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.
Some larger festivals boast a similar peace, love and music philosophy, but Floyd actually lives it, not just for one weekend, but throughout the entire year. Long renowned for its artist communities and unique roots music drawing power, Floyd often seems like a place from another time, a vaguely recollected dream from which most of the world woke up decades ago.
It was nearly a year ago when New York native Gavin DeGraw ventured into a well-known Chicago radio station armed with a keyboard and accessorized by his signature hat. After blowing away the staff at the Zone, DeGraw carved his mark on Chicago.
O.A.R. has done something special in its six plus years of existence. They have gone from a local college bar band in Columbus, Ohio into a touring machine playing to packed or near-packed theaters across the country almost nightly, and they have done it their way. On this night in Portland, Oregon, they would share the bill with Guster, Howie Day and Matt Nathanson for an evening of roots flavored music.
If politics and music doesn
Featuring Widespread Panic’s Todd Nance on vocals and drums joined by vocalist and damn good Dobro player William Tonks, bassist and Athens scene stalwart Crumpy Edwards, guitarist and rural music mainstay Jon Mills, and pedal steel bad ass John Neff (Drive-By Trucker fans will recognize the sounds, if not his mug) the headlines will surely read, “Barbara Cue Rocks the Garden!”
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.
As I pulled onto the southbound onramp, I had to keep an eye out for the streams of traffic heading south. Boy, this was going to be expensive to fix. As we passed under a bridge, a local was hanging a banner,
If music really is like boxing, the Derek Trucks Band would be like a prizefighter whose conditioning and stamina eventually prove that, in a situation reminiscent of the
On July 19, the Northern Lights Theatre in Milwaukee, WI experienced exactly what makes Little Feat the legendary musical outfit they are.
