Category: LIVE REVIEWS

  • Happy Elke Day! 

    Happy Elke Day! 

    Elke Celebrates Her Record Release as Meg Elsier Opens  As I stood outside The Blue Room, I felt my body battling both the 25-degree weather and the sheer excitement of the show that I was going to see.  Tonight, attached to Jack White’s Third Man Records, the shivering crowd was going to be let in…

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  • Mickey Raphael Plays Well With Others

    Mickey Raphael Plays Well With Others

    Mickey Raphael Welcomes Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Billy F. Gibbons, Margo Price, T Bone Burnett and More for Debut Headline Concert at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville This week I was a part of something very special.  I didn’t know how special ahead of time, but during it started setting in and by the end I realized…

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  • Kenny Garrett Infectious at Blue Note

    Kenny Garrett Infectious at Blue Note

    Last Sunday I was able to cross a venue off my concert bucket list by going with my wife and daughter to the Blue Note in NYC. My 17-year-old loves jazz and wanted to go to a jazz club while we were visiting New York for Thanksgiving week. If you are going to go to…

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  • A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    They are the self-described “Dance Commanders” and that aptly chronicles the status of their compilations.  Funk has collided with electronica and slammed danced with jazz and soul with punk-EDM and psychedelia ploughing into the onslaught. Are you getting it yet?  You will just have to listen for yourselves.  In fact, I implore you to dive into the…

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  • Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Days One and Two of Bourbon & Beyond were highly organized and very strict when it came to the front gates.  The event was constantly posting on their socials and emailing out rules and regulations for standards that they wanted upheld throughout the long weekend.  You could only bring in chairs if you had a…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    So now we reside in Day Two of Bourbon & Beyond. Day one nearly killed me as I realized that 10 hours standing in the sun after driving three hours to get here was too long of a day for this 50-year-old. There is nowhere to hide at this festival.  There are tents around the…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Here I am, in my hotel room, just north of Louisville, Kentucky in Sellersberg, Indiana pondering what I have seen over the last two days.  It’s Bourbon & Beyond and it’s a lot.  According to local news sources and the Bourbon & Beyond website the festival is bringing in $12.5 million dollars in local revenue…

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  • Childish Gambino in Tampa

    Childish Gambino in Tampa

    I first heard Childish Gambino on the Late Night with Conan O’Brien show singing Heartbeat from his debut album Camp in 2011.  I immediately downloaded Heartbeat and then found Bonfire and Sunrise which are two of my favorite rap songs of all time.   The humor that Gambino has in his lyrics is incredibly unique as…

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