Dickie Betts photo by Kirk West photography On a weeknight in summer 2002, I was on vacation in Dewey Beach, Delaware. After putting the kids to bed, I headed over to Bottle & Cork where Dickey Betts was playing with his solo band, Great Southern. It seemed like too small a room for someone who […]
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Tommy Purify photo (Thom Loverro) at FAME Studios Margo Price announced that she recently came to New York for a piano recital at Carnegie Hall. But after leaving the storied building that has been graced by Maria Callas, George Gershwin and the Beatles, Price snuck out to sing karaoke to a room full of strangers […]
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New Book Provides Lively History Of Rounder Records and Roots Music Canon When aspiring fiddle player. Alison Krauss played a record on the Rounder Records label, she knew she wanted to make one someday for them. Years later when a young Sierra Hull saw a Rounder logo on the backs of albums made by her […]
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Eric Brace & Last Train Home Strike Up The Magic In Richmond When the calendar turns to January, it’s time for Long Train Home. You can count on Last Train Home to make their annual trek of the Mid-Atlantic. The one time band which originated in the Washington, DC area in the late Nineties, is […]
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Journey: Worlds Apart “History is a funny thing,” keyboardist Gregg Rolie observed during a recent Journey reunion. In Nick DeRiso’s riveting and lively new book about the complicated fifty-year history of Journey entitled Journey: Worlds Apart, Rolie’ role that night went largely unrecognized while singing the song he popularized while in Santana, “Black Magic […]
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In Richmond, The Baseball Project Cures The Summer Duldrums The dog days of summer are upon us and with the allure of football coming soon, August is a tricky month for baseball fans who have endured an already long season. But with the pennant race tightening, it’s also a reminder that the best baseball to […]
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Dead & Company in Bristow VA As shows go, Dead & Company’s stop in Bristow was surprisingly low key with few surprises. If this was just another Saturday night (to paraphrase the title of the second-set’s rousing finale), there was some anticipation that this night might be a little different. After all this iteration of […]
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(Peter Green, Otis Spann and John McVie. Photo By Jeff Lowenthal) January of 1969 is often associated with memories of the Beatles gathering behind the cameras to film the Get Back sessions. On the other side of the Atlantic, another historic event was taking place. The British blues band called Fleetwood Mac was touring America […]
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We’re still getting over scars left by the pandemic and not being able to hear live music. But the documentary film series, It Was The Music, about the married duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, helped us get us through those dark days. As we stayed sequestered, we got to watch a film directed by Mark […]
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At around 6:00, the opening of the doors inside the Birchmere Music is a ritual that is ingrained with music history spanning over forty years and the countless legends who have played on this stage in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. Outside the 500 seat listening room, fans would gather in the early afternoon […]
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