Got to see Willie Nelson for the first time last night, at the DPAC with Dan. He did Will The Circle Be Unbroken / I’ll Fly Away / Amazing Grace at the end, and I cried like a baby. A few more photos of Willie and Lukas, who opened, are here.
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
song share: gratitude (for curt flood) – the baseball project
Today is the birthday of Curt Flood, whose refusal to be traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies and the subsequent legal battle (Flood v. Kuhn) defined free agency as we know it today. Flood sacrificed his career, which might have been a Hall of Fame one, for the rights of baseball players not to…
the jon spencer blues explosion @ cat’s cradle
Matt wrote about last night’s show, and interviewed Jon Spencer, over at Speakers in Code. I was deeply smitten with the opening set from Pittsburgh’s Shockwave Riderz, Dex and Sara Romweber are always joys to watch (wouldn’t it be nice if you could, in your 40s, decide that what you wanted to do with your…
photo preview: jon spencer blues explosion
Some nights you just need to know when to put the camera down.
in search of: an art director / art intern
I am a pretty good photographer; I’m not a terrible designer, either, because I did spend four years getting a degree in scenic design, a long time and a lot of student loans ago. What I am bad at, however, is starting a design; I was in college, too. I have big ideas, but then…
southern folklife collection fiddle symposium concert
One of the best things about living in a college town — one of the best things that I don’t take nearly enough advantage of, to the point where I put it on my life list — is all the cool free and cheap events that Carolina sponsors, throws, has, etc. Last night was the…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
I didn’t know that a bluegrass band from Santa Cruz, California — a pretty traditional three piece bluegrass band, albeit a really great one — could inspire such punk show mosh pit heights, but the Devil Makes Three did it last night. It’s a tribute to them, on most hands; their rocking, uptempo, hook-filled songs…
song share: cups (lulu & the lampshades)
If you’ve seen Pitch Perfect, this is the original version of the song that Anna Kendrick covers with the plastic cup at her audition; it’s by a London band called Lulu & the Lampshades that now goes by the name Landshades. You can buy the song here for a buck. This song makes me very,…
album review: wooden wand – blood oaths of the new blues
Wooden Wand — Blood Oaths Of The New Blues. Out 1/8, Fire Records. One of the only problems I have with Hopscotch is that sometimes, I just get so damned overwhelmed by all my choices that I’m unable to make one at all. This happened last year, on Friday night; I was slumped in a…
cities that love their sports teams too much
If ever a city needed a self-help book, it was Baltimore: Towns That Love Sports Teams Too Much, and the Greedy Team Owners Who Use Them. — Laura Lippman, Charm City I grew up in a town without a football team. The Colts were still in Baltimore for the first few years of my life,…
brand new kind of photography 