Super Bowl Halftime Shows, Dilly Dilly
The Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LII on Sunday night, and there was much rejoicing in all parts south of Nomans Land Island National Wilderness, the point in the state of Massachusetts closest to the Equator. However, I am here to talk about the Halftime Show, its reception, and the
Wonder Where Dynamic Horn Driven Blues-Soul & Funk Went? It Lives Fueled and Incendiary...
Every now and then I get a collection of tunes that are infused with nitroglycerin. Chris Daniels and The Kings with Freddi Gowdy is one such incendiary delight. “Blues with Horns, Volume 1” is quite a recipe for jumping out of your skin and dancing around in your bones.
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Concerning The Spiritual in The Tedeschi Trucks Band
Wassily Kandinsky, the great abstract painter, offered music as “the best teacher” for aspiring artists in his own book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. “With few exceptions,” he wrote, “music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks Remember their Roots – and Favorite Shows
It was a night with the Allman Brothers Band that I will never forget. Dickey Betts and the entire band were on fire, and my close friend Paul Rogers and I sat mesmerized in the second row at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Paul and I had attended
Kaia Kater: "I Was Shy About My Love For That Instrument.”
The music of roots artist Kaia Kater boasts numerous layers that glue it together. There’s the integral part that folk music played on the young Kater as she grew up. There was the music her father would send, helping to forge her tastes and her interests. The music camps
Kris Kristofferson at the Belly Up (Solana Beach, CA - Jan. 15, 2018)
Kris Kristofferson takes a final pull from a bottle of beer and tosses it at the trash. It misses. The glass bottle hits the concrete floor with an echo loud enough to turn heads, but it doesn’t break.
He shrugs, “It was empty,” he says.
Waiting to take the