Posts by Jason Gonulsen

The Keller Williams experience for the casual fan is a bit of an odd experience. If you aren

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By the time you finish listening to A. C. Cotton

On Deceiver, Thile does it all, reinventing himself to the greatest degree; every note, word, and breath on the album comes from him.

Jay Farrar is on a roll. He just announced last month that he would be reforming his popular band Son Volt, with a fresh set of faces. Building on the good news, Farrar and musical cohort Mark Spencer played an intimate show at the hallowed grounds of St. Louis’ Mississippi Nights.

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You might know Billy Talbot as the bass player for Neil Young

Emotionally and politically charged, Revolution feels like the freshest batch of songs that have come out of Steve Earle and his band, the Dukes, in quite a while. Speaking in more direct terms than he has ever before, right away we get the feel of a record that is so raw and inexorable that Earle could have sworn that the songs were recorded within 24 minutes, not hours, of their birth.

On a Wednesday night at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Gillian Welch showed her full-grown subtle beauty and timeless songwriting alongside guitarist David Rawlings.

Benefiting the Alejandro Escovedo Medical and Living Expense Fund, an all-star cast including Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Los Lonely Boys, Cowboy Junkies, Jayhawks, and a reformed SonVolt has come to the rescue to deliver their interpretations of Escovedo

Blazing back with a new album, The Old 97

For the Bottle Rockets and Lucinda Williams, their gig together at the Pageant had been a long time in the making. For past few years, whenever the Louisiana-born Williams rolled her bus into town, she has always taken a moment during her live performance to mention her love for a special band from Festus, Missouri. And every time she opened her mouth, the Bottle Rockets would be in attendance to hear her proclaim her admiration for their music. This time around, they would finally share the stage together in St. Louis.

Playing to a St. Louis crowd that filled maybe a third of The Pageant

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Yes, there is always room for one more Dylan cover.

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Stone, Steel, & Bright Lights, Jay Farrar

Picking up where 2001

Believe it or not, the Cowboy Junkies have been together and making music for almost twenty years. The band from Toronto, which features siblings, vocalist Margo Timmins, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, and drummer Peter Timmins, along with bassist Alan Anton, just won