her blog that she said she was "stranded" in the UK. I guess management pulled the plug on her scheduled performances. There must be something going on with Dilana that I do not know (imagine THAT!) I mean, I cannot imagine her not becoming a huge hit on the Rock Scene. I couldn't imagine her losing out to the punks on Supernovae...I really think the guys were afraid of her taking ove the band. Maybe it would have been better if she had won and taken it over. I've heard NOTHING about them an am not interested enough in them to even google them with her not fronting them.

When the show was being aired, I watched it long enough to catch Dilana's performance and Magni's (dude from Iceland) gig on the show. The rest were amateurs.

[tbs fanatic]

She's great. I really liked Josh Logan's voice too. I never watched Rockstar Supernovae.

[MikeA]

Here[SIZE=2] is Dilana's MySpace page.

I'm quoting myself here to bump this thread.

Dilana just pulled off a miracle! If you can get to her MySpace pages, take a look at her Blog entries.

She was set up to do a tour in the UK and Canada. After she and the band got over there in the UK, someone really screwed up in her management team. The tour was cancelled leaving her stranded with $54,000 in debt to the crew who she'd hired to make the tour happen!

She called on her Fans to help her and the band. They came through! Someone (name not mentioned) provided tickets for a flight from the UK to Canada. I guess that the dates in the UK had been missed by the time they got things rolling again.

Once in Canada, money poured in to finance the tour FROM THE FANS! The toured part of the way from the East Coast of Canada to the West Coast with their supporting act...a punk group that had a van. But parts of the trip were traveled with FANS who jumpped in and provided transportation and lodging and food for she and Erik her sideman!

Read the Blogs. It's pretty amazing.

The thing is, this lady should be a STAR! She said it in one of her blog entries: "I'm going to sing my heart out to you. I hope to give you all goosebumps and hard nipples!"

I didn't say that! Dilana said it. And she can do it too!

[MikeA]

I posted a few pictures of Dilana Smith on my Profile here in a separate album.

I hope you guys will forgive me for my rant about her.

Here's an interview with Dilana at "The Buzz" Radio Station in Houston (94.5 FM) that she did Dec 3, 2008. The song she sang with just acoustic guitar accompaniment was really good ("I'm Not Falling In Love, I'm Falling Apart") was great. And the interview explains a little bit as to why her tour in the UK and Canada almost met wit disaster.

http://www.thebuzz.com/cc-common/pod...st=rodryan.xml

I was watching a couple of videos of her playing a place called Crazy Frog in Houston a couple of nights ago. I feel for her. She's paying some HEAVY dues. The club was noisy with people not apparently paying a lot of attention to her and yet she was singing her heart out.

She's not a youngster to anyone but "me". She is a single mom but she does not let that tear her away from her lifestyle of motorcycling on a Harley (!!) and having the full support of biker types all over the South and Southwest.

She sang Dec 2 in a bar in Houston, then did a performance on Dec 3 (today) on a radio show that I hope to find a recording of, and then is gigging again tonight at another club in Houston. All of this after pretty much hitch-hiking coast to coast up in Canada because her management bailed on her. Her tour in Canada was successfully funded by die-hard fans who donated time and money and in some cases, materials in addition to food and lodging where she needed it.

She just HAS to make it.

[Brooke]

I looked for a thread for Bob Dylan, but didn't see one so....

Fp, I know you're a fan, I think, and noticed he was going to be in Australia in April and figured you already knew, but just in case, check out his website.

I just love the song Forever Young, but not really the way Bob sings it. It caught my attention last summer during baseball season. Will.I.Am sang a part of it during Major League Baseball's advertising campaigns. I never could find his version on itunes, so I downloaded Bob's.

[MikeA]

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[ticky]

No one ever comes to Oregon, and if they do? 300$ a ticket.. Im moving to the midwest...

[Mrs Henley]

Ticky, welcome to the gang..
I've got the same here!