Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker — Ogden Nash There stands the glass. Half full or half empty, doesn’t matter so long as there’s enough folding money in the pocket to remedy the situation. Not quite a drunkard’s prayer, […]
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In the atypical little world of the Makeout Room in San Francisco’s Mission District, Virginia Dare is in heavy rotation. Their music is always playing between bands’ sets, and their shows there attract a lively crowd. But don’t chalk up […]
A comprehensive dissection and depiction of the songwriting process and the uncertain world in which the songwriter must live, Jimmy Webb’s brilliant new book is both a textbook and a behind-the-scenes glance, gloriously woven by the writer’s heartfelt love of […]
Watching Lucinda Williams step on the Rose Garden Arena stage as the crowd of 14,000 filed in, I recalled the first time I saw her perform, in 1989 at a small club in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her tentativeness that […]
The first night of Son Volt’s 16-date “acoustic tour” was at this 500-capacity club on a college town’s bohemian strip. The Blue Note is home turf to Jay Farrar, the single most important venue in his early career, the right […]
After Steve Earle opened with “Christmas In Washington”, we could just about have gone home. “Come back, Woody Guthrie,” he sang, invoking the spirit and purpose formerly associated with American folk music that has since seemed to dissipate into introspection […]
As Cesar Rosas counted off — “Uno, dos, one, two, tres, cuatro!” — and Los Super Seven (well, Los Super Eleven at that point) launched into its frenetic encore of “Wooly Bully”, it was enough to make even the most […]
After playing Friday and Saturday in the main room at First Avenue opening for Twin Cities darlings the Jayhawks, Philadelphia misfits Marah ventured next door to the intimate 7th Street Entry later Saturday night to play their third gig in […]
There’s a little piece of heaven out in the Hill Country west of Austin on Willie Nelson’s sprawling ranch, a place where the earth and the sky seem to blend into one perfect panorama. Perched on the top of a […]
It took me a lot longer to get to rural Kelseyville than I thought it would. When I finally entered the Konocti Harbor Classic Concert Showroom, a fight had already broken out and been subdued. The comedian had finished his […]
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