From the Blogs

• Matt Flinner Trio - Handmade Virtuosity (Show Review)
  The term “roots musician” tends to make me think of a stripped down artist, taking inspiration from American folk and traditional forms to make personal music of a rough-hewn nature.  The visual equivalent would be an old-school letterpress print or maybe the canvas of an inspired folk painter. Matt Flinner is a roots musician, but one cut from a different […]
• Taj Mahal Review - Raleigh, NC 2-18-12
  Taj Mahal Trio Meymandi Concert Hall Raleigh, N.C.  February 18, 2012  By Grant Britt  At Raleigh’s Meymandi Hall Saturday night with his trio, Taj Mahal conducted a 90 minute master class in rhythm and blues. When Mahal first stepped on stage, you could tell by his attire this was no ordinary bluesman. Decked out in a jaunty panama hat, Hawaiian shirt and […]
• Interview: Kurt Wagner of Lambchop Chats Up "Mr. M"
  This week, the Nashville-based ensemble Lambchop returns with their 11th studio album, Mr. M (via Merge Records). Kurt Wagner, the primary songwriter and leader of the group, was gracious enough to take some time out his busy schedule to briefly discuss the creation of the new Lambchop record, as well as provide some insights as to where his own creative id […]
• Grayson Capps: A Concert And A Conversation
  Grayson Capps says he plays "roots rock."  If you push him on the genre question, he says, "Well, if Mississippi Fred McDowell sat down with Tom T. Hall and they were drinking Newcastle, listening to AC/DC, that might be an idea of what I do."    Capps opened his show at Duling Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 24 with a poem inst […]
• Fairport Convention's 2012 Cropredy Festival Celebrates 45 Years of Premiere British Folk Rock and More
  You might expect Richard Thompson to headline at Fairport Convention's 2012 Cropredy Festival in August. After all, he was an original member when Fairport was founded 45 years ago and this is the main celebration of that milestone. What's really cool, though, is that while Thompson and other established musicians -- Squeeze, Joan Armatrading, Saw […]
• Enter the Haggis: Wanna Taste?
  Playing in a band has never been easy work, but today's players probably look back to the good old days when all they needed to do was write, rehearse perform and record. Enter the Haggis is a case in point. After recording eight albums  for various record labels the Canadian band took control and released its ninth, Whitelake, on its own. It financed […]