Wounded Messenger’s Best of 2009 Week Begins!

With not only a year but an entire decade of music to celebrate, we’ll be bringing you our “Best of” 2009 lists all week long. We begin with our favorite 10 live shows of the year, followed later this week by our favorite albums of the year and our 101 favorite albums of the decade.
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Halloween Concerts Provide Unusual Covers, Inspired Performances

Everyone knows by now that Phish presented The Rolling Stones‘ Exile on Main Street in its entirety for their “musical costume” on Halloween. Featuring the incredible Sharon Jones on vocals, along with the necessary horns, the performance is deserving of the immediate praise it received. But what about the rest of the holiday shenanigans across [...]

Allman Brothers Band & Widespread Panic Raleigh Review on Glide Magazine!

My review of the October 11, 2009 Allman Brothers Band/Widespread Panic show at Walnut Creek is now up at Glide Magazine’s Hidden Track Blog! Go here to read and see Dave Rogers’ amazing photos!

Tool, Widespread Panic, The Fray Top Mile High Music Festival Lineup

Tool, Widespread Panic, and The Fray will lead a superb list of performers at Denver’s second Mile High Music festival, which will take place July 18 and 19, 2009 at The Fields at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in the “Mile High City.”
The event, which is riding a wave of success after 2008’s fantastic edition, offers [...]

Bloodkin – Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again

There’s a pervasive predictability to Bloodkin’s Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again (CD – MP3). While it’s not your run-of-the-mill southern rock album, it is firmly in the comfort zone of the genre’s fans. It’s not going to change the world, nor does it aspire to do so. This is bluesy, boozy, country-fried, [...]