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Article: Film Review

Bob Marley: Uprising Live!

by Doug Collette
January 17, 2015

Bob Marley Uprising Live! Eagle Vision 2014 Given Bob Marley's status as a cultural icon, it only makes sense that it's impossible not to engage in the truisms of 'what if' and/or 'if only' watching Uprising Live! By the time of his untimely death from cancer in May of 1981, the ...

Article: Live Review

Soule Monde at Higher Ground, South Burlington, Vermont

by Doug Collette
January 3, 2015

Soule Monde Higher Ground Ballroom South Burlington, VT December 27, 2014 Since they began playing as a duo a few years ago as Soule Monde, drummer Russ Lawton and keyboardist Ray Paczkowski have refined the chemistry they discovered as perennials in the Trey Anastasio Band. Opening slots like the ones this ...

Article: Album Review

Lloyd Cole: Standards

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by Doug Collette
November 9, 2014

Lloyd Cole and his band the Commotions were one of the few bright spots of rock and roll in the Eighties, his fetching melodies and sly lyrics woven in and out of understated musicianship via semi-detached vocals. Since then, Cole's often moved into realms that belie his arch persona, such as Sinatra-styled orchestration, but Standards carries ...

Article: Live Review

Marcus Roberts & The Modern Jazz Generation at The Flynn Center for The Performing Arts

by Doug Collette
November 2, 2014

Marcus Roberts & The Modern Jazz Generation Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington, Vermont October 24, 2014 The last time pianist Marcus Roberts and his trio of bassist Rodney Jordan and drummer Jason Marsalis inhabited the MainStage of the Flynn Center, it was in the company of visionary banjo master ...

Article: Live Review

Boz Scaggs at The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

by Doug Collette
November 2, 2014

Boz Scaggs Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington, Vermont October 20, 2014 The Burlington Vermont stop of Boz Scaggs' “Memphis Tour" found the original member of The Steve Miller Band mixing a hearty selection of earthy numbers with the more polished likes of material from his breakthrough album Silk Degrees ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave's Picks Volume 11: 11/17/72 and Wake Up to Find Out: 3/29/90

by Doug Collette
October 19, 2014

The story of the Grateful Dead may be the most fascinating in the history of rock and roll, the chapter dealing with the archiving of their live recordings perhaps the most absorbing of all, if only because it continues to be written with the ongoing release of various projects from various stages of the iconic band's ...

Article: Live Review

Los Lobos at The Flynn Center for The Performing Arts

by Doug Collette
October 12, 2014

Los Lobos The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington VT October 1, 2014 Los Lobos are celebrating four decades together by returning to their acoustic roots on tour in support of their live release of late last year, Disconnected in New York (Shout Factory, 2013). And the band certainly celebrated ...

Article: Album Review

Gary Clark, Jr.: Live

by Doug Collette
October 11, 2014

Anyone who's had the privilege to see Gary Clark Jr. in concert knows that his previous recordings, on his own Hotwired Records as well as the two major label titles, are but sketches of how he's progressively forging influences of rock, blues and r&b into a stirring style of his own. Live preserves for posterity a ...

Article: Live Review

New Riders of the Purple Sage at The Rusty Nail

by Doug Collette
October 8, 2014

New Riders of the Purple Sate The Rusty Nail Stowe, Vermont September 18, 2014 In the seventh year of the modern revival, the New Riders of the Purple Sage returned to Vermont--where they've been before titular leader David Nelson knowingly observed--to play at Stowe's revitalized Rusty Nail. The current quintet, all ...

Article: Live Review

The Felice Brothers at EAT X NE Festival

by Doug Collette
October 5, 2014

The Felice Brothers Oakledge Park EAT X NE Festival Burlington, Vermont September 20, 2014 When Burlington last saw the Felice Brothers in September of 2013, they were about to steal the show at the Grand Point North Festival at Burlington, Vermont's Waterfront Park with a single song that brought ...