Of all the members of the Grateful Dead, Billy Kreutzmann, really knew how to retire. Hanging out in Hawaii, he showed none of the predilection for road-warrioring into the sunset like his bandmates. Sure he’d play with the boys when they got back together for the full band gigs and after ten years on the… Continue reading Billy Kreutzmann | Fox Theater | 2/21/09 | Review
In the late sixties and early seventies they had Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but they didn’t quite have in sound and performance what Bill Kreutzmann’s power trio has today. The Grateful Dead drummer was joined on stage Saturday night at the Fox Theater with the Allman Brothers Band’s Oteil Burbridge on bass and… Continue reading Kreutzmann, Burbridge, & Murawski Give Cheers to "Good Times"
When my sister was in high school she was a musical filter for me, as I was her younger brother and was very impressionable. Most of the music I was listening too was coming on mix tapes that artsy-fartsy, private school boys would make for her and she would subsequently hand down to me when… Continue reading Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Burlington, VT | Review
When Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played dropped in 2005, it made history. Produced by Bob Cutarella and Fran Cathcart, it brought Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Sam Cooke, Steve Miller, and many others into the studio to play with guitar pioneer Les Paul. That recording earned two Grammys in 2006. Cutarella and Cathcart’s… Continue reading Les Paul & Friends: A Tribute to a Legend
There was big news over the weekend! Nearing the end of their massive US tour, the Disco Biscuits rumbled through two sold out shows last Friday and Saturday night, at the Ogden Theater in Denver, and it won’t be long before the Biscuits are back again. The big news was the announcement of a headlining… Continue reading 6 Servings of Disco Biscuits in Denver
With the famous Vermont jam quartet making their triumphant return to the road this year, one can only wonder what kind of energy and style they will bring to those live performances. Phish has always been open to reinventing themselves throughout the years, and they very well may invoke something fresh this time around. On… Continue reading Phish: Madison Square Garden 12-30-97
He’s been known to show a mandolin and viola who is boss, while still keeping his humble frontman persona intact. A modest yet instrumentally explosive enigma, Drew Emmitt captures the attention of the audience as if they were a herd of famished field mice lured in by a hefty corncake crumb. Before the Colorado man… Continue reading Drew Emmitt & Friends @ the Boulder Theater
Just looking at them, the five members making up the current line up of 1970’s band Head East may look like a bunch of older guys with long hair and guitars. Get them plugged in and playing though, and they give a performance just as impressive and rocking as ever before. The audience collected at… Continue reading Good Time on Stage Shows Head East Slowing Down No Time Fast
It may have been a weeknight, but I saw that as no reason to stay in. Anytime of any day or night is a good time for rock and roll, but last Thursday was a particularly noteworthy occasion. One of the most exciting guitarists around was in town at the Fox Theatre, and I wasn’t… Continue reading North Mississippi Allstars & Hill Country Revue: A Family Affair at the Fox
Marco Benevento is smiling. Do you know why? Is it the thought of his infant daughter? Perhaps the continual climb upward he has made in his career since bursting onto the scene in the late 90’s? Or maybe it’s the culmination of his most recent musical phase, the release of Me Not Me, which gave… Continue reading Marco Benevento | Me Not Me | Review
