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‘Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons’ makes its Seattle debut
In 1973, musician and writer Michael Bate interviewed Gram Parsons, known as “the original cosmic cowboy.” Six months later, the pioneering country-rocker (and father of alt-country and Americana) was dead of an overdose at 26.
Bate’s chance interview with Parsons was the inspiration for “Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons,” a threatrical concert starring Anders [...]
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Images from the Austin City Limits Festival at Austin’s Zilker Park
The 2010 Austin City Limits Festival, blessed by spectacular weather and a deluge of musical acts, wrapped up Sunday (Oct. 10) at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas.
Seattle photographer Jim Bennett captured these images of the three-day festival, which is among the top music gatherings in the country.
Performing were Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Cage [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Billy Currington, Uncle Kracker shake up Puyallup Fair
Hatless cowboys ruled the grandstand at the Puyallup Fair Friday night (Sept. 24), drawing a noisy, foot-stomping crowd for a double bill featuring Billy Currington and Uncle Kracker.
Though not really cowboys at all, the two Nashville stars represent the new guard in mainstream country music in the past decade — rocking, raucous and without the [...]
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PHOTO GALLERY: Willie Nelson wows ‘em at the Puyallup Fair grandstand
Willie Nelson has been one of the biggest stars in the Puyallup Fair constellation this year. Seattle photographer Christopher Nelson snapped these photos of the Texas icon on Sept. 16.
Nelson treated concertgoers to a slew of his most popular songs. Christopher Nelson (no relation to Willie Nelson, of course) was restricted to shooting the first [...]
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‘Free Your Glee’ with a fun-filled agenda at the 2010 Puyallup Fair
The Puyallup Fair begins each year with a new slogan.
The 2010 slogan is “Free Your Glee,” which sounds more like a catch phrase for “American Idol” (or a certain Fox TV show) than a slogan for a 100-plus-year-old fair that has been entertaining Northwesterners for generations and is older than Seattle’s legendary Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of [...]
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