Reviews

The Dean Ween Group

Once a class clown, always a class clown. As irreverent as ever, Dean Ween, co-founder of the eclectic, recently reunited ‘90s alternative-rock pranksters Ween, bucks the sophomore slump with a … Read more

Matthews Southern Comfort

  In ´80s a snarky joke went something like, One valley girl asks another, Did you know that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings? That came to mind … Read more

Tampa Bay isn’t in Tampa

Photos by Laura Carbone Six reasons to go to The 2018 Tampa Bay Blues Festival: It’s one of the major kick-off festivals of the year, after all the cruises have … Read more

Marie Knight

On the heels of her release earlier that same year, 2007, gospel great Marie Knight gave an amazing performance at the Church Street Center in North Adams, MA. For this … Read more

Jimmie Vaughan at the Iridium

Photos by Arnie Goodman Jimmie Vaughan is such a good guitarist that he headlined the venerable Iridium (long the home of electric guitar inventor Les Paul and his signature Gibson … Read more

Dixie Dregs at Town Hall, NYC

Photos by Arnie Goodman Like buying a Payday candy bar and receiving instead a winning Megamillions ticket—a payday by anyone’s standards—anyone attending a concert by the Dixie Dregs expecting to … Read more

NRBQ

Eclectic, daring and utterly unique, NRBQ gleefully colored outside the lines on a thrilling self-titled 1969 debut album of frenzied rock ‘n’ roll fun that sounds as fresh and uninhibited … Read more

Marie Knight

Well, well well. What can be said about this one? Simply superb release, recorded back in 2007 but only now coming to light. Sadly, Marie Knight has left us, passing … Read more

Joan Baez

Joan Baez is one of several musicians with roots in the ’60s who have recently announced intentions to cease touring or recording. Ms. Baez is among the senior-most of her … Read more