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Touring to support their new album, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, the Indigo Girls are playing two sold-out shows in Colorado with local favorite Gregory Alan Isakov.
Emily Saliers took the time to answer some questions about the record, what she’d like to learn how to do and to offer some advice for younger artists.
Playing Boulder’s Fox Theatre, the Vermont-based band, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, kept the crowd dancing for nearly two hours with electrifying, soulful vocals and incredible blues-rock rhythms.
At about 10:30, Grace and the band took the stage saying, “How’re you doing, Boulder? Are you ready to move?”
Her latest album, The Loving Kind has been on shelves for a month and she’s got several tour dates scheduled around the country in support of the record.
Just before the album release, Nanci Griffith took some time to answer our questions about her amazing career, her political views and the Patti Smith song she wishes she could cover.
Bringing together three great songwriters per episode, the Legends and Lyrics series from Song-Writers in the Round is a look at the talent behind some great songs and music paired with performances by each artist.
While the shows are being broadcast on PBS stations, the DVD releases are packed with great extras like bonus songs, full-length interviews with the musicians (only snippets are shown on the broadcast versions) and a spotlight on a new “rising star.”
BettySoo is one of those people it’s just plain-near-impossible not to fall in love with immediately.
She’s a little giggly in an endearing sort of way and brightly optimistic. She sings with a pure voice, writes songs full of emotion and oh, yeah, she’s a regular twitterer (”Oh, I’ve got to be careful about that thing!” she laughed when asked about a particular tweet involving fried pickles.)
Before the release of her latest album Heat Sin Water Skin earlier this month, we caught up with her on the phone to talk about the record, her music and her love of breakfast from her home in Austin, with the songbirds singing in the background.
The crowned queen of Telluride, Ms. Emmylou Harris, took the stage for the fourth time in as many days for her own set on the final night of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
With her band, the Red Dirt Boys, she ran through an hour and ten minutes of music, focusing on material from her “brunette days” and from her latest album, All I Intended to Be.
In a set that seemed custom-made for the festival environment, the King of Telluride, Sam Bush, played his 36th Telluride Bluegrass Festival during the Satruday-evening time slot.
He joked that he was lucky to be only 38-years-old and playing his 36th festival and that he had known “about this gig for weeks.”
He told some stories about ‘Stringbean’ Akeman, his first time at Telluride and the formation of New Grass Revival and being told by Bill Monroe to stick with the fiddle instead of the mandolin. He declared he was left “verklempt” twice by his guests.
Making his second appearance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Todd Snider kept most of the crowd laughing with his blend of comedy and folk – even though his set ended twenty minutes before his time slot did.
With friends Ben Kaufmann and Jeff Austin he played tunes from his new album, The Excitement Plan and some old favorites, telling a few stories in between.
Without the Sugarcanes, Elvis Costello fits only slightly better at a bluegrass festival than David Byrne. But adding Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan and Jim Lauderdale ups his bluegrass street-cred exponentially.
Promoting his new album, Secrets, Profane and Sugarcane he played the main stage in Town Park on Friday evening in what he dubbed the “cathedral of mountains.”
The second of their Telluride shows, the Greencards’ main stage set included songs from their new album, Fascination (Chico Calling, Living on a Dream, The Avenue) as well as some older tunes (Patty Griffin’s What You Are).
Towards the end of their set, they invited Sam Bush to play a Bill Monroe tune with them, even though Kym, as a mandolin player jokingly admitted that playing with Sam would be intimidating.
More photos in the gallery.
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