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Ryan Adams and the Infamous Stringdusters featuring Nicki Bluhm at Telluride Bluegrass

Ryan Adams and the Infamous Stringdusters featuring Nicki Bluhm at Telluride Bluegrass

Ryan Adams took the stage at the 2016 Telluride Bluegrass Festival flanked by a full bluegrass band that turned out to be the Infamous Stringdusters featuring Nicki Bluhm. Most in the audience were surprised, since the festival program billed the set as an “unforgettable solo performance.” Turns out that festival

Lefsetz Got It Wrong

Lefsetz Got It Wrong

Jason Isbell’s new record, Something More Than Free, has been in my player for weeks. The reviews have been great, and it enjoyed Isbell’s best debut to date, selling a large number of units for a non-mainstream record. Isbell, who can play the singer-songwriter with the acoustic guitar

Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds

Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds

there ain’t no boat, there ain’t no train to take us back the way we came ain’t no shelter from this hard rain the cure for the pain is the pain Writing this I am weeks away from the death of a high school friend, taken by

Todd Snider's Early Exits

Todd Snider's Early Exits

Concertus interruptus can leave you feeling blue, and even a little despondent. If you happen to be a Todd Snider fan, as I am, you’d better get used to it. And, if you happen to be married to my wife, you’d better get used to a discussion about

Sturgill Simpson's High Top Mountain

Sturgill Simpson's High Top Mountain

Somewhere in Honky Tonk Heaven, the great voices gather in the green room, taking their turns on the stage. They say they play for a split of the tip jar, but money is like manna here and the drinks are free. Even the water tastes like cherry wine. No need

The King Is Gone, And So Are You

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter That looks like Elvis I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar I cleared us off a place on that One little table that you left us And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor.

Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin

“They just don’t do it for me anymore.” We’re almost at the end of a delightful evening of music and banter from Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin. MCC has just finished singing I Feel Lucky, and this is her confession. Though she sings about Lyle and Dwight