Billy Gibbons surprised music buffs and ZZ Top fans in November when he released his first solo album, Perfectamundo, steeped in Cuban rhythms. The departure from ZZ Top’s powerful blues rock, though, made perfect sense to Gibbons. “Like the old […]
Steve Pierce remembers the days working in Pelham, Alabama, as the maintenance manager at the state’s largest outdoor amphitheater, but one day there in 2008 was very, very special. “I met Billy Gibbons in the soda line backstage at Oak […]
Michael Timmins sees the newest Cowboy Junkies album, Notes Falling Slow, as “a nice stepping stone to whatever our next recording project will be.” The four-disc Notes Falling Slow, released in October, follows 2012’s wonderful five-disc box set, The Nomad […]
Jazz is usually not a part of Orenda Fink’s musical palette, but the 23rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival presented the best concert she has ever seen. Nina Simone stepped on the amphitheater stage at Chastain Park on May, 26, 2000, […]
Monica Heldal’s 2014 debut album, Boy from the North, was described as part Americana, part bluegrass, and part Irish folk. But the Norwegian singer-songwriter points to another genre when discussing the best concert she has seen. Heldal, who is releasing […]
Roosevelt Dime’s Eben Pariser may always remember his 22nd birthday. It was 2005, Brooklyn had become his new home, and he was at the hip borough’s now defunct club Southpaw in Park Slope. He was celebrating his birthday watching Antibalas […]
It wasn’t the weather for hitchhiking, but that didn’t stop Peter Rowan, one cold winter night in the early 1960s. “I hitchhiked from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York — way upstate — all the way down to Washington, D.C., one […]
On Any Trouble’s new double album, Present Tense, longtime fans “will recognize our typical hallmarks — jangly guitars, melody, mostly uptempo tunes,” bandleader Clive Gregson says. “It’s perhaps a bit more reflective and mature [than previous albums] in the writing […]
There were many reasons for the six-year gap between Webb Wilder’s new album, Mississippi Moderne, and 2009’s More Like Me, but the years that passed may have been the glue that solidified the most recent release on Landslide Records. “The […]
It was certainly not the grand finale David Corley envisioned when he embarked on his first European tour to support his highly acclaimed debut album, Available Light. Before his final song at the TakeRoot festival in Groningen, the Netherlands, on […]
