Monthly Archives: September 2016

The Silver Seas @ The Basement / Nashville TN / September 28, 2016

Has it really been three years since the last Silver Seas show? Criminally, it is true that Music City’s best-ever pop band last played on this same Basement stage to celebrate its last release, Alaska, on August 31, 2013. Well, for no good reason, the band got back together when someone in the band made […]

Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival @ Harlinsdale Farm / Franklin TN / September 25, 2016 (Day Two)

Was it Sunday church, the Titans’ football game, or maybe just the ridiculous heat that lessened the early crowd at the second day of the second annual Pilgrimage Festival? With not a single cloud in the sky, my guess is that it was Mr. Sunshine and the 90-degree heat that made many choose a late […]

Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival @ Harlinsdale Farm / Franklin TN / September 24, 2016 (Day One)

The second annual Pilgrimage Festival kicked off on an early fall date that was way hotter than anyone would have ever expected. There was also some buzz about whether scheduling it the same week as Nashville’s annual Americana Festival was such a good idea. But, at the end of the day, neither issue seemed to […]

CLASSIC CONCERT: Harry Chapin’s The Night That Made America Famous @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre / New York, NY / May 23, 1975

I recently started buying old cheap vinyl records to revisit some 70’s singer-songwriters. My most recent was a mint copy of Harry Chapin’s 1972 Sniper and Other Love Songs for two bucks. A mellow Saturday afternoon listen on the couch made me reflect on this late New York singer-songwriter. I thought of how exciting it […]