Tales From a Misspent Adulthood
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081701 Redd Volkaert, Fort Worth, TX
The tourist strip in Fort Worth is two short blocks with nothing but old-style saloons, restaurants and gift shops, and wood-slat boardwalks running between them all. I sidled up one side and the other, stepping into every single saloon…
081696 Phish, Plattsburgh, NY
August 16th, 1996 was the first day of the first ever Phish festival…
081504 Phish, Coventry, VT
Sunday, August 15th, 2004 was supposed to be it for Phish. They had decided to call it quits and Coventry was intended to be the band’s last hurrah…
- 10 Years of The Triplets of Belleville
- 4 Way Street
- AC/DC
- Accept
- Aerosmith
- Air Supply
- Al Di Meola
- Alejandro Escovedo
- Allen Toussaint
- Alpha Yaya Diallo
- Amadou & Miriam
- Anders Osborne
- Andrew Vincent and the Pirates
- Andy Coe
- Andy McKee
- Ane Brun
- Angela Hewitt
- Angelo Tsarouches
- Ani DiFranco
- Anoushka Shankar
- Arcade Fire
- Aretha Franklin
- Arrogant Worms
- Ashley Newell
- Band of Horses
- Barack Obama
- Barenaked Ladies
- Be In The Band Showcase
- Beastie Boys
- Beau Dixon
- Bela Fleck
- Ben Folds
- Bert Jansch
- Big Sugar
- Big Wreck
- Bill Evans
- Bill Frisell
- Bill Kreutzmann
- Billy Joel
- Björk
- Black Debbath
- Black Mountain
- Black Sabbath
- Blue Skies Music Festival
- Bluegrassy High
- Blues Traveller
- Bo Diddley
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Loblaw
- Bob Rock
- Bob Saget
- Bob Schneider
- Bob Snider
- Bob Weir
- Bob Wiseman
- Bobby McFerrin
- Bon Iver
- Booker T and the MG's
- Boxcar Boys
- Brian Blade
- Brighton Rock
- Bruce Cockburn
- Bruce Hornsby
- Bruce Springsteen
- Bryan Adams
- Buddy Guy
- Built To Spill
- Bullmoose
- Burton Cummings
- By Divine Right
- C. J. Chenier
- Carole Pope
- Catherine MacLellan
- Chaka Khan
- Chalk Circle
- Change of Heart
- Charlie Haden
- Charlie Hunter
- Cheap Trick
- Chick Corea
- Chocolate Genius
- Chris Botti
- Chris Robinson
- Chuck Leavell
- Circles Around the Sun
- Cirque du Soleil
- Classified
- Colin James
- Colin Lake
- Colin Linden
- Come Together Music Festival
- Comfort Station
- Corb Lund
- CR Avery
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Crown Lands
- Cuff the Duke
- Cuong Vu
- Cyril Neville
- D Rangers
- Dan Aykroyd
- dance
- Danny Michel
- Dave and Phil Alvin
- Dave Bidini Band
- Dave Brubeck
- Dave Holland
- Dave Lauzon
- Dave Matthews
- Dave-O
- David Byrne
- David Copperfield
- David Lindley
- David Wilcox
- Dead Feat
- Dead Weather
- Deb DiGiovanni
- Deep Purple
- Deer Tick
- Delhi 2 Dublin
- Deltron 3030
- Detroit Women
- DJ Logic
- Don Ross
- Dr. Hook
- Dr. John
- Drive-By Truckers
- Drumhand
- Drums & Tuba
- Dumpstaphunk
- Eccodek
- Ed Bickert
- Eddie Money
- Edgar Winter
- Edie Brickell
- Elvis Costello
- Elvis Perkins In Dearland
- Emily Haines
- Eric Clapton
- Eric Krasno
- Eric's Trip
- Ernie Watts
- Ethan Russell
- Faith No More
- Fear & Loathing
- Fear of Flying
- Feist
- Fiery Furnaces
- Finest Kind
- Fishbone
- FM
- Foo Fighters
- Frankie Ford
- Fred Eaglesmith
- Freeway Band
- G. Love
- Galactic
- galleries
- Garage A Trois
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Geddy Lee
- Genesis
- George Porter Jr.
