Other Stuff I Love (music, art galleries, comedy, and anything else that strikes me)

Lucky Day I’m as giddy as an 8 year old girl with her new pony! I have been waiting with much anticipation for Bruce Springsteen’s new CD “Working on a Dream”  I pre-ordered it from iTunes and downloaded it last night. The music critics haven’t been kind to my New Jersey brother. Joel Slevin of the San Francisco Chronicle... [Read more of this post]

…until I heard 500 Miles to Memphis. A good friend of mine David Rhodes Brown who used to be with a group called “The Catalog Cowboys” and has been a mainstay on the Rock music scene for what seems to be eternity…(sorry David…but you are older than me) told me he was playing with a “new” band and that I should... [Read more of this post]

The many awards Tracey has won doesn’t even come close to telling you who she is…although the list is mighty impressive: “Walker beat stiff competition and was named 1997 Best Singer/Songwriter and 2000 Best Folk Artist by the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards sponsored by Cincinnati CityBeat, the city’s leading weekly newspaper... [Read more of this post]

There really isn’t much more that can be said about Kelly Richey that the music critics haven’t already said. “Stevie Ray Vaughn trapped in a woman’s body with Janis Joplin screaming to get out.” “With chops and agility that just seem to scale new heights every time out, she’s actually more Albert King than Bonnie Raitt and... [Read more of this post]

I met this Minneapolis post-punk indie band with a pop sugar coating when that were playing at the 2004 Mid-Point Music Festival in Cincinnati. Mid-Point usually is about the second or third week of September and brings in about 180 or so bands, nearly half of them are local…the other half are bands that are begging to be it. For all the flaws... [Read more of this post]