B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
B.B. King | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
All photos by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Blues legend B.B. King performed at Glenside’s Keswick Theater last night with six-piece backing band and his trademark guitar, Lucille. Baton Rouge singer-guitarist Jonathon “Boogie” Long opened the show; check out scenes from both performances in the gallery above.
Touring in support of his latest releases – the Wishbone LP and the Bedroom EP – British singer-songwriter Bobby Long plays World Cafe Live tonight. Mixing downtempo country and rockabilly with a decidedly retro bent, Long has built a growing stateside fan base since his 2009 debut Dirty Pond Songs. Tickets and information on the all-ages show can be found at the WXPN concert calendar. Below, download “Devil Moon” from Wishbone.
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Rodriguez | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Jenny O | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Jenny O | Photo by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Photos by Chris Sikich | countfeed.tumblr.com
Resurgent American songwriter Sixto Rodriguez and his three-piece band performed for a sold-out crowd at The Keswick Theater last night. This round of U.S. tour dates came in the wake of Searching for Sugar Man, the 2012 film about Rodriguez, took home the best documentary trophy at this year’s Academy Awards. Opening the show was Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jenny O; check out scenes from the evening in the photo gallery above.
Photo by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com
Photo by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com
Photo by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com
Photo by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com
Photo by Joe Del Tufo | joedeltufo.com
Nick Cave doesn’t have time for your crap. He has a reputation to uphold, after all – that of the cranky, occasionally combative, vocally stunning and lyrically intense crooner from Australia who has explored songwriting’s dark side in a stately manner for over three decades. Try to take an up-close Instagram of him during his set at The Keswick Theater last night? He’ll shove that iPhone right out of his face and holler at you to put it the eff away. Heckle him? He’ll snap right back at you in a menacing tone. But cheer him on, and Cave is generous with his rewards, as the sold-out house in Glenside found.
The 90-minute set mixed up back-catalogue classics with material from the downtempo (but nonetheless tense) new album Push The Sky Away – “We Know Who U R” was a gentle sing-song opener took a smooth glide into “Jubilee Street.” Cave’s longtime backing band The Bad Seeds worked wonders on this song, rebuilding the simmering album version into a skyrocketing crescendo that was punctuated by Cave’s jack knife thrusts and jerking kicks over the front row. By the end of the song, he was in command of the theater.
“Higgs Bosun Blues” evolved in a similar fashion over eight minutes – he opened his South By Southwest show last week with this one – and by the time it peaked, Cave was warmed up. “Can we start getting these chairs out of here?” he asked of the folks sitting in folding seats in the front row, and as the floor opened up, he plowed into the crowd with his microphone in tow to the violent strains of “From Her to Eternity.” With the mic cable stretched as far as it would go, Cave settled more or less in the lap of an enthralled fan, gripping his collar and screaming the last minute and change of the song into his face.
Talk about music videos matching the mood of a song. In this one from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a camera follows a person’s shadow through a thick forest to the beautiful strains of “We No Who U R.” The mysterious track is from the band’s new LP Push the Sky Away, which will be released in February. The video was directed by Argentinean filmmaker Gaspar Noe, and Cave called the video “beautiful, haunting and thoughtful” in The Quietus. Watch it below. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds will perform at The Keswick Theater on March 19; tickets and information are available here.
Well that just made my morning. With their fifteenth studio album slated for a spring release, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are touring – and swinging through the Philadelphia area. They play The Keswick Theater in Glenside on Tuesday, March 19, with Sharon Van Etten opening. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, December 6, at 10 a.m. Now, if you’re not sure which part of that paragraph to start freaking out about first, let me help by breaking it down for you with the five things about this concert announcement I’m most excited for. Continue reading
Though he migrated to Nashville to record some records, John Francis got his start in the musical halls of Harrisburg and Philadelphia. The rootsy singer-songwriter released the critically acclaimed The Better Angels in 2010, which he recorded in Johnny Cash’s Nashville studio, and lately he’s been working on a follow-up with a band comprised of musicians who played with James Taylor, Lucinda Williams, JJ Cale, to name a few. When he stopped by for a Key Studio Session in 2010, Francis shared his often critical but always eloquent view on struggle in America; listen to “People on the Edge of the World” below. He brings his heartfelt country-twang to The Keswick Theater when he opens for Loretta Lynn on November 30th. Tickets and information are available here.
