When music festivals are jammed with 14 or 15 hours of music a day, it is common for many festies to sleep in and make their way over to the music later in the day. And some only come for a few select bands, preferring to commune with friends and neighbors, certainly another of the…
Butch Trucks and the Freight Train Band gigs start the day after Christmas in Florida. Butch Trucks, Berry Duane Oakley, Damon Fowler, Vaylor Trucks, Bruce Katz, Tad Isch, and special guest Heather Gillis comprised this excellent group. Take a good look at the personnel here. Butch you know, of course, as a founding member of…
The first time you hear The New Mastersounds, you would swear you had just stepped out of a time machine and into 1970s New Orleans, or Memphis, or Muscle Shoals. This quartet from Leeds delivers magnificent funk, soul, jazz and much more. And the boys — Eddie Roberts, guitar; Simon Allen, drums; Pete Shand, bass…