With navigating the current world becoming more challenging every day, Twisted Pine delivers the kind of album that makes it feel like everything is going to be okay. Instrumental virtuosity — the band’s calling card — abounds on their latest […]
What’s in a song that you love and have loved for a long time? Bits of nostalgia, sure. A transportive effect that can take us back to when we were driving around town in high school. Summer days at the […]
Not that they play the standards — not on this record, anyway — but they damn well could if they wanted to. Twisted Pine’s latest album almost got past me but I was lucky and grabbed it just before it […]
Lots of songs lament the “good old days,” but few do so quite as directly as Twisted Pine’s new track “I Miss Talking.” The Boston-based acoustic band explore the joys of simply having a real-life conversation in the harmony-heavy song, […]
When Ralph Peer’s father, owner of a furniture store in Independence, Missouri, started selling Victrolas in the early 20th century as a sideline, Peer became fascinated with the problem of providing sufficient content to satisfy the demand created by this […]
I went into the Freshgrass experience not knowing what to expect. I knew a few things, this was a festival at a contemporary art museum, I had friends that had played the fest in the past and they loved it, and that […]
We couldn’t have asked for a lovelier evening in Western Massachusetts than the one we got last night for the kickoff of this year’s Green River Festival. Now in its 29th year, this annual event is getting heralded near and […]
Signature Sounds’ unofficial mantra is “Music Abounds.” It says so on the right edge of 20th Anniversary insignia, printed on a 5-foot-by-5-foot circular sign that sits high above the center of the Academy of Music stage. The set design is minimalist, […]
