7.3.08
Jacob's Pillow Gala makes the New York Sun
Mysterious Zelig shows up in front-page photo
7.1.08
MONTREAL DIARY
Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival
7.1.08
WTF's NICHOLAS MARTIN TO HEADLINE FREE FORUM
[PRESS RELEASE] New WTF leader at Triplex, Sunday, July 13, 11 a.m., for REST OF THE STORY
6.27.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Mark Morris at Tanglewood
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
6.24.08
Passenger air travel on brink of collapse
System headed for full-metal breakdown by end of year
6.24.08
Gas prices may usher in era of New Urbanism
Suburbs collapsing from internal contradiction of life built around cars, highways, and cheap gas
6.24.08
Ian McEwan joins Martin Amis in speaking out against Islamism
Rare writers willing to take a politically incorrect stand
6.24.08
BTF's Kate Maguire speaks at forum on Sunday, June 29
REST OF THE STORY event at Triplex Cinema
9.13.07
YOGA to be focus of forum on September 23
Berkshire Living's REST OF THE STORY event at the Triplex
6.19.08
New Mamet One-Act to Debut at Mahaiwe
[PRESS RELEASE] Benefit Performance for Berkshire Playwrights Lab June 25
6.19.08
[FILM REVIEW] ROMAN DE GARE
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.16.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Jen Chapin at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.18.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Garth Fagan collaborates with Wynton Marsalis at Jacob's Pillow
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
|
[MUSIC REVIEW] ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AT THE MAHAIWE
11.12.07
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Great Barrington, Mass.
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(Great Barrington, Mass., November 12, 2007) -- Asleep at the Wheel performed its unique brand of western swing at the Mahaiwe last night. Actually, what was most surprising about the group’s concert was how much it transcended the genre of Western Swing – a kind of cross between swing jazz and country music – to embrace all sorts of American roots music, including folk, blues, classic pop, jazz, bluegrass, boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, Southern rock, and rockabilly.
In addition to its own music, the group, led by founder Roy Benson, who is a kind of a cross between Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, performed numbers by singers and songwriters as diverse as Mose Allison, Nat King Cole, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, and the Marshall Tucker Band.
There of course was plenty of western swing, too, with a whole mini-set devoted to the genre's founder, Bob Wills.
The current incarnation of Asleep at the Wheel was both entertaining and virtuosic, and the group put on a great, old-fashioned road show the type of which we no longer see enough.
|
