Author: Tom Cartmel

listen to this beautiful Townes Van Zandt cover by John Baizley

Baroness singer John Baizley apparently relearned how to play guitar after the band’s horrible bus crash by playing Townes Van Zandt songs. Now he’s featured on three songs on a new album of Van Zandt covers. Read more about it…

Lucero at The Jinx – more pictures

I love to see any venue sold out. On a Monday night? Even better. Bill’s post covered this, but it really was a great night, both musically and socially. Lucero was in good spirits, The Jinx staff was having a…

Lucero to pack The Jinx – Monday 1/27

Here’s the short of it: If you didn’t buy your ticket to see the punky, soulful, countryfied Southern rock goodness that is Lucero, you’re out of luck. I don’t remember the last Jinx show that sold out so early. The…

Lovely Locks, Rachel Kate, Waits & Co. at The Jinx – photos

Holy cow, it’s almost the weekend again! Last Friday I made it out to see Lovely Locks, Rachel Kate and Waits & Co. It was a great show, a good crowd and all around fun night. Savannah’s own Waits &…

The Accomplices at The Broken Spoke – photos

With so many musical choices in Savannah Friday night, I took the easy way out and went to a show a little closer to home, The Accomplices at The Broken Spoke Coffee House & Cyclery (whoa,that’s a mouthful) on Hilton…

Soft Science record release – more photos

We may have mentioned this a time or three, but this past weekend was jammed with great shows. To start it all off was the Soft Science record/cassette release party at Hang Fire Thursday night. Petee’s already been over this,…

just a little more 2013 – photos

As I was going through my 2013 photos for my year end review, I came across a handful of shots that didn’t fit neatly into any of my posts this year. Some were from noteworthy gigs, but not my top…

Tom Cartmel’s Year in Review

I’ve been a pretty hopeless music fanatic for over 30 years: my first live show was the Beach Boys when I was twelve, went through the typical classic rock high school, dove into the Pittsburgh punk scene in college, had…

Kylesa recognized on several year end lists

Ultraviolet, Kylesa‘s great, layered, melodic release from earlier this year has found its way on to several year end lists. Perhaps most notably, they were #12 on Rolling Stone’s “20 Best Metal Albums of 2013”. As an interesting side note,…

American Aquarium at The Jinx – photos

Yes, American Aquarium was just here a few months ago for The Jinx 10th Anniversary, and, yes, we talk about them here a good bit. You know why? Because they’re good, very, very good. Their Facebook page claims that Saturday…