The first I heard of the Shawn Colin and Steve Earle collaboration was at one of Steve’s career-spanning solo shows during his January residency at Nashville’s City Winery. Closing with one of their newly co-written songs, “Tell Moses,” I found the news of this new musical partnership quite surprising. I have been somewhat dismissive about […]
It was over three years ago when I last saw The Zombies play Music City. The sparse crowd then at the War Memorial led to a downsizing for their return in 2014 at Third & Lindsley: a show that I sadly missed. There was additional venue shrinkage for the Zombies again this year with their […]
Having missed the early bus on Nashville’s Margo Price, I decided to hop on a later one when I saw the announcement of her show at Third and Lindsley. I knew it would sell out fast as did an added second night. The latter show would also be a special mid-week broadcast by local radio […]
On June 7, 1988, Bob Dylan started touring every year and has not stopped since. Dubbed by fans as the “Never Ending Tour,” Bob and his crack band recently came to Nashville for the 17th time during this remarkable 28-year phenomenon. In a nutshell, Bob did the same show here that he has been doing […]
It’s no secret that I’m lukewarm about seeing Tom Petty live. While I love his records, on stage he can made me yawn. I’m not quite sure what it was, but seeing him front the southern-fried country rock sounds of Mudcrutch was another story. It was one dandy of a musical evening for yours truly […]
If I think back to 1978 when I first saw Nick Lowe on stage wearing the green suit of Batman’s nemesis the Riddler, I never imagined that I would one day see him crooning Christmas songs. The fact that he was backed by four guys wearing Mexican lucha libre wrestling masks seems to make more […]
Let’s face it. It’s almost the 2020’s, and some of us rock and rollers are pushing our sixties. And unless you own a fat 401(k) or have inherited a trust fund, we all will probably be calling it in to work every morning well into our seventies. But getting older makes it tougher to get […]
You know that old conversation starter “If you were having a dinner party and could invite anyone, who would you invite?” Well, good old Texas Jewboy, musician and author, Kinky Friedman, would be on my list. But, come to think about, sitting just a few feet away from him while I noshed at the Bluebird […]
It is being reported on Twitter by his old friend Rodney Crowell that the great singer-songwriter Guy Clark has died at age 74. One of the many Texan singer-songwriters who eventually made their way to Music City, Clark was mentor to many younger artists like Crowell and Steve Earle. After I moved to Nashville in […]
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 […]
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