“A lot of guys want to use it to get to something better, and I’m like, What’s better than live performing?'”
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SMF Review: The Avett Brothers
Also effective despite the poor acoustics were the moments that the brothers and Crawford, playing his acoustic bass, performed as a trio. It was clear that was the way they started, and they were at ease and in their element
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SMF: The Avett Brothers
During its first shows of 2014 the group played almost entirely different song sets each night.
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SMF: Vince Gill
“We were both at a ripe age to be inspired by that stuff when it was current. It’s a kind of blueprint for the way we learned to play, especially on those instruments.”
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Band of Horses’ acoustic stampede
Recorded last year at Nashville’s venerable Ryman Auditorium (which has, they say, the best acoustics in the South), their new album features Ben Bridwell and company pickin’ and a-strummin’ without all those pesky amplifiers.
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Second Avetts show, Isbell added to SMF
The Avetts sold out so fast that the Music Fest booked them for another night
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Go nuts!
In Savannah, there are two unique productions of The Nutcracker — one professional, one not — on the same day, in different theaters, every year. It’s a holiday tradition, as predictable as the ingredients in a Paula Deen pound cake.
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Bonamassa: A fresh, hot cuppa Joe
“We could just pretend it’s 2009 and just keep doing the same Albert Hall set, but I think fortune favors the bold. And I think fortune favors the one that’s willing to take a risk.”
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Old school hip hop @Johnny Mercer
The headliner is Kurtis Blow, the first rapper signed to a major label (in 1979).
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Celtic Woman: Irish again
‘I’ve done American accents in nearly every show I’ve been in. In Legally Blonde, you had to do the Valley Girl L.A. accent, which was kind of fun.’
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New Rule: Read this Bill Maher interview
Hard to believe given his mega-fame on HBO these days during the Barack Obama era, but there was a time when Bill Maher was a pariah. Ironically fired from a […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Rodney Crowell
We’ll just cut to the chase and say that the fact that they’ve just made their first album as a duo, Old Yellow Moon, is a cause for celebration.