Jalopy Records partners with Mississippi Records to release ‘Lost Train Blues’ – compiled for Alan Lomax’s 100th birthday with never-before-issued field recordings. This project excited me when I was told about it. What foresight some people had to make these […]
I seem to have been the last of my music-minded friends to discover Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams and I have no idea what took me so long! I saw Larry perform twice over the past 18 months, once with […]
I saw Julie Rhodes perform 2.1 times (the .1 comes from seeing her sing one song at a show with another band) prior to this CD release show at Thunder Road, a relatively new venue in the Boston area, and […]
Ryan Montbleau has been a fixture on the Boston music scene for about 12 years, usually playing with a full band. For the past five years, he has done a solo acoustic run of shows — the past two years […]
Where do I start to tell the story of Lead Belly Fest, an amazing tribute to Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter held at Carnegie Hall, first staged at Royal Albert Hall in London last year? Carnegie Hall was the site of Lead […]
What a great concept: get 15 songwriters together, subsidized by an Iguana Music Fund grant, and send them to a camp on Lake Winnipesaukee to write songs for a week. They call themselves the Sub Rosa Collective, and they are […]
There is a new, powerful voice on the rise in both the Boston and national soul and blues scenes and her name is Julie Rhodes. I have been privileged to see her twice in the past month at Atwood’s Tavern, […]
When I read the description of The DuPont Brothers, a duo that was unfamiliar, I thought they might prove to be a band I would enjoy quite a bit. It turned out I was correct! Composed of brothers Zack and […]
Windborne was an unexpected delight! I knew nothing about them, but I decided to go to the show after they reached out to me. On a frigid Monday night, this show was sold-out or nearly so, an impressive feat for […]
Marshall Crenshaw has been making music for almost as long as I have been attending shows, so I was excited to see him on this night between Christmas and New Year’s Day. As soon as he took the stage, he let […]
