Another one!! This time it’s Shakey Graves at Norfolk, Virginia’s NorVa Concert Venue. Again, young performers of alt this or alt that seem to have made up their minds that no-one’s going to leave one of their concerts without a […]
Another one!! This time it’s Shakey Graves at Norfolk, Virginia’s NorVa Concert Venue. Again, young performers of alt this or alt that seem to have made up their minds that no-one’s going to leave one of their concerts without a […]
“Somebody’s gotta do it,” says Jay Sweet, producer of the Newport Folk Festival, when I ask what inspired him to take up the charge of keeping the long-running festival alive and relevant. “I felt like it was the granddaddy of […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are fortunate to have Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels band, not to mention Eastern Mennonite University that initially brought the band members here as students, not to mention the influence on the band […]
1. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free 2. Songhoy Blues – Music In Exile 3. Robert Chaney – Cracked Picture Frames 4. Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa 5. Melody Gardot – Currency Of Man 6. The Very Best – […]
December 12 was an unseasonably warm day for Warren Haynes’ 27th Annual Christmas Jam, held each year in the Smoky Mountains enclave of Asheville, North Carolina. It was so warm, in fact, that not only were some folks in T-shirts, but […]
With that voice, the hat and those looks, Sam Outlaw could be a straight-up mainline Big Country Star. He could be wowing the Nashville scene, starring at the Grand Ol’ Opry, working up to headlining that city’s Bridgestone Arena. He […]
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