by Jeff Maisey | Apr 17, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Three Dog Night’s current lineup continue to perform to sold-out crowds) By Jeff Maisey If you can remember the days of handheld AM transistor radios chances are you know the music of Three Dog Night. From 1969 to 1974, no other recording artist achieved more top 10...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 15, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(James McMurtry is back on the road in support of “The Horses and the Hounds.” Photo by Mary Keating Bruton.) By Jim Morrison It’s the details that make James McMurtry’s songs compelling character studies. That and the melodies, of course. There are the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison It was nine years since Bright Eyes, the trio featuring frontman Conor Oberst, had released an album when “Down In the Weeds Where The World Once Was” hit the streets in 2020. You’re forgiven if Oberst came across as something of a...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2022 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Virginia Symphony Orchestra Music Director Eric Jacobsen) By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Symphony opens the month of April with that most exuberantly glorious piece of symphonic and choral music, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and its particularly timely message of...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Banjo great Bela Fleck. Photo by William Matthews) By Jim Morrison Bela Fleck is on the phone ruminating about why he dips in and out of so many genres from bluegrass to newgrass to jazz to classical, from his mind-blowing creations with The Flecktones to his work...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2022 | Music, Music News
(New Morse Code. Photo by Tatiana Daubek.) By Montague Gammon III Some things visual and lots of things musical this way come, in the hands of a cello-percussion pair of performers/professors (accompanied by a computer wielding composer), a duo called New Morse Code....
