"The best country song about a city will forever be Waylon Jennings' " Luckenbach, Texas," but when Noelle started singing "Taos," her ode to the New Mexico town, I had to rearrange a mental list of runners-up. Every Gillian Welch fan has their favorite songs, and while she and cosmic-folk guitarist extraordinaire David Rawlings didn't play mine (" Wrecking Ball," a beautiful autobiography of life in 1980s Santa Cruz), their set at the Masonic still felt like a big, warm embrace."
"Somehow Greg Ginn is getting a ton of press for taking a half-baked "Black Flag" on the road with a bunch of new, young replacements, while the actually newsworthy punk-band lineup story is that the Subhumans have been playing with the same members since 1983! To answer your only two questions: no, he does not still have that haircut, and yes, they played "I Ran" (twice)."
"Jazz pianist Bud Powell famously left New York for Paris in 1959, at the height of jazz's commercial heights; 60 years later, jazz pianist Rob Clearfield similarly left Chicago during its jazz renaissance for Paris, where at this small-club show the audience was very attentive and reverent. In what's been the worst year in my lifetime for feeling optimistic about America, I underwent a rare and sustained swell of hope while witnessing Beyoncé's ambitious tour about our beautiful, injured country"
Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas" is named the definitive country city song, and Noelle's "Taos" earns a strong runner-up mention. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings delivered a warm, embracing set despite omitting certain favorites. Greg Ginn toured with a partial Black Flag lineup while the Subhumans retain the same members since 1983. A band played "I Ran" twice and did not retain a previous haircut. An Oasis reunion was bypassed in favor of celebrating 1990s Britpop victors on their home turf. Jazz pianists Bud Powell and Rob Clearfield both relocated to Paris, drawing reverent small-club audiences. Beyoncé's ambitious tour inspired a sustained swell of hope among a rapt European crowd. A vivid list describes typical attendees at a 2025 Ice-T show.
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