No jawbone tonight! Suz Slezak recently embarked on a brief New England tour to promote her new album, Watching the Nighttime Come, and included a stop at Club Passim on a cold, snowy Valentine’s Day evening. Known for her work […]
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Listening to genuine Southern musicians spin yarns and sing deeply emotional songs – some quite funny, too – is a treat on any evening. Add Lincoln’s birthday to the mix and the songs and stories take on a sharper resonance. […]
Guitarist Kev Wright announced this week that he has parted ways with The Righteous Hillbillies, the band he co-founded eight years ago with Brent James. In a Feb. 11 Facebook post, Wright said “with a heavy heart” that the split was […]
For the Black Cadillacs, Friday night was a bit of a homecoming. Of course, with roots in three of Tennessee’s largest cities, they will have other homecoming shows on their current tour. Still, the reception they received from the fans […]
I am a sucker for good slide guitar, so I was excited to see The Slide Sessions, a collaboration by Abbie Gardner, Jim Henry, Cliff Eberhardt, and Brooks Williams at Club Passim this week. I had no idea how rare a […]
Over the Rhine’s double album, Meet Me at the Edge of the World has been on my most-played playlist since it was released in 2013, so I was anticipating that their sold-out show at The Freight & Salvage would be excellent. […]
This year, the Nashville Ballet’s Valentine’s program finds them teaming up with local singer/songwriter Matthew Perryman Jones for a reprisal of their 2013 collaboration, “… but the flowers have yet to come” as part of Attitude. The three-part performance also […]
With every seat taken and standing room only for latecomers, Jeffrey Foucault made a welcome return to Lewes; Billy Conway, with whom he has been touring for the past year or so, accompanied him. Conway plays ‘suitcase drums’ – this […]
Our story begins in Ohio, at Oberlin College. A busy college conservatory hallway, where deep-thinking coeds bustle past, discussing music theory and other heady ideas. In walks a young woman from Greensboro, NC, named Rhiannon Giddens – tall and dark-skinned, […]
Justin Vernon isn’t the only Wisconsin songwriter who vanished into a northwoods cabin and emerged with an album full of songs. So did Viroqua native Simon Balto. In 2013 Balto released The Roads That Make Men Weary. Like Vernon’s music, […]
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