Posts by Timothy Stout

This DVD showcases Winter in a power trio format that suits his sound and style perfectly.

If you have the patience to give one more Christmas album a go, then you could do much worse than Crazy For Christmas. Hicks and his band mates roll triumphantly through a few classics (“Run Run Rudolph” and “Here Comes Santa Claus”), but it’s the originals that shine brightest and set this apart from other holiday offerings.  “Santa’s Workshop” for one is a classic in the making with its signature sense of humor and witty word  that we’ve come to expect from Hicks.

John Prine is one of those songwriters that makes songwriting seem easy; his words never forced and his wit never ending.  Couple that with the simplicity with which he writes and I think most musicians would find his songs easily adaptable and ripe to be covered.

Soulive fans looking for an all-together-different side to Eric Krasno’s playing style on his debut solo record Reminisce will most likely be disappointed.  This is far from a stylistic departure for Krasno as his knack for the groove comes through as sharp as ever, which, for most, is a good thing.

Mark Everett is back at it.  His Eels have been quite busy in the last few years, recording a record in each of the last three years if you include the soundtrack to Yes Man, which was comprised mostly of songs by Everett.  For those familiar with Eels music, this latest release, End Times, won’t provide anything new to the puzzle in terms of style or feel, though it may be the darkest release yet.

Season 2 Set Six from Jamcam Chronicles brings you a tasty performance from the Everyone Orchestra at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon.

At Bumbershoot, as is the case with all the good festivals, many dilemmas arise when it comes to choosing which bands to see and which bands to skip. With no fewer than nine stages to see music (and another two for comedy and still a few other platforms for poets and performance artists), naturally one must make choices, such as between the upbeat rhymes of megastar Kanye West and the swampy New Orleans funk of Ivan Neville

Be Here to Love Me documents the life of one of America

Their most accessible to the run-of-the-mill hipster not necessarily looking for music to slit his/her wrist to.

With a list of duet partners that include Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs, Norman Blake, Earl Scruggs, and Jerry Douglas, among others, you get what you might expect out of Sutton

If you’re looking to find endless footage of the Rolling Thunder tours, one of Dylan

The latest SKB incarnation seems to be rolling into shape just in time for the upcoming four-night run at the Great American Music Hall for New Year

The warm ambiance provided by Mississippi Studios, which acts like an elegant living room rather than a theater, is the perfect setting for a Charlotte Martin performance. The stunningly beautiful Martin, in her second Portland performance seemed excited, if not slightly overanxious, to make the eager audience feel as at home as the venue does. Martin, an up-and-coming pop singer with a well-disguised dark side, managed to do just that on this Sunday night as she turned in a rather talkative–Storytellers-esque

Tim O

With all the summer music festivals across the country, it

Ben Harper has been on the scene now for over ten years, with six solid studio efforts under his belt, including last years critically acclaimed collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama, There Will Be A Light. But in today’s age of genre mashing, that’s not that impressive.

Unlike some

Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) is one of the most promising jambands on the west coast – or any other coast– today. Their latest offering, Fly Between Falls, is chock-full of impossibly upbeat ditties and laidback groove-soaked mood lifters.

Victor Wooten

For me, Steve Kimock Band shows put me in a place