by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2020 | Music, Music News
Bobby “Blackhat” Walters “America, How Great Do You Feel Today” (Self-Release Single) Bluesman Bobby “Blackhat” Walters in recent years has been keen on quickly capturing a current event or an issue in song. These studio recordings include “Gudment Shutdown” and “HRBT...
by Jeff Maisey | May 28, 2020 | Music, Music News
(A crowd lines up to enter The Boathouse in the 1990s. Photo courtesy of Jeff Moore) BY JEFF MAISEY “We were backstage and there was a buffet spread out with chicken, roast beef and all kinds of good stuff,” recalled singer David Middleton, whose local...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2020 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Twenty years ago today — April 28, 2000 — The NorVa opened its doors with the venue’s inaugural concert headlined by the legendary Godfather of Soul James Brown. The building which houses The NorVa was constructed nearly 100 years ago...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 23, 2020 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey K’Bana Blaq is perhaps one of the most prolific songwriters and creative music video artists in the 757. Known to many as one of the three dynamic upfront singers in the award-winning R&B group The Fuzz Band, K’Bana has also indulged fans...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 23, 2020 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Over the years since Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua began playing together in the hills of the Shenandoah Mountains and then assembled Old Crow Medicine Show in the hippie sanctuary of Ithaca, New York, partly from buskers on the streets, the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 24, 2020 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
Billy Joel’s original band will bring hits—and some deep cuts—to Newport News By Jim Roberts Liberty DeVitto played drums for Billy Joel for 30 years—a time span that included nine Platinum albums, three of which won Grammy Awards. In 2014, DeVitto and the...