One of my favorite gospel bands makes use of actors and dancers who stage stories of the Bible during breaks in the music. Though the acting can seem a bit hokey — imagine illustrating Cain and Abel through dance — […]
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There are many facets to Roger McGuinn. Among them, of course, is the durable rock icon whose fanciful songs, plaintive vocals and ringing 12-string Rickenbacker were the abiding glue in the myriad lineups of folk-rock pioneers the Byrds. More pertinent […]
Buck Owens has put his mixed feelings about the Big Apple right out there. He called the city’s residents the best live audience he’d ever seen on that famous Carnegie Hall show record, but only a few years later informed […]
The last time Stompin’ Tom Connors was in Regina, in October 1998, he played the relatively posh Saskatchewan Centre of Arts, a soft-seat auditorium built in the 1970s to accommodate symphonies and operas. The largely rural crowd that Connors is […]
One of Kentucky’s — and the festival circuit’s — best-kept secrets is the Master Musician’s Festival near Somerset, Kentucky. Now in its eighth year, the MMF is situated on a flat rise in the shadow of three mountains in the […]
“And if I were like lightning/I wouldn’t need no sneakers/I could come and go whenever I would please…” Tough words from a Texas troubadour. But Lyle Lovett was no match for the electric storm that whipped through Red Rocks Amphitheater […]
“I can’t think of another band that creates as much of a commotion without an electric guitar,” a friend is fond of saying. It’s hard to gauge whether the Gourds could have out-commotioned the train that roared by Fowler’s Gourmet […]
“Would you care to pray with us?” asks a member of the band. Stunned, the confused local radio announcer suddenly tries to look busy and excuses himself from the group’s pre-performance tradition. And if this backstage encounter was unexpected, the […]
A microphone giving a kind of CB effect hangs in front of Sparklehorse’s singer-songwriter, Mark Linkous. He alternates between this and an ordinary one, giving his voice a dual life. A mixer with numerous knobs lies at his feet. Reproducing […]
At one point during Chris Whitley’s Boston performance, after a handful of songs had already been performed, the scene onstage looked quite usual for a Whitley concert. Wearing his almost trademark white tank, the 40-year-old singer, songwriter, and blues-styled guitarist […]
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