Recently, Natalie York played a split bill with Raye Zaragoza and the Whiskey Treaty Roadshow at Boston’s Foundation Room as a kickoff to her Highway Heroines tour. That afternoon, York drove in from New York for the show, the first road trip in […]
For Christmas, my sisters got me a record. And a record player. To play the record. Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town, to be precise. It’s the first record in what will hopefully be an ever-growing collection of […]
Sunday night at the Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary had a moment that was as much fun listening to music as can be imagined. It proved to be one of many moments from a weekend of moments: After a full set of “modern […]
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, […]
The Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Celebration starts with a conversation between friends: Jim Olsen, the label’s founder, and Chris Smither, the label’s most storied act. The two are sitting on the slightly raised stage of the Parlor Room, a two-year-old, 50-seat […]
