The old bedtime story of David versus Goliath might just have a modern day metaphorical counterpart this summer. The undisputed heavyweight champion of Colorado summertime music festivals, AEG Live's Mile High Music Fest, rescheduled for 2010 to the weekend of August 14th and 15th, turns out directly conflicts with the 20th anniversary of the decidedly intimate yet more established Folks Fest in nearby Lyo… Continue

Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie - Southern (Rural Rhythm, 2010)



Bill Emerson is a legendary banjo player with roots stretching b… Continue

Back when ND was a print magazine and it was my job to try to sort through the hundreds of CDs which came my way each month so as to find the next Whiskeytown, I used to have days when I'd listen to fragments of things I'd never heard of. I could clear a shelf of 100 CDs in a good afternoon, probably finding one thing really worth finding in all that, and spending a few minutes with another goodly handful of artists whose work I was casually familiar with… Continue

I have been listening recently to the Amchitka concert CD (www.amchitka-concert.com) that got its long overdue release late last year. This live double disc documents the historic October 16 1970 show that launched Greenpeace. Money raised from this Vancouver, British Columbia benefit concert was used to buy a boat (later named the Greenpeace) that served to successfully protest U.S. nuclear bomb tests by the Amchitka Islands off the coast of Alaska.… Continue