Last week Tuesday, November 10, southern California two-piece blues outfit Little Hurricane and Toronto, ON, 5-piece July Talk visited Grand Rapids, MI for the first time. Appearing at The Stache inside The Intersection, local Grand Rapids outfit The Bangups opened the evening with a short and well-received half hour set before Little Hurricane took the… Continue reading July Talk | The Stache | Review & Photos
After a successful fall tour, Trout Steak Revival was welcomed back home to Colorado at Hodi’s Half Note this October. The Denver Bluegrass Band is planted firmly in the Colorado’s beloved bluegrass scene. In addition to their first album, Trout Steal Revival has won the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition, placed in the 2012… Continue reading Trout Steak Revival | Hodi's Half Note
Dweezil Zappa does his daddy proud night after night performing extremely technical music at a very high level. From a young age, he promised his father that he would be a guitarist, but I’m not sure that anyone but Frank could believe that he would be as good as he actually is. Dweezil is one… Continue reading Zappa Plays Zappa Plays One Size Fits All
Never have I felt more back at home in the cow town, country music-listening, tobacco-chewing, horse-riding, bar-fighting town I grew up in than at the Sturgill Simpson concert at the Ogden Theater in Denver last Friday night. It causes me to wonder: why have country music and psychedelic drug use not met before the visionary… Continue reading Sturgill Simpson | Ogden Theater | Review
Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, MI received a heavy dusting of bluegrass last Saturday, November 7 courtesy The Infamous Stringdusters of Nashville, TN. The set list was a well-rounded testament in their ability to mine the past and look forward to the unknown, spanning tens of decades through original material, cover songs both contemporary and classic,… Continue reading Infamous Stringdusters | Bell's Brewery | Review
I first saw Jorma play an acoustic solo show in 1980 at the Palace Theatre in Albany, New York. I remember shooting a bunch of photos of him playing that night, and I tried to find my film negatives before seeing him Friday night at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California. I wasn’t able to… Continue reading Jorma | Terrapin Crossroads | Review
Following up last year’s commercial and critical success for Sugar, which peaked on the Billboard charts at #49, G. Love and Special Sauce return to their soul-infused blues roots with their latest disc, Love Saves The Day. The band’s 10th studio album overall and third consecutive release with Brushfire Records since their label debut with… Continue reading G. Love | Love Saves The Day | Review
Few acts have served as large of a spectrum of music as New Riders of the Purple Sage. These psychedelic country-rock titans have been performing for nearly forty-five years with original members David Nelson (guitar, vocals) and Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar) keeping the flame burning strong. The group began in 1970 when Jerry Garcia… Continue reading NRPS with Kimock | Sweetwater | Review
I had no idea what to expect with John Mayer on lead taking on the biggest shoes to fill in music — but I made it to Dead & Company‘s first show and entered Albany’s Times Union Center with an open mind. The stage set was a new one with a huge three-dimensional Steal Your… Continue reading Dead & Company | Albany, NY | Review
In Colorado there is an insatiable hunger for modern music. Bars, clubs and venues are taping into that hunger by offering shows in genres that in years past would have been met with rebuke and dislike. However it is clear that times have changed. TAUK as a band represent those changes. Their show is a… Continue reading TAUK | Fox Theater | 10/17/15 | Review
