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Todd Snider, Bruce Robison and Robert Earl Keen Kickoff Barstool Tour in Alexandria
Hall & Oates may have been at the 9:30 Club on Wednesday night to perform Jimmy Wayne’s smash “Sara Smile,” but the best show in town featured co-headliners Robert Earl Keen, Todd Snider, and Bruce Robison. The three men sold out Alexandria’s Birchmere on the inaugural stop of their Barstool Tour, something that seems to [...]
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Poets and Prophets: Matraca Berg at Country Music Hall of Fame
Matraca Berg looks like a country singer. She’s slim and pretty. When she speaks, it’s with a strong Kentucky drawl. The boys would gush over her and the girls would all want to be her. But that’s not what Berg is. She’s a songwriter—and a good one at that.
So good, that she was picked to [...]Continue reading "Poets and Prophets: Matraca Berg at Country Music Hall of Fame"
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Walking Man’s Blues: Stagecoach ‘09 Reflection and Recap
If you’re a person who appreciates crowds, the desert sun, girls in bikinis, walking, being surrounded by people who are blissfully hammered, and country music of both the awesome and terrible variety, then you would have been wise to truck yourself on out to Indio, CA last weekend for the annual Stagecoach Music Festival.
Thanks to [...]Continue reading "Walking Man’s Blues: Stagecoach ‘09 Reflection and Recap"
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Live from SXSW 2009 (3/18)
The music portion of SXSW kicks off today in Austin, TX and I’ll be in the midst of the mayhem, bouncing from venue to venue, trying to take in as much music as I possibly can. In the process, I’ll attempt to keep y’all updated on what’s going down wherever I happen to be via [...]
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At CRS, Radio Reacts to Jamey Johnson’s “High Cost of Living”
Sandwiched in the shadow of two big buildings on the intersection between 5th and Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Jamey Johnson wowed a crowd of close to a thousand people with his undeniably-country anthems (and free hot dogs).
The midday show was part of the Country Radio Seminar—an annual event that allows artists to kiss [...]Continue reading "At CRS, Radio Reacts to Jamey Johnson’s “High Cost of Living”"
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Concert Review: Kris Kristofferson @ Sixth & I Synagogue, DC
So Kris Kristofferson walks into a Chinatown synagogue…
It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but on a cold, rainy Saturday night in Washington, DC, Kristofferson played to a packed house of worship: the historic Sixth & I Synagogue located in the heart of gentrified Chinatown.
At 72 years old, Kristofferson can still captivate [...]Continue reading "Concert Review: Kris Kristofferson @ Sixth & I Synagogue, DC"
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Concert Review: Dwight Yoakam @ Grand Masonic Lodge, Nashville
A near-capacity crowd waited almost two and a half hours to see Dwight Yoakam, Amy Lee (of Evanescence fame) and pop star Gavin DeGraw at the historic Grand Masonic Lodge in Nashville on Monday night. Song-Writers in the Round was in town taping a series of shows entitled Legends and Lyrics, bringing together songwriters of [...]
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Concert Review: Miranda Lambert @ Busch Gardens, Tampa
Miranda Lambert still has a lot to learn about how to work a crowd. More than once during her Sunday show at the Bud & BBQ concert series at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Lambert chided the attentive but subdued audience for its lack of energy, at one point warning that “y’all better wake up!” and [...]
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Asleep at the Wheel Prepped for Tour with Willie at Antone’s
Anticipation was high among those standing in the line that stretched around the block to find out who the “VERY special guest” to perform with Asleep at the Wheel would be on Saturday (2/7) evening at Antone’s. Word had leaked that a collaborator on the group’s recent album, Willie and the Wheel, would show up [...]
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Vince Gill Dazzles Crowd At Country Music Hall of Fame
Half an hour before Vince Gill went on stage for his first of three sold out artist-in-residence shows, people were milling about in the dimly lit lobby of the Country Music Hall of Fame—everyone from heavy-coated slightly-grayed businessmen to a regular guy in a VFW ball cap to a shapely young brunette.
It was a true [...]Continue reading "Vince Gill Dazzles Crowd At Country Music Hall of Fame"
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