Chris Thile dubbed this year’s festival Telluride Bluegrass and Classical Festival, in large part due to the two magnificent sets delivered by Béla Fleck, with the final day’s set of through-composed music performed by Béla and the brilliant young string […]
THE DUHKS Beyond Blue (Compass) Rejuvenated by a two year hiatus and energized by the return of vocalist Jessee Havey and the addition of new members, fiddler Rosie Newton, drummer Kevin Garcia, and guitarist/bouzouki player Colin Savoie-Levac, The Duhks founder […]
Features Alejandro Escovedo – Leave the light on, he’ll be home by 2am Go To Blazes – Guilty of being on Melrose Place — And Other Crimes Richard Buckner – Home is where the brink is The Honeydogs – In […]
A family vacation to California ended with a fantastic, soulful night at Slim’s in San Francisco June 21st, followed by a lively show at The Triple Door in Seattle June 24th. The timing couldn’t be better. Our son Jacob graduated from […]
On June 14, the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, Minn., hosted a trio of up-and-coming alt-country artists: Nikki Lane, Hugh Bob and the Hustle, and Frankie Lee. Lee, who has been getting some airtime on Twin Cities and surrounding area […]
Features Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Learning what’s Rite from Lefty and Hank (Thompson, that is) Blue Mountain – Oxford Blue: making a mountain out of Mississippi mud Freakwater – Not your auntie’s skiffle band Golden Smog – […]
Features Bottle Rockets – Dirty white boys got the red wine country blues Dead Reckoning – How to succeed in the music business Son Volt – Dim lights, small cities The Picketts – Grungetown grass grows grangy on the Picketts […]
Posting this today because I woke up thinking about Mom ….. In April of 2012 Kerry and I went to Tennessee.. Bonnie Raitt was starting her Slipstream tour in Nashville at the Ryman and as we had never seen her […]
When veteran California rock band the Eagles hit the stage in London on June 21, there was no pretence about why people had come to see them or what the band was expected to do. It was a case of play […]
When Charlie Worsham took the stage on Saturday night at Nashville’s 3rd and Lindsley, a good chunk of the audience jumped to its feet. Worsham met their enthusiasm with a heaping dose of his own as he launched into the opening […]
