U2 opened their 360° Tour last night at the humongous Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Bono and the guys treated the 90,000+ fans to a career-spanning set that included
Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to Sanjay for this week’s photo.
Artist & Title: Del McCoury Band – Cold Rain and Snow
Date & Venue: 2009-06-26 – The Crossroads, Kansas City MO
Taper & Show Download: Jeremy Lykins
This is the Del McCoury Band’s take on the traditional song Cold Rain and Snow. This arrangement is similar to that of the Grateful Dead’s which was similar to that of Obray Ramsey. The band has dates scheduled through March of 2010 and appears this weekend at the High Sierra Music Festival.
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The Black Crowes announced the second and third legs of their Stuck Inside Utopia Tour and I can’t remember the last list of tour dates I’ve seen as ambitious as
A YouTube user by the name of shwlalez uploaded a number of videos from the recent Saturday night Phish show at Alpine Valley and they are the best quality clips
It’s early Sunday afternoon and already steamy and sticky in Manchester, Tennessee. We head purposefully to Which Stage to get close to see Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue. We got a late start, which sucked, because there was no way to get as close as we wanted. I was a bit shocked. After all, it was Sunday, half past noon. Most of Bonnaroo hadn’t stopped the Saturday party but four or five hours ago (thank you MGMT and moe.) In between me and the front row were several thousand fellow Bonnaroonians, excited to celebrate Sunday morning services with Mike Farris.
Farris and his band ran through a high energy, emotional run of songs that had the audience shouting hallelujahs and amens while shading their eyes from the still rising Tennessee sun. Mike Farris, beneath a smart hat and shades, sang and played with the passion of a believer. Sure, it was religious, which, as a twelve year veteran of the internal struggle between good and evil that is Catholic School I have come to regard with great suspicion. But this music moved me. This music took hold, got inside my head. No, I didn’t drop to the ground, speak in tongues or develop stigmata. I didn’t find God, get reborn or suddenly find religion. I was simply moved by the soul and passion in the performance. Dynamically, the band pushed the limits from blues to rock, soul and gospel and back again. And all the while, there’s Farris, all sweat and swagger, belting out both old and new with fire and power, holding the early Sunday crowd in the palm of his hand.
Seeing the energy and movement expended onstage, it was hard to believe that, just forty minutes ago, I had been engaged in a quiet conversation at a picnic table near Radio Bonnaroo with this same person. He, his wife and dog, and I traded stories about our respective Bonnaroo experiences so far. Reserved, holding the bearing of simple Southern grace, Mike was articulate, open and charming as we chatted. There was no hint of the bundle of energy and passion that I saw on stage.
AJ Crandall: So you are from here in Tennessee?
Mike Farris: I’m actually really close. My home town is about ten or fifteen minutes from here. My mom lives less than a mile, as the crow flies, from where we are sitting. I might be the only true local that’s ever played here.
AJ : So, who have you seen so far this weekend that you’ve been impressed by?
Mike Farris: David Byrne. Oh, and the Steel Drivers, I saw them yesterday and they were just amazing. They’ve got one of the best singers, in the world, in that guy, Chris Stapleton. We’ve got our little boy with us, so we took him to see, you know, a lot of the classics. Like Mr. David Byrne, Mr. Elvis Costello. We took him over to see Bruce (Springsteen) last night. I thought Bruce did a really great job, connecting with the people.
READ ON for more of AJ’s chat with Mike Farris…
Sometimes all it takes is a pure voice, a few instruments, and a scattering of bells and whistles for a talent to stand out in a crowd. Canada’s Andy Shauf has all of those things, and he delivers them on Darker Days, his solo debut. The songs are brief, the songwriting seems personal and mature, and the melodies have staying power that suggest Shauf, 21, is a lot older than he really is.
Five more shotgun jazz CD reviews by Glide contributor Doug Collette – this month he visits: Branford Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Bernstein, Bill Evans.
Black Francis and co. are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Pixies’ second full-length album, 1989’s “Doolittle,” by performing the release in its entirety during an 11-date European tour. The
At first listen, Regina Spektor’s music sounds fantastical, with her buoyant voice, backed by piano runs, escaping far, far away from reality. However, the listening experience is a lot like opening a little girl’s music box. The spinning, red-haired ballerina at center stage pirouettes in time with the twinkling melody, and at first the dance feels inviting and at last, eerily affecting. The music box’s whimsy masks its ability to actually influence an audience, but then its power takes hold. It’s not just fun anymore…it’s something more.
Bruce Hornsby will add to his accomplished body of work with Levitate, his much-anticipated new album, set for release September 15 on Verve. The release is Hornsby’s first studio album
