There is a shadowy cloak to the music of Milton Mapes. It’s the kind of dark, seductive veil that invites guesses about the people behind it, especially after you listen to The Blacklight Trap, the group’s cryptic and captivating third […]
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Dean Reed was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, to borrow from Winston Churchill. The Colorado native, a struggling singer on Capitol Records, moved from California to Chile in the early 1960s after his single “Our Summer […]
Rarely do club shows seem to have as much at stake as a pair that braved the February freeze of the midwest. For Alejandro Escovedo, the highly-anticipated, sold-out performance at Chicago’s suburban FitzGerald’s marked a return to the road after […]
Elvis Costello was acutely aware of where he was. That was made plain in the middle of the show when he stepped forward, away from the microphone, and took a crack at a bit of his “Scarlet Tide” song from […]
I go to see Bob Dylan perform every chance I get. If Picasso were going to paint tonight in the public square and I could get a ticket to watch, I wouldn’t miss that either. Dylan shows are idiosyncratic, spontaneous […]
This was the return of the prodigal son. Although Jimmy Webb was born in Oklahoma, his musical homecomings haven’t always measured up to his stature as an artist. The Blue Door benefit was different, and special in many ways. On […]
Chuck and Ruth Maynard flew in from Milwaukee for the Flatliners debut; fortunately they arrived early, as the show sold out twenty minutes after the doors opened. Maynard had met Flatliner Vince Bell at one of Bell’s lectures on coping […]
Tom Russell celebrated the release of his Hotwalker album by looking forward and backward. He kicked off his show with three songs from Love And Fear, the follow-up he hopes to release by year’s end. Russell noted that “All The […]
When Cindy Cashdollar stands to plays her square-neck dobro, she assumes the spread-leg stance of a gunfighter, and when she sweeps a steel bar over the six strings, the notes sizzle like cheeseburgers on an open grill. And when she […]
Two disparate Canadian performances bookmarked this year’s International Folk Alliance Conference in Montreal. Early on the opening night of the three-day music extravaganza, ASCAP honored sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle with a lifetime achievement award. The hotel ballroom where this […]
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