Amanda Kravat says it’s “impossible” to pick the best concert performance she has seen, so “I’ve stuck ‘em all in a jar and am blindfolding myself and picking one out.” The winner? Prince … and it wasn’t even his gig. […]
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If you care about an important slice of rock and roll history, pick up tickets for the Zombies’ U.S. tour, which runs from September 30 in Dallas to the final stop at The Fillmore in San Francisco on October 27. […]
After moving from Maine to New York and cutting her first two albums there, Aly Spaltro’s heart remains in her homestate. But, she says, New York is a great place to create and express oneself. It’s also where – on […]
Celebrating the the release of their new double album Drifted: In the Beginning and Beyond, Susan Cowsill and fellow members of the Continental Drifters will reunite to perform two shows next weekend at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Los Angeles. It […]
As Ian Tyson approaches his 82nd birthday Sept. 25, don’t presume for a minute that he is no more than a tired, over-the-hill folksinger who once penned a great song, “Four Strong Winds,” as part of a long-gone duo Ian & […]
Omaha singer-songwriter Matt Whipkey says it was “a real honor” warming up for Dwight Yoakam at six recent shows in five states. “For any artist, it is a positive experience sharing a bill with a someone of Dwight’s caliber,” says […]
It’s not easy for Elliott Murphy to pick the best concert he has ever seen. “I was born in 1949 and started playing guitar and getting into music when I was 12, so that makes over 50 years of historic […]
“You’re kind of well-known, but you are kind of obscure.” That’s a comment Jimmy LaFave has heard before, he told me after his stellar outdoor show on Aug. 4 in a park in Ridgefield, CT. The Austin-based singer-songwriter says the […]
It wasn’t Atlantis, but the most magical moment of Donovan’s musical career did occur “way down by the ocean.” On a noisy, congested little island filled with taxi cabs near the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 17, 1969, Donovan sang his […]
There were plenty of valid reasons for the five-year gap between Allison Moorer’s acclaimed 2010 album Crows and her new album Down to Believing. “Well, I’ll give you the list,” she says when I ask. “I became a parent. I […]
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