Music
Vintage sheen: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Sallie Ford says that growing up, she was more comfortable singing in groups than by herself. (Her sister, after all, was the one with the performance flair.) Ford was never one for the spotlight, she says...
The House of Marley’s headphones bring Positive Vibration
With the music industry clamoring to find ways to make...
North Mississippi Allstars bridge the divide
At first glance, it doesn’t seem like Colorado has anything in common with the Deep South. Yet despite geographical differences, the love of music crosses all boundaries...
Mother of reinvention
While he was growing up in Athens, Georgia, nobody in Kevin Barnes’ immediate family played music. They had a piano in the house and his sisters took piano lessons briefly, but his parents never listened to music unless they were in the car. Fortunately, the Of ...
True patriots ask questions
When Martin Sexton sings these days, he’s trying to make a difference, bringing attention to pervasive social and political issues while bringing a diverse audience together...
Music for musicians
Twenty-for years ago, Robert Olson went for a walk at the Dillon Reservoir. His wife was in a rehearsal at the Breckenridge Music Festival, so he took a book along...
Stomp that thang
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 ...
Stepping outside the country box
Phil Vassar found out that country music is still a play-it-safe genre when the song “Bobbi With An I” was floated to radio as a first single off of his current CD, The Traveling Circus...
Free, loose and improvised
Don`t get him wrong: Australian multi-instrumentalist Nicky Bomba loves drumming with his brother-in-law John Butler’s trio, which plays Red Rocks on June 4...
Joe Bonamassa: Blues workhorse
Joe Bonamassa’s recently released concert CD, Beacon Theatre: Live From New York, isn’t advertised as a homecoming show, but in a very real sense, it was a return to his beginnings...
Killswitch Engage is looking back to look forward
This November and December Killswitch Engage is spending a month looking back at a key point in its career, marking the 10-year anniversary of the release of the band’s second album, Alive Or Just Breathing...
Chameleons
Joel Cummins admits that Umphrey’s McGee is not a band whose sound can be described in an easy to digest, cookie-cutter fashion...
