Most people who are aware of Blaze Foley aren’t aware that they’re aware of Blaze Foley. Many unwittingly know of him as the protagonist of “Drunken Angel,” the haunting song Lucinda Williams wrote about him for her landmark album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Others may know of him through John Prine’s classic take on…
The Alliance Theatre announced its 2014-15 season today, which will feature seven world premieres, including new plays by Pearl Cleage and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and the debut of a musical based on the classic movie Bull Durham. “The 2014–15 season is full of people, stories and human moments that are simply larger than…
January has been a busy month for pianist Chuck Leavell. He anchored the band at the tribute to Gregg Allman concert last week at the Fox Theatre. Saturday, he’s at the helm of an all-star concert that celebrates Georgia roots music at Symphony Hall. And at the end of the month, he travels to Asia…
For Mike von Grey, the moment of truth came in 2010 as he watched his four teen-aged daughters — none over the age of 16 — walk onstage at Chastain Park as the opening act at a Sarah McLachlan concert. The sisters — known professionally as von Grey — had won a local competition for…
Rose Shields glides across the studio with five other dancers in what seems to be a choreographed sequence, and yet doesn’t. They aren’t as much dancing as striding back and forth from one end of the CORE Performance Company studio to the other. Sometimes they walk in sync; other times they have to maneuver to avoid…
Muscle Shoals takes up but a speck on a road map of the northwestern corner of Alabama, with a population that hovers around 13,000. And there’s really no logical explanation of how that sleepy city somehow became part of a triad of musical epicenters in the 1960s and ‘70s that came to define Southern music….
In 2005, Leah and Chloe Smith spent an afternoon in a friend’s basement and recorded an album’s worth of music as a “thank you” gift to their parents, who had schooled the sisters in Appalachian, jazz and classical music as children. That music of their childhood formed the base sounds, but they also threw in…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the arrest of Atlanta businessman Leo Frank for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Two years later, a mob descended on the Milledgeville prison where Frank was being held, kidnapped him and brought him to Marietta, where he was lynched. Frank’s lynching had national repercussions, which still resonate today….
The best measure of a pop song is when it is stripped down to a singer and a guitar. No gimmicks, no gadgetry, no studio effects. The greatest songs transcend their element; they can stand naked. And over the course of three days at Emory University, including an acoustic concert Tuesday evening at the Schwartz…
Catherine Fox, ArtsATL’s executive director and editor, has received the 2013 Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts. In a ceremony at the Creativity & Arts Soiree on Friday, Leslie Taylor, the center’s executive director, praised Fox’s “vision and persistence in demanding that Atlanta deserves intelligent and accessible arts…
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