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Morgantown bandleader lets out his Frustrations in latest record
August 16, 2007
I first heard Billy Matheny a couple of months ago at a singer/songwriter benefit concert in Marietta. Like the other artists on the bill, Matheny did only two songs, but he managed to stand out even in a lineup of mostly fine performers. I bought a CD from him after the show, and popped it in the deck on the drive home; by the time I got to Athens, I was a hardcore fan.>>
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Athens Music Scene
August 16, 2007
Last week's feast of music was enough to sate the average individual - luckily we don't have too many average individuals in this town 'cause there is some other seriously great music to listen to in the upcoming week - including two shows on Tuesday. As the summer draws to a close, I can't say we are done with the picture yet. Please join me as we view the Athens Music Scene.>>
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Athens Music Scene
August 9, 2007
If it weren't for the fact that the water in my body is trying - successfully - to merge with the atmosphere, I would think it must be Christmastime in Athens; such are the bounties of our gifts this week.>>
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Athens Music Scene
August 2, 2007
In this day and age, we have a tendency to try to shake things off a lot quicker than we perhaps oughta. Life comes at us so fast that we are often at the next thing or two long before we have properly digested the last several things - if we even digested them at all.>>
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Athen Music Scene
July 26, 2007
Last week's Ohio Brew Week culminated in the most successful Boogie on the Bricks ever. Man, do we know how to throw a party. With great bands just lifting people off the ground with their music and the very cooperative weather - not to mention boatloads of finely crafted ales from all over Ohio - I would have to say that we are really getting the hang of this summertime fun sort of thing.>>
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Athens Music Scene
July 19, 2007
I've had a lot of life coming at me lately. I'm fine with that; it's expected. I know that as you get older, people tend to die and end up in the hospital and get sick and all of that crap. I mean, Leighton's First Law is: "The only absolute is uncertainty, and I'm not too sure about that." That said, there are a few things that I do have trouble with.>>
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Athens Music Scene
July 12, 2007
Hello, folks. Sorry I was delinquent in my duties last week, but sometimes a bug has just gotsta get away. Back and rested and ready to start a new phase of life, I was stricken to find out moments ago of the passing of my friend Spencer Roberts, affectionately known as Spanky.>>
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Athens Music Scene
June 28, 2007
They say that change is the only constant, and sometimes that leads you to look for some spare. Change, that is.>>
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Athens Music Scene
June 21, 2007
This is the time of year for growth and change. Today marks the first day of summer. As new and old come together and part from each other, I feel the seeds of new life taking root in me: Daylight is breaking and the darkness recedes.>>
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'Hillbilly rock' just scratches surface
June 21, 2007
Marty Stuart, who has been appropriately dubbed country music's renaissance man, plays Stuart's Opera House on Sunday evening.>>
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Athens Music Scene
June 14, 2007
I was talking with some musician friends of mine last weekend about the oddity that occurs in a professional environment when you have to sort of pretend that you are not you. Clear as mud! An example: Writing the bio for your Web site. As a weekly musical publicist for every band in town, and acting for so many years as the only person in any of my bands who dealt with such things, I often write about my own bands as though I were a publicist - which I am, except I am also me.>>
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Exhibit honors local vets of Korean, Vietnam wars
June 14, 2007
The Athens County Military Museum's 2007 exhibit, "Korea and Vietnam: Athens County Remembers," opens today, Flag Day, the Athens County Historical Society & Museum recently announced.>>
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Bluegrass festival brings top national acts to Poston Lake
June 14, 2007
This weekend hundreds of bluegrass-music lovers will gather near Guysville in eastern Athens County for one of the state's largest celebrations of bluegrass music.>>
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Athens Music Scene
June 7, 2007
We've pretty much done it. Another school season has passed through our hands. Our view from AMS-HQ has shown us a very successful year, musically speaking. We got to hear numerous new local bands, and with the addition of the new Baker Center to the musical palette, we saw more national acts than ever here in our humble burg.>>
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Athens Music Scene
May 31, 2007
I espoused one of my much traveled little pet notions this weekend to someone who knows me well but had yet not heard this particular fancy of mine, so I thought I would share it with you.>>
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Local Pavement-revering band celebrates release of first LP
May 31, 2007
Casual Future, a local indie-rock band with a cutting-edge sound, recently returned to the local music scene to celebrate the release of their first full-length album, "Footnotes in the City Lights.">>
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Feast for the ears on tap at Stuart's
May 31, 2007
If you like cerebral music that gets under your skin -- think early Pink Floayd, Soft Machine, or more recently, Calexico or Yo La Tengo -- Stuart's Opera House has just the show for you.>>
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Hot Tuna Web tutorial evolves into tribute duo
May 31, 2007
An entertaining duo project connected to Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch is on tap to open for the Royales this Friday at the Casa Cantina.>>
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Athens Music Scene
May 24, 2007
I am happy to announce the birth of a new charitable organization that I intend to spearhead. I feel very close to this particular issue, as I see this problem everywhere I go.>>
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Project serves up healthy helping of mortality
March 8, 2007
Come to supper so we can talk about death.>>
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Smithsonian-related exhibit at Dairy Barn celebrates national forests
February 27, 2006
Inspirations from the Forest,>>
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Exhibit focuses on modern love in all its magic splendor
April 10, 2003
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.>>
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Change is the only constant
April 4, 2002
Change is the only constant>>
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By Dan Dreifort
October 26, 2000
Double, double, toil and trouble! Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake...>>
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