by Jeff Maisey | Aug 31, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey For 3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold, it had been five years between studio albums “Time of My Life” (2011) and “Us and the Night” (2016). With a couple of new band members, the recording of “Us and the Night” was a way to reinvent 3 Doors Down and...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 16, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Ian Randall Thornton likes to let the songs flow naturally, following whatever is inspiring him at the moment. But he also doesn’t want his albums to just be a collection of unrelated songs. So when he started working on the tunes that would...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray Cruz and Sam, it felt like we could go on for hours, and we almost did. I had a great talk with these guys who are in great part the centerpiece of the salty-sweet band, The Black Lillies. They’re coming to Jim Morrison’s North Shore Point House Concert...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 8, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Mike Ness formed Social Distortion in Orange County in 1978 and it took more than a decade before the band hit the big time with their self-titled debut featuring “Ball & Chain.” They’ve never been prolific — just three...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 17, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts Barbara Nesbitt was a teenager when she first sang with Rare Daze in the late ’80s at Cogan’s Instant Art Bar. Little did she know that gig would begin a journey that has taken her from Tidewater to the artistic Mecca of Austin, Texas, with a...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Michael P. Curry It was the Summer of 1968. The very first Hampton Jazz Festival was presented (after the idea had been gestating for about a year) on Armstrong Field at (then) Hampton Institute. That first Festival included performances by Count Basie, Dizzy...
