A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, the third album from Sturgill Simpson, is a major-label, big-budget outing with sweeping, cinematic strings and driving horns that call to mind both The Memphis Horns and Allen Toussaint’s horn arrangements for The Band. It’s…
I’ve always found it interesting that the American audience, and perhaps this is true across all cultures, demands not just the art, but also the artist. We need some sort of narrative of the artist’s life with which we can…
The 2015 Savannah Revival Fest lineup was announced last week, and while I was excited to see that Southern Culture on the Skids and Those Darlins will be returning to town, I was most excited to see Parker Millsap‘s name…
I believe Shaky Knees — in its third location in as many years — is a festival designed with a person like me in mind, and I’ll be interested to see if that remains true as the young festival continues…
My buddy Chris recently visited Savannah for several days, and after doing as much of the tourist thing as we could tolerate, and after somehow finding ourselves at two performances of a Christmas burlesque show in which a young lady…
On Saturday night, I found myself choked up by Ian McLagan’s performance of “Glad and Sorry,” a bittersweet number originally recorded by his former band The Faces. I’ve always found it an incredibly touching song, but as performed in tribute…
How often will we get the opportunity to see a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee play a venue the size of The Wormhole? Indeed, Saturday should prove a rare opportunity, but if that’s not enough to get you…