The LIstening Room

  • While attending the 30A Songwriter’s Festival in January of 2016, I ran across a familiar last name listed in the festival’s impressive lineup which included Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Parker Millsap, Shovels & Rope, Grace Potter, Jim Lauderdale, Bob Schneider, and several others. Lilly Winwood, the daughter of legendary musician Steve Winwood, was performing an acoustic set of her own original music at one of the venues I visited. Fast…

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  • The proverbial link between live music and quality music venues has an important effect on the total existence of a local music scene. They are connected at the heart and soul of what transpires locally and shared abroad. For the better part of the last few decades, I have followed various scenes and witnessed some locations maintaining a lasting hold on the market and in several cases, pop culture. It…

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  • A few years ago, The Line’s photographer Stephen Anderson was the first of us to learn of bluesman and American roots musician Wes Lee. It was at a show at the famous Julep Room in Ocean Springs, MS. In 2014, we were fortunate enough to see Lee perform with fellow accommplished blues musicians – Rambling Steve Gardner, Libby Rae Watson and Bill Steber as they were touring across the Deep…

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