There has been a proliferation of music festivals, largely with an emphasis on rootsy music over the past decade or so, especially here in Virginia, from my wife’s and my favorite, the somewhat recent addition to the scene, the Red […]
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I’m not going to bury the lead here: This concert changed the way I think about the Indigo Girls. I’ve been a casual fan of the duo for a long time. I’ve listened to Rites of Passage for obvious reasons, […]
I started playing guitar when I was 11 years old. I wanted to play bass, but my father wanted me to start on the instrument he knew best. His argument was, “You love to sing. Start with guitar so you […]
A couple months before high school ended, senior year, I bought a ticket to see R.E.M. in Tampa, with Radiohead opening. “Creep” had only just hit and Radiohead was still somewhat obscure, but there was something about the languid melancholy in Thom […]
Even as the internet pulls citizens of the world closer together, issues push us further apart. At the heart of both matters are the ideas of connectedness and commonality. Whether a community is online or on the ground, the age-old […]
This past weekend, my bass-playing husband and I packed up our two boys and headed west from Austin to the Kerrville Folk Festival. Kerrville — a bastion of hippie songwriter-dom — is an 18-day festival in Texas’s gorgeous hill country. […]
Despite the occasional political prattle that earned this Marietta, Ga. duo the well-deserved “Indignant Girls” tag, the Indigo Girls continue to produce genuinely compelling music, complete with an intellectual spine. After expanding the group dynamics on the electric guitar-laden Swamp […]
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