This was going to be interesting. Rosanne Cash is someone I’ve always wanted to see live for so many reasons – she’s smart, she’s funny, she has a great voice – but I don’t own any of her records so I am not familiar with her work. So anything she plays, whether old or new, […]
Peter emailed me that the Main Squeeze Orchestra would be playing a free concert at Rockwood Music Hall. He was excited to see an all-female accordion orchestra. He should have known that not only did I know about them but I’ve seen them before. Since I was early I stopped off at Bereket Turkish Kebab […]
The night before at the Flemons and Reed show rtb, violaleeblue, and I were discussing that we didn’t know why the Avetts and Old Crow Medicine Show were playing Barclays Center when the Avetts couldn’t sell out Radio City Music Hall when they played there. Why play an arena when you’re not an arena band? […]
I’m not really sure how it happened. Wednesday rtb, violaleeblue, and I were emailing each other and talking about various shows or music and rtb mentioned that the next evening Dom Flemons and Eli “Paperboy” Reed were performing at the Greenwich House Music School. I liked both artists a lot and it was only $15 […]
rtb’s descriptions of the current exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York sounded right up my alley so off I went. I asked my friend Peter to come along, knowing that he would add alternate perspective to some of the exhibits. After we met up in the lobby we stopped off for […]
So nice I saw him twice. Joe Pug was headlining at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg. The show was sold out, which made me very happy for him. My usual spot against the back wall next to the sound booth is now taken up by occupied high tables so I had to stand up against […]
Another Valentine’s Day and, once again, rtb is my date for the evening. This time at one of our favorite clubs, where Kenny the sound guy treats us like VIPs. We got a table at the Bowery Ballroom and even a few drinks in addition to a fun conversation with Kenny. Our reason for being […]
Fifty years ago this week two little girls in Woodhaven, Queens were very excited about a musical act that was going to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show that weekend. We were only 4yo and 6yo but my sister and I had grown up with music surrounding us daily – boleros from the 1930s, tangos […]
The last few times Steve Earle has been around I’ve missed him for one reason or another. I didn’t see anything about this show until two days before and I was able to score the last ticket in the sold-out center orchestra, right in front of the soundboard. Normally the floor at the Capitol Theatre […]
When Pete Seeger was blacklisted, he was always singing in our house. Pete was the soundtrack to my childhood. My sister and I would beg our father to play his records. We were especially fond of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” and “Little Houses.” At first the politics went over our head but soon we couldn’t […]
