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Drew Layman
May 9, 20236 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20225 min read
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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Drew Layman
Sep 20, 202215 min read
Megan Palmer - Forget Me Not
By the time Megan Palmer performed with club owner Dan Dougan’s band The Wahoos at Little Brother's one Wednesday night in 2002, she’d...
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Drew Layman
Sep 2, 20225 min read
Nancy Wilson – Something Wonderful
Five months after her debut album was recorded and one month after it was released, Nancy Wilson was back in Capitol Studios with Billy...
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Drew Layman
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Caamp - Lavender Days
As I get older, I seem to reflexively tune out pop culture. The constant churn of trends gets increasingly exhausting. Even for things I...
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Drew Layman
Aug 7, 20224 min read
Donna Mogavero - Acoustic
One of the stalwarts of Columbus music, Donna Mogavero had been performing regularly for over ten years when she decided to finally...
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Drew Layman
Jul 24, 20224 min read
Rusty Bryant – America's Greatest Jazz, Vol II
By 1961, when Rusty Bryant’s America’s Greatest Jazz, Vol II was released, Dot Records' experiment with jazz was all but over. Dot had...
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Drew Layman
Nov 18, 20214 min read
The Uneasy Coexistence of Ohio State Football and Columbus’ Music Scene
Ohio State football plays such a prominent role in Columbus culture that it is inescapable and disruptive of everything from weddings to...
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