asheville Archive
16 Oct 2013
Shuggie Otis at The Orange Peel, Asheville NC 9 October 2013 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Once the doors opened, we entered and secured our barstools, settling in to wait for the show. Minutes earlier, the Orange Peel’s Facebook event update status […]
15 Oct 2013
Shuggie Otis at The Orange Peel, Asheville NC 9 October 2013 (Part One)
One evening early in September 2013, I was on the phone with a good friend. “Shuggie Otis is playing next month at The Orange Peel,” I announced. “What?! No…” Clearly […]
10 Oct 2013
Feature Preview: Cody ChesnuTT
Last week I enjoyed the rare pleasure of seeing Cody ChesnuTT in concert, at Asheville’s Grey Eagle. A few weeks ago, when the opportunity to interview him in advance of […]
09 Aug 2013
Dig the DIG Festival: August 15-16
Asheville, North Carolina is host to more festivals than one might expect of a city its size. This cultural magnet nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Western part […]
11 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 4
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: Speaking of playing onstage, how do the live pieces differ from the studio versions? Do you open them up for improvisation, or are they […]
10 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 3
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: This is an obvious thing to say, but since instrumental music has to convey its messages without the benefit of lyrics, it has to […]
07 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: A Tribute to Jack Johnson is among the most underrated of all Miles’ works, I think. John McLaughlin: A lot of people don’t underrate […]
06 Jun 2013
You Can Be Who You Are: The John McLaughlin Interview, Part 1
Far be it from me to attempt to introduce John McLaughlin. One of the world’s greatest guitarists, his career has spanned five decades. His latest album Now Here This is […]
27 May 2013
Opeth: Mixing Metal and Melodicism
Initially a Swedish death metal band, Opeth has since its 1990 inception in Stockholm expanded both its sound and its appeal. While the band was an exemplar of the hard-edged […]
29 Apr 2013
Concert Review: Black Angels, Allah-Las and Elephant Stone — Asheville NC April 5 2013
I started attending arena-scale rock concerts back in the late 1970s. My first show was in October 1978, seeing Electric Light Orchestra with their hamburger bun/spaceship setup at Atlanta’s Omni. […]