Thursday, December 27,2012
By Dave Kirby
Drummer and Motet bandleader Dave Watts was enjoying a little pre-holiday chill time when we caught him last week.
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Thursday, December 13,2012
Sideman-turned-leader makes music for a deranged New Orleans circus
By Dave Kirby
We’re not sure who observed once that “timing is everything,” probably someone somewhere whose timing sucked at exactly the wrong juncture, but Mike Dillon’s timing is pretty good.
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Thursday, December 6,2012
John Scofield learned the right lessons from his time with Miles Davis
By Dave Kirby
Bassist Chris Wood was taking some midday chill time in Athens, Ga., when we caught up to him last weekend, cooling his heels before his gig that night with The Wood Brothers band, his six-year project with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver.
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Thursday, November 15,2012
Singer-songwriter has done it all in the music biz
By Dave Kirby
For a large segment of the pop-music audience who graduated from the waning days of MTV video dominance, Richard Marx will probably be forever associated with a lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits.
Thursday, October 25,2012
Putting a haunted cemetery to the test
By Dave Kirby
Dead leaves swept gently across the footpaths in Crystal Valley Cemetery last Saturday evening, as if brushed away by a great, unseen hand. A crescent moon slipped silently behind the hills, and several large deer munched quietly on the short grass overlying Manitou and Colorado City’s dead.
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Thursday, October 11,2012
Blues singer and guitarist pares down the sound
By Dave Kirby
For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and festivals around the nation, even taking his blues/soul gig to Europe (he has a date in Paris later this month), Boulder nonetheless holds a special place in his itinerary.
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Thursday, August 23,2012
One-time volunteers split up Mike Torpie's job among six people and move on
By Dave Kirby
In most of the real world, festivals are typically mini-businesses pieced together by committee, but NedFest was always Michigan Mike´s baby.
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Thursday, August 9,2012
Guitarist is part axe-slinger, part electrical engineer
By Dave Kirby
California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance reviews.
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Thursday, August 2,2012
West Water Outlaws carry Boulder’s blues-rock torch
By Dave Kirby
Blake Rooker, lead singer and guitarist from the Boulder-based West Water Outlaws, responds a little cautiously when we press him to share some highlights from the band’s recent swing through the steamy Southeast, a sure sign that the big noise/big beat blues-rock quartet was probably doing the dive-bar mini-tour thing right.
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Thursday, July 26,2012
Joey Porter is reminded that funk is the gift that keeps on giving
By Dave Kirby
Keyboardist Joey Porter remembers the first time he encountered Herbie Hancock — or, to be more precise, the first time he mainlined Hancock’s feral funk stylings after the pianist had left Miles Davis’ legendary quintet in 1968.
