One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It’s sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord – enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth exploring more and short enough to move from those who hold no appeal .
Which is why I so enjoyed ‘Across the Great Divide,” a recent benefit concert for both the Americana Music Association and The Blues Foundations that took place recently at the Theater at the Ace Hotel and featured John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Lee-Ann Womack and Bob Weir (whose trio had played the night before at the same theater, and which I also posted about) along with Joe Louis Walker, Slash, Shemekia Copeland, and Tal Wikenfeld. To Read more click here
