Jan 24, 2017
The Chicago Blues Festival announced that it would move to Millenium Park in 2017, taking place at the downtown venue June 9-11.This marks the first time that the festival will not take place at Grant Parks Petrillo Music Shell since its inception in 1984.In addition to the change of venue, the festival announced its headliners....
Jan 23, 2017
Photo via @bangner InstagramI'm still piecing together all my thoughts on this remarkable run, but in the meantime all me to provide this short summary and some nice media from Saturday up here to complement the outstanding Zeppelin-inspired video from Thursday's show and full show audio from Friday's.Completing the run with only...
Jan 23, 2017
Photos: Howard GreenblattA three night run for the Tedeschi Trucks Band in Chicago was unprecendented, but apparently it wasn't nearly enough.Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi stopped by Buddy Guy's namesake club for a little more jamming with the Chicago blues patriarch. Guy, deep in his annual January residency at the club, was firing...
Jan 21, 2017
Photo via @karenglassdesignWe'll have much more to come from this show and tonight's gig, but first a quick recap.While Thursday's show featured an opening act, Friday brought two full sets of TTB spanning nearly three hours. And just because NMAS weren't on the bill, that didn't keep Luther Dickinson from joining the crew...
Jan 21, 2017
Now in its third incarnation, it appears the organizer's of Blue Ox have hit on some special when curating their forward-looking, bluegrass leaning lineup.Perhaps its the artist curation -- MInnesota's Pert Near Sandstone, plays a role and has two festival slots, but the lineup is a music lover's dream.Punch Brothers, Greensky Bluegrass and...
Jan 20, 2017
When Derek Trucks took to the Chicago Theatre stage last night, it was TTB's first show in the area since last summer's Blues On The Fox. However, it wasn't his last time in Chicago.Back in October, this video of he and Eddie Vedder performing at a post World Series...
Jan 20, 2017
Tedeschi Trucks Band kicked off their first three night run in Chicago last night with a little help from the North Missisisipi All Stars.I'll be there with a full report from Friday and Saturday's shows, but our friends Wyatt Brake (zepcowboy) and Jeff Frank (@JeffFrank) were there to capture some of the highlights. [Update 1/24:...
Jan 20, 2017
Happy (?) Inauguration Day. Everybody's dealing with it their own way but music, and comedy, seem to be fine ways to face our impending reality.Musician Jeff Kravitz (@jeffkravitz) put out a social media call for songs for his band to play at the Inauguration. From over 225 entries, he culled this playlist of 90 songs...
Jan 17, 2017
Chris Thile brought a traveling version of his A Prairie Home Companion radio show to Chicago's Symphony Center on Friday Night.As is typically the case, he introduced a new song -- the topic of this song was appropos for the location (and his lifelong Cubs fandom).It's called "We, Joe Maddon" and it explores...
Jan 12, 2017
TV favorite Tortoise kicked off this year's Tomorrow Never Knows Festival Wednesday night at Lincoln Hall. Audiotree is livestreaming all Lincoln Hall shows from this festival and already has an archived version of the Tortoise show up on their YouTube channel (see below for their remaining broadcasts).Unlike a few of last year's...