Concert notes, set lists and personal impressions fill this category. From the dreamy Americana of Lord Huron to Coldplay’s stadium spectacle and intimate performances at the Dakota jazz club, I share what moved me in the moment.
I got this email in my inbox today: NO ONE EVER SAID IT WAS OVER: SON VOLT REFORMS AND RETURNS TO STUDIO How awesome is this! This is the official release from JayFarrar.net SON VOLT IN THE STUDIO Midwest-based Son Volt, with songwriter Jay Farrar at the helm, will begin …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Son Volt Back TogetherLast night Tammy and I went to the Norah Jones concert at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. It was a good concert. The opener, Amos Lee, did a great job and Norah and the Handsome Band were very good. We were totally exhausted however after riding the century earlier in the day …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Norah Jones ConcertWe’ve decided that before we go on our next big road trip we are going to take the jump to satellite radio. I’ve spent some time this evening doing searches on the two providers in this market – XM and Sirius. This is so similar to the Dish Network v. DirecTV. Aargh! It seems …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Satellite RadioAnybody that has talked to me about music recently knows that I’ve been working on a huge project to move all of our music to a home media server in MP3 format. A couple of months ago I completed ripping and tagging all of our CDs to the recently built Teraserver (home server …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Music Nirvana Achieved!Tammy and I went to the Prince concert last night at the Xcel Center. I’ve never seen Prince before and he put on an impressive show. It was non-stop for a little over two hours. The stage and the lighting was very cool and the music was very good as well. Not being a consummate …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Prince