Folk Uke, Hector Ward & The Big Time and Guy Forsyth
Folk Uke, followed by Hector Ward & the Big Time group and then Guy Forsyth and his band delivered an eclectic mix of folk, blues, reggae, funk and bluegrass music … Read more
Reviews
The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World opens with the song “A Singer Addresses His Audience,” a somewhat sincere somewhat tongue in cheek disclaimer to eager fans about fame’s … Read more
John Mellencamp – Performs ‘Trouble No More’ Live At Town Hall
When John Mellencamp growls “I don’t want to die” during “Down in the Bottom,” you might just believe he never will. Performing songs from his 2003 covers album Trouble No … Read more
Ben Goldberg – Orphic Machine
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg is not exaggerating when he calls Orphic Machine the most ambitious project of his more than 25-year career. Working from the “speculative poetics” of author and critic … Read more
Mavis Staples and friends
Mavis Staples throws a terrific birthday party. By terrific I mean that the City of Chicago declares the day in her honor, other music legends gather from all over the … Read more
Jeff Daniels
He has played a road tripping idiot, America’s favorite news anchor and everything in between, but tonight his role was that of a folk/blues singer/songwriter. Accompanied by his son, Ben … Read more
Gotham Holiday Swing
Sludging now, as we are, through the snow drifts and grey days of the mid-winter doldrums, I find it an appropriate moment to pull out my store of Christmas nostalgia and … Read more
Fleetwood Mac
As the much-heralded reunion tour with essential member Christine McVie wrapped to a close—or nearly so, as the BB&T Center performance marked the 39th of 40 concert dates this year—there … Read more
Annie Lennox – Nostalgia
Sweet dreams must sound a lot like pop icon Annie Lennox singing a collection of favorite soul, jazz and blues songs, on Nostalgia, her newest album released by Blue Note … Read more
Maggie Bjorklund – Shaken
(Scores are determined by editorial staff) This pedal steel guitarist/singer/songwriter who hails from Copenhagen, Denmark covers an extraordinarily diverse range of styles of music, mixes them, matches them, blends them … Read more
