It’s been said that music criticism basically boils down to “You’ve got to hear this” or “You had to be there.” I kept thinking about that last night, as I watched the Indigo Girls perform to a sold-out crowd in […]
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It was a lovely spring Sunday evening as we entered The Lark to experience our first concert there. The Lark is a beautiful venue with great acoustics. The room is set up mostly with tables you can reserve along with […]
Alejandro Escovedo – punk–alt country-roots rocker, writer, legend – started out in the worst band in the world. Way back in his teens, he and his friends made a film. “The Worst Band in the World was like the way […]
Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival Pittsboro N.C. For most of her adult life, she’s been the Dirt Farmer’s daughter, standing in the massive shadow of her revered father, Levon. But this […]
The Steel Wheels kicked off their 2017 tour with a rousing cd release show in front of a packed house at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA. The band hit the stage with a truckload of energy and the crowd […]
This past Saturday, April 29, 2017 – I saw David Olney play with Blair Hogan in a basement in Woodstock, Ontario. It was one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen! The evening began with George Douglas (the host […]
Jason Isbell took no prisoners tonight in Portsmouth. The Oreo cake must have done him good that he talked so happily about. He said a number of times about how cool a space it was at the Portsmouth Pavilion, how […]
Clad in a black hat onstage at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern on Thursday night, Sunny Sweeney remarked that she’d move to the Pacific Northwest in a heartbeat, just so she could wear a hat every day. But that wouldn’t feel quite […]
The Unthanks – How Wild The Wind Blows, at the Royal Northern College Of Music, Manchester, UK One of the many fine and fascinating things about The Unthanks is how they manage to fearlessly represent the very epitome of the folk tradition yet at […]
Another Friday night in Raleigh and I once again found myself at a concert by someone I’d been hearing about for a while but hadn’t really taken the time to listen to. Since my music loving friends (and trusted publications like […]
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