Back in 2014 when Ryan Adam’s self titled album came out I gushed about it not sounding like anything in two decades. After listening to The War of Drug’s Lost in the Dream again recently, I would like to amend that statement to read “it sounds like nothing else recorded in two decades, except this…
Yeah I’m a week behind on recapping this show but to be fair it’s probably taken me this long to recover from it. Man, Springsteen just doesn’t quit. Between his 66 year old self rocking out for over 3 hours as well as his 90 year old dancing partner I really shouldn’t be the one complaining…
When preparing to write about Springsteen last week I ended up watching several covers of “Atlantic City” on youtube, the most interesting from Greensky Bluegrass. This lead me down an internet rabbit hole that ended up with me watching this band play a live 15 minute bluegrass cover of “When the Doves Cry”. Needless to…
Anyone who knows anything about music admits that whether they like Springsteen or not, they love his 6th album Nebraska. Released in 1982, critics still talk about this album as one of the greatest of all time. Other artists rave about how this album influenced them to be better songwriters. Casual music listeners talk about how…
The last time I listened to Chuck Ragan was when Hot Water Music’s “A Flight and a Crash” was playing regularly on my Winamp Music Player. Yes, 2001 was a long time ago. I really liked the wildly intense 2 minute punk song, but for some reason never got into the band. 14 years…
