Everything but riffraff, that is… Hurray for the Riff Raff has been one of my favorite bands since the first time I saw them at the Newport Folk Festival two years ago. The band returned to Boston to perform at the Paradise Rock […]
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When an audience offers up a standing ovation just for an artist walking onstage, the night is surely going to be a good one, right? Well… yes and no. Stopping in Nashville on her first-ever solo tour and last-ever world […]
It’s a rare and beautiful thing to see artists support each other so readily and joyfully as the members of Ten Out of Tenn do. The Nashville artists’ collective founded by singer/songwriter Trent Dabbs and his wife, marketing maven Kristen, […]
Although 2015 is still young, Jerry Lawson’s new album Just a Mortal Man already wins the award for top soul album of the year. Having spent 40 years as the lead singer of the a capella group The Persuasions, having […]
If there were a formula for how to become a legend, Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard would be a corollary to that formula. That he is a legend cannot be denied and was proven once again on a Sunday night […]
With The Rascals’ reputation of creating some of the most wondrous blue-eyed soul classics in rock history, it may not be too surprising which concert was Felix Cavaliere’s all-time favorite. “Just forget about it,” The Rascals’ keyboard player and singer […]
For their first gig of 2015, The Secret Sisters (Lydia and Laura Rogers) showed just how far they’ve come since bursting onto the scene in 2010 with their self-titled debut, produced by T Bone Burnett. Back then they were admittedly […]
How thrilled was I to see that two of my favorite bands would share the stage on the same evening at Club Passim! Spuyten Duyvil, a folk-infused blues band (or is it a blues-infused folk band?), headlined this show with […]
It’s been interesting to see the growth in the number of performers whose music I like using crowd funding as a means of financing recording costs. In practice it’s a combination of a pre-sale and a one-off virtual merch table; […]
I’ll remember April 24th 2015 for two reasons: It was the 25th anniversary of the launching of the Hubble telescope and Six String Presents brought Tres Chicas to an intimate 185 seat theater in Cary, NC. The Hubble is an […]
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