Lovett is still smooth and deft
Lyle Lovett figured out something a long time ago: You can get away with saying just about anything, as long as your delivery can pass for polite.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:32:12 AM
Introducing their shade of bluegrass
Steep Canyon Rangers guitarist and lead vocalist Woody Platt can be forgiven for sounding as if he's not quite sure which time zone he's in. Platt and his bandmates have just returned from a marathon road trip, one that took them from Los Angeles to New York, from Nashville to San Francisco and on to London, where they performed with Steve Martin at the Royal Festival Hall.
Modified: 11/18/09 04:14:24 PM
This time, the kids can get jolly
You probably spent at least some of this past summer engaged in warm-weather pursuits. But Jeff Carroll spent the heat of summer deep in the throes of ... Christmas?
Modified: 11/18/09 06:48:56 PM
Film Picks
It's another-world night over at Durham's Carolina Theatre this evening. And, no, you won't be seeing Linda Dano there!
Modified: 11/20/09 06:21:05 AM
Country Picks
John Cowan made his name as the soul-powered, rock-inspired lead singer of New Grass Revival. The innovative quartet blended a rocker's ethos with instruments and tunes of bluegrass, and fashioned one of the most popular acts of the '70s and '80s.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:28:46 AM
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Quick Bites
Most weeks, I like to use this space to share little discoveries I make in the course of my gastronomic exploration of the Triangle - a locally hard-to-find exotic dish, say, or some off-the-beaten-path eatery.
Modified: 11/20/09 06:12:35 AM
Rock Picks
You never can have too much freaky theatricality this time of year, to cut through the treacle of the holiday season we're about to enter. And theatricality doesn't get much freakier or cooler than Amanda Palmer, singer/pianist of the Dresden Dolls.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:30:54 AM
DVD Picks
In the late 1960s, budding über movie star Robert Redford was just starting to accumulate his Hollywood clout.
Modified: 11/18/09 05:38:43 PM
Game Picks
It seems like something that should be an afterthought in the current generation of game consoles, but dribbling in modern soccer games hadn't been done before "FIFA Soccer 10" (Xbox 360, PS3; Rated E).
Modified: 11/20/09 11:38:06 AM
Classical Picks
Many composers fleeing the grip of the Third Reich ended up in Hollywood.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:32:48 AM
Homeless harmonizers lift spirits
Three men distracted lunchtime readers from their books and newspapers at the Fayetteville Street branch of the public library Wednesday by raising their voices: two tenors and a baritone, in perfect doo-wop harmony.
Modified: 11/19/09 04:53:52 AM
Norah Jones experiments with guitars and grooves
Indie-rock producer Jacquire King had long been an admirer of Norah Jones' smoky, seductive voice, but the man behind acclaimed albums from Kings of Leon to Tom Waits never thought the two would ever inhabit the same musical orbit, let alone work together on a CD.
Modified: 11/19/09 09:13:56 AM
Great drummers elevate their bands
Jazz:
While a drum solo is often the most exciting part of a jazz performance, the drummer's ensemble playing is sometimes overlooked.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:43:17 AM
Hearing sounds from Scandinavia
At first glance, two concerts this week at UNC-Chapel Hill look like divergent offerings. One is a solo piano recital, the other features six musicians and three vocalists performing a brand-new American work.
Modified: 11/13/09 05:30:13 PM
Strokes' leader rambles alone
Rock:
New York garage-rock revivalists The Strokes have always given off a vibe of exquisite boredom and restlessness, even when the band was busy bursting onto the mainstream pop radar in 2001.
Modified: 11/15/09 09:18:01 AM
Symphony goes Hollywood
Conductor John Mauceri brings his Hollywood flash to the N.C. Symphony in concerts this week that might in other hands prove challenging for audiences.
Modified: 11/15/09 08:55:34 AM
Stars find new life on Cracker Barrel label
Country:
Nashville must love the marketing genius who came up with the idea of partnering with the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain to recycle country hits.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:48:53 AM
The voters have spoken, and so has Clay Aiken
The singer uses his blog to call the recently elected Wake school board members "selfish idiots."
Modified: 11/20/09 04:51:46 PM
The Jersey Boy croons on
The Four Seasons' backstory reads like the stuff of fiction - street toughs from New Jersey sing their way to the top without ever quite escaping their hardscrabble origins - and it seems ripe for dramatization.
Modified: 11/13/09 06:58:26 AM
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