Legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his wife didn’t hold back in ripping former bandmate Roger Waters, denouncing him on Twitter as a “misogynistic, anti-Semitic Putin apologist.”
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 6:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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Country star Ricky Skaggs said concert goers at his shows are more open these days to hearing about the gospel after all “the latest craziness,” “the virus,” and more.
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 10:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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Guitar great Jeff Beck has died at the age of 78, according to a statement from his family.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 10:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Turnage Theater celebrated Christmas early: "The Cowboy Way."
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 4:41 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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As I grow older, I am reverting back to my years of listening to music.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 9:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An alternative Christian band, Indie Recording Artists Fernando Rivera and Tiffany Elaine, "Fern and Tiff", based in North Carolina are on a mission to bring their compelling lyrics and soulful journeys to the music stage.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 9:14 pm
By: Eden Gordon Hill
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Melodies I Like to Play: "Brothers in Arms"
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 4:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The eclectic playlist of melodies that I am drawn to in inspiration to learn, and play, has just been enriched by one melody from my childhood that concurrently found its place into the collective consciousness of generations, rightly seeking that bittersweet space where happiness lives.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 3:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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People grow old with music, as I have as well; and, on strong occasion, what they learn to love early in life influences what they love as they grow older.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I heard this Johnny Cash rendition of the Nine Inch Nails original from a video years ago, and then again recently was reminded when listening to music while traveling.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are so many outstanding songs written over the last seventy years since the advent of hi-fidelity stereophonic equipment's development, which stands to reason, music played well and properly presented sticks perfectly to our better spirits.
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The renovated and recently revived Turnage Theater has fallen on some pretty hard times as of late, and is being forced to shutter its doors.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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I recently heard that Neil Diamond is retiring from touring due to a Parkinson's diagnosis.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 5:27 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Missy brought the boys to town to play the Turnage Theater and their unique, functioning blend of jazz, rock, country, and bluegrass blew me away.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 10:56 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The Barefoot Movement returned to the region to play Greenville's Concert in the Park, Sunday, July 29, 2012, and it was a rousing success.
Published: Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 @ 10:39 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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My first exposure to Bob Dylan was in 1963
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 11:15 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Creedence Clearwater Revival released their Cosmo's Factory album in 1970. With all the hard rock and drug culture music on the scene it was nice to get back to some good old rock and roll driving guitar and down home lyrics.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 4:22 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Leo Kottke has been a personal favorite of mine for decades. The baby-faced acoustic guitar picker, who managed to create his own robust expressive style, has grown older as I have, but, he is still the master, maybe better.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 10:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Central Park, New York City, Graceland, stan's music,
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 9:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Mona Lisas and Madhatters", from Elton John's Honky Château, was that special ballad of heart wrenching sincerity, forever etched on the collective soul of generation, which saved a lyrical moment in time, and became a gift to so many.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 9:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's Friday night, I'm out of energy, the funds are tight, and I just want to kick back, and 'keep the home fire burning' with 'The Missus'.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some songs are performance songs and some songs are just there for you to cry in you beer songs. Bob Dylan wrote both types during his pre-mailing it in days.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 8:12 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits holds a special place in my musical heart for many reasons; not least of which, Dire Straits, led by the Knopfler brothers, came onto the musical scene with their first album, Dire Straits, 1978, at the height of the dreaded Disco craze.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?" will always be among my favorite rock 'n' roll songs, but only one version of it - the version that appears of "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs".
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Apparently, one of the best ways to start an argument over music is to discuss the inter-personal relationships of the various members of The Band.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 10:07 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I'm sure this is not a first, maybe it is: But when has Bath, NC ever had a musician at the precipice of talent as Missy Raines with her New Hip in tow?
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 6:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Like many, I first heard this song in 1963 when a popular folk group, Peter Paul and Mary, sang in on their album.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 6:23 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Most of us pay no attention to those Warning Signs until it is a bit too late. Then inevitably, we adapt the song as if it was written about us.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 10:37 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Some people have a problem with remembering lyrics to simple songs.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 12:23 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Jewel's "Picking Up the Pieces" Tour, showcased March 19, 2016 at Durham's Carolina Theater, is ancillary to her autobiography, "Never Broken", which is at the nexus of her every one woman show; it is her all consuming theme projected well, her life as a poetic masterpiece.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 9:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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No, today I will endeavor to thank "My Sweet Lord" for art, specifically the art of fine music, and in particular, the Beatles.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the few years that the Turnage Theater did operate as an ongoing concern, they did book at least one Christmas show each year. In 2009, they booked, and I did attend "Christmas the Cowboy Way, featuring the Riders in the Sky.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Carl Sigman, the lyricist of many of America's most famous love songs, passed from this temporal plane in September of 2000; however, his music lives on, embodied in his beautiful songs of hope and heartbreak.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mark Knopfler, and Dire Straits helped steer my love of good music through the stinky stuff that was Disco in the late 1970's and for that I will always be thankful.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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