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Duke Robillard

by The Staff January 16, 2013

What do Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Wham! have in common? They’ve all recorded with world-class blues guitarist Duke Robillard. Robillard’s website describes him as “a one-man cheering section for the blues, in all its forms ...

The Van Dyck

The Tedeschi Trucks Band

by The Staff November 29, 2012

Derek Trucks is only 33 years old, and he’s already won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. This was, of course, along with the other former and current members of the Allman Brothers Band, a group ...

Palace Theatre

Blues Traveler

by The Staff October 11, 2012

For everyone who wasn’t of show-going age in the mid-’90s, please watch Wetlands Preserved, the documentary on legendary NYC jam venue the Wetlands Preserve, streaming on Netflix. We’ll wait . . . Crazy, right? Who knew ...

Putnam Den

Bonnie Raitt

by The Staff May 30, 2012

Here’s a fun fact: Blues and folk singer-songwriter and activist Bonnie Raitt has lifelong connections to upstate New York. As a kid, Raitt would practice guitar in Camp Regis-Applejack in the Adirondacks, and she graduated ...

Palace Theatre

Soul to Soul

by James Yeara March 22, 2012

The first song starts immediately once the lights fade into a blackout, and “Down on Me” reverberates like a call from the shores of the Hudson River far beyond the walls of the theater. Then ...

Capital Repertory Theatre

Black Pearl Sings!

by The Staff March 8, 2012

The arts bring two very different women, and worlds, together in Frank Higgins’ musical drama Black Pearl Sings!, opening this week at Capital Repertory Theatre. In this story set in the Great Depression, a government-sponsored “song ...

Capital Repertory Theatre

Keb Mo

by The Staff September 28, 2011

Keb’ Mo’s new CD The Reflection is the singer-guitarist-songwriter’s first studio album in five years, but it’s not as if the three-time Grammy winner has been idle: Besides maintaining a busy touring schedule, Keb has ...

The Egg

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