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Re-Kendrick Lamar At The Super Bowl

I was there it was a dud But Post Malone at the Pregame was great Adam Altman Boy do I hear you Bob. The biggest event of Super Bowl weekend was the Madden Bowl. Much like you suggest, our headliners were Tucker Wetmore, Shaboozey, Jellyroll and Chris Stapleton.  Trombone Shorty played from the opera boxes […]

Kendrick Lamar At The Super Bowl

Did it work as television? Am I the only one who thought this halftime performance was a dud? There are hosannas all over the media, then again a lot of these outlets are just looking for clicks. And I get that if you’re a hip-hop fan, if you like Kendrick Lamar, it was great to […]

AmericanaFest Salute To John Hiatt

1 Isn’t that Fred Tackett? Dealing with seating by the side of the upstairs bleachers… I heard “Slow Turning” in the background. And I sneaked a look forward and… There was this white-haired guy wailing on guitar and… I scanned the Troubadour stage and I saw Billy Payne on keys. And Kenny Gradney was on […]

The Dead At Musicares

1 Deadheads are like the Democrats. There’s an orthodoxy. If I write about the band I hear from all these Gen-X’ers setting me straight, even though I saw the band way before they did. Even happened last night. People were boasting how long they’d been into the Dead. They first saw them in ’78! I […]