The second annual tribute to Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt at the Nightlight was excellent, as I expected it to be. Everyone was good but my unquestionable highlights were EFfingham doing “My Mother the Mountain” (creepiest EVER) and Anna Rose Beck absolutely slaying “If I Needed You” (my favorite Townes song, and one I’ve…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
start it over
Since the mid-nineties, Justin has been saying, ironically or not, that this is how your first entry of the new year should always be, and so it is.
worth getting up for: december
Worth getting up for in December: Beirut live; Mandolin Orange’s Christmas show; the wild Christmas lights in Caswell County; Photojojo’s bokeh kit; the new Twitter app for Android; ugly vintage sweaters with koalas on them; best of 2011 lists; applying for one of JazzFest’s volunteer photographer positions; Rachel Yamagata live; making it through 2011; the…
local beer local bands: wylie hunter & the cazadores
Last LB/LB of the year! I don’t get to Tir Na Nog nearly often enough for them, because Raleigh on Thursdays, but Wylie and the guys were great and it was a good way to end the year.
don’t let me into this year
It takes a village. If it weren’t for other people, I’d just be over here taking pictures of my cats and my own face, and if the end of the year isn’t time for being thankful, I don’t know when is. (Other than Thanksgiving, of course.) So without further ado, people I couldn’t have survived…
an easier world
Dogfish (Mary Oliver) Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing kept flickering in with the tide and looking around. Black as a fisherman’s boot, with a white belly. If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin, which was rough as a…
top ten shows of 2011
I saw 133 shows so far this year, with two left in 2011, but these are the unquestionable top ten. Now with photos. (Josh Ritter in Charlotte above.) 1. Josh Ritter, solo acoustic, at the McGlohon Theatre, Charlotte, 11/2011. I didn’t go to another show this year where I barely breathed from start to finish…
studio session: the brand new life
I love studio work; it’s desperately intimate and open. Thanks to the Brand New Life for letting me hang around. Full set here.
ten more tracks from 2011 that i loved
Tracks that didn’t make the Christmas mix, for whatever reason, but got a lot of play from me, in no particular order and little to no commentary, but with a zip file [here]. More music I loved! Cee-lo Green, “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care”: from the Buddy Holly tribute album, we all know…
christmas mix 2011: something as simple as rock and roll
I’ve been making what I call a Christmas mix — that is, not holiday songs but a mix made at the holidays — since 1997; first they were tapes, then for a few years cds, and finally, in the digital age, the last six years have been downloadable zip files, and this year is no…
brand new kind of photography 