Life after kids is often described as a wasteland filled with drivel like Barney. That’s certainly an exaggeration propagated by folks who don’t have kids, but even those of us with children find watching big purple dinosaurs a bit repetitive.
Enter Dan Zanes and Friends. Zanes, the former frontman of the Del [...]

Anyone who reads this site regularly knows I love good Texan music and anything related to Uncle Tupelo. My wife hooked me up with a friend’s husband who was going to see The Gourds which just happens to satisfy my tastes. The Austin-based honky-tonk heroes feature Max Johnston who played on Uncle Tupelo’s [...]

My wife and I are children of the 80s. During said period of time neither of us had what you might call good taste in music and I dare any of my contemporaries that claim they did. Our collection from the 80s is somewhat frightening but not everything is horrible.
A good example that [...]

Saw Nickel Creek last night at the Freebird Cafe in Jacksonville. If Eddie Van Halen played mandolin he would dream of being Chris Thile. They are amazing masters of their instruments and pretty good vocalists as well. Highlight of the show may have been the clogging interlude which was quite unexpected. [...]