Roots can dig deep and spread wide, but first they need solid ground. Luckily, the old marshes of Boston – with their old English name, the fens – have been steadily filled in since the 1600s, so that only a […]
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So I’ve done a few live reviews, but this will be my first festival that I’ve ever posted about for this site. In fact the Virginia Key Grassroots festival is the perfect festival for me to review first, because […]
On Under Cold Blue Stars, Josh Rouse’s third album, he became a truly accomplished songwriter – the kind who helps us see in the dark, illuminating the hidden corners of everyday life, and of the psyche. As the old cliché says, time flies. […]
Baby, It’s Cold Outside Radney Foster took the stage at the Wheeler Center for the Arts to riotous applause here Saturday night, and then spent the first minute of the show tuning his vintage Gibson acoustic while explaining that the near-zero […]
I’m not sure why, but I get really sad when session musicians die. Maybe it’s because I think they never got the credit they deserved, or at least that they got less acclaim than the headlining stars who might have […]
12/13/14 is a once in a lifetime date and that very night was indeed a epic memory forever in time. The Black Keys who are one of the biggest bands around performed at Greenville’s South Carolina’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena […]
There are few American classics these days, but Don Williams is certainly one of them. With a warm hickory baritone that balances strength with a gentle concern, he draws his listener into the intimate world of an old friend, someone […]
Also on the bill: Fredd Luongo Opens With Heartfelt Solo Performance When my husband Pat and I walked into The Tractor on Sunday night, my immediate thought was, “Word got around about Doug Seegers — the place is almost full.” And then, “It’s a seated […]
Miracles of Modern Science is a guitarless quintet, and the band produces tunes under the guise of “eccentric chamber pop.” First formed on the campus of Princeton University in 2004, the group seems to have carried over its academic sway […]
Anyone who mixes a little Monteverdi with a harmonium and Joni Mitchell is guaranteed to get my attention; when that person is a compelling, adventurous young performer, I’m sold. Olivia Chaney played to a transformed Dakota earlier this month, a […]
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