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DAY 2: GRACE POTTER STEALS THE SHOW
By Michael Lello Photos by Jim Gavenus SCRANTON — While the Allman Brothers Band are the name at the top of the bill, the star of the show during the second day of the Peach Music Festival Friday...
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DAY 3: NOW WEIR TALKIN’
By Michael Lello Photos by Jim Gavenus SCRANTON – One day after a good but not great set that took some time to get cooking, Bob Weir and Ratdog hit the stage on night three of the Peach Music...
View ArticleSCI IMPRESSES AT LOCKN’ FESTIVAL
By Michael Lester ARRINGTON, Va. — Vehicular gridlock welcomed travelers from all over the country entering last weekend’s inaugural four-day Lockn’ music festival and funneled them into a grass...
View ArticleSAXMAN HOLLOWAY ON SITTING IN WITH THE STARS
By Michael Lester Photo by Jason Riedmiller Initiative, confidence and humility — along with the fuel of frustration fed by band members who jeered his unnecessarily loud sax playing back in junior...
View ArticleALLMANS CLOSE OUT PEACH FESTIVAL WITH A BANG
By Michael Lello Photos by Jason Riedmiller SCRANTON – The Allman Brothers have had a contentious history, with members quitting, getting fired and, sadly, even dying, as well as several full-blown...
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ANDERS OSBORNE’S INTERCONTINENTAL MUSICAL ADVENTURE HITS ARDMORE & PORT CHESTER
By Michael Lester Photos by Jay Blakesberg Name a low-paying, manual labor job, and singer-songwriter blues-based guitarist Anders Osborne has probably done it during his well-traveled, adventurous and...
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ERIC KRASNO FINDS HIS VOICE ON SOLO DEBUT
Two-time Grammy winner Eric Krasno still considers himself fortunate for his ability to play guitar a quarter century after he shattered his left elbow in a fall during a basketball game his freshman...
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SUSAN TEDESCHI THRILLS KIRBY CROWD DURING TEDSESCHI TRUCKS BAND SET
Photos by Sam Watson WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — When the 12-member Tedeschi Trucks Band re-emerged to the F.M. Kirby Center stage to cap an energized, nearly two-hour, sold-out performance, it brought along...
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FROM ‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’ TO SIT-INS WITH DEREK TRUCKS: BRANDON ‘TAZ’...
If you were one of the 9.6 million people who tuned into NBC on Easter night to watch “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the first person you saw was not John Legend or Alice Cooper or Sara Bareilles. It wasn’t...
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TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND KICKS OFF EIGHTH ANNUAL BEACON RESIDENCY IN STYLE
When the Tedsechi Trucks Band formed a decade ago, the group’s virtuosity was a given. Derek Trucks had already earned a reputation as one of the world’s greatest guitarists, a prodigy who joined the...
View ArticleNELS CLINE and YUKA C. HONDA EMBRACE THE RANDOMNESS OF CUP
CUP — the musical partnership between husband and wife Nels Cline and Yuka C. Honda — is an exercise in opposites. Cline, the experimental guitarist known for his longstanding membership in Wilco,...
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