2022 Our Native Daughters, Carnegie Hall, November Amythyst Kiah, Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, October Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls and Allison Russell, Merriweather Post, August Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, Wolf Trap, July 24 Norah Jones with Emily King, Pier Six, July 23 Billy Strings, Pier Six, July Bonnie Raitt with Lucinda Williams, Pier Six, June …
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, George Mason Center for the Arts, November 5 Rhiannon Giddens with Adia Victoria, Clarice Center, September 27 Tommy Emmanuel with Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Wilbur Theater Boston, September Elvis Costello with Nick Lowe, Lyric Opera House, July Little Feat with Miko Marks, Maryland Hall, April Sonny Landreth with Cindy …
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Lytic Opera House, Baltimore, Dec. 7 Amythyst Kiah and Maia Sharp, Kennedy Center, Dec. 6 Shawn Colvin, Rams Head, Annapolis, Dec. 3 Chris Smither & the Motivators, The Collective Encore, Columbia, Nov. 22 Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Two Runner at Fillmore Silver Spring, Nov. 16 Kacey Musgraves, Nickel Creek, …
David Lindley, one of my musical heroes, just passed away and I feel compelled to gather this appreciation of his life and work. I’ve long admired this adventurous, idiosyncratic, impish, eclectic virtuoso of nearly any instrument with strings. I’ve compiled a pair of playlists, one in iTunes and one in YouTube. In doing so, I’ve …
This page is my attempt to save the various playlists I created at the National Museum of African American Music (museum website) when we visited on March 13, 2022. The playlists are on Spotify which is not my preferred platform; I might try to replicate some of them on iTunes, but we’ll see. These playlists …
I was reluctant to dive into this post but couldn’t resist. In March 2022, if things work out, Laurie and I will embark on a music road trip to Nashville and Memphis. In preparation, I started working on a Memphis playlist built around a bunch of tunes I knew that referenced Memphis. After assembling a …
I’ve been endlessly frustrated by the evolution of music media over the past several decades, from vinyl to CD to Napster to MP3 to iPods to Apple Music to Spotify to YouTube to who knows where next. For the time being, there’s a ton of wonderful music concerts, clips and documentaries on YouTube but I …
I wrote a post of appreciation for John Prine shortly before he passed away. It made me realize there are other artists for whom I’d like to share an appreciation while they are still active and hopefully have many more years with us. The first of these that came to mind was Richard Thompson. Richard …
I came to the songs of John Prine indirectly, initially in the early 1970’s through John Denver’s cover of “Paradise” which I learned to play on guitar. The chords were easy, the conversational lyrics were memorably poignant but not too sappy, and I could just about sing them on key. I wasn’t smart enough to …
A record of our preparations for the music festival and vacation originally scheduled for November 2020 in Punta Cana. Getting Started For a number of years, I toyed with the idea of going on the Cayamo Cruise which annually gathered a bunch of my favorite musicians for a week in the Caribbean. The cruise was …