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The best Christmas gifts are the ones that can result in the production of more gifts. Like a cheese or beer-making kit. The kind of gift that will aid the recipient in further assisting and...
DATE: May 28, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Longtime locals who have traveled East Animas Road (County Road 250) will remember the sign that read “Canyon Music” hanging roadside by a driveway leading up to a typical homestead. It wasn’t so...
DATE: May 21, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The list of people local bass player and sound engineer Glenn Keefe has played or worked with since making music a career is a who’s who of the Americana and bluegrass world. It’s an enviable list,...
DATE: May 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
June 17 marks 20 years Lacey Black has been playing piano in Silverton’s Grand Imperial Hotel. It’s a gig that began when the fourth generation Durango resident was in high school. What started as...
DATE: May 7, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
You won’t pigeonhole Jon Stickley. The Asheville, North Carolina-based guitar player, with ties to Durango through Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band, would on paper be a bluegrass musician. Outside...
DATE: April 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Eddie Adcock and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s 1972 classic “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” are what led George Usinowicz to the banjo. Neither Adcock nor Nitty Gritty have much to do with each other,...
DATE: April 23, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Social media and other internet platforms are finally doing some good in the world. All it took was a global pandemic and musicians wanting to eat and pay their rent. It’s no secret that many in...
DATE: April 16, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
It’s been a lifetime spent in the entertainment business. Thirty-one of those years have happened right here in Durango, where Gary Cook has taken the stage every evening from Memorial Day to...
DATE: April 9, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
That deafening silence you are hearing is coming from every venue in every town. Stages are dark and venues are as empty as some of the bank accounts of your favorite independent musicians,...
DATE: April 2, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Musician Tyller Gummersall had great people in his corner when he was a kid. The Allison-raised Gummersall had musical aspirations since he was a child, which began with singing in local choirs...
DATE: March 26, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
There are opinions rolling around that the jam band scene has hurt bluegrass. Others believe musicians like Allison Krauss have turned the genre from the gutsy murder ballad-spewing, breakneck...
DATE: March 19, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
This month, local roots trio Stillhouse Junkies will be hitting the opposite side of the road. Since forming in 2017 and playing regular Friday afternoon gigs at the distillery in downtown...
DATE: March 5, 2020 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The homeless population at Purple Cliffs now have a kitchen, running water, bathrooms and hand sanitizer. They made a group decision not to leave the camp whenever possible due to the Coronavirus . They even have a mini-government growing. People not at the camp are having a different experience.
