WITH CONCERTS happening almost every night of the week, a look back at the last year in music is quite the blur, but there were certainly some shows that are […]
Lucinda Williams
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Lucinda Williams
Williams told the crowd that she had long considered turning one of her poet father’s works into a song and had finally done it with “Compassion,” one of his best-loved poems.
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Lucinda Williams: All Killer, No Filler
THE IDEA that suffering makes for great art is one of those time-honored rock ‘n’ roll tropes that even made its way into the title of a 1982 Todd Rundgren […]
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Mark Your Calendar: Third Thursdays are back
Count live music among the amenities of Tybee Island. The third season of Third Thursdays, bringing free acoustic music to public places, for a nice little change o’pace, begins this […]
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The Blind Boys of Alabama give witness tonight at Café Loco!
BY NOW, SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY HEARD the strange news that Grammy-winning gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama will perform with their full backing band tonight at […]
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‘We want to look as professional as possible’
IT’S BEEN JUST A LITTLE OVER A YEAR since local “roots-a-billy” band The Train Wrecks released their debut CD, Whiskey & War. During that time, the hard-charging quartet of Jason […]
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Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Danielle Howle A rare local set by this terrific, Columbia, S.C. indie-rocker turned swinging, jazzy Americana chanteuse who made a name for herself in the early ‘90s as frontperson for […]