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The Trick Is To Keep Going
http://thetrickismusic.com
This is the new location for what was The Trick Is on Wordpress. Still the same. A music site about concerts, CD releases and memories of the music industry during the past 45 years.
Recent Posts
Under The Radar, No. 3: Fleetwood Mac, the forgotten years
Between the departure of Peter Green and the arrival of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac soldiered on in the early-to-mid 1970s re-fashioning their sound over six albums, a span of time and music that is largely forgotten by the ge...
Concerts Vol. 10: Zappa and Zappa
A friend of mine has asked me several times to write about what I felt was the most disappointing concert I’d ever been to. I’ve already mentioned a couple, Poco at the Shakespearean Theatre in Stratford, CT, mostly because of the horren...
From The Vaults: Hidden Treasures 6 & 7
Back in the late 1980s, I remember seeing an ad in the back of a jazz magazine, either a Downbeat or Jazziz, for an album with four guitarists with Workshop in the title. It was a small, innocous one-column, black-and-white display on the rail of on...
Return of the Beehive Queen
Christine Ohlman hasn’t really been away. In the past five years, she has continued to work with her band Rebel Montez and as a singer for the Saturday Night Live Band, and released the retrospective Re-Hive last year. But The Deep End, rele...
Derek Trucks at the Garde
It’s rare that I get a chance to see an artist more than once in a calendar year. It happened last night. I drove down to New London to see The Derek Trucks Band at the Garde Arts Center, a theater built in the ’20s, saved by the townsp...
Bebel Gilberto brings it all together
Bebel Gilberto has been singing professionally since she was seven, but she really made her first unforgettable mark on the solo debut Tanta Tempo (2000), which sold more than a million worldwide. Tanta was the perfect blending of bossa nova with mo...

