2004

Barbara Cue 7/24/2004: State Botanical Gardens, Athens GA

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!”

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Bottle Rockets & Lucinda Williams 7/20/2004: The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

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.

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Will Hoge: The America EP

Hoge signed a contract with Atlantic records early in the new century, only to have the subsequent major label debut ignored by the label brass and forgotten about. Now unencumbered of the restraints such corporations can tie on an artist, he

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Music In Films: Top Movie Soundtracks From The Past Twenty Years

Since Titanic went way overboard, not a single soundtrack has made a major breakthrough, despite the fact there are some really good ones out there waiting to be discovered. So we compiled a list of some of the best contemporary soundtrack albums in the past 20 years, from some beloved, and some not so beloved films.

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Festival Express: Directed By Bob Smeaton

Promoter Ken Walker decided to enlist the Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy, Flying Burito Brothers, Sha Na Na and others for an east to west journey in the summer of 1970 along the Canadian frontier, noted as the Festival Express. Thankfully, a new documentary unleashes never before seen footage of the iconic musicians in this rare setting, basking in true flower power camaraderie.

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Charlotte Martin: On Your Shore

Powerful, sexy and demanding, Charlotte has the ability to hit notes that flirt with disaster, where less confident singers might come off as abrasive and whiney, she somehow delivers with an abundance of confidence and beauty.

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G Love & Special Sauce: Doin’ the Hustle (INTERVIEW)

Blues and hip-hop purists must have thought it was Armageddon when a white skinny kid from Philly named Garrett Dutton broke out under the alter-ego G Love. Turning out a chill, sloppy blues sound spiked with scratchy R&B, hip-hop overtones, G Love and his two man band, Special Sauce, delivered a new sound flavor in the mid 90

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