Spotlight: Another Year of the Unmissable and Incomparable MUSIKFEST Mike Greenblatt August 2, 2019 Goings-On It’s that time of the year! From August 2nd to 11th, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania’s 36th Annual MusikFest — the largest free music festival in the country — will feature over 500 artists on 17 stages over 10 days. ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 30, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Alto Sax & Trombone with Good Vibes The sound of an alto sax/trombone frontline—with vibraphone underpinning instead of piano—hearkens back to an earlier era of classic Blue Note records and, indeed, th...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 24, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The Guitar Is the Star Canadian guitarist Kevin Breit named his second Stony Plain Records solo album Stella Bella Strada, which loosely translates to “beautiful star of the road,” after his new guitar, spe...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 9, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll 2 Meet Me On Southern Avenue I’ll be on Southern Avenue for a while because I Keep On (Concord Records) playing this Memphis band’s second album. Their 2017 self-titled debut had me up nights dancing by mysel...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 3, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll 7-3 Mike Greenblatt’s Rant’n’Roll Advice From Waylon Somewhere between roots rock and no-frills hard-country, singer-songwriter Bryan Haraway grinds it out on this self-titled gem (Part Time Criminal Mus...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll with Chris Robinson Mike Greenblatt June 25, 2019 Features, Interviews Recently, we caught up with Chris Robinson from his Marin County, California home, and found the prolific singer-songwriter in a reflective mood. His band, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, just released Servant...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt June 19, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The 2019 Blast Furnace Blues Festival is FREE This Year! Bethlehem, Pennsylvania—It’s always one of my favorite events of the year. This time it’s free. And all outdoors. The 2019 Blast Furnace Blues Festiv...
5-29 Mike Greenblatt’s Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt May 29, 2019 Albums, Reviews Nils Lofgren & Lou Reed For his first studio album in eight years, with songs worked on during his day job touring Australia as a guitarist in Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, singer/songwrite...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 22, 2019 Albums, Reviews Man, that Dale Watson sure has got it goin’ on! As one of the last of a dying breed of real true-life honky tonk heroes like Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Lefty Frizzell (all gone), Watson ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 15, 2019 Albums, Reviews A Gal Named Anoushka Listening to Reflections (Deutsche Grammophon), by Anoushka Shankar, brought me back to when I saw her dad Ravi perform at Woodstock. True story: I went so wild over the sound of my firs...
