From the music legends who gave us “A Hard Way to Go,” “Tell Mama,” and many more, blues-rockers Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown celebrated their 50th year anniversary last week with a … Read more
Take One: Country music from the West Texas plains kicks up whorls of dust and settles souls in familiar, beautifully multicultural ways. Spanish guitars share space with beat up acoustics. … Read more
Why stop when you’ve got a good thing going? The reunion of brothers Alvin after thirty contentious years apart earned them Grammy and Blues Award nominations and packed shows for … Read more
Long ago, in a Salvation Army store far, far, away, a budding music critic & jazz fan was rummaging the bins and kept coming upon Concert By The Sea. I … Read more
A road trip just ain’t a road trip without a killer soundtrack. That’s one lesson you won’t have to teach the creators of Mississippi Grind, a new movie starring Ben … Read more
Along with John Mayall, Cream and (to a lesser extent) the Rolling Stones, the band Savoy Brown pioneered British blues rock. Like Mayall, Savoy Brown—perhaps in an effort to constantly … Read more
Though she has toured and recorded as fiddler and harmony singer for major music greats like Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, and Yo Yo Ma, make no mistake that … Read more
When five rowdy young roots musicians meet at a gathering called the Black Mountain Ramble, you can expect some kind of mischief to materialize. In the case of Von Stomper, … Read more
New York pop-rock singer-songwriter Peter Kelly isn’t quite like any of his other fellow NYC musicians. After graduating from the renowned Berklee College Of Music, playing in several bands, and … Read more
Last week, we premiered the first video in Bart Crow’s four-part series, Bart Crow: Making of The Parade, helping him to thank his fans for their continual support through a … Read more
