One might suspect when listening to his newest album, Dream Box, that Pat Metheny subscribes to the familiar axiom of doing something yourself when you want it done correctly. That especially holds true for the immediate impressions the record creates. It summons a profound but subtle glow unique to the electric guitar when its paceContinue reading “A few minutes with Pat Metheny”
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Black Stone Cherry in performance
“My friend, your friend.” That was the simple but effective introduction ZZ Top chieftain Billy F. Gibbons gave his new right-hand stage mate, bassist and Lexingtonian Elwood Francis, Thursday evening at Rupp Arena. Long associated with its native Texas and all of the dirty borderline blues and boogie that emanates from it, ZZ Top calledContinue reading “Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Black Stone Cherry in performance”
How Lexington helped reshape ZZ Top
For decades – five and change, to be exact – ZZ Top was the self-proclaimed “Little Ol’ Band from Texas,” a trio of Lone Star blues and boogie misfits with an M.O. that Billy F. Gibbons, the band’s guitar-slinging chieftain, proudly recited during concerts – “Same three guys, same three chords.” Until it wasn’t. WhenContinue reading “How Lexington helped reshape ZZ Top”
Leo Genovese Trio in performance
Citing how the performance at hand was being recorded, Leo Genovese encouraged the Sunday night audience gathered at Transylvania University’s Mitchell Fine Arts Center to add “a note of madness” to the music being preserved. While one would be hard pressed to say the crowd answered with any threatening level of hysterics, its response toContinue reading “Leo Genovese Trio in performance”
Karl Wallinger, 1957-2024
During the home stretch of “When the Rainbow Comes,” a delicacy from World Party’s 1990 sophomore album, Goodbye Jumbo, Karl Wallinger reaches for one of the many shards of pop tradition that serve as the DNA for his extraordinary songs. In this case, it’s the 1961 Marvellettes tune “Please Mr. Postman,” the first No. 1Continue reading “Karl Wallinger, 1957-2024”
California Guitar Trio in performance
The temps around showtime Saturday evening sat stubbornly in the 30s, the literal icing on a grey day steeped in a final chorus of winter. But inside, as the California Guitar Trio took to the intimate loft confines of b-side at Decade in Louisville, a profound sign of spring bloomed. Situated squarely in the middleContinue reading “California Guitar Trio in performance”
The Musical Box 