A year and a week ago, Son Volt were in this same building, just on the other side of the wall, on the cramped stage of the 7th Street Entry (a smaller club inside First Avenue). They were only a […]
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It was just one stop in what might be called Long-haul-apalooza. Like the truckers they played for during the day, Dale Watson and his three-piece band, the Lone Stars, had logged 13,000 miles in four weeks in Watson’s Chevrolet Suburban […]
Gillian Welch’s debut album Revival is such a marvelous recording that expecting her to improve upon it in concert would be asking a lot of even a seasoned performer. But the fact that she could carry it off live without […]
Before I get started, a few words of explanation are in order about the Palms Playhouse. I could try and sugar-coat it, but in plain terms, the Palms is a barn. Or at least it was 20-odd years ago, before […]
There is no doubt in my mind that Dwight Yoakam is the smoothest crooner in country music today, and that Pete Anderson is one of country’s best guitar players. I’ve been a fan of Yoakam for over 10 years but […]
Some mysteries are best unsolved. So let’s say you’re working at a kinda hip ad agency with one of the supporting cast from Animal House and ten years after he says let’s go see Otis Day & the Knights, and […]
The programmers of the sixth annual Chicago Country Music Festival probably weren’t consciously trying to illustrate the dichotomy between mainstream country and alternative country, but they sure did a fine job of it. On this sweltering Saturday afternoon, there were […]
“You really need to hear this Kevin Gordon tape. I’ll tell him to get in touch with you.” That’s how it started. Scott Esbeck of Los Straitjackets and I were talking about really good music. A couple of days later […]
103 humid degrees of bug-bitten fun: That was the promise held along with this evening’s entertainment on the second night of the annual Dixie Fried Festival, brought to you by your friends at Shangri-La Records. Despite the fact that the […]
Pity Jakob Dylan. It’s probably unfair, but virtually every reference to this prodigal son will include some words about his very major Dad. At Denver’s LoDo Fest on a balmy Saturday night, Jakob and his band, the Wallflowers, showed every […]
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