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Upcoming Artist Series: Reese Fulmer & the Carriage House Band
Late last year when I was looking for someone new to focus on for this series, I asked a good friend and fellow musician Thomasina Winslow if she had any suggestions. Right!-->…
Robert McDuffie and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra Lead Off a String of Violin/Fiddle-Centric…
TROY - As featured soloist with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra Saturday at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Robert McDuffie brings impeccable classical credentials.!-->…
Local Business Spotlight: Zombie Planet
From the Batcave to the Sanctum Sanctorum, plenty of the great heroes of fiction and pop culture have a legendary location that they can call home. For many years now,!-->!-->!-->…
Hey, Croz – A Big Adios
Whenever I saw David Crosby onstage, he was always in fine fettle, except for once…With Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, and sometimes also Neil Young, or in a duo with!-->!-->!-->…
Concert Preview: Cliff Brucker’s Full Circle Sextet featuring Leo Russo @ The Linda, Jan. 26
ALBANY - When Cliff Brucker leads his Full Circle Sextet featuring Leo Russo on Thursday, Jan. 26 at WAMC’s The Linda, the word “featuring” tells the tale.The show!-->!-->!-->…
In Memoriam: Jeff Beck (1944-2023)
Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy leaned into each other shoulder to shoulder. Their fingers flew across the strings of their guitars in an extemporaneous jam that was two parts duet!-->…
Blues-Rock Behemoth Peter Parcek to Play Saratoga New Year’s Fest
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Almost every city and many towns across the country have unsung guitar heroes. In Nippertown they include the late Ernie Williams, Rhett Tyler, Joe Roy!-->…
Chicago Bluesman Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, Dead at 83
Bluesman Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson passed away at age 83 on Christmas Day. Johnson played the Nippertown area regularly in the 1990s. I got to introduce him at The Metro!-->…
Kim Simmonds, Founder of the Seminal Savoy Brown Blues Band, Passes at 75
OSWEGO, NY - Kim Simmonds, founder of the seminal blues band Savoy Brown, has died. For 57 years, Simmonds was the cornerstone of the last British blues rock bands to ride to!-->…
simplemachine Introduce Themselves with Video Premiere, Dec. 2
In somewhat of a happy accident, my long-time best friend and local producer/musician David Tyo showed me a demo of a new song idea he was working on a few weeks ago.Dave!-->!-->!-->…
Marty Wendell’s “Risky Business” Has Grammy’s Attention
For the second time in two years, Marty Wendell has been a Grammy contender for Best Americana Album.In 2020, his album “Rock & Roll Days” was his first album to be!-->!-->!-->…
Darlingside; Then and Now, Here and There
Dave Senft led Darlingside offstage at Universal Preservation Hall (UPH) in Saratoga Springs after their encore on November 3, likely the Massachusetts band’s last quartet!-->…