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I met my wife Sarah at a Los Lobos concert in 2001. A former saxophone player, she was then working for a nonprofit music school and spending much of her time sharing her lengthy yet entertaining thoughts about whatever band she had seen most recently on the various music message boards we both frequented. In her writings I found a spirit similar to mine, and realized before long that she was "The One" for me!
We've seen hundreds of shows together, and she has written about many of them, but as her career became more demanding, she found herself with less time and energy to write about music. Fortunately, I was able to convince her to rededicate herself to writing about music for my site. I hope you enjoy her musical musings as much as I always have!
-Steve
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The First Vic Shows
On February 19-20, friends and collaborators of the late singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt gathered at the 40 Watt Club in his home base of Athens, Georgia to celebrate his life and music in a two-night event dubbed “The Vic Shows”. Steve and I love Vic’s music and wish that we could have attended the shows, but we also feel that we saw the first, unofficial musical tribute to Vic when Widespread Panic played Philips Arena on December 30-31, 2009.
Tribute shows are a different kind of live music experience, because they respond to a specific event and that creates a thematic focus. But sometimes even regular concerts feel like tribute shows because you can’t help seeing them through the lens of a recent event – the band [...]