With the film soundtrack compilation phenomenon still in full effect, songwriters and musicians are often drawn into the annual Sundance Film Festival, vying to get on the radar of the independent film world. Musical showcases and private-party performances abound, with […]
Expectations were high when Allison Moorer drew a packed house to Nashville’s venerable 12th & Porter nightclub for two Saturday night shows that were being recorded for posterity and commerce (with both a live album and a DVD release planned […]
He was already the consummate showman in cowpunk when he blasted his way onto the scene with the Scorchers in the 1980s, and, against all reason, he is somehow more so now, out, like so many, on the road alone. […]
It’s a lurve thing. That much can be said with certainty of Peter Wolf’s solo career, which has found the ex-J. Geils Band singer digging deep into his own roots, and those of rock ‘n’ roll, with a nurturing passion. […]
A surfeit of sheet music, stringed instruments, and exotic percussion toys crowd the walls of the acoustic listening room at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, where Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion took the stage on a Saturday night. Located on a […]
For almost two years, singer-songwriter Brian McGuire has once a month turned this 1960s-era, 32-lane duckpin bowling alley into a makeshift honky-tonk as part of his Bop ‘n’ Bowl series, booking nationally known acts (Rosie Flores, Bill Kirchen) and regional […]
Two songwriters. Two acoustic guitars. A pristine sound system. And a Dallas night cold enough to ensure that only the truly dedicated were there. Poor David’s Pub (apparently David is too poor to afford a heater) is a bastion of […]
“Thank you for coming. Townes will be late, as usual,” Rex Bell, owner of the Old Quarter and MC for the evening, wryly noted after opening this year’s wake with a foot-thumping rendition of Van Zandt’s gospel-tinged “Two Hands”. Marking […]
Some musicians play so loud, so fast, so hard that they test the boundaries between music and noise. The clumsy ones lose control and collapse into incoherence, but the agile ones — say, the Velvet Underground, Husker Du, R.L. Burnside […]
It’s a good thing that Steve Earle likes to talk, because it seems like he’s always got a lot of explaining to do. Earle once turned up late for a concert in Atlanta, forcing headliner Rosanne Cash to go on […]
