You know you’re going to hear beautiful music at a Milk Carton Kids show. But there is trepidation when they are the headliner. A small...

Okay, maybe not piss off exactly. It takes an artist of a certain stature and temperament to make 2,300 fans wait through two-plus hours...

The shifting ground between youth and adulthood in my post-college years was an awesome time, at least as far as I can remember. It was a...

Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means Last Waltz season for fans of the greatest concert movie ever made. (Sorry/not sorry to fans of...

As we walked in the door of the CMA Theatre in downtown Nashville, we could hear the crowds screaming about a block away. The big stars...

One thing we’ve learned about the Nashville music scene is to be on the look-out for any show that suggests the presence of “session...

“Let’s see if we can turn a Sunday night into a Saturday night,” Jason Isbell told his band. Then they did. What a pleasure to catch a...

Rhiannon Giddens and her band served up a lot of powerful music at the Ryman Auditorium this weekend. But it was a salty,...

The “in the round” show is a staple of Nashville entertainment. Sometimes called a guitar pull, and often performed in a row rather than...

Any night you find yourself standing 15 feet from a harmony-singing Emmylou Harris is a good night. The show was Aoife O’Donovan at the...

It was the mid-1950s and, for better or worse, the “Nashville Sound” was taking shape. It didn’t seem to matter whether they were love...

Our expectations were somewhat low for Father John Misty. We were only going because good friends are big fans and built a Nashville...

It’s so wonderful when an artist you’ve been wanting to see for years comes through with a killer show. Such was the case with the great...

It was another one of those Nashville moments, when you are having a typical Sunday afternoon and you wind up a few feet away from a...

There is a certain kind of brand new music that sounds like it’s always been there. We caught some of it at the Bluebird Café Sunday...