Get the Led out with the sexy Phoenix Symphony
I can still hear the infamous opening riff of "Black Dog" from the album Led Zeppelin IV. The tape...
Concerts
The Pickin’ in the Pines Festival 2016
For three glorious days up in the cool pines of Flagstaff, Arizona, you can hear some of the greatest bluegrass...
Pickin’ in the Pines – the camping experience
Just outside the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, there is a little festival that happens each year in September. People...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
When the sixteen year old guitar prodigy first came onto the airwaves, I was in my late twenties. I think...
Ugly Christmas sweater concert
It's time to return to the music. Ever since I moved here to Arizona almost one year ago, I've...
Ouroboros
September the fourteenth, two thousand and sixteen. 7:45 PM. Ray walks out onto the stage, guitar in hand, and starts...
Trevor Hall
You will most likely have no idea how to relate to what I'm about to tell you. I don't believe...
The Wild Feathers
"No one really knows her first name, but they all hold her hand Everyone leans on her window pane but...
California, I don’t even know ya
I sat down in my church pew of the Ryman, and finished off my beer just as the opening act...
The Ryman
On October the 12th, 1841, Thomas Green Ryman is born. In 1892 the Union Gospel Tabernacle is completed. December...
Greensky Bluegrass 2016
Banjos and steel cut guitars. Bad ass beards, long hair and redneck trucker hats. It must be time for...
Leftover Salmon
My seemingly annual return trip to Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado happened last July. This time around it was...