Dierks Bentley @ Highline Ballroom Glyn Emmerson June 3, 2010 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—It was a night of countrified rock slit through the vice of some homegrown bluegrass where Dierks Bentley held court with his fingerpicking mates including the Travelin’ McCourys (brothers Ronnie a...
Timothy B. Schmit @ Bitter End Glyn Emmerson November 20, 2009 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit took the crowd on a trip through country rock from the ‘60s to the now in an intimate performance at the Bitter End on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village. One of t...
Lenny Kravitz @ The Fillmore At Irving Plaza Glyn Emmerson November 10, 2009 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—It was a night of retro rock at the second night of a five day run at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza as Lenny Kravitz and friends sucked off the ‘70s and whipped the crowd into fits of hedonistic how...
Bruce Springsteen @ Nassau Coliseum Glyn Emmerson June 18, 2009 Concerts LONG ISLAND, NY-It was a sanctimonious night at the Coliseum where Springsteen and the E-Streeters took on the crowd and dosed it with the gospel of rock. Dipping into a canon of hits from the past four decade...
Lindsey Buckingham @ Nokia Theatre Glyn Emmerson November 19, 2008 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—It was a night of small guitars making big sounds. Of furiously thumping fingerpicking morphed with doses of psychedelic pop that Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, laced into the crowd w...
The Eagles @ Madison Square Garden Glyn Emmerson June 25, 2008 Concerts NEW YORK, NY–It was hard to hold back the tears of laughter looking at the Eagles onstage at the Garden. Gone was that stony- eyed stare to hippie nirvana of the Hotel California inner album cover. In its place...
Levon Helm @ Beacon Theatre Glyn Emmerson March 26, 2008 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—Levon Helm and friends took on the Beacon Theatre and turned it into a revivalist meeting of roots rock, Appalachian style, adding doses of hippie soul, bluegrass and country and making a hybrid st...
Sheryl Crow @ Fillmore At Irving Plaza Glyn Emmerson February 27, 2008 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—It was a night of easygoing folk-rock as Mississippi chanteuse Sheryl Crow and band took over Irving Plaza for a two-night stand in support of her new release Detours. Wallflower. Looking like a ra...
Neil Young @ United Palace Theater Glyn Emmerson January 9, 2008 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—It was like a revival at the church of Neil as Young and friends took over the 3,300 seated former Loews theatre on 175th and Broadway in Washington Heights that Rev Ike bought in 1969. Starting at...
Experience Hendrix @ Beacon Theatre Glyn Emmerson November 21, 2007 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—Jimi Hendrix left us in 1970 way too young. A drug casualty to the Age of Aquarius, he also left us with a catalogue that has been dissected and resurrected more times than The Beatles. One fact re...
