This was about as perfect as a night of music could get.
I suppose if you were some of those patrons among the 1,000 people in attendance whose seat was in the blocked-off street outside Knuckleheads you could have complained about the view. And a few times I wished the volume was higher on Merle Haggard’s vocals. Otherwise, Thursday’s sold-out show was a master class in songwriting and performance, delivered outdoors on a comfortably warm late-summer night.
Tonight's show at Crossroads KC has been canceled. The word:
"Due to expected weather conditions in the region from Hurricane Isaac, the Del McCoury Band has had to cancel several shows this weekend. We are therefore canceling the Del Yeah! Festival scheduled for this evening, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned for refund and/or reschedule information."
There are songwriters, there are musicians and there are entertainers. Few people can pull off all three with refinement, humility and charm. Lyle Lovett is one of them.
Jeff Ament, bassist for Pearl Jam, has a band called RNDM ("random") that's coming to the Bottleneck in Lawrence on Nov. 16, a Friday. It also features songwriter Joesph Arthur and Ament's drummer-collaborator Richard Stuverud. Its debut album is due Oct. 30. For more news straight from the PR machine, continue reading ...
Dawes is a California band that sounds of another era in more ways than one. Its music is steeped in the 1970s and the environment that produced the sounds of Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, the Eagles, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Rather than writing pop nuggets and hoping they stick to the Top 40 charts, Dawes generates a sound, a vibe that resonates as a whole, as a sum of the sounds and subtle moods it renders in each song.
John Hiatt has been compared to artists ranging from Elvis Costello to John Prine during his lengthy career. At the Uptown Theater on Monday, Hiatt evoked an even more auspicious figure. With his bandy legs and dapper hat, Hiatt resembled present-day Bob Dylan.
This message came to me on Facebook about the Puddle of Mudd show Friday at the VooDoo Lounge. If you were there, weigh-in and confirm. And if you don't know about the refund offer, read more. / T.F.
A Phish concert is something much larger and extravagant than several thousand people convening to sit and listen to a favorite band play some of its most-favored songs.
The extravagance begins with the pre-concert soiree that simmers and boils-over in the parking lot hours before show time — a version of tailgating in which everyone gets into the proper state of mind for what will unfold inside the venue: three hours of excess, indulgence and catharsis.
Wednesday night, the quartet from Vermont sold-out Starlight Theatre, drawing a crowd that exceeded 7,800. From the initial appearance of the band on stage, just as dusk was settling in, till the final thank-yous were delivered as the clock crept toward midnight, much of the crowd remained on its feet, dancing, spinning, singing along and otherwise immersing itself in the heady, cosmic vibe.
Their opener was “Carry On,” a song about moving onward through loss, pain and changes: “To sing the blues you’ve got to live the tunes and carry on.”
About 5,000 people spent Thursday night at Starlight Theatre, reliving the tunes of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. The trio, backed by a five-piece band that included Crosby’s son James Raymond, reprised some of its best-known songs, covered a few tunes and introduced a few new ones, some of them as socio-political as anything they’ve been associated with.
Magnet The online version of "the bi-monthly, internationally distributed, glossy music magazine that gives well-deserved attention to musicians largely ignored by mainstream publications."
Metacritic Lots and lots of critics praise and bitch about music (and movies, DVDs, games, books and TV).
Paste "The premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit."
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