The Hackensaw Boys - Bristol Rhythm & Roots 2009 [photo by Amanda Hevener]If you have been wondering what is going on with The Velvet Rut, well Shaun is currently recovering from a terrible bout with the flu. So I am stepping in for a moment to help out. I have been spending this week taking care of him, making homemade chicken noodle soup, replenishing the empty glass of ginger ale, deliverin...
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Bentley Rhodes (of Earl Knox)Plenty to talk about this week on the Locals Only Concert Calendar so I'll get right to it:Singer-songwriter Peyton Tochterman is at Enoteca on Thursday at 8:30pm. Bentley Rhodes (of local favorites Earl Knox) goes solo at Mudhouse in Crozet on Friday at 7pm. And Straight Punch to the Crotch hits The Box Friday at 10pm (that's a great one-liner right there). All th...
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James McMurtry, the Texas-based singer-songwriter who has made a name for himself in recent years with a string of critically praised albums, returns to Charlottesville this Friday, September 18th, when he performs at Fry's Spring Beach Club. With special guest Johny Burke. 8pm. $15. Purchase tickets HERE.James McMurtry is currently touring in advance of the release of his forthcoming album L...
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This fall is shaping up to be jam-packed with great concerts coming to Charlottesville, what with The Decemberists and Lucinda Williams at the Pavilion next week, U2 at Scott Stadium on October 1st, and The Southern's already stellar string of announced shows that will includes a sampling of personal faves from the likes of Southern Culture on the Skids, Califone, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Bli...
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Here's the latest video from Charlottesville's own Paul Curreri. The song "Down by The Water" is taken from Curreri's forthcoming album California (which will be his sixth full-length album). California will also serve as the follow-up to Curreri's critically-acclaimed 2007 release The Velvet Rut. California is set to hit stores in the UK on October 27th via Tin Angel Records with a U.S. rel...
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The Hackensaw Boys [photo by Aaron Farrington]After rolling back into C'ville around 5am from their show last night in Baltimore, Baby J., Ferd IV, and Plang Tang of the Hackensaw Boys kept things going well past the break of dawn by heading into the WNRN studios for a live interview and performance with Ann Williams on this morning's Acoustic Sunrise. [listen to the complete audio from today...
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Or, The WhaleSet to release their sophomore, self-titled album on September 15th via Seany Records, San Francisco's Or, The Whale has only in recent weeks popped up on my musical radar screen. Their sound is a blend of indie-folk and alt-country that plays right into my love of steel guitar, warm vocal harmonies, and the dusty country-rock sound of Neil Young.After giving a listen to the first...
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With the Beatles' entire record catalog being re-issued today in digitally remastered form, the Beatles Rock Band being released, and today, September 9th, 2009 aka 9.9.9, being dubbed Beatles Day, I figured I'd post one of my favorite Beatles' song performances.With John Lennon as the only member of the Fab Four appearing on this live version of the White Album's "Yer Blues", this one-off perf...
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Tim Be Told and In Technicolor* [*photo by Seth Bellenstine]The two big events on this week's Locals Only concert calendar are coming up this Friday and Saturday.Friday marks the arrival of the final Fridays After Five of the season at the Charlottesville Pavilion as local pop-rockers Tim Be Told and In Technicolor co-headline. 5:30pm. FREE.Saturday is of course the big Hackensaw Boys a...
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The Hackensaw Boys [photo by Aaron Farrington]Even though Labor Day has passed us by and September has begun to set in, summer is in no way over just yet. We've still got a couple weeks left to let in all hang out and if you're looking for a great way to blow out one of the final summertime weekends, I gotta suggest you head up to Veritas Vineyard this Saturday, September 12th for the last of ...
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Here's the movie trailer for Neil Young Trunk Show, a new live concert film shot at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA during Neil Young's Chrome Dreams tour. Directed by Jonathan Demme, who also was behind the 2006 documentary Neil Young: Heart of Gold, the new film was first unveiled at this year's SXSW in Austin, TX and will next be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on Septe...
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A band that is definitely one of my new favorite musical obsessions, here's the video for the network television debut from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The band performed "Home", from their full-length debut Up From Below, on last night's Late Show with David Letterman. And just in case you haven't taken the time to check it out yet, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were also re...
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The video for the lead track off of Danny Schmidt's latest album Instead the Forest Rose to Sing, which is also Danny's first on Red House Records. This album never seems to spend much time on the shelves, but instead has lived much of its life in "The Wooden Tent" never too far from the stereo (and for the uninformed "The Wooden Tent" is the recently acquired official name for my cabin home i...
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Tom Russell [photo by Colin Young Wolff]My girlfriend and I were sitting around yesterday evening talking about singer-songwriter Tom Russell, when we started playing a word association game that went something like this: "When you think of Tom Russell's music, what words or images come to mind"? Here's what we came up with:"Dusty roads, the American Southwest, deserts, smoke, gone America, t...
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Here's one for you garage rock/"insurgent" country/rockabilly surf fans as former Flat Duo Jets' frontman Dex Romweber, accompanied by his sister Sara on drums, hits Charlottesville tonight. The pair will be performing this evening at iS Venue as the recently formed Dex Romweber Duo, with special guests The Leeroys kicking things off. 9pm. $7.The Dex Romweber Duo released their debut album Ruins
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This is now the second "a day late and a dollar short" installment of the Locals Only Concert Calendar. Apologies and what can I say except that "Time is an elusive peanut butter and jelly sandwich". Or at least that's how I see it. But to digress beyond my own personal take on the universe here are a couple upcoming concerts featuring area artists that I'd recommend checking out this week:...
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This video ties in kind of nicely with my previous post from today which highlighted the upcoming Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival. Bristol, Tennessee earned its place as the "Birthplace of Country Music" based largely upon the legendary Bristol recordings headed up by Ralph Peer during the last days of July and the first week of August in 1927. Included among those sessions, known now to th...
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[poster art by Chad Carpenter]The ninth edition of the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion is just a couple weeks away and what blows me away most (besides the incredible line-up set to perform over the three-day weekend) is the fact that I have yet to attend one of the festivals to this point. I honestly have no idea how I've let this happen?!? Regardless, I'm hoping to remedy that situation in ...
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A.A. Bondy [photo by Jean Alcide]Here are two tracks from A.A. Bondy's forthcoming album When the Devil's Loose due out on Fat Possum Records on Tuesday of next week (September 1st).The former frontman for the Birmingham, Alabama-based rock band Verbena, A.A. Bondy (who at one time used to go by the name of Scott Bondy) turned to a more singer-songwriter style with the release of his full-lengt...
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Bluegrass music (in all its many forms) is undeniably a part of my musical make-up. Growing up in rural western Virginia, the sounds of a banjo, mandolin, or flat-pick guitar were never too far away. Don't get me wrong, I rebelled like hell to listen to bluegrass music when I was young, preferring instead to dive into the modern rock sound (or college rock as it was then called) that was begi...
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