Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Strictly Brilliance
By Brian Wise. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival – Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Sunday October 1, 2023. The fact that I made it to just one day of this extraordinary festival meant that I miss […]
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Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Day 2: Guitar Attack
Review by Brian Wise. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, Sunday September 24, 2023 It’s possible that I could have been suffering a severe case of FOMO (fear of missing out) this […]
Squeezing Out Sparks of Brilliance: Squeeze & The Psychedelic Furs Live In Nashville
By Brian Wise Psychedelic Furs/Squeeze – Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Sunday September 17 It probably seems somewhat incongruous for these two Brit bands from the 80’s to appear at one of the shrines of country […]
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Jason Isbell Talks About Weathervanes On The Rhythms Podcast
Brian Wise’s guest in this week’s podcast is Jason Isbell. You can listen here: JASON ISBELL PODCAST Or you can listen at Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or Spotify (just search for Rhythms Magazine). To call […]
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2023 – Weekend #1
New Orleans Jazz& Heritage Festival, Friday April 28, Saturday April 29 & Sunday April 30, 2023 By Brian Wise It has been four years since my last JazzFest, my 25th, so it felt somewhat like […]
The Trip – Nashville Skyline
Monday September 12: Day #8 It’s an easy two hour plus drive from Chattanooga to Nashville. We have a rental car that is as cheap to rent for a week as it is for 4 […]
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The Trip – The End of the First Week
The Trip Day #4: Almost nothing to report! Travel from San Francisco to Nashville via the mile high city of Denver, which has one of the biggest airports I’ve seen. Flew Frontier, one of the […]
The Trip Day #3 Monterey-Salinas-San Francisco
The Trip Day #3: Monterey to Salinas and the National Steinbeck Center and Steinbeck’s House.I bought the 50th anniversary edition of ‘Travels With Charley’. (In the car on the way there we were listening to […]
The Trip Day #2 – Big Sur
Tuesday September 6, 2022 The first time I saw the Bixby Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway was in the 1969 TV series, Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks. Jim Bronson, a disillusioned newspaper reporter […]
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The Trip Day #1 – Arrival & Monterey
Monday September 5, 2022 Greetings from Monterey, where Colin Ritchie and I have just returned from a meal on Fisherman’s Wharf, having arrived here early afternoon and visited Cannery Row while we waited for our […]