Festival favorites
Fan favorites from music festivals I’ve loved through the years.
All posts filed under: Saturday Soundtrack
Semi-regular Saturday updates – to break out of the more serious posts on other days of the week – on musical events, musicians and bands that catch my ear. Think of Paul Krugman’s “Friday Night Music” blog posts…without the PhD in Economics (not to mention the Nobel Prize).
Abigail Washburn and the building of cultural understanding
Washburn’s music builds cultural understanding on the communal experience of beauty and sound.
Tim O’Brien helps us work through these trying times
A mainstay on the roots music scene, O’Brien has a new album on getting through our trying times.
Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen offer bluegrass food for the soul
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen: favorites of the bluegrass festival circuit.
Charlie Rauh and the case for playing soft and slow
Playing soft and slow can be beautiful.
All that jazz bass
Hang on to your hats as you listen to the incredible bass chops of the jazz cats.
All about that bass
When it comes to underpinning traditional and new acoustic music, it’s all about that bass.
The trailblazing acoustic music of David Grisman
The pulsating rhythms of E.M.D. opening the 1977 DGQ album made me a fan for life.
Margo Price takes on country music…and challenges the ‘love it or leave it’ crowd
Price sings of Iranian arms sales, gentrification, the healthcare crisis, and more that’s not your standard country fare.
John Pizzarelli’s timeless take on the American Songbook
John Pizzarelli is a prime contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook and an amazing guitarist to boot.
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