Results for "Tennessee"

NEWS: PERFORMANCE / TOUR March 4, 2020

E.S.P. "Live In The Midwest" Tour Announced

E.S.P. is brewing an exciting concoction of original modern jazz infused with spicy Latin beats and seasoned with funky grooves. Originating from central New York, this quartet has passionately pursued creating new music for decades collecting three consecutive “Best Jazz Album of the Year” awards along the way. Always searching for a new challenge, E.S.P. performs ...
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ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW November 9, 2019

Elton John at the FedEx Forum

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Elton John FedEx Forum Farewell Yellow Brick Road Memphis, TN October 30, 2019 The New York Times movie critic A. O. Scott made what seems an antithetical remark regarding Elton John when reviewing Dexter Fletcher's stylized biopic Rocket Man (New Republic Pictures, 2019): “But the point of “Rocketman" ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW May 25, 2019

40th Annual Blues Music Awards at Cook Convention Center

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

40th Annual Blues Music Awards Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis, Tennessee May 9, 2019 Mississippi writer David L. Cohn, in his 1948 book, Where I was Born and Raised (Houghton, Mifflin), defines the length of the Mississippi Delta thusly: The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW April 3, 2019

Big Ears Festival 2019

By MARK SULLIVAN

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 21-24, 2019 The major focus of this year's Big Ears Festival was a celebration of ECM Records' 50th anniversary, which included a number of live performances (representing both the main label and the classical music imprint ECM New Series) as well as a panel ...

ARTICLE: BOOK REVIEW October 27, 2018

Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black

By NENAD GEORGIEVSKI

Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black Alan Light 216 Pages ISBN: 1588346390 Smithsonian Books 2018 In recent years, there hasn't been a shortage of books and documentaries on the subject of late singer and songwriter Johnny Cash. During his lifetime, Cash himself wrote two ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW April 13, 2018

Big Ears Festival 2018

By MARK SULLIVAN

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 22-25, 2018 Knoxville's Big Ears Festival has traditionally kicked things off with a big piece by a high-visibility headliner. This year was to have featured a live performance of guitarist Nels Cline's Lovers project, an ambitious re-imagination of romantic “mood music" which was to be performed ...

NEWS: MUSIC INDUSTRY October 21, 2017

Low Society's "Sanctified" - 2018 Grammy Awards, For Your Consideration

Attention Grammy members: For you consideration, Low Society's Sanctified is on the ballot for the 2018 Grammy Awards in the American Roots category. Low Society have a long way to go to actually win it, but their latest album Sanctified has been entered for consideration. The Memphis based band's music may be way too sexy for ...
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ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 1, 2017

Low Society: Sanctified

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Low Society's 2014 release You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (2014, Ice House Records) was a revelation to me. I had long ago grown jaded believing that vibrant, genre-expanding blues and Americana had passed into extinction. Then I heard “Need Your Love," my ears stiffened and I sniffed the air... hmm, something special here. I ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 26, 2017

Low Society: High Time

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

When one listens to a whole lot of music, it becomes easy to be lulled into the friendly confines of being satisfied with good without ever hearing great. That is, until something exceptional comes along and then it is experienced as an epiphany. So were my feelings hearing Low Society's 2014 release You Can't Keep a ...

ARTICLE: BOOK REVIEW April 22, 2017

Beyond Words by John Prine

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Beyond Words John Prine 179 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-692-74016-3 Oh Boy Records 2016 Anecdotally, Bob Dylan once surmised that John Prine was the last pure folk singer and counts Prine as one of his musical heroes. This statement is tantamount to the similarly anecdotal declaration by Frank Sinatra that ...