copy by Donovan Wheeler featured image by Tasha Ramey Photography The first time I heard Rebekah Meldrum sing she stood atop a flatbed trailer on the downhill end of Greencastle’s Franklin Street. Belting out the lyrics to “Coattails,” and anchored by Paul Holdman’s masterful fret work on blues guitar, Meldrum’s …
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copy and photos by Mark Wright Terre Haute’s Blues at the Crossroads 2018 is in the books, and from my own eyes and ears and the accounts of the numerous folks I talked to, it was a resounding success. Nearly perfect weather drew crowds in the thousands, a new arrangement …
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I could say that Cari Ray is a superb, technical musician when she works the frets. That would be true. I could also say that Cari Ray’s voice is better than strong—it rings in even, resplendent peals of sound. That would also be true. I could say that Cari Ray evokes …
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by Mark Wright Featured Image Courtesy Blues at the Crossroads When I arrived at The Verve in Terre Haute at 12:30 on a Friday afternoon to talk to Connie Wrin about the upcoming Blues at the Crossroads, I did not realize I would be walking into the chaos of two …
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by Donovan Wheeler featured image by Jeremy Black courtesy of The Dogmatics Yes, traditional poetry still exists. Talented writers can still settle down on a park bench, scrawl out a quatrain’s worth of observations in trochaic tetrameter, patch it together with an alternating rhyme scheme, and find a publisher who …
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by Donovan Wheeler photos by Bruce Haley Mato Nanji has one of those disarming laughs—the casual, innocent kind which makes you think you’re talking to the guy you grew up with who now hangs drywall, shoots pool for a dollar a game, takes his kids to the lake for fishing …
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