Shawn Colvin stood alone, dwarfed by the big stage, and surveyed a sight she has viewed hundreds of times before: an outdoor festival crowd of sun-baked bodies spilling across a grassy plain. “This is a familiar scene,” she said to […]
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There’s really only one thing people have wanted to know about this band, for years now: “How long can they keep this up?” For this, one of three New York-area 25th-anniversary shows, ringleader Jon Langford conducted a guided tour of […]
If Nashville’s majestic Ryman Auditorium, with its long wooden pews and stained-glass windows, is country music’s mother church, then the Station Inn, with its dim lights, battered tables and Hatch Show Print-covered paneling, is that church’s funky basement rec room. […]
By now, it should be apparent that Gary Louris can exist in all sorts of different habitats. A member of the Jayhawks since the mid-late 1980s and the group’s kingpin since 1996, he’s seen the band through multiple lineup shifts […]
The dilemma facing BR549 is a credibility problem: With two original members gone, can this be considered the same group? Taking the stage at Johnny D.’s with Chris Scruggs (yes, he’s related) replacing founding partner Gary Bennett on guitar and […]
The soothing and soulful country of Allison Moorer followed by the roots-cum-British-rock of Marah seemed an odd pairing, but in the end, the dichotomy made this double bill all the more appealing. Backed by a polished lineup, Moorer opened with […]
Neko Case didn’t find it too funny. Her Montreal gig was in the showbar of the city’s Just For Laughs humor museum, but then, in classic touring band fashion, her van gave out. It was near midnight before Case and […]
If you build it, they will come: Delbert McClinton, Tift Merritt, Jerry Douglas, Donna the Buffalo, Los Lobos, Buddy & Julie Miller. And that list barely scratches the surface of the fifty acts who gathered at Louisville’s Slugger Field and […]
Dan Zanes and I have come full circle. In a memorable night in the summer of 1984, after seeing R.E.M. and the Dream Syndicate, I rushed off to the Cubby Bear Lounge in Chicago to catch Dan Zanes lead the […]
So which film did you pick in the office Oscars pool? Personally, I was pulling for Copy Shop (I’m a sucker for experimental fun), but The Accountant was certainly a worthy recipient — even has a timely message. What, you […]
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