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Best Albums of 2011 (So Far)

nate — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:34:42 +0000

Pictured: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon I was hoping to get this out there by the time we reached the halfway mark of the year, but it’s not like we’re far from that point anyways. Rather than beat myself into the ground trying to make an actual numbered list, I thought I’d just present my favorite …

Bonnaroo Top Picks: Ben Sollee

nate — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:23:52 +0000

As of today, I’ve added another name to my top twenty must-see picks for this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Thanks to a striking, five-song set in Northside earlier this afternoon, Ben Sollee has become one artist I absolutely cannot wait to see perform this coming weekend in Tennessee. The Lexington, Kentucky native and world-renowned cellist, has …

Bonnaroo Focus: Planet Roo and the Solar Stage

nate — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:42:26 +0000

What’s a Bonnaroo you ask, and what exactly does a wacky word like that mean? Well Bonnaroo is a Cajun slang term meaning “a really good time” but it’s so much more than just a music festival. For one weekend every June since 2002, the city of Manchester has become the third largest city in the entire state of Tennessee, …

Sollee and Moore’s Dear Companion Tour

nate — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:03:39 +0000

A couple of good ol’ Kentucky boys done well. Ben Sollee, the acclaimed cellist who got his start with Abigail Washburn’s Sparrow Quartet (featuring banjo wiz Bela Fleck), has teamed up with Cold Spring native, Daniel Martin Moore, for one of the most exceptional musical collaborations I can think of in recent years. The duo recently …

Cincinnati Music News and Local Releases

nate — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:41:23 +0000

Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore Dear Companion Cold Spring’s very own Daniel Martin Moore has teamed up with renouned cellist Ben Sollee (of Abigail Washburn’s Sparrow Quartet), for a collaboration seemingly sent from the heavens above. Recorded close to home, the two focus on “the problem of mountaintop removal coal mining and its impact on the people and …