Posts by Rob Azevedo
There’s a framed picture of Abraham Lincoln that sits atop the mantle behind the bar at Pembroke City Limits, our new venue down in the historic Suncook village.
Voting Day Tuesday, so I better get out and pay witness to the wasteland, where gas prices have soared into the $4-5 dollar range, so we are told, where everyone is bare-assed broke, famished, desperate for a break from the blistering grind of a busted economy.
Yeager, who has been working at Dunkins for two-and-half years now, has been, as he says, “fine-tuning my brand of delivery to lucky coffee drinkers for the last two years.”
Quick cuts of music dished out by locally known and unknown musicians, cutting their teeth, finding their voice, working out a new song, an old song, or just singing to sing, because some like singing more than wine. And the rush is twice as potent.
And that’s also why when my good buddy, Nate Graziano, (Graz!), handed me his newest collection of poems, “Born On Good Friday,” the cover alone made me feel the tickles of a panic attack. Graz as a kid standing at a tilt in a new blue suit with the price tag still on it. The new shoes soon-to-be play boots, the awkward smile, the crooked bow tie. Fall in Rhode Island. Barren and cold. Someone, please, knife me now.
The Boxmasters are out promoting their new record, “69,” one of however many records they’ve made over the last several years. Since 2000 alone, I count the band making five studio albums. That’s impressive. Yeats calls that kind of relentless pursuit, “Striking while the irons hot.” Or maybe it was Gene Hackman.
On a near-perfect spring day in Cambridge, Mass., Concord’s long-celebrated and best rock’n’roll band, The Rippin E Brakes, gathered at “The Bridge Stage and Sound” to record their first studio album in three years.
Q&A with Joan Osborne, who made us ponder God and built herself quite a musical career.
And up here where the Granite shines, an educated man named Tom Rush was cutting his own swath with a few more years under his belt than those other songwriters.
We have four top-notch musicians taking the stage at the Shaskeen on March 25th from 4-7 p.m. They each will play for 30-40 minutes with a 15-minute intermission between the third and fourth performances. The show is FREE.