The Jerry Douglas Band brought their innovative new music to the prestigious Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles on November 13. The band is on a national tour promoting their new album, “What If.” The band was led by one of the most well-known veteran resonator and lap steel slide guitar players in American music. The… Continue reading Jerry Douglas | Troubadour | Review
Where in the world can you go to sit back, relax, leave your worries at the gate, enjoy the campground atmosphere and participate in campfire jamming? Where can you go to experience the most exciting, thoroughly entertaining bunch of pickers and singers ever assembled in the most laid-back atmosphere in the country? Join us May… Continue reading The Stringdusters to headline John Hartford Memorial Festival
Jam Veteran Melvin Seals is generally acknowledged as the keeper of the flame for continuing the music of Jerry Garcia Band. The organist/keyboardist met Garcia thru his friend Merl Saunders in the early 1980s. Garcia was struck not only by Seals sheer talent and soul but that he was separate from the whole Grateful Dead… Continue reading Melvin Seals & JGB | Berkeley, CA | Review
So Many Roads is a Grateful Dead/Dead and Company tour lifestyle blog that has taken its newest form and has launched for the fall tour. “So Many Roads” is the creation of the Bohemians, Anthony Travagliante, and Litho Freeman, filmmakers from Cleveland, OH that jumped on the scene in 2015 with a documentary of the… Continue reading So Many Roads, a Dead tour life style blog
All in the name of Music Heals International‘s core mission to expand residents’ ability to make music in Haiti, Lukas Nelson headlined a humdinger of a benefit inside the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, California on November 21. All of the musicians – including Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, Nicki Bluhm, DJ Logic, Steve Kimock, Jay… Continue reading Lukas Nelson & Friends | Sweetwater Music Hall
Acoustic trio Raven and Red announce a February 2, 2018, release date for their new CD, We Rise Up, on Line Crossing Records. Originally from Georgia and Pennsylvania and now based in Nashville, Raven and Red is comprised of Brittany Lynn Jones – lead and harmony vocals, 5-string violin, tenor guitar, mandolin and banjolin; and… Continue reading The Acoustic Music of Raven and Red Soars on New CD
David Cassidy a pop music icon of the 1970s, died November 21, in a Florida hospital near his home. The singer, guitarist, and actor was only 67 and had been hospitalized for several days with organ failure. At the height of his career, the teen idol had a number one hit song; I Think I… Continue reading "I’ll Have To Go Away: Saying Goodbye"
Just in time for Record Store Day on November 22nd, a truly under-sung live masterpiece is to be re-released. Many fans know of Jerry Garcia & Howard Wales 1970 memorizing fusion studio album Hooteroll?, which was notable (aside from the inspired flowing free-jazz) as Garcia’s first studio recording outside of the Grateful Dead since the… Continue reading Side Trips: Volume One out for Record Store Day
“Words, that is all I have to take your heart away,” sang Manchester’s Bee Gees. Perhaps that heartfelt sentiment exemplifies the soul of the three-day, annual “Louder Than Words” Fest, once more housed inside the historical walls of the Principal Hotel, a former insurance company, with beguiling stained-glass windows and winding stairways. Now enjoying a… Continue reading Louder Than A Word Festival | Review
Pink Talking Fish will perform the iconic Pink Floyd album, The Wall, in its entirety while also incorporating songs from acclaimed bands The Talking Heads and Phish on Saturday, February 10 at The Capitol Theatre. Pink Talking Fish features Eric Gould on bass, Richard James on keyboards, Zack Burwick on drums, and Dave Brunyak on… Continue reading Pink Talking Fish To Peform The Wall at The Capitol Theatre
