“That’s it! I give up. No Mas! No Mas! I am never going to see a better live performance so I might as well stop…” I have been telling myself this after attending almost every one of Alejandro’s shows ever […]
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Mainstream music has never fully embraced genres wholesale. There’s been a flirtation with Folk, an awkward dance with Jazz and Blues, but whenever these artists land on popular music’s radar, it’s usually because they glammed up or toned down the […]
Even the most casual music fan (of a certain age) knows Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, The Moody Blues and a host of others played the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Numerous editions of the concert have been […]
Leon Russell’s career as musician and singer-songwriter has spanned roughly a half-century, from his teen years playing in a band with JJ Cale, to backing up everyone from Freddie King to the Byrds and Glen Campbell; collaborating with Newgrass Revival, […]
It’s been about a month since the annual Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, but I’m still listening to all kinds of music from the new albums I picked up there and I’m still buzzing from the intensely […]
Right from the opening notes on any Leon Russell song, you know you’re in for the ride of your life, and his new album, Life Journey, is no different. His unmistakable bluesy, barrel roll piano runs careen around the dirt […]
The music genre of blues has become something of a cliché the last couple of decades. There are so many mediocre blues bands populated by well-intentioned but mediocre musicians that I almost have given up going out to see live […]
John Howie Jr. was North Carolina’s torchbearer for classic country music for over a decade with his former band Two Dollar Pistols. He reemeerged with John Howie Jr. and The Rosewood Bluff and released an excellent debut album Leavin’ Yesterday in 2011. […]
Full disclosure: I’m a huge fan of Canadian singer/songwriter Hayden (Paul Hayden Desser). I’ll claim to be a fan since 1996, when his debut album Everything I Long For was released in the United States by Outpost (an offshoot of Geffen). Such […]
A rock show on the eve of the first official day of Spring, March 20, 2014, seems like a special thing in and of itself. Terminal 5 brought us the indelible Drive-By Truckers along with another fine band, Portland, Oregon’s […]
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