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The Flatlanders @ Carnegie Hall, New York City, April 13th, 2013 18 Apr 2013 | 02:18 am
Saturday night, I made the trek up the NJ Turnpike to the big city to see The Flatlanders play at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. This was my first time setting foot in Carnegie Hall; not once in my 8 years l...
Kalamazoo Gals 24 Feb 2013 | 05:22 pm
Longtime stalwart of the NYC bluegrass scene Jack Hirschorn calls the following to our attention: "Kalamazoo Gals” by John Thomas is the forgotten story of the women who built Gibson’s “Banner” guita...
Chris Smither @ World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA, February 8th, 2013 16 Feb 2013 | 07:43 am
As I type this, I am listening to the album Don't It Drag On, Chris Smither's 2nd album, originally released in 1972. Until now, I've never listened to it from beginning to end. One reason for that is...
Erin McKeown @ Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia PA, January 20th, 2013 28 Jan 2013 | 08:53 am
An impromptu decision to ignore my raging head cold and wander out into the chilly Philly streets to see Erin McKeown wound up paying off. This was my first trip to Johnny Brenda’s, a venue I’d been h...
Hot Tuna @ The Beacon Theater, New York City, December 1st, 2012 22 Dec 2012 | 01:01 am
Over the past decade or so, Hot Tuna has passed into the realm of comfort food. I do not listen to the recordings as often as I used to, but Tuna at the Beacon may become an annual tradition for me. T...
Rodriguez @ World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA, October 28th, 2012 3 Dec 2012 | 11:06 pm
After a hectic travel day from Portland, ME to Philadelphia PA that featured a delayed flight and plenty of worry about whether hurricane Sandy would strand me up north, I made it down to World Café L...
Fourth Annual Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Folk and Roots Festival November 2-3 19 Oct 2012 | 07:32 pm
Urbana, Ill. (October 4, 2012) – Now in its fourth year, the Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival (CUFRF) is coming to Downtown Urbana on November 2-3. “Each year, the festival has gotten bigger ...
John Fullbright on Prairie Home Companion 1 Oct 2012 | 05:41 am
This great singer-songwriter, who is currently on tour with Devil Makes Three, performed on Prairie Home Companion over the weekend. Have a listen.
Jorma Kaukonen w/ Loudon Wainwright III @ The Colonial Theater, Phoenixville PA, September 14th, 2012 17 Sep 2012 | 04:41 am
Not long after entering the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, I entered the men’s room, just in time to hear a couple of guys, at least two decades my senior, talking about their excitement about seei...
Marshall Crenshaw with The Bottle Rockets @ World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA, July 25th, 2012 30 Jul 2012 | 10:36 pm
For my first evening of live music in Philadelphia (not counting a rather lonely evening at Ortlieb’s, watching a jazz guitarist solo over some r&b backing tracks for half an hour), I stuck with the t...
