Talk about a powerhouse line-up of bands. With Old 97’s, Bob Schneider and the Bottle Rockets all taking the stage on the same evening, it was like winning the music fan lottery.. Somebody that does booking at the Jones Assembly in OKC definitely earned their paycheck for this one. It was one of those shows […]
Ahead of their upcoming release of Down To The River, Allman Betts Band have hit the road to showcase their new collaborations. They roared into the Tower Theatre this past week and definitely made their presence known to the Oklahoma City audience. A modern day super group of sorts, the band is comprised of some […]
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Gone West performed to a sold-out crowd at the legendary Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA. They are on the road promoting their new EP, “Tide” The band is made up of some of the best singer-songwriters you will find around. Grammy award winner Colbie Caillat and her fiancée Justin Young have joined together […]
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Many fans consider St. Paul & The Broken Bones first visit to The Jones Assembly the venue’s most memorable show to date. I regrettably missed it. I think I had another show that night, but I was determined to be in attendance on this return visit and I certainly wasn’t disappointed. It’s a radiant and […]
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photos by Jimmy Faber One of the downsides of being a music reviewer is that after attending two or three concerts a week for months on end, you can get a bit jaded about each new show. It’s not that the performances become less enjoyable, it’s just that after seeing so many shows — almost […]
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Rodney Crowell played Oklahoma City’s Tower Theatre Sunday night to a near sellout crowd. About halfway through, Crowell admitted it was his first time back to OKC since just after the Murrah Building bombing in 1995. He indicated he didn’t know why it took so long for a return visit; just that sometimes that’s how […]
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Politics are almost inherent, if not overt, when bands play in the Washington, D.C., area. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard 1960s protest songs played — often with an extra dose of passion — as encores at shows. Son Volt, the alt-rock/alt-country band led by Jay Farrar, didn’t need covers to weigh […]
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Last week Nick Lowe tore up the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina with his a-list band Los Straightjackets. I never had the opportunity to catch Nick Lowe despite his long illustrious career that started over five decades ago. Naturally attracted to his hits, and having an affinity for “Cruel to be kind” to […]
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The Dimmer Twins played last week at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina. In case you’re uninformed the “Twins” are the swashbuckling singing guitar twins Paterson Hood and Mike Cooley of the Muscle Shoals Al./Athens Ga. family known as The Drive-By Truckers! Hood and Cooley got this idea in their head to do an […]
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When he first came on the scene in 2015, Leon Bridges was being touted as the next soul giant: a modern Sam Cooke, with a little Aretha or Marvin thrown in – even down to his unassuming, often neutral-colored, retro-inspired, clothing choices, and certainly by the 60s soul, stripped-down Memphis grooves ala stax/volt/hi records, of […]
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