The first time Leslie Woods went to an old-time music jam at a South Knoxville hardware store, she was too nervous to even take her Gibson J-45 acoustic out of the trunk. One of the regulars in the store’s Thursday […]
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Chuck Klosterman has written a loving and thoroughly unrepentant apology for the hair bands of the 1980s. What he calls heavy metal was merely hard rock where I came from, but thats not the point. This is: Have you ever […]
The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of “O Death” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town […]
Bluegrassers love their music’s legendary figures, but they also want to see them working; as Ralph Stanley’s grueling show schedule suggests, “retirement” just isn’t in their vocabulary. On the one hand, this means that opportunities to hear them in person […]
It takes a special musician to perform a shambolic, flub-laden solo set in an unopened, unfinished record store with a shitty PA and send 600 people home happy. Easy Street Records’ new location, which didn’t formally open until a few […]
The signs were ever-so-slightly ominous: Take a raucous, fun-loving, five-piece band from the American South and dump them smack-dab into the crazed den of debauchery that occasionally passes as the city of Amsterdam, home of “anything goes” and unbridled hedonistic […]
I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? — Jackson Browne, “The Pretender” In a sense, all of Jackson Browne’s music has been […]
Without Scotty Moore, Lee Rocker would be just another charismatic former Stray Cat fronting a crackerjack band with a penchant for uptempo nostalgia. But with the 70-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in the group, the 40-year-old Rocker is […]
At 60 people, it wasn’t exactly standing room only (but then it was a Tuesday night). The Black Sheep Inn is a good half-hour drive from Ottawa into the Gatineau Hills. It was do or die in the Ottawa Senators’ […]
There’s something about memory that does not love a festival. Could be the four days of 90-degree heat, or the inevitable intestinal slurry of sticked sausage and funnel cake and plastic-cupped $4 Budweiser, or the option-fatigue of negotiating 100-plus acts […]
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