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Artist<\/b>: Gordon Lightfoot\nVenue<\/b>: Harrah’s Cherokee Center<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Monday, Feb. 17, 8 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $27-$67
\nYou might only know him for his ’70s radio hits like \u201cIf You Could Read My Mind,\u201d \u201cSundown\u201d and \u201cThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,\u201d but the Canadian singer-songwriter has a long and illustrious career full of gems. Just how long is underscored by the fact that his current run of dates is billed as the \u201c80 Years Strong\u201d tour (he’s actually approaching 81 \u00bd now; it’s an extended<\/i> tour). His musical approach is an exemplar of the folk-oriented pop music that came to commercial (and critical success) in the post’60s era. Not counting compilations, Lightfoot’s most recent release is 2004’s well-regarded Harmony<\/i>; these days he focuses on performing. I wrote a brief preview of the tour last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Lots of great live music coming to Asheville, N.C. in the next 30 days. Below is merely a sampling from among the best: two local acts, two nationally touring artists. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4076,176,4116,4114,3802,4115,3649,1705,4127,4081,2173],"class_list":["post-18314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-30-days-out","tag-alvin-youngblood-hart","tag-ambrose-west","tag-asheville-civic-center","tag-gordon-lightfoot","tag-harrahs-cherokee-center","tag-marley-carroll","tag-pink-floyd","tag-pinkest-floyd","tag-the-mothlight","tag-the-orange-peel","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18349,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions\/18349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/30do_marleycarroll.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Marley Carroll
\nVenue<\/b>: The Mothlight<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, Feb. 21, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $5
\nAsheville-based artist Marley Carroll is known for his parallel careers: he’s an in-demand DJ, spinning sets at clubs in and around town, and he’s a composer\/musician who makes compelling electronic music. Two sides of the same coin, one might say: his work bridges technology and humanity. Last year he released Flight Patterns<\/i>, an album that \u2013 while firmly in the electronica idiom \u2013 draws from so many influences that it’s wonderfully difficult to pin down genre-wise. I interviewed Carroll when Flight Patterns<\/i> came out<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/30do_alvinyhart.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Alvin Youngblood Hart<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Ambrose West<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, March 6, 8 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $15 advance \/ $18 day of show
\nAs a music reviewer, I tend to avoid covering singles; in general, there’s not enough to say about one or two songs as there is when the artist has released an entire album (or at least an EP) of music. But when Alvin Youngblood Hart released a 45 r.p.m. single in 2015, he merited an exception. As I wrote in my review<\/a>, \u201cHelluva Way (For a Man to Make a Livin\u2019)\u201d b\/w \u201cWatchin\u2019 Brian Jones\u201d features garage punk on the a-side and low-and-slow blues on the flip. He’s not exactly prolific, but this W.C. Handy and Grammy-winning artist deserves attention.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/30do_pinkest_floyd.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Pinkest Floyd<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: The Orange Peel<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, March 13, 8:30 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $10 advance \/ $12 day of show
\nI’m a big fan of the tribute bands that faithfully play Pink Floyd’s music, keeping the spirit alive. Interestingly though, the Floyd’s 1977 LP Animals<\/i> doesn’t regularly find its way into most of their sets (and Gilmour-era Pink Floyd made a point of not playing any of it, either). That’s a missed opportunity, because even though Roger Waters had by that point assumed total control over the group’s lyrics, the playing on Animals<\/i> is some of the band’s most inspired yet. So I’m quite excited to see and hear Pinkest Floyd, a collective of musicians based in Charlotte, N.C., as they come to town and present what some have characterized as Pink Floyd’s \u201canswer to punk\u201d in its entirety. I’ll be there, and copies of my book, Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon<\/i><\/a> will be available at the merch table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"