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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 2, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Jim Heath remembers two shows that hooked him on rockabilly. The first was about 1982 in Dallas when The Blasters blew through town hot off the release of their debut on Slash Records, an album with classics like “Marie, Marie,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 28, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The ten Grammy winning Manhattan Transfer, perhaps the only important musical group born in a New York taxicab, brings its multi genre, four-part harmonies to The American Theatre in the Phoebus section of Hampton Dec 1 and 2 with their...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “We were a Jackson 5 type of family,” says singer Michael Lynche, regarding the impact of Motown music on his childhood growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, back in the eighties and early nineties. Michael’s entire nuclear family—there were 4...
