by Jeff Maisey | Mar 4, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey From his early days as a member of British Invasion pop/rock band The Hollies in the 1960s to a lifelong career of social activism and songwriting as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and beyond, Graham Nash has remained a people’s favorite. Nash...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 28, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison M.C. Taylor, the songwriter and leader of Hiss Golden Messenger, moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to earn a graduate degree in folklore after living in San Francisco for a decade and playing in bands there. He needed a break. So he crossed the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Get this straight: Anderson East is from Nashville, but he’s no country singer. On his latest, “Encore,” East is a flat-out blue-eyed soul crooner, backed by arrangements Curtis Mayfield would love. He’s St. Paul without the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music
By Montague Gammon III The opera super star whose 2014 Super Bowl performance taught 111 million Americans how the first verse of our National Anthem should sound, the soprano who has been likened to all-time greats Renata Tebaldi and Maria Callas, whose “Danny Boy”...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 31, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Rayland Baxter’s original plan to write songs for his latest album was to rent a cabin. That proved too expensive. When a buddy offered a room in a former rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, an hour from Nashville, Baxter grabbed the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 2, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison That evolution from a band with a small, devoted following that fills clubs to one that headlines festivals and lands on a major label is a tricky navigation. Just ask Lake Street Dive. The group of conservatory friends transformed in a couple of...
