Category Concert Reviews
Old Crow Medicine Show perform Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde@ CMA Theatre at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum / Nashville TN / May 13, 2016
The idea of a band covering another artist’s full LP in its entirety has been done before. Cheap Trick’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Flaming Lips’ Dark Side of the Moon and Blitzen Trapper’s Harvest are a few that come to mind. However, could there be one as challenging to celebrate as Dylan’s 1966 […]
Neil Young + Promise of the Real: Ascend Amphitheatre / Nashville TN / April 28, 2016
Let me start out by saying that my attitude towards the music of Neil Young runs hot and cold. There have been both records and shows of his that I have liked and those that I have not. Based on reports of his recent shows with backing band Promise of the Real, I went to […]
Bob Mehr @ Howlin’ Books / Nashville, TN / April 2, 2016
(Author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements with special musical guests: Bright Little Field and Tommy Womack) Listening to Bob Mehr talk about The Replacements put me back under the spell that reading his fabulous book had me under. It was also like group therapy to be in a room full of […]
John Mayall @ City Winery / Nashville TN / March 8, 2016
Recently, I got involved with a thread about which of rock’s founding fathers I have seen live in concert. Not those who sold millions of records, but those who helped build the foundation of rock and roll. At the time, I felt quite fortunate about who I had seen. But now, my list now seems […]
Garry Tallent @ Grimey’s New and Preloved Music / Nashville, TN / March 4, 2016
E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, who has witnessed more live Springsteen shows than anyone other than Bruce himself, came back to Nashville during a break between River Tour shows in Milwaukee and St. Louis. In addition to catching up on his laundry, Garry managed to squeeze in a record release Friday appearance at his […]
Todd Snider @ Beyond the Edge / Nashville TN / February 13, 2016
Unless you follow Todd Snider’s Facebook page, you would not have heard about this one. Although I don’t, a message from a Todd-devotee friend of mine in Arizona got the word to me. Here is the alert that Todd made only 24 hours before show time about his unusual free East Nashville afternoon performance. My […]
Jenny Lewis @ Ryman Auditorium / Nashville TN / February 6, 2016
The mock two-page black & white Playbills handed out when we entered the Ryman were a foreshadowing. This night, the last of Jenny Lewis’ seven-show, four-city Rabbit Fur Coat 10th Anniversary Tour would dabble in theater: three costume changes, staged choreography, and two set changes and intermissions. But, when it was all said and done, […]
Steve Earle @ City Winery / Nashville TN / January 7, 2016
Five songs into his solo acoustic performance, Steve Earle said “Do you all see I’m doing?” Tipped off by the early set placement of his two best known songs (“Guitar Town” and “Copperhead Road”) yours truly replied in the affirmative. Currently in the process of writing a “memoir,” Earle was cleverly walking through his career […]
Jason Isbell @ City Winery / Nashville TN / December 28 & 29, 2015
The following was overheard above the cries of a teething infant at the Hermitage, TN household of Mr. and Mrs. J. Isbell: “Honey, what do you want to do over the Christmas holidays? Why don’t we drive down to Nashville and play a couple of shows together for our friends down there?” Well, thanks again […]
Kraftwerk 3D Concert @ Ryman Auditorium / Nashville TN / September 27, 2015
Despite the attempts of my millennial-generation son to influence me, I have never taking a liking to EDM (“Electronic Dance Music”). The enterprising and well-connected youngster even once comped me along with him to New York City’s Electric Zoo festival. There we saw genre superstar, Skrillex, perform “live” in front of some 80,000 crazed fans […]
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