Jason Isbell photos by Glenn Cook Jason Isbell played a solo show on Thursday January 15 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia that featured a stunner of a setlist that ranged through material from long ago to just recently, and held fans rapt in his tributes to Todd Snider (“Play a Train […]
Morrissey Debuts “Make Up Is a Lie” at OKC’s Criterion This past Tuesday, Morrissey brought his North American Tour 2026 to Oklahoma City’s Criterion, delivering a memorable career-spanning performance to an appreciative audience. The performance was the second show of the tour, and was actually a make-up date for a rescheduled performance last May. It […]
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Viva Todd Snider It was a great send-off for Todd last night. It may be trite to say there was “a lotta love in the room,” but that’s how it was. I’m sure some people were crying, but I never saw any. Shamus Bacon (Todd’s longtime road manager [in the old days]) started the night […]
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Lilly Hiatt at The Attic at The State Theatre, State College, PA (December 13th, 2025) In my house, we had an old Mason jar where we put all the spare bits and left over pieces of Lego sets, the small little cubes of hard plastic landmines that we stepped on in the middle of the […]
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Greg Freeman at Globe Hall in Denver I’ve written a lot – some might say a little too much – about indie country this year. What I’ve called “the slightly disheveled city cousin to Americana’s country mouse” has provided some of the best songwriting in both the indie and country spheres in 2025. But there’s […]
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Madison Hughes at The Attic at The State Theatre, State College, PA (December 4th, 2025) By the time she had pulled into State College, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of December 4th, Madison Hughes was over a thousand miles — and six days — into her first solo tour. She arrived to find a college town […]
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Steve Martin & Martin Short feat. Jeff Babko and the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY on December 4, 2025 To keep an audience engaged, invested, and entertained for two-hours is a near impossible feat, yet that is just what Steve Martin and Martin Short did on Thursday night’s sold out […]
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David Byrne at the Fox Theatre: A Night Where Art, Rhythm, and Americana Collide When I first considered covering David Byrne’s tour stop at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, I wasn’t sure I could justify it. After all, Byrne and The Talking Heads have roots in new wave, punk, art rock—genres that sit a long way from […]
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The Jayhawks Bring Warmth, Craft, and Americana Glow to The Center for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. On November 23, Minneapolis’ Jayhawks were welcomed for the first time at TCAN’s intimate Natick stage, delivering a set that balanced ragged charm, immaculate harmonies, and the kind of lived-in musical chemistry that only decades together can produce. […]
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Mike Farris at Jammin’ Java on November 19 Mike Farris, with his vocals soaring to heights rivaling those of Aretha Franklin, played “an evening with” acoustic show in Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA on November 19. The air was filled with bluesy and gospel-based songs with a soulful delivery and commanding vocals. At the start […]
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