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Two major musical events happening on the same day is not a problem Durango has on a regular basis. Like exorbitant rent prices, homelessness and panhandling, these are big city issues rearing...
DATE: Aug. 15, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Bayfield-based musicians Garrett and Callie Young want to tour. Everywhere. For a young band, playing a show in all 50 states is a challenge, but not unattainable; a band should have a business...
DATE: Aug. 8, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Robin Davis doesn’t listen to a lot of bluegrass. Despite the fact that he currently plays guitar in old-time outfit Six Dollar String Band, was a member of local bluegrass bands Waiting on Trial...
DATE: July 31, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Call her a soul singer. While Amy Helm is a musician rooted in blues, gospel, old-school R&B and the country and folk that make up the catch-all of modern Americana, her love is soul music. Her...
DATE: July 25, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The Tucson band Mesquite made its last record in guitar player and vocalist Gus Woodrow’s house. It may not be the most ideal location to make a record, but it works for the band, which found that...
DATE: July 18, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
A common bond between all four members of local rock band The Crags is a love of Pink Floyd. It makes sense. In their early Syd Barrett days, Pink Floyd was an independent band with psychedelic...
DATE: July 11, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
A beautiful aspect of the long-running and local classical music festival Music in the Mountains is its ability to step outside the classical music box and bring something different. Not that a...
DATE: July 4, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Reggae is a genre of music that takes hold of some people and refuses to let go. These are people who eat, sleep and breathe reggae, people like Gracie “Bassie” Kruse, “Rasta” Stevie Smith or Koral...
DATE: June 27, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The Brew Train is all about supporting local. Part of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, the weekly Brew Train, which runs from Rockwood to Cascade every Saturday morning, features...
DATE: June 20, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Chandler Holt’s bluegrass and banjo obsession started with a cassette. Long before he had an awareness of anything bluegrass music-related, he was a typical music fan absorbing what most young...
DATE: June 13, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The phrase, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach,” doesn’t apply for faculty at iAM MUSIC. It’s a stupid phrase anyway, likely created by a one-hit wonder in the clever-phrase department who...
DATE: June 6, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Nobody said the music business was a walk in the park. The band Dire Straits took a sarcastic look at how some view the music biz with their 1985 hit “Money for Nothing,” with that infectious hook...
DATE: May 30, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
