After playing together since they were children, the now-middle-aged members of Nickel Creek often sound like one musician rather than the three who make up the band – they are that tight. That’s not to say the personalities of mandolinist Chris Thile, fiddler Sara Watkins and her brother, guitarist Sean Watkins, are submerged in the […]
I haven’t been to church in years. But I did have a religious experience… Enter The Spiritual Practice of Jon Batiste. Music has become increasingly secular, deprived of heart and soul in lieu of quick writes and redundant lines destined for the pop charts and a pretty penny. However, that cannot be said for […]
“Hi, we’re GA-20.” So began a taut and thrilling 75-minute power set of Chicago blues- with a simple and smiling welcome from one of the trio’s two guitarists, frontman Pat Faherty. Too, this end of the year visit to the always-inviting Narrows was a celebratory sort of homecoming in more ways than one for the […]