Tag: live music

  • Bob Dylan Doesn’t Disappoint

    Bob Dylan Doesn’t Disappoint

    Dylan Plays for Intimate Viewing at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville What can I write about Bob Dylan that has not been scribed before. Literally nothing I say here can be new.  Can it?  I mean, it is my personal experience.  It is my reaction and my feelings; in that sense this is original. However, this…

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  • The Cobra is Home

    The Cobra is Home

    Performances by Loose Bolts, Sweet Mylo and Arily Michele I’ve been looking for that quintessential dive bar and music venue combo since I got here to Nashville via Seattle.  On Saturday night, I finally found it at The Cobra. The Cobra reminds me of a place where I used to go for cheap drinks and…

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  • Best Foreigner Songs of All-Time

    Best Foreigner Songs of All-Time

    After leaving Spooky Tooth, guitarist Mick Jones put together a talented cadre of musicians for his next project. The only thing missing was a singer. Jones dug out an old album handed to him from a young singer in up state New York. Liking what he heard, he flew the unknown vocalist into NYC for…

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  • Van Halen’s Best Songs

    Van Halen’s Best Songs

    Let’s be honest, Van Halen is the band we knew and loved in the seventies and eighties. We’re talking, Diamond Dave, Alex and Eddie and Michael Anthony. All of the other incarnations were weak imitations of the real thing, including the most recent lineup without Anthony. There have been many rumors the last week or…

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  • Richard Patrick: Filter

    One of the most interesting interviewees ever. I could talk to Richard Patrick for ever. We recently caught up with Filter’s frontman Richard Patrick as he readied for his sound check backstage in New York’s Gramercy Theatre.  He’s an amazing talent, and a guy who never hesitates to share an opinion.  Over our thirty minutes,…

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  • The Interrupters – Kevin Bivona

    The Interrupters – Kevin Bivona

    We carved out a little space in the press tent and had a fun, rambling chat about influences, the new record, brotherly dynamics, and the unofficial Fifth Interrupter.  Read on for the details… When I hear your music, I feel that you are plowing new ground, delivering this brand of ska in a female-fronted band.…

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  • Tuesday at The Opry

    Tuesday at The Opry

    Performances by Whisperin’ Bill Anderson, Chris Janson, Ella Langley, John Pardi, Riders In The Sky, and Maggie Rose If you want to see music in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium are like air and water, because they are necessities. I had a chance to visit the Ryman on January 29th and…

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  • The Blue Room Leaves Us Anything But Blue

    The Blue Room Leaves Us Anything But Blue

    Oh Boy Records presents Mick Flannery, Emily Scott Robinson and Arlo McKinley It’s Friday night and we all wait patiently outside The Blue Room, which is adjacent to Third Man Records, which is former White Stripes front man Jack White’s project. I know I’m super stoked for this show, as there are three musicians on…

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