March 2002

Outside Rupp Arena, scalpers were asking as much as $125 a ticket for the sold-out opening date of the Down From The Mountain tour. A few years back, the only Rupp event that could have commanded such a price was […]

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One of this night’s covers was a chugging old David Wiffen obscurity that fell off the last Byrds LP and onto Roger McGuinn’s first solo outing, the one that confides, “I feel like some old engine that’s Lost My Drivin’ […]

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The cool Atlanta night air was brisk enough to keep an old-timer awake, and when the roasting blast of smoke and body heat that filled Smith’s Olde Bar first hit, it was an omen of things to come. A faded […]

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Cowboy Cafe South is smack in the center of a strip mall just outside of Washington, D.C. At first glance, all the typical assumptions regarding strip malls would seem to apply. But a place can only be as unattractive and […]

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Contemporary R&B is too often out of touch with its roots, while contemporary roots music too often lacks soul. There are exceptions (Ben Harper, the Roots, Bob Dylan, Joe Henry), but no one is transcending the genres and making more […]

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I first saw the Holy Modal Rounders in 1963, and it changed my life. At the end of the set, fiddler Peter Stampfel said, “That’s it. The next thing’s gotta happen because if it doesn’t, the universe will crumble.” My […]

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“I can’t think of a better place to end this tour than here in Oslo, Norway,” Emmylou Harris, host for this night’s event in the capital’s prestigious Konserthus, told the capacity audience. She was thinking about the fact that she […]

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You love me? Ryan Adams asked one of the girls who were pushed up in the front row of the lavishly gothic, Victorian-era Forum Theatre. I love you back, he grinned, and I apologize in advance. As it turns out, […]

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