Sound Advice: Chris Isaak’s Holiday Tour Brings Christmas Classics to Cincinnati
Chris Isaak’s obsession with Elvis, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison has rarely been as obvious as it is on his two holiday albums, 2004’s simply titled Christmas and 2022’s Everybody Knows It’s Christmas. Isaak’s swoony croon is in full bloom on rockabilly-inspired covers of “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Help Me…
Sound Advice: Ricky Skaggs Brings His Bluegrass Christmas Tour to Cincinnati’s Memorial Hall
The first thing one sees upon visiting Ricky Skaggs’ website is the headline “A Hall of Fame Career.” Below that is a list of the various halls of fame that have inducted Skaggs: Country Music, IBMA Bluegrass Music, The National Fiddler, Musicians, GMA Gospel Music Association and Kentucky. That’s an impressive list for those who…
Jess Lamb on Spiritual Creativity, Cincinnati Roots and Her Upcoming Album ‘Hymns For My Friends’
A conversation with Jess Lamb is a hybridized combination of disparate and yet inextricably connected qualities. It’s a tarot reading, a palmist’s insights, an astrologer’s consultation, a musical treatise, a philosophical dissection, a sweat lodge journey to the soul’s center and a repudiation of the illusionist’s art in favor of true magic. Case in point:…
