Joan Baez—The Pageant—St. Louis, MO—July 19, 2009 2009 is a milestone year for Joan Baez, marking the fifty-year anniversary of her first appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, a performance that jump-started her career and led to her classic 1960 […]
Old 97s—The Pageant—St. Louis, MO—July 18, 2009 Where were you in ’94? I was in a dark dungeon-basement bar called Cicero’s in St. Louis, a place with rock walls and exposed, dripping pipes. We headed there after reading that a […]
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils—Bottleneck Blues Bar—St. Charles, MO—July 16, 2009 Okay, full disclosure: I love the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. First of all, with all the numbers in, they were the hairiest band of the ’70s, a considerable achievement obviously. If […]
Bryan Sutton (and Friends)—Almost Live—Sugar Hill—2009 Bluegrass musicians and aficionados love to designate the pantheon of the world’s finest pickers, those uncontested champs of their instruments, masters like Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, and Jerry Douglas. In the Tellurides and Merlefests […]
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp–GCS Ballpark–Sauget, IL–July, 2 2009 Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game will be played in St. Louis in a few days, but, last night, just across the Mississippi, a Sauget, Illinois, minor-league baseball stadium hosted an […]
The Avett Brothers—The Pageant—St. Louis—June 25, 2009 The hard-touring Avett Brothers stopped in St. Louis tonight on a tour that anticipates the release of their major-label debut, the Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You. Once the Brothers walked out, […]
Telluride House Band Well, it all comes down to this. It’s the Justice League of Americana. The Superpickers. Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Bryan Sutton, and Luke Bula, each the current undisputed master of his respective instrument. […]
Emmylou Harris Emmy told us from the stage that she’s 62 years old. She’s aged well, and her voice is tailor-made for this place as the sun sets over town. She opened the show with “Return of the Grevious Angel,” […]
Tim O’Brien Tim is finishing his set under a hot sun. You never quite know who Tim will be playing with—today was stellar with Bryan Sutton on guitar, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, and Dennis Crouch on bass. Mighty nice bluegrass. […]
Todd Snider Todd, who performs solo acoustic, reinforced his sound with Jeff and Ben from Yonder Mountain. If you’ve seen Todd before, you know that he’s funny onstage, tells lots of stories, etc. Today he played several songs from his […]
