Before we go to the shows--and there are some good ones I have seen--we have two things to get out of the way. First and foremost, all hail the great Spider John Koerner upon his death. The late 50s/early 60s folk scene mostly sucked. That...
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I've seen so much live music lately, but I am going to hold back discussing several of these shows for a week so I can talk about going to the.
I've had something of a crisis of faith on the Music Notes posts, for two reasons. First, I am a terrible writer about music and so I find them consistently.
Last weekend was Big Ears, which for me and many others is far and away the best music festival in America. Approaching this festival for a second time, I took a somewhat more relaxed attitude toward it. The biggest reason for that is that there...
A couple of weeks ago, several LGM writers descended upon Athens, Georgia. The putative reason was the Drive By Truckers homecoming in Athens, which we had all wanted to go.
Saw the wonderful Mary Halvorson in Cambridge last Saturday, which I believe is the 5th time I've seen her play. 5 time club is actually a pretty big deal in.
Two weeks, I got to see Jerry Joseph play in Boston. It was so great. He's such a fascinating figure. He's one of these singer-songwriter types who never made it big but is a musician's musician. He's been around forever too. He played in some...
I read Margo Price's memoir Maybe We'll Make It. I liked it better than the other two people I know who had read it. What's astounding to me about it.
I just finished reading Steacy Easton's Why Tammy Wynette Matters. This is one of the books in the University of Texas Press' Why X Musician Matters series and the first.
Time for my Top 10 albums of 2023 list! I listened to 97 new albums this year, which is the same number as last year. Given the sheer number of albums I heard that were from the previous five years that I still needed to...
Two last shows I saw in 2023. Both were at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. The first was The Bad Plus. Oddly, I had never seen them before and I.
I saw two shows in the last week, both of youngish female Black artists and I think discussing both of them together makes sense. First, I saw Noname at the.