If there is ever a chance of seeing Kris Kristofferson live, my friend Sweet D and I take it. He has been our main man since the 1970s, and at 80 years old, he is still as incredible as ever. After a […]
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If there was ever a time to present a collection of expanded, reworked and new American music, it was several days after the 58th United States presidential election. Premiering a program resulting from the inaugural FreshGrass Composition Commission he was awarded by […]
Seeing Trixie Whitley perform has been on my radar since a friend introduced me to her music three years ago, and my wish was finally granted over the weekend at The Red Room at Café 939 (a Berklee College of […]
The stage was set Thursday night at Music Box Supper Club with two circular Sontronic microphones and a box wrapped around the center mic stand emblazoned with the words “Chatham Co Line”. When four gentlemen took the stage wearing suits […]
Loudon Wainwright III brought his dry, droll ways to Belfast for the first time in nine years if I’ve counted it up right. He was nearly at the end of an Ireland and UK tour that had been running since […]
When you think about the music culture of Asheville, North Carolina, the image in your head probably isn’t a fro-hawked, nose-pierced black woman who can rip on the electric guitar and who, along with her band, pulls together a sound […]
A friend’s dad dies in his seventies. Another friend succumbs to cancer at the age of 37. Trump wins. Leonard Cohen passes away. The University of Washington Huskies lose their first game of the football season. I had jury duty […]
Not too often you find a sailor and a cowboy together in one singer-songwriter, a Virginian one at that. But, Mike Aiken is that singular performer, one shit kicker boot in full cowboy Nashville, one Top Sider on his sailboat […]
Whenever the The Steel Wheels comes to town, the rubber hits the road with a rolling, fricative sound – a pushing forth of melody and movement with the vocal fix of lyrics layered in magic. Recently, the band, led by […]
2016 has been full of everything one could imagine. Celebrity deaths by the truck load, natural disasters of biblical proportion and a presidential election that was equal parts Shakespearian play and a really really bad sci-fi film. It only seemed […]
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