Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Grosses

ERIC CHURCH 6/11/22 U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN Capacity: 51,117  100% sold Tickets: $54.50-$455 GROSS $9,519,167 This is the biggest show in the chart, number one, above three Paul McCartney dates. Why? MORGAN WALLEN! In order to do that business in rock, you’d have to have two classic acts, or acts that made their bones […]

The Model Is Broken

It’s very well-established. You take your time to record an album and you keep it alive on terrestrial radio. In the best of circumstances you dribble out track after track, keeping the album alive for years. But that was then and this is now. The “Billboard” chart has become irrelevant. It’s completely manipulated. Want to […]

Re-Billy Strings

Hey Bob I don’t think you’ll be surprised that we’ve been fortunate enough to have hosted Billy several times at Newport Folk.  Hell, we even had him play two different sets/days last year coming out of covid. One where he played a “traditional” set dedicated to the bluegrass masters before him and one where he […]

Billy Strings

He’s big everywhere but Texas. And maybe Santa Barbara. But in the rest of America HE SELLS OUT! This is the artist development story of the year, and it’s been growing for the last half decade. Strings is finally breaking through. You might have seen him briefly during the Grammy telecast, then again he was […]