Honest Tune Vol. 7 No. 2?Spring 2006
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The Spring 2006 issue of Honest Tune is here and features a cover story on the great Marty Stuart. Marty turned many heads at last year’s edition of the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam but has been a Country music icon in his own right for more than 20 years. In 2005, [...]
At Home In The Heartland: Wakarusa 2006 In Review
?It?s not just seeing bands,” said Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, one of dozens of bands to perform at the 3rd annual Wakarusa Festival just outside of Lawrence, Kansas. ?It?s the experience. It?s your life. I remember waiting in line for Led Zeppelin tickets when I was 15 and meeting all of [...]
Widespread Panic: Earth To America
Sometimes a change of scenery is a shot in the arm. For their ninth studio album Earth To America, Widespread Panic chose to leave the cozy confines of their Athens, Georgia home and long-time producer John Keane (where they have recorded their past five albums) and head down to the historic Compass Point Studios [...]
Mavis Staples Awarded NEA National Heritage Fellowship
Mavis Staples was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellowship. The Fellowship is the country’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Mavis’s father Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples received a Heritage Fellowship in 1998, and this year marks the first time that a daughter and father will have been honored individually [...]
Northwest String Summit Announces Dates and Artists
The Northwest String Summit returns for its fifth year to beautiful Horning’s Hideout in North Plains, Oregon, on August 25-27. The event boasts three days of nearly all-acoustic music, culminating each night with main stage performances from musical hosts Yonder Mountain String Band , this year joined by special guest fiddler Darol Anger (David Grisman [...]
Spring Hookahville ?06 Serves Up Memorial Day Platter
Thousands of music aficionados flocked into the sun drenched valley of Thornville, Ohio to experience the biannual gathering of spring Hookahville 2006 from May 26-28. With temperatures soaring above the 90-degree mark, the hot and balmy weather conditions steered performers and audience alike into a raw and rough-edged communal event, pushing the levels of endurance [...]
Sonny Landreth parties Buffett-style
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band with Sonny Landreth
Riverbend Music Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
June 8, 2006
Sonny Landreth brought his considerable slide guitar finesse to Jimmy Buffett’s Party at the End of the World tour at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center on June 8th.
The bespectacled lead guitar whiz put on a clinic in the midst of theorigins [...]
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