Jelly Roll with Struggle Jennings. Red Rocks. 10.23.22 Country music is old people’s music. Or so I thought when I was a kid at my grandfather’s house as he played Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, and Merle Haggard. When I was in middle school in the late 80s, kids defined themselves as rockers or rappers. Obviously, …
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Midland and Hailey Whitters. Red Rocks. 10.22.22 Red Rocks season used to run from mid-May to late September. There were around fifty shows the first year I lived in Colorado. A few years later, Winter on the Rocks became a thing. It was the one show, usually held at the end of January, that fell …
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Clutch with Helmet and Quicksand. Fillmore. 10.13.22 “I will suffer no evilMy guitar will guide me throughI will suffer no evilAnd this time, I want to hear it from you.” On Thursday, October 13th, working-class stoner lords Clutch took over the Fillmore to celebrate another solid slab of riff-laden hard rock straight from Germantown, Maryland. …
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Here and There Festival. Mission Ballroom. 09.03.22 “I got lost somewhere between Here And There, I’m not sure what the town was called” Here and There was touted as a “touring festival,” but not in the way Lollapalooza or Warped were touring festivals. Curated by Courtney Barnett, it was essentially her summer tour with a …
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Fire in the Mountains 2022 It took Jeremy Walker, Founder & Owner of Fire in the Mountains, less than five hours to answer the questions I emailed just days before his third festival kicked off at the Heart 6 Ranch in Moran, Wyoming. I had five questions, but Jeremy’s answer to the third inquiry was …
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Palomino Festival 2022 What defines country music? Wikipedia defines it as a “genre of American popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s.” It goes on to say that country music “often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments.” I can’t …
Lampedusa: Concert for Refugees. Boulder Theater. 10.06.16 When I purchased tickets to Lampedusa, I didn’t even know what the word meant. I was sold on the names Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller. That line-up was reason I entered my credit card number and selected a pair of tickets. What caused the …
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Laid Back Festival. Red Rocks. 09.25.16 Red Rocks Amphitheatre hosted Gregg Allman’s Laid Back Festival on Sunday afternoon. Allman, fresh out of the hospital where he had been treated for pneumonia, was set to make his return to the stage after receiving a clean bill of health. The festival had been expanded from Jones Beach …
Sia. Red Rocks. 06.22.16 The term ‘wardrobe malfunction’ is never one a popstar wants associated with their name, and although it wasn’t used to describe what happened to Sia last night, it very well could have been. Heavy gusts of wind wreaked havoc on Red Rocks the entire evening, before one such gust attacked the …
Jason Isbell. Ryman Residency. October 2015 You made some new friends after the show But you’ll forget their names In 24 frames We were halfway through the first Jason Isbell performance of the weekend when his latest single found its way into the setlist. The song (which uses frames per second as a metaphor for …
