Author: Andy Moore
Live Reviews from web archive April 20, 2009
Justin Townes Earle
Appalachian preachers who pray over the dead before the wake, the ones who absorb earthly misdeeds before the body can be mourned in public, are called sin eaters. Justin Townes Earle is a sin eater. He’s hovered over the bodies of Hank, Buck, and damn near his own. The difference between Earle and others who [...]
Feature from web archive February 10, 2009
50 Fulks tracks can’t be wrong
Robbie Fulks’ self-imposed touring exile of the last year and a half has been hell for fans who swarm to his over-the-top stage shows. Those fans will be rewarded for their patience later this month when Fulks releases 50, count ‘em, 50 new songs – all at once – on his website, robbiefulks.com. The pallet-load [...]
Live Reviews from web archive February 8, 2009
Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller’s performance at the Majestic Theatre was so intimate it could have taken place in his basement for a handful of his closest friends. Maybe it was because he feels at home here. “The closest thing to Austin, Texas, is Madison, Wisconsin,” he said early in the nearly two-hour show, comparing his host town [...]
Live Reviews from web archive December 21, 2008
Bon Iver
Fresh from a David Letterman appearance and just hours after Madison’s biggest snowstorm of the season, Bon Iver spread a blanket of flannel mysticism over a sold-out crowd of nearly a thousand at the Barrymore Theater. The boys from the back roads of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, reveled to be on a stage in their home [...]
Feature from web archive November 13, 2008
Michael Franti’s message of hope
Thoughtful Americans will always remember where they were last Tuesday night when the presidential returns rolled in. Michael Franti, musician and social justice messenger, certainly will. “I was on an airplane from San Francisco to Chicago to Montreal,” he explained this past Sunday afternoon as his band, Spearhead, did their soundcheck for a show that [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Poi Dog Pondering Acoustic Quintet – High Noon Saloon (Madison, WI)
Poi Dog Pondering turned a saloon into a salon on this cold winter’s night. Heavy coats heaped across rows of chairs on the dance floor baffled the already warm tones the band created during a twenty-song set. Madison was one of only five stops on the acoustic quintet’s winter schedule, and leader Frank Orrall and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Owen Temple – Two Thousand Miles
Owen Temple’s new disc is twelve tracks and two thousand miles of longing for his native Texas. Temple wrote these catchy tunes while living for two years in Wisconsin, far away from his adopted hometown of Austin. His songs, even the rowdy ones, barrel straight through the roadhouse on the way to better, safer places, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Wilco – Overture Hall (Madison, WI)
There was a skeptical buzz before this show from doubters who dismissed the band’s upbeat new disc, Sky Blue Sky, as Jeff Tweedy on Paxil. Add in the fact that Overture Hall is a lavish new theater designed more for symphony orchestras than rock bands, and many of the ticket holders (despite the reasonable ticket [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Madison Blues
On December 7, 1967, Otis Redding, with the help of guitarist-producer Steve Cropper, finished recording “Dock Of The Bay” at Stax Records in Memphis. From Memphis, Redding and his band, the Bar-Kays, departed for performances in Nashville and Cleveland, and, from there, a headliner show booked at the Factory in Madison, Wisconsin. Redding had just [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Warren Zevon and Townes Van Zandt are subjects of new biographies, but they had more in common than that. Both came from families with money. Music eventually took over everything that mattered to them. Both enjoyed high esteem among fellow artists, yet reaped limited commercial success. And both were brutal drunkards. There’s at least one [...]
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