The lobby in Kansas City’s Westin Hotel is full of folks: folks in jeans and glasses, folks in plaid and boots, folks on computers and cell phones, and folks lugging around various musical instruments. There are the dredlocked folks by […]
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“Thank you for making the good choice to come to City Winery tonight … instead of going to see some other fucker,” said Colin Hay, with a beaming and courtly smile at the end of his first song, the gorgeous […]
Most singers blessed with robust voices these days are content to fly their melodies as high and wide as possible, forsaking the song for the histrionics and allowing auto-tune to do the rest, with no real craft to be found […]
I got a kind and last-minute invitation to see Steve Earle play and speak at the Grammy Museum’s “The Drop” series, and I jumped at the chance. I’ve long admired Earle’s gift for storytelling and picking on that guitar, and this Americana […]
While I have not made it to any of the previous 26 gatherings of Folk Alliance International’s annual conference, this year in Kansas City will continue the tradition of bringing musicians together from all over the world to perform and mingle, […]
As temperatures hovered around zero degrees, Shemekia Copeland heated up the concert hall inside the Music Box Supper Club Sunday evening with a sizzling 90-minute set that brought the crowd to its feet. The Alligator Records artist is still touring behind […]
Turbo Fruits are not a new band. With a recording history that goes back to 2007 and with their fourth album, No Control, set for release on April 20, 2015, the band have an extensive catalog and years of experience […]
When you’re a singer/songwriter armed with little more than a guitar and your talent, you have to find ways to stand out from the crowd. That’s why the pairing of Robby Hecht and Natalia Zukerman last Friday at the Bluebird […]
Risk-taking plus talent does not guarantee success. Nor should it. There are many other variables that have to be taken into consideration. Things like market demand, competition, and return on investment are only three in a long list of variables […]
On a working trip to Greece, I stumbled on a small museum in a corner of Athens’ historic Plaka district that shows there is more to Greek music than “Zorba’s Dance” and “Never on Sunday.” In fact, the Museum of […]
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