When Elegance Met Jazz: Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley
Nancy Wilson was taking a walk with Rusty Bryant in New York when they bumped into saxophonist Cannonball Adderley at the corner of...
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Drew Layman
- Nov 12
- 4 min
Beartooth - The Surface
I still listen to the radio. Yes, the medium has seen better days. Deregulation and corporatization have sapped much of its character....
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Drew Layman
- Oct 28
- 4 min
Tim Easton - Ammunition
Tim Easton opened for Shawn Colvin just before 9/11 at the beautiful Southern Theatre. I recognized his drummer, Justin Crooks, from our...
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Drew Layman
- Sep 23
- 4 min
New Bomb Turks – !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
Recorded by four Cleveland expats in a pre-gentrified-Brooklyn studio in 1992, !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! may be the closest thing to an iconic...
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Drew Layman
- Jun 21
- 5 min
Sally Fingerett – Encl/sf (Enclosed)
When Sally Fingerett was announced as one of the artists selected to appear on the second Q-FM-96 hometown album in September 1980, she’d...
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Drew Layman
- Jun 2
- 4 min
The Piano Of Terry Waldo – Sounds Of Ragtime & Vaudeville
Ragtime is one of the most under-appreciated and misunderstood forms of American music. Considering it was popular for a relatively short...
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Drew Layman
- May 9
- 5 min
Hank Marr Trio + 3 – Teentime Latest Dance Steps
By all accounts, organist Hank Marr and tenor saxman Rusty Bryant had a tight personal and professional relationship. But after a March...
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Drew Layman
- Apr 22
- 5 min
Red Wanting Blue - From The Vanishing Point
Surreal probably doesn’t do justice to the experience singer/songwriter Scott Terry and his Red Wanting Blue bandmates had when they...
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Drew Layman
- Mar 26
- 3 min
Blueprint – Iron & Niacin
In the liner notes of Iron & Niacin, Columbus hip-hop artist Blueprint notes that it isn't an “album.” Originally released in 2005 as...
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Drew Layman
- Feb 26
- 4 min
Salt Horse - The Best Of Times?
A couple of years ago, I took on one of those “20 albums in 20 days that made an impact” Facebook threads. It was probably started by...
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Drew Layman
- Feb 12
- 4 min
Watershed - Three Chords And A Cloud Of Dust - Live
Recorded at the Newport Music Hall, filled with photos of the venerable campus venue, and with a title alluding to Woody Hayes’ offense,...
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Drew Layman
- Feb 3
- 5 min
McGuffey Lane – Aqua Dream
By the spring of 1981, McGuffey Lane was flying high. Their self-titled debut continued to sell briskly after being reissued on Atco....
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Drew Layman
- Jan 21
- 5 min
J. D. Blackfoot - The Song Of Crazy Horse
After Mercury released The Ultimate Prophecy in 1970, J. D. Blackfoot went through many changes personally and professionally in a...
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Drew Layman
- Jan 7
- 7 min
Introducing Roland Kirk
By 1960, it had been three years since King Records released his debut Triple Threat album and Roland Kirk had left Columbus for good. He...
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Drew Layman
- Dec 22, 2022
- 6 min
Zero One - Darwin's Finch Vs The Flying Saucers
One recurring theme I've noticed as I delve into Columbus music is the negative experience that bands who sign with record labels often...
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Drew Layman
- Dec 8, 2022
- 3 min
Dwight Lenox - This Christmas
Christmas music encompasses virtually every genre, but it exists in its own world. Some people don’t consider themselves music fans but...
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Drew Layman
- Nov 27, 2022
- 5 min
Willie Pooch’s Funk-N-Blues
While not necessarily known as a blues music hotbed, Columbus has never been short of blues fans and first-rate blues musicians. We’ve...
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Drew Layman
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
Royal Crescent Mob - Omerta
On October 28, tickets quietly went on sale for the first Royal Crescent Mob shows since 1994. The shows are on December 16 in Columbus...
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Drew Layman
- Oct 18, 2022
- 6 min
əkoostik hookah – Under Full Sail
If you never experienced the late South Heidelberg in person, some scene setting is in order. The old south campus institution was...
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Drew Layman
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
Lil’ Bow Wow – Beware Of Dog
When Reynoldsburg’s Shad Moss woke up the morning of September 8, 1993, he had no way of knowing that his life would be forever changed...
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