My entire life had been leading up to this night. Every song I listened to on my transistor radio hidden under my pillow when I was supposed to be sleeping. Every record I played while alone in the basement. Every concert I sat through. Every conversation I had about the merits of one performer over […]
Time to jump back into the surf for a night of surf, soul, spy, and spaghetti western with my friends The TarantinosNYC. First rtb and I met up at Mable’s Smokehouse for some BBQ. I had the pulled pork and she had the brisket and it was delicious. The place was packed – a few […]
Slapping bass. Hollow body electric guitar. Pompadours and sideburns. Full skirts and heels. Pegged jeans and sneakers. It’s rockabilly night at the Star Community Bar in Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia. doderama picked me up at my hotel. It had already been a long day. I’d had a breakfast meeting at 6:30am and then attended […]
Another drizzly evening in Coney Island for the Seaside Summer Concert Series hosted by Brooklyn Borough President and bon vivant Marty Markowitz. The rain stopped while I was on line and the evening was a bit warm and humid but it still was a lovely night by the sea. Marty said his hellos from the […]
Celebrate Brooklyn! has several benefit concerts every season and one of them was M Ward, an artist who I really enjoy seeing live. When the subway came above ground in Brooklyn my view was a huge orange sun directly behind the Statue of Liberty. I know there are many beautiful natural sights in this country […]
My second night with Jackson Browne was similar to my first, which was slightly disappointing. His catalog is big enough that he could have done a completely different set. He did tell the audience that he allowed the audience from the night before dictate too many of the choices so he was sticking more to […]
During the height of the singer/songwriter/LA/Southern California period in the 1970s there was Jackson Browne and he was one of my favorites. His very personal lyrics combined with his political activism were certainly a major attraction. And then he recorded the best live album ever – Running on Empty. Instead of a greatest hits collection […]
louisef had said she’d seen Big Sam and his NOLA funk at the Rochester Jazz Festival and it sounded like a lot of fun. Then I got a promotional email offering tickets for Big Sam for one penny so rtb and I were so there. Since the Highline doesn’t set up tables on the floor […]
The main reason that rtb, violaleeblue, and I bought tickets for the Catalpa Music Festival is that we wanted to encourage more music festivals in NYC. There hasn’t been one since All Points West in 2009 and that was in Liberty State Park, NJ. As far as the scheduled acts were concerned I wanted to […]
Summer. Coney Island. Fireworks. Nathan’s. And the best (and a little of the worst) of oldies music. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has been running the Seaside Summer Concert Series for 34 years. As Marty reminded us several times this was the first Friday concert in all those years. This was because it was the […]
