Not a full scale review but just some comments on a wonderful 90-minute set from one of my favorite roots bands, The Black Lillies from Knoxville, Tn. First, you can tell these folks have been real road warriors since 2009 […]
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You should know that this first paragraph was written after I wrote what follows below. So that you don’t scratch your head and wonder what the hell I may be thinking about posting this on a website devoted to the […]
It was a packed house at the Black Box. Anais Mitchell was in Belfast supported by Rachel Ries, and tickets were scarce. Ries was the first on stage. Her album Ghost of a Gardener was released early this year. On […]
Lucinda Williams with Doug Paisley live at Massey Hall – Toronto, ON – Nov. 21, 2014 Right as the clock struck 9 p.m., the grand dame of alt-country strolled to the centre of the stage and picked up her acoustic […]
Jim Marshall was no hippie. To his credit, Marshall, the foremost rock photographer of the San Francisco scene, cast a cold eye on the wondrous goings on he documented, the better to capture, and share, Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moments.” Best known […]
To say Suzanne Vega was skeptical that her song “Luka” could be a hit would be completely understating it. “It was my manager at the time, Ron Fierstein, who heard in it a possible hit,” Vega says by telephone before […]
Lucy Wainwright Roche normally travels alone. When reached by telephone in Minneapolis recently, she had already spent several weeks in a car with her dog, Maeby, and her mother, acclaimed singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche (The Roches), in tow. “We’ve been spending a […]
MacArthur fellowship-winning alto saxophonist-composer-arranger Miguel Zenon (foreground) lights the fire. Zenon is the only extant founding member of the 11-year-old SFJAZZ Collective. Courtesy all about Jazz.com A Westerly Cultural Travel Journal — Part 3 (This concert review concludes a cultural travelogue first […]
Sunday was a beautiful day, all about dear and talented friends celebrating that dearness and talent all day long. It was also Abbot Kinney’s 164th birthday, and what way to honor the founder of our wonderful town than by dreaming […]
Dr. John has been playing New Orleans jazz, blues, voodoo rock, what have you, since the late 1950s. Now, at the age of 74, he reckons it is touch-and-go whether that special Big Easy culture and sound he so loves […]
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