Music and the Road
Certain music can lull reflexes on the road Tom Greenwood 29 April 2004, The Detroit News (c) Copyright 2004, The Detroit News. All Rights Reserved. Could some music be dangerous to your driving health? Maybe so, according to a group of Canadian scientists that has concluded that certain types of music shouldn’t be played while […]
The Michael Jordan of Bass Players
Macon Telegraph, 16 April 2004 If you catch Oteil Burbridge live, he’ll make you do one of two things: take off your shoes or get on your feet. Burbridge, called the Michael Jordan of bass players by some of his peers, is scheduled to play tonight at 550 Blues with his band, the Peacemakers. Admission […]
Warren Haynes and the Return of Meaning in Rock
By Bret Gladstone Associated Press Newswires, 15 April 2004 HOBOKEN, New Jersey (AP) – When Warren Haynes tells you something in song, you believe it. Haynes, frontman for Gov’t Mule and a guitarist for both the Allman Brothers Band and the Dead, is considered by many to be the hardest working man in rock and […]
A Good Month for the Blues
“One Way Out” Allman Brothers Band by Kevin Krieger 14 April 2004, The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (PA) (c) Copyright 2004, The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. All Rights Reserved. April has been a good month for the blues. Not for having the blues, but for listening to the blues. Three major acts have released blues-tinged efforts with […]
Hardworking Haynes Rocks with Gov’t Mule
By Jaan Uhelszki 13 April 2004, San Jose Mercury News (c) Copyright 2004, San Jose Mercury News. All Rights Reserved. Warren Haynes has become one of the most wanted men in rock. With his straggly shank of ginger hair, he looks more like an overworked roadie than a Southern rock icon. But such prestigious groups […]
Settling Down in Guitartown
Alternative-country fans build a virtual community with its heart in the Triangle By: David Menconi For Raleigh’s News & Observer April 9, 2004 RALEIGH–Music drew Allison Temple to Raleigh. She was living in Hickory and keeping up with the outside world through Postcard, an Internet mailing list dedicated to alternative-country bands such as the Backsliders […]
Carrying on After a Member’s Death
Bands face tough question over how — and whether — to continue By Kevin McKeough 4 April 2004, Chicago Tribune A band is as much a tribe as a working unit. The years of intense creative collaboration, career ups and downs, and traveling together on concert tours often forge bonds that make band mates feel […]
The Live Album’s Revolutionary Evolution
By David Menconi Raleigh News & Observer 28 March 2004 Copyright (c) 2004 by The News & Observer Pub. Co. Bob Dylan’s new “Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall” might look like just another compact disc. But it’s actually a dinosaur on the verge of extinction: the last of the great live albums. That’s not […]
Happy Birthday, ABB!
26 March 2004 – Macon Telegraph Brothers’ birth March 26, 1969. Macon would not be the same without this date. No Duane Allman Boulevard. No Raymond Berry Oakley III Bridge. No GABBAfest. Heck, there is no GABBA. No Hittin’ the Note magazine. Bow down and pay homage. Today marks the 35-year anniversary of the forming […]
Tales from Old T-Shirts
Rock fans recall how they acquired classic threads By Lauren Bishop 22 March 2004, The Cincinnati Enquirer On March 4, we started an unscientific search for the oldest rock T-shirt in the Tristate with an Enquirer article about how celebrities and children of baby boomers are snapping up vintage rock and concert Ts from the […]