- George Shearing
- George Thorogood
- Georgette Fry
- Ghost Light
- Ghost-Note
- Goddo
- Gogol Bordello
- Gowan
- Grand Analog
- Grand Theft Bus
- Grateful Dead
- Grateful Grass
- Grateful Shred
- Green Day
- Guh
- Guns N' Roses
- Guy Clark
- Hal Willner
- Harry Manx
- Hawksley Workman
- Helena Deland
- Hellacopters
- Herbie Hancock
- Hiss Golden Messenger
- Holly Bowling
- Holly Cole
- HOLY F*CK
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- Honeymoon Suite
- Hot 8 Brass Band
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Hux
- Ian Anderson
- IMAX/laser shows
- Inglewood Jack
- Irma Thomas
- Issa
- Ivan Neville
- Jack White
- Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
- Jaga Jazzist
- Jake Shimabukuro
- Jamcruise
- James Brown
- Jamie Cullum
- Jamie Lidell
- Jane Radmore
- Jane Siberry
- Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite Of Everything
- Jason Isbell
- Jerry Douglas
- Jerry Garcia
- Jerry Granelli
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jethro Tull
- Jim McNally
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Jimmy Buffett
- Jimmy Page
- Jimmy Rankin
- Joe Cocker
- Joe Ely
- Joel Plaskett
- Joey Elias
- John Cougar Mellencamp
- John Fogerty
- John Geggie
- John Hammond
- John Hiatt
- John McLaughlin
- John Patitucci
- John Prine
- John Scofield
- Johnny Lang
- Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
- Jory Nash
- Jr. Mack
- Jungle By Night
- Kanye West
- Karl Denson
- Kathleen Edwards
- Kathleen Madigan
- Keller Williams
- Kevin Breit
- Kim Mitchell
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
- KISS
- Kool & the Gang
- Kronos Quartet
- Kurt Vile and the Violaters
- Kymani Marley
- L.A. Guns
- La Machine
- Larkin Poe
- lectures
- Lehera with Sarah
- Lennon Claypool Delirium
- Leon Bridges
- Leon Redbone
- Les Claypool's Bastard Jazz
- Lettuce
- Lewis Black
- Lindsay Buckingham
- Little Freddie King
- Live Magnetic Air
- Look People
- Los Lobos
- Lotus
- Lou Reed
- Lucinda Williams
- Luke Doucet
- Lyle Lovett
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Maceo Parker
- Manu Chau
- Marc Ribot
- Marcia Ball & the Voices of The Wetlands All-Stars
- Marco Benevento
- Marcus King
- Marianne Dissard
- Mark Forward
- Mark Knopfler
- Martin Short
- Martina Sorbara
- Mary J. Blige
- Matt Anderson
- Matt Mays
- Matthew Sweet
- Mavis Staples
- Max Webster
- MAZ
- Mötley Crüe
- McLean & McLean
- Meat Loaf
- Medeski Martin & Wood
- Medusas Raft
- Merle Haggard
- Metallica
- Metalwood
- Michael Franti
- Mickey Hart
- Midnight North
- Mike Dillon's Band of Outsiders
- Mike Gordon
- Mike Milligan
- Milligan-Eagles Project
- Moe Koffman
- moe.
