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Kevin Gordon

This northern Louisiana native and current East Nashville resident gets around and has done so for a couple decades now. Kevin Gordon duets with Lucinda Williams, has been reviewed on NPR and in

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Thursday, July 5, 2018 12:00 am

Jump into July

By Tom Irwin

Once the famed Fourth of July flies by and the corn is several feet past knee height, the summer season kicks into to overdrive, setting up a midsummer sensation of live music revelations.Thursd

Band Spotlight

Thursday, July 5, 2018 12:00 am

Cody Canada & the Departed

By Tom Irwin

Cody Canada has been playing guitar and dreaming music since he was 8 years old, and he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon as he heads into a quarter century of professional playing. The fo

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Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:00 am

June jangles away

By Tom Irwin

Here we go into the last weekend of June, soaking up fun in the sun, sliding into neon-lit nightclubs, and generally having a whale of a good time swimming in this sea of lively and lovely live

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Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:00 am

Chris Duarte

By Tom Irwin

This Austin-based guitarist, songwriter and singer gets welcomed and warranted comparisons to the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan and combines other flavors of electric Texas-blues players as wel

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Thursday, June 21, 2018 12:00 am

June jazzed up

By Tom Irwin

Welcome to the Springfield music scene, all you friendly Illinois Times readers and supporters! This week is another adventure in the diverse and plentiful supply of live music performances in o

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Thursday, June 21, 2018 12:00 am

Kayla Brown

By Tom Irwin

Champaign-Urbana native Kayla Brown can count many achievements in her career in music performance and composition. Kayla started on her musical adventure professionally in 1997 and since then h

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Thursday, June 14, 2018 12:00 am

June is jumping

By Tom Irwin

Here comes the ides of June on Friday along with Father’s Day on Sunday and a plain-old Saturday sandwiched in between, all filled with glorious and wonderful live music to share.Let’s go st

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Thursday, June 14, 2018 12:00 am

The 44’s

By Tom Irwin

This Los Angeles-based blues/roots/rock band winds and climbs through the greasy and grand world of gut-bucket blues like nobody’s business. Since they first made a splash in 2007 with a credi

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Thursday, June 7, 2018 12:00 am

Lake Rumble, Dumb Fest and Moore

By Tom Irwin

If May is merry, can June be jolly? I vote yes. And so it seems that the pleasant weather (so far) and plentiful events (keep ‘em coming) are conspiring to make it so – so let’s go!There