by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison “Big Al” Staggs of the long-loved and long-absent band Left Wing Fascists likes to say that the group’s latest album, “Oxymoron,” avoided the usual studio fisticuffs of decades ago because the parts were recorded...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Only a couple of years ago, Leon Bridges earned a living washing dishes at Del Frisco’s Grille in Fort Worth. He played the open mikes around town, mostly folkie country stuff. “There weren’t many people doing R&B at open mikes,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison The arresting three-part harmonies flowing from the current lineup of The Wailin’ Jennys were born in a bathroom. Founding member Ruth Moody sought recommendations for the departing Annabelle Chvostek from a friend, Aoife O’Donovan...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “The first step―especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money ― the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Symphony Orchestra marks its 25th year under the baton of JoAnn Falletta with a Classics Series that touches, in each concert, on high points of her quarter century as its Music Director. From Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, which...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 9, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Thanks to his critically-acclaimed “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” Sturgill Simpson became the first artist to win the Nashville Scene’s Country Music Poll without having a Top 40 country song. He topped the No Depression...
