Sarah Borges w/Eric Ambel at Pearl Street Warehouse June 28 all photos by Michael Aarons. Pearl Street Warehouse in DC is lovely and in June you can stroll up and down the pier in the neighborhood in summer clothes and you have choices between Pearl Street, the larger Anthem, and the underground Union Stage, lots […]
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Show Review: Maggie Rose at the Rams Head Tavern, Annapolis, MD, June 29, 2022. You can learn a lot about someone by their choice of covers songs. At the Ram’s Head On Stage in Annapolis (MD) Maggie Rose, a great songwriter herself, covered Aretha Franklin, Carol King, Phish, and the Box Tops, and even a […]
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Merriweather June 2022 Robert Plant moved away from the spectacle that was Led Zeppelin years ago, using his solo career to dabble rockabilly and Americana as much as rock and roll. But the classic rock icon found his greatest post-Zeppelin success in an unlikely collaborator: bluegrass legend Alison […]
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When The Rolling Stones landed in New York on the worldwide Licks tour, New York’s Madison Square Garden was a venue that they’d played numerous times and was hallowed ground for the live recording of Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out. “I hope my trousers don’t fall down,” Mick Jagger teased New York in November 1969 […]
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American Aquarium at 930 Club with Caroline Spence opening American Aquarium’s BJ Barham has high praise for Washington, D.C.’s 930 Club, calling it “pound for pound the best rock ‘n roll club in the country.” On Sunday night, Barham and his band did the venerable institution proud. Touring behind the new Chicamacomico, the North Carolina […]
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You might not have known it, but Oklahoma City was the place to be this past Sunday night. More specifically, Beer City Music Hall in downtown OKC was the destination, with the feature attraction being a triple bill of Joshua Ray Walker, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers and Aaron Vance. I hadn’t had a chance […]
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On a June Saturday that felt unseasonably cool and more like early fall, Bonnie Raitt looked up to the lawn seats high on the hill of those we’ve lost at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap and seemed overcome with emotion. After being shut down during the pandemic, the joy of being back onstage at […]
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Ray LaMontagne at Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC with Kiely Connell opening The Magnetism of an Introverted Artist Ray LaMontagne is currently wrapping up his Monovision tour this month, and one of his last stops was the Carolina Theatre in Durham, where he captivated the crowd. Opening up for LaMontagne was Kiely Connell, a guitarist […]
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The Wallflowers pulled into Annapolis on May 24, 2022 toward the beginning of a summer tour which will take them across the country and showcase them in a wide array of venues, from theatres to outdoor “sheds.” The Ram’s Head On Stage, which bills itself as “the best music club in the United States with […]
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FAI Keynote Interview -Shirley Collins and Will Hodgkinson Talk “America Over The Water” Shirley Collins, one of the mavens of folk rock in England was interviewed documentary-style by Will Hodgkinson of The Times via video and they were both introduced by Crispin Perry of the British Underground contingent of FAI on Saturday, May 21st, 2022. […]
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