Where to begin? The Americanafest can be described in many ways — entertaining, enlightening and — to be absolutely honest — exhausting. But mostly it’s amazing. Six days of shows, showcases, discussions, and seminars involving the brightest lights in Americana […]
Sigur Rós blew minds Saturday with a celestial live performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Blew. Minds. I had never seen the Icelandic group in person, only ever having been deeply mesmerized by their recorded work. I wondered how it would […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
Spending Thursday evening in Cleveland was a long way from a night in Nashville during AMA week, but there was a saving grace being at Music Box Supper Club. Toasting some nice autumn ale with my wingman and partner-in-crime Dale […]
After an excellent opening set by Ben Glover of whom more soon, this was a performance of the purest country music; an acoustic set featuring Brandy Clark accompanied by Miles Aubrey, each with a guitar. No band, just songs, some […]
The last full-bore music festival I attended was the 2008 Austin City Limits Festival. A great three-day lineup of musicians, but I remember feeling like a disoriented steer in a roundup in the intense heat and the dust, and being […]
Dolly Parton is a living legend. One of those rare talents that has it all and can do it all. Since her early beginnings, Dolly Parton knew she was going to be a star. This evening she brought her unique […]
The Tedeschi Trucks Band closed out their summer touring with some dates along the West Coast with stops in Arizona, Oregon, Washington and California. With their stop in Seattle, Washington, they played at McCaw Hall on the grounds of the […]
Anyone who doubts that Gov’t Mule is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world is unfamiliar with Gov’t Mule, has hearing difficulties, or is unworthy of trust on matters related to music. Their force of nature frontman, Warren […]
The 59 th Monterey Jazz Festival was an island of sanity in a sea of pain. The headliner for opening night in The Arena was Mr. Quincy Jones (“Q’’ to those of you in the know, and to the fans in […]
