London man wins CMT’s ‘Can You Duet’
LexGo.com staff report
A London man and his singing partner have won the CMT talent competition Can You Duet. Will Snyder and Caitlin Lynn, of Glen Burnie, Md., were announced as the winners of the American Idol-style competition during Friday night’s broadcast.
Lincoln play fits right in at brass band fest
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
The Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville is adding a little drama to the proceedings this year.
Cicadas join the fun
By Jenna Youngs JYOUNGS@HERALD-LEADER.COM
In addition to more than 100 musical acts and thousands of people, the Ichthus Farm is playing host to some very special, if not annoying, guests this weekend: cicadas.
Some face long lines, waits, delays
By Jenisha Watts HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Cole Castleberry wanted his VIP pass, but it wasn't available as he expected. Kemen Taylor wanted his vendor's pass but signs weren't clear so he was standing in the wrong line. "It's a mass confusion," vendor John Wirmel said.
Pre-festival stewardship
By Jim Niemi JNIEMI@HERALD-LEADER.COM
Perspiration coated the foreheads of Jackson Walker and Jessica Emerson as they filled blue plastic bags with scrap metal and glass scavenged alongside the railroad tracks bordering Coolavin Park this week.
Hot tickets: Trace Adkins, The Black Keys, Cirque du Soleil, more
Tickets on sale this weekend.
Bonnaroo reflects changes in music industry
By Jake Coyle Associated Press
The tens of thousands of music-crazy fans gathered in the Tennessee countryside this weekend for Bonnaroo are part of not just one of the summer's biggest music festivals but a nationwide revival.
Album review: Aimee Mann
By Michael Hamersly McClatchy Newspapers
Aimee Mann will forever reside in 1980s lore for singing the hit Voices Carry for her band "Til Tuesday. But her true career-defining moment would come more than a decade later when she parlayed a friendship with Magnolia director Paul Thomas Anderson into contributing eight haunting songs to the film's soundtrack. On @#%&*! Smilers, Mann's sixth solo album, she trades stark, pristine songs for a more bluesy approach, while retaining her aching, nasal twang.
Critic's pick: My Morning Jacket
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
We saw it coming with Z, the 2005 album that dragged Louisville's My Morning Jacket out of the psychedelic reverb cellar that had become a lasting comfort zone. Instead of the hazy, Southern-brewed psychedelia that Jim James and Co. had designed to ward off specific categorization, Z rose to the surface. The melodies were more inviting, and the vocals were light-years cleaner. Yet the band's sense of rock 'n' roll mystery was left intact.
Album review: Montgomery Gentry
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
There were signs on their 2006 album, Some People Change, that hometown country heroes Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry might be settling down. A little. Not so on Back When I Knew It All.
Grand Night for Singing: A monster success
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
In 1993, "It's a Grand Night for Singing' began as one show to give opera students a chance to try musical theater. It's still that, but it's much bigger now, and it has to be created from nothing each year.
IIIrd Tyme Out makes some changes
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
Working outside the scope of bluegrass tradition has not posed much of a problem for IIIrd Tyme Out. After all, this is the ensemble that dodged convention and expectation more than a decade ago by adding an a cappella version of The Platters' pop staple Only You to its repertoire.
Critic's picks: John Hiatt and Dr. John
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
The landscapes that John Hiatt and Dr. John survey on the covers of their fine new albums are seemingly as different as their songs and, to greater degrees, the attitudes and intentions that fuel them.
Album review: Al Green
By Dan DeLuca The Philadelphia Inquirer
Let's be clear: Al Green is never again scaling the supersexy, ultra-vulnerable Memphis-soul heights he reached under the aegis of Willie Mitchell on Hi Records in the early 1970s. But Lay It Down, produced by Philadelphia soulmeisters James Poyser and Ahmir ”?uestlove“ Thompson, is as close as Green has gotten to that high-altitude soul Valhalla in decades.
Album review: Ashanti
By Glenn Gamboa Newsday
Ashanti has always been a stealth superstar, the kind who rolls out hits without anyone noticing. The Declaration might blow her cover, though.