Reprinted from Modern Acoustic blog It was one of those most magical of evenings. Outside, 70 or so degrees, beside the ocean, sun about to set, your favorite concert buddies sitting alongside you. Oh, and it just happened to be the […]
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Another great day in Town Park. There is so much to write about, and here are a few highlights. Front Country, band contest winners from 2013, set a high bar for all future band contest winners. From their first downbeat […]
Saturday night at Telluride, Sam Bush opened his two-hour set with an instrumental version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” There was a flag in the audience — it had been there all weekend — popping up every now and then. I’m […]
So what if all the music journos were broadly critical, so what if the band played by rote and the songs all sounded like the album versions (not quite true), so what if Joe Walsh has played all his solos […]
As I stated yesterday, is little that happens at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival that is not epic, and Béla Fleck’s set with the Colorado Symphony puts the meaning of that word to the test. This was monumental. First of all the […]
The Pabst Theatre crowd leapt to its feet and roared, and you knew he was coming back. Not only that, 65-year-old Richard Thompson suddenly scurried back out to his guitar, like a kid pouncing onto a Christmas present. I’m standing […]
Otis Taylor is melodic and hypnotic, making trance-like music that awakens those who listen with open ears and soul, to sadness and joy, loss and gain, all that cuts to the deepest musical bone of his and our ancestry. His […]
There is little that happens at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival that is not epic. Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, the Telluride House Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, Punch Brothers, Tim O’Brien, Bryan Sutton, Stuart Duncan, and Edgar Meyer are here […]
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