A longtime member of the Rounder Records label, Mary McCaslin parted ways with the company to release her latest effort, “Better Late Than Never,” in November 2006. Although she’s without the help of a major label, McCaslin’s latest CD follows in the traditions of her previous work, which uses open guitar tunings and features her [...]
Photos by Kevin Kinder, Northwest Arkansas Times
Above, Effron White does his best Bob Dylan, complete with a harmonica.
Even with the promise of a great Arkansas Razorback-Missouri Tiger basketball game (and it was, by all accounts), about 70 people made it out to the Green Door in Fayetteville to hear the music of a great [...]
As expected, tickets for the upcoming Foo Fighters concert, which takes place Jan. 28 at Barnhill Arena, go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 30 through Ticketmaster.
Unless you’re a University of Arkansas student, that is. Because the concert is sponsored by the University of Arkansas’ Headliner Concerts Committee, students will have access to about 5,000 [...]
Tonight, Bob Dylan himself will not be performing in Northwest Arkansas.
That doesn’t mean his music won’t be reverberating through a concert hall, however
Six local songwriters, Wade Ogle, Jeff Kearney, Jovan Arellano, Bryce Harrison, Mike Blackwell and Effron White, have taken up the task of covering Dylan’s music. The show, the appropriately titled The Dylan Show, [...]
Local indie rockers Mar, who recorded, “The Sound,” its most recent album this summer in a cabin near Eureka Springs, is getting some national attention.
Paste magazine, one of the larger of the many thousands of publications on the subject of music, has included the band’s single “Mother Star Sun” on the CD packaged with its [...]
Bill Homans was associated with several music legends, including John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray and Country Joe McDonald. To support himself between music gigs, he moved to Oklahoma, where he farmed watermelons. A near fatal heart attack in 2002, however, changed his perspectives. He hit the road with renewed vigor under the name Watermelon Slim. [...]
Details are few, but Pollstar.com and the Indigo Girls‘ Web site are reporting the folk-pop duo best known for its song “Closer to Fine” will be visiting Fayetteville for a performance Jan. 29 at the Walton Arts Center.
Ticket prices and show time have not been announced. We’ll update you when we have that information available.
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Pat Green comes to Fayetteville about every three months or so. And if he’s taught local music fans one thing, it’s this:
Get your tickets fast.
One of the biggest names in the Texas country music scene, Green started his career by playing hundreds of honky-tonks in the South, selling more than 200,000 albums before a major [...]
Kevin Sandbloom is part poet, part singing troubadour. After searching for his style, it was the albums of Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone that eventually caught his attention. A regular performer at both small poetry venues and large-scale touring halls, Sandbloom will visit Fayetteville for a free concert Sunday at Common Grounds, [...]
Fresh off the release of its sixth studio album, the well-received “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” the Foo Fighters will make a tour stop in Fayetteville.
The four-time Grammy winners currently have the No. 1 track, “The Pretender,” on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock chart.
The concert was just confirmed Wednesday night, so details are sparse while contract [...]