“Last year was a son of a bitch for nearly everyone we know,” Jason Isbell sang at the outset of his show at Seattle’s opulent Paramount Theatre on Tuesday night, instantly energizing what he had to know was a copacetic […]
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If Gregg Allman had a premonition about his imminent demise, then it was little wonder that he poured his last full measure of inspiration into South Blood, the album that would serve as his final full requiem. And indeed, no […]
Very few albums can weave their ways into our souls so deeply that the music itself — every song on the album — carries us away from our ordinary lives. As we listen, we can feel the spirit of those […]
When Gregg Allman passed away at age 69 in late May of this year following a battle with liver cancer, the world mourned the loss of one of its finest players, poets, and people. A couple months after his passing, […]
Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World (September 29) I always thought Sweet Old World never got enough love. While the critics took to it, the newly minted alt-country crowd not so much. Did they want Volume 2 of the Rough Trade album? Was it too […]
When a colleague and I interviewed Gregg Allman a few years ago, his main topic of conversation was his health. He had just had a liver transplant and was — not unsurprisingly — a bit fixated on it. He clearly […]
Just for a moment, let me indulge in that most obnoxious of fan brags, the dreaded “I saw them before they got big.” It was MerleFest, a million years ago (early aughts, to be slightly more precise), and I was making […]
In 1974, the Charlie Daniels Band released “The South Gonna Do It,” which quickly became an anthem celebrating the rise and then-growing popularity of a style of music that became known as Southern rock. That phrase most often referred to […]
Gregg Allman, founding member of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, is a gifted blues musician. Allman’s soulful, distinctive voice is as much a part of the American musical landscape as Hendrix’ guitar work or Bob Dylan’s poetic lyrics. Allman, a […]
The Birchmere has a well-deserved reputation as a place that musicians love to play. There are a lot of reasons for that, but probably chief among them is the fact that the staff of the venue respects the music and […]
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