Trombone Shorty, by Steve Ford
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As spring settles in, indie artists everywhere are nailing down the routes they'll take on the road this summer. Since there are so many great traveling musicians on ND, it seems like it's about time someone started a discussion about the best places to play in small and midsize venues around the country. Whether you're looking for ideas and help, or want to turn fellow travelers on to great, reliable clubs in your area...chime in on this new forum. Also, don't forget to enter to win tickets to Wakarusa, where you can see the Avetts, G Love, Blitzen Trapper, Jason Isbell, Heartless Bastards, the Goddamn Gallows, and more. Or, simply keep reading for some highlights from the past week...
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Hanging with Richard Thompson
by Charlie Bermant
Richard Thompson has an open mind about audience interaction. This year the 63-year-old guitarist is changing the standard performance game in two ways, his participation in the Cayamo Songwriters' cruise in February and as an instructor at the first "Frets and Refrains" guitar camp, taking place in July in a bucolic Catskill Mountain setting. While Thompson has... More
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The Vespers - The Fourth Wall
by Awaiting the Flood
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT judge a book by its cover. The fresh-faced young musicians who comprise the Nashville band known as The Vespers play and singway beyond their years. There is, however, an experienced professional element present here, as lead singers (and sisters) Callie and Phoebe Cryar (21 and 19 respectively), cut their musical teeth... More
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Interview: Water Liars reveal their "Phantom Limb"
by Chris Mateer
Water Liars are St. Louis, MO songwriter, vocalist, guitarist Justin Kinkel-Schuster and Oxford, MS drummer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bryant. The two first met in St. Louis back in the mid-2000's while sharing a stage and kept in touch, hoping to make music together sometime. Well, the time finally came, and the result of this meeting of the minds... More
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Lori McKenna - "Buy This Town"
by The Song Survives
Lori McKenna, a lifelong resident of Stoughton, Massachusetts, has a way with small towns. In this track, from her latest, Lorraine, she summarizes small-town life more aptly than the hundreds of country singers who try do to do just that. While many writers try and glorify small towns, McKenna's version shows the cracks and flaws that give it... More
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Kevin Gordon couldn't be more at home with his musical roots. The West Monroe, Louisiana, native inhabits the swamp blues, honky-tonk and rockabilly he heard growing up in the '60s with the unassuming ease of a performer twice his age. The roots that lend Gordon's music its tension are, rather, social and historical. On Illinois 5 a.m. (Motherlode), his new seven-song CD, Gordon wrestles with the desire to transcend what he calls "that feeling of... More
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Zakir Hussain & the Masters of Percussion live in Vancouver BC
new album
by Doug Heselgrave
Zakir Hussain should need no introduction. As the world's greatest living master of the Indian tabla, he has spent decades tirelessly touring the globe and exposing audiences to the ancient percussive traditions of South Asia. Hussain first came to prominence in the west in the late sixties when his father Ustad Alla Rakha, Ravi Shankar's tabla accompanist brought... More
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