Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, March 4,2010

Guitar town news and blues

Just when you thought it was safe to stay at home, look at the long list of hopped-up happenings this week. Then next weekend everyone goes green for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities and the ce

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, February 25,2010

February flurry of fun

By Tom Irwin

For heaven’s sake, the shows just won’t stop in Springfield or perhaps we should say, they keep stopping by. From the looks of the upcoming weekend calendar as we pass on through February,

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, February 18,2010

Fabulous February finds

By Tom Irwin

Better lick your wounds from last week’s Mardi Gras spectacular and spruce up for another superb weekend of live music in the capital city. The nightlife is jampacked with more stuff than you co

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, February 11,2010

Mardi Gras and all

By Tom Irwin

Slowly but surely the whoop-it-up holiday known around the world as Carnival season has taken hold in Springfield. Just a few years ago some hardy souls around town were determined to make a local ann

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, February 4,2010

Festive February fodder

By Tom Irwin

Somehow during the global conference on holiday scheduling meeting many millenniums ago, someone must have felt sorry for shorting February in the number of days and made up for it by overloading on t

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, January 28,2010

Bottle Rockets get fired up

By Tom Irwin

During the mid-90s The Bottle Rockets ruled the roost as a thought-provoking, hard rocking, Midwestern, alt-country band in the middle of a roots rock revolution centered in St. Louis. Later in the de

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, January 21,2010

Ragged Jack rolls on

By Tom Irwin

When Lyman Ellerman sings “life is a wheel, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll,” you know he means it in his heart and soul. The song is the title track from a new CD recorded in Nashvi

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, January 14,2010

Terry’s take on the top ten

By Tom Irwin

Prior to taking off on an adventure somewhere this week, I needed a Now Playing idea before I left. Lo and behold, Terry Hupp, one of my best friends ever, delivered a review of what he says are

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, January 7,2010

Becoming Elvis

By Tom Irwin

The person, or perhaps more correctly, the personality of Elvis Presley permeates our entertainment culture from all directions. His influence spans generations and runs the gamut from the ridiculous

Music - Tom Irwin | Wednesday, December 30,2009

New Year’s Eve reinstated

By Tom Irwin

Remember not so long ago in Now Playing land we discussed the rise of Thanksgiving Eve as the biggest party night connected to a holiday on the calendar? I’m not sure how you feel about that, bu