After I witness a transformative set of music, this is what inevitably occurs when the dust settles. After a band plays high energy, pedal-to-the-metal music for a cool 100-minutes, it’s difficult to ascertain which pieces stood out as the highlights among many other highlights – the crème de la crème. That’s why I try to… Continue reading Railroad Earth | Red Rocks | 8/2/14 | Review
Handmade Moments‘ first album is a collection of fun, sultry, inspiring, thoughtful tracks. With songs stretching from political to simply lovely, the duo (Anna Horton and Joel Ludford) offers an expansive array of styles and lyrics through their 12 songs. Musically, the album is rooted in strings and jazz; bluegrass, folk and Americana float in… Continue reading Handmade Moments by Handmade Moments | Album Review
The McCoury family legacy is one of the richest in bluegrass. Father Del McCoury was a crucial member of Bill Monroe‘s Bluegrass Boys and achieved legendary status with his souring lead vocals on signature Monroe songs and originals. His band is a family band, and has been for a while. Sons Ronnie and Robbie were… Continue reading Robbie McCoury | The Five String Flame Thrower | Review
The beach has always defined my summer. Whether as a child anticipating two weeks at the shore for the other 50 weeks each year, as a teen working at a summer camp and spending every daylight at or near the water’s edge, or in my twenties when I learned the fun of service industry work… Continue reading Keller Williams and Karl Denson | 6/24/2014 | Review
As the web of Americana continues to be woven, artists connect the past and present through musicianship and songwriting that reflects a fluid agreement between contemporary and roots qualities. Too often is nostalgia misrepresented as authenticity, and bands afraid to develop their own sound generally don’t last the test of time. Of one Northern California’s… Continue reading Achilles Wheel | Stones to Sand | New Music Review
Slightly Stoopid kick-started their Summer Sessions tour July 9 at Eugene’s Cuthbert Amphitheater with a skanking, Rastafied set of dub-infected fusion. The open-air venue, tucked along the banks of Oregon’s Willamette River, provided a sparkling setting for a sun-splashed evening of righteous rhythms and knowing grins. G. Love and Special Sauce dropped the needle on… Continue reading Slightly Stoopid's Summer Sessions | Eugene, OR | 7/9/14 | Review
Let’s Talk Phish… “The Phish from Burlington Vermont are morphing and evolving and thrusting forward with the momentum of an unstoppable freight train into uncharted realms”. John Baker – WARP Radio Rewind… Our story begins with the introduction of “new” Phish material (An album’s worth of material, in fact, and then some) at the band’s… Continue reading Phish | Mann Music Center & SPAC | 2014 | Review
As a general rule, I tend to avoid double albums like—well, not quite the Plague—maybe just a pretty girl with a slightly-suspect cold sore, or anything by the Dave Matthews Band. And honestly, the one double-record set I’ve ever really dug as a whole was Floyd’s Ummagumma, and only then because that oeuvre de strange-junk… Continue reading D.O.T.S. C.O.N.F.U.S.E. M.I.N.D.S. | On Patrol | Review
All brought a powerful message of love, togetherness, and caring for humanity and our planet: a concert that made your soul shine! The good vibrations were carried on the gorgeous Red Rocks sunset on a clear warm summer evening. The day started off late afternoon with a yoga practice led by the famous Power yogi… Continue reading Michael Franti | Red Rocks | 2014 | Review
The disco themed LoHi Music Festival held in the lower highlands Denver neighborhood started with a bang with Genetics and Blake Mobley’s collaborative musical project Tiger Party, that this time featured guitarist Tom Hamilton from Brother’s Past and American Babies. After a brief down pour of rain during the Heavy Pets set, the skies opened… Continue reading LoHi Music Festival 2014 & Everyone Orchestra After-Party
