Like a Pineapple Express, last night at the MusicCares Awards banquet, where he was honored as its person of the year, Bob Dylan opened up and let out a torrential downpour that lasted for over a half-hour. He delivered a torrent […]
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Ryan Montbleau has been a fixture on the Boston music scene for about twelve years; I have had the opportunity to see him several times with a full band and was thrilled to finally be able to see him in […]
Supporting Players: Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Chester Thompson, James DaSilva, Chris Walters Jazz is a distinctively American form of music. It was therefore not a surprise that when saxophonist and flautist David Liebman, one of the living legends of the Jazz […]
Alabama troubadour Jason Isbell and an Amanda Shires-less 400 Unit lit up the tiny Pollak Theater on the campus of scenic Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. It’s a campus that I’ll always remember as being the home of […]
Looking like a buffed Zach Galifianakis, Clay Cook strode onstage to a musical “yard sale” of grand piano, amps, mics, electric and acoustic guitars. In two sets over the next hour and a half, the Atlanta native treated the sold-out […]
From the name, you’d expect a sleekit cat with a soul patch, tightly wrapped in a shiny tux topped with a funky fedora with a feather in the hatband; bebop royalty or a sultan of swing. But Adrian Duke looks […]
Also Performing: Jordie Lane Midway through a sweeping tour of the US, The Stray Birds landed in Berkeley on a stormy Friday night to play a spirited set of bluegrass, newgrass, and acoustic folk. Rain and wind weren’t going to stop […]
The hugely popular and successful Transatlantic Sessions returned to London for their 6th annual sold out show at the prestigious Royal Festival Hall. Originating many years ago as a series on BBC TV the collective fuses Celtic and North American musical […]
Supporting Players: Kenny Greenberg, Nick Buda, Steve Mackey Jimmy Hall and guitarist Kenny Greenberg have been playing together for over 30 years. My record collection includes a benefit compilation called Nashville Homegrown, which includes a song by Jimmy Hall & the Prisoners […]
Here’s a challenge I promise won’t hurt. Try this, grown-ups — whether or not you have children in your lives. Take the latest album, Through the Woods, by children’s music singer-songwriters and adventure-seeking, Grammy-winning duo Okee Dokee Brothers (Justin Lansing on […]
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