10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10
SF Weekly Blogs
The holidays are gonna suck all our wallets dry in due time, but luckily the weekends still offer plenty of cheap options. This week we take the list up to 11 (picks, that is). Art in Stor...
Lightfoot going strong at 71
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot turned 71 Wednesday but the hardcore troubadour said he'd been spending the day like any other working musician.[...]
ECISD super sings classic country
El Campo Leader-News
During the day he wears a suit, parses budgets, buries his nose in spreadsheets and handles the myriad facets involved in managing the El Campo Independent School District.
Blackfeet troubadour tells history from Indians’ viewpoint
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Gladstone, 51, who has been called Montana’s troubadour by Gov. Brian Schweitzer, brought his six-string guitar to perform Tuesday for hundreds of students at Morning Star Elementary and Sacajawea Middle School. Gladstone told seventh-grade...
Swanzey Troubadour Walter Calkins is seriously injured in a road ...
The Keene Sentinel
The bicyclist who was struck by a car Monday while crossing a road in Keene is recovering at a trauma unit in Lebanon. Walter Calkins, 87, of Swanzey was flown from Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Me...
Observations: Seasick Steve: Stranded by modern life
The Independent
... Jools Holland's Hootenanny in 2006, the show that effectively launched his career, Wold – a former hobo – was like no other musician around, an unvarnished, unaffected troubadour with a beaten-up guitar and a twinkle in his eye. Within ...
Mayer flounders with self-penned soft rock
Montgomery Advertiser
The multitudes root for tousled-hair troubadour John Mayer to break from his tabloids 'n Twitter drama to give us what we've grown accustomed to -- smart lovestruck lyrics and the best blues/rock guitar of a generation.
'American Idol' Winner Kris Allen Made Writing A Priority On His Debut
MTV
As a former indie troubadour, it took Kris a little time before he mustered up the confidence to work effectively with the A-list songwriting talent Jive Records and 19 Recordings hooked him up with. "[I finally had] a realization that [son...
Stargazing |Janet speaks on Michael’s death, Letterman and his wife
Kansas City Star
The two balladeers first played together at the Troubadour Club in L.A. in 1970. They reunited for the club’s 50th anniversary two years ago and apparently liked the sound so much they decided to take the act on the road. Seven dates have b...
Little Noise Session at Union Chapel, Islington, Mon 16 Nov
Drowned In Sound
Silence can be so loud. The gentle hush adopted by the 500 lucky attendees of tonight’s first Little Noise Session of 2009 render parts of the bands' performances almost painful to endure. Not until you have sat in a silent church as a room...
Carole King And James Taylor Troubadour Reunion World Tour
antiMUSIC
Carole King and James Taylor announced today that they will embark on a "Troubadour Reunion" world tour. The world tour will kick off in Melbourne, Australia on March 27 and will travel to New Zealand and Japan before coming to North Americ...