Granite State Opry? Maybe someday.
A few weeks back, on a sunny but ice-cold Sunday afternoon, my son and I decided to take in a concert at the City Auditorium in Concord. Pat and the Hats and Dusty Gray were playing (for free!) and...
View ArticleThe Summertime Soundtrack
It took less than ten seconds for me to decide the Seasick Steve’s new CD “Sonic Soul Surfer” would be my “2015 Summertime Fun Guy” soundtrack. The opening lick of “Summertime Boy” is sick and the...
View ArticleNashville Bound
Well, he’s made his decision and he isn’t turning back. Dusty Gray, the 29 year old long time lead singer of the hugely popular, Dusty Gray Band, has flipped the switch and is heading to Nashville to...
View ArticleA Unique Alternative at NEC
Jeff Weber is the Cultural Arts Director at New England College on Main Street in Concord. The performance center at NEC was voted by the editors at New Hampshire Magazine as the Best Performance...
View ArticleMash Up Of Voices
Had myself a hankering to shut my face for once and let others do the talking this time. I done worn my teeth to nubs with all the incessant chattering I been doing this summer, whether on-air or...
View ArticleRap Night at the Shaskeen
Rap music has never really been my thing. I don’t snob my nose down to rap like I do pop country or that gooey garbage stinking up my radio dial. Rap just doesn’t hit my sweet spot. Wish it did. As a...
View ArticleState of Grace
Not for nothing, but New England College on Main Street is booking some of the very best shows in the area these days. “The Listening Room Music Series” throughout the summer provided top notch...
View ArticleThe Rebirth of Cool
Jazz is a tricky mind twist of a musical genre. Never have I been able to get a snug grip on it. And I’ve been trying since I was a kid. Columbia Music Club mailed me my first jazz CD when I was in...
View ArticleNovember’s Reign
November can be a beast of a month, a gnarly hole of shrinking light capable of decapitating ones disposition. Like her cranky cousin February, November serves just one purpose: to annoy. There’s...
View ArticleFilm and Music with Mark Battle
“Music really does connect us to the emotional chords of a film…” Wish I said those words. I didn’t. Mr. Mark Battle did. He’s an award winning filmmaker from New Hampshire and he knows his stuff. Or...
View ArticleA Great Awakening
Miketon and the Night Blinders aren’t wasting any time kicking in the doors on 2017. The Manchester-based “garbage grass” band has a new CD ready to launch on January 12th called “Building A Home.” And...
View ArticleWorth The Ride
I enjoy sitting in my freezing cold basement listening to music that other people created. Song after song, over and over again, I drag and rewind, drag and move forward, pondering these creations,...
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Bear with me, please. It’s been a hellacious week. The hour calls for a mash up of thoughts, some musical, some not. Nothing solid, just a string of loose ends to untangle, a series of observations...
View ArticleNashville Bound
Well, he’s made his decision and he isn’t turning back. Dusty Gray, the 29 year old long time lead singer of the hugely popular, Dusty Gray Band, has flipped the switch and is heading to Nashville to...
View ArticleSlogging Towards “The American Dream”
Few weeks back, Jake Davis of the Whiskey Stones, came into the WKXL studios and played a few songs. I was looking forward to hearing Davis, 25, sing again after a couple years. I always liked his...
View ArticleChasing the Dream with “Black Eyed Susan”
A few years back, I came across a video by a group billed as “The Suspects and Guests” — I think an all Irish crew — that covered Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” with his blessing to raise funds for a...
View ArticleShowdown In Exeter
I do love me a good fight. And there is one brewing out in Exeter between the artists and the old guard. Progress vs. Standard. You know the deal. It’s an old tale, one retold more times than Othello....
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This years Market Days Festival is going to roar. Likely the biggest and best yet, for many reasons. Driving down Main Street these days, with the project complete, wherever my head turns, I’m looking...
View ArticleBuy the ticket, take the ride.
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” So, we did. All the way to Woody Creek, Colorado on the weekend of Independence Day. Myself, my brother and a good friend flew to Denver, then drove three and a half...
View ArticleShe Is Free
The first few lines of Katie Dobbins new CD, “She is Free,” pretty much sums up the existence of many of us, where the expectations are high — professionally, personally or both — and it’s very easy to...
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