Dinosaur Jr,’s performance was one big pile driver leaving the audience with ears ringing and hearts singing. More then one person was looking for any extras to Saturday
Playing a stand alone club date, a benefit for the Red Cross, the Machines aired some new material and a few old favorites to a receptive, if tame, crowd. The Secret Machines have been steadily gaining respect with their form of vibrant musicianship and mind blowing live shows.
San Francisco
Doubleheaders and good ole Blues Rock have seemed to go the way of cassette tapes and fondue, hard to find, outdated, and sorely missed. On an unseasonably warm night, psychedelic blues rockers The North Mississippi All-Stars brought their brand of homegrown Hill Country Blues to Baltimore and took baseball legend Ernie Banks
For Guster, it was a short northeast run that allowed the headliner to showcase new material from their 2006 spring Reprise album
Mighty Sam McClain is that most seasoned and agreeable of old school performers, a master of soul and R&B blues in the manner of Bobby “Blue” Bland, whom McClain has called an idol, and whose influence on him is lovingly pronounced. The show at the Stone Church (made even more so by a dark, starless night and plenty of car-obscuring fog) was not an all-star salute at Madison Square Garden, planned to the minute and sponsored beyond its ability to breathe comfortably. It was a warm, emotional benefit concert, and for the gathering of townies, friends (Sam now makes his home in New Hampshire) and dance-hearty music lovers in attendance, the place to be.
It’s been a year since Galactic parted ways with Theryl “The Houseman” deClouet and it seems the effusive fivesome is still trying to figure out how to handle vocals and lyrics.
World Leader Pretend creates a sound that is hard to pin down, and I am sure that is just the way they like it. It
It seemed only fitting that Athens, Georgia
This was more than a music festival, this was more than a five star cruise, this was more than a performance based nightclub complete with acrobats, DJs, contortionists, abstract artists and otherwise.
