Tin Pan South’s highlight to date had to be Tom T. Hall’s performance at the Bluebird Cafe tonight. Hall said he plays just one night a year and this was it. Lucky audience. Tom T. played some of this best-known songs, supplemented with entertaining anecdotes and playfulness. He followed up his “How I Got to Memphis” (surprisingly, the most lucrative…
Tin Pan South opens
Tin Pan South, the songwriters’ festival organized by the Nashville Songwriters Association International opened tonight with its usual deep line-up of talent. I opted for a show featuring David Olney, Tom Littlefield, Chris Scruggs and Brennen Leigh. That proved to be a good choice, with one great song after another. I’ve seen Olney and Scruggs many times, and they’re always…
Cayamo’s 2012 line-up
Sixthman has announced its initial 2012 Cayamo line-up, including John Hiatt, John Prine and Lyle Lovett. For the uninitiated, this is a February cruise that features some of the top Americana music artists in a weeklong music festival on the ocean. Among others booked for next year: Richard Thompson, Keb Mo, Buddy Miller, Loudon Wainwright, Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Shawn…
Wilder, Jones and Rotenberry celebrate Americana
The 2011 American Music Association series at the Bluebird kicked off Thursday with sets by the duo of Brad Jones and Hans Rotenberry and Webb Wilder. Jones and Rotenberry’s “Mountain Jack” CD is an eminently entertaining blend of melodic pop and Americana. They played much of the album, plus one song from Rotenberry’s band “The Shazam.” The acoustic renditions were…