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 | Nov 13, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Dinosaur Jr. is a band that never quite seems to get the recognition or chart success as pioneers of alternative rock and grunge. But, here they are 35 years down the road, reunited for nearly 15 years after a nasty breakup, and hitting the road...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 25, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey In talking with guitarist/singer Marcus King, it doesn’t take long to realize his heart, soul and head are all in the right place. King learned to play guitar by watching his father, bluesman Marvin King, and absorbing the music he heard on...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 29, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison What is it about the red dirt of Oklahoma that rises up and infuses one generation after another with the storytelling songwriting gene? Go way back, of course, and you land on Woody Guthrie, son of Okemah, the folkie torrent of words who howls...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 16, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jeff Maisey Most of us were introduced to the music of The Darkness when the whimsical song “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” garnered airplay and seemed to be heard everywhere. That was 2003, and the group took the world by storm. The quartet from England...