- Monkeyjunk
- Mother Mother
- museums
- Must Stash Hat
- My Morning Jacket
- Nathaniel Rateliff
- National Arts Centre Orchestra
- Nazareth
- Neil Diamond
- Neil Young
- nero
- new poetics
- Odds
- Oliver Jones
- Oliver Schroer
- Once And Future Band
- Orchestra Baobab
- Orphan
- Oscar Peterson
- Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
- Oysterhead
- Paco de Lucia
- Page and Plant
- Patti Smith
- Paul McCartney
- Paul Simon
- Pearl Jam
- Pegi Young
- Pete Zedlacher
- Peter Gabriel
- Petra
- Phil Lesh
- Philip Glass Ensemble
- Phish
- Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
- Pink Floyd
- Pink Mountaintops
- Preservation Hall Band
- Prince
- Procol Harum
- Prosetry
- Public Relations
- Queensrÿche
- Radio Zydeco
- Radiohead
- Railroad Earth
- Rainy Day Prophets
- Ravi Shankar
- Real Gone Daddies
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Red Rider
- Redd Volkaert
- Ricky Skaggs
- Rob Frayne
- Rob Wasserman
- Robbie Krieger
- Robert Glasper Experiment
- Robert Plant
- Robert Randolph
- Robert Walter
- Rod Stewart
- Roger McGuinn
- Roman Grey
- Roosevelt Collier
- Rush
- Rusted Root
- Ry Cooder
- Ryan Belleville
- Ryan Bingham
- Salif Keita
- Samantha Fish
- Sean Chambers
- Sean McCann
- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
- Silver Creek
- Sisters Euclid
- Skid Row
- Sleepy Sun
- Snoop Dogg
- Solomon Burke
- Soulive
- Soundgarden
- Spearhead
- sports
- Spruce
- St. Vincent
- Stanton Moore
- Steel Punk
- Steep Canyon Rangers
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Fearing
- Stephen Franke & Noises from the Toolshed
- Steve Kimock
- Steve Martin
- Steve Miller
- Steven Page
- Steven Wright
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Stevie Wonder
- Stewart Copeland
- Stickmen
- Still on the Hill
- Sting
- Stonefield
- Store
- Stray Cats
- Stuart McLean
- Sweating Like Nixon
- Tab Benoit
- Tanya Tagaq
- Tarig Abubakar and the AfroNubians
- The Allman Brothers Band
- The Assad Brothers
- The Bad Plus
- The Band
- The Band From Utopia
- The Barr Brothers
- The Black Crowes
- The Blind Boys of Alabama
- The Blushing Brides
- The Brazilian Girls
- The Cheaters
- The Cowboy Junkies
- The Cramps
- The Creaking Tree String Quartet
- The Dead
- The Doobie Brothers
- The Dumdum Boys
- The Flaming Sideburns
- The Flaps
- The Foals
- The Grant Buffet Experience
- The Headpins
- The Hold Steady
- The John Henrys
- The Kids in the Hall
- The Musical Box
- The National
- The New Deal
- The Orb
- The Police
- The Rheostatics
- The Rolling Stones
- The Sadies
- The Slip
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives
- The Spoons
- The Sun Crescent Barbeque Stompers
- The Tragically Hip
- The Tummies
- The Twilight Singers
- The Vinyl Cafe
- The Wallflowers
- The Waltons
- The White Family
- The White Stripes
- The Who
- The Wisconsin Johnsins
- The Zombies
- theatre
- Thornetta Davis
- Ticket Stories
- Tiempo Libre
- Timber Timbre
- Todd Snider
- Tom Cochrane
- Tony Levin
- Tool
- Toronto
- Tortoise
- Toumani Diabaté
- tours
- Travel Logs
- Trey Anastasio
- Tricky
- Triumph
- Trombone Shorty
- Trout Fishing in America
- Turkuaz
- TV on the Radio
- Twiddle
- U2
- uncategorized
- Upper York Mandolin Quartet
- Van Halen
- Veda Hille
- Velcro Cloud
- Videos
- Vieux Farke Touré
- Violent Femmes
- War
- Warren Haynes
- Wayne Eagles
- Wayne Shorter
- Ween
- Weeping Tile
- What The Thunder Said
- Widespread Panic
- Wilco
- Willie Nelson
- Wynton Marsalis
- Xavier Rudd
- Youssou N'Dour
- Ziggy Marley
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