When the Garth Brooks Dive Bar Tour at Dusty Armadillo was first announced I couldn’t help but imagine what the show might be like. I have been to the Rootstown club many times and have taken in ten of Brooks’ shows since the early 90’s. So, getting a good...Read More »
For area country music lovers, Saturday night (10/26) was a special time at the MGM Northfield Park when Rodney Atkins took the stage with a show that celebrated, in his words, “family, friends and God.” And what a celebration it was! The Knoxville, TN native cranked out hit after...Read More »
The Dusty Armadillo shook like a “Texas Tornado” blew through when country music legend Tracy Lawrence brought his Made In America Tour to the stage Friday night (9/27). Lawrence’s down-home friendly demeanor and massive talent had the crowd begging for more from the moment he walked out...Read More »
If you call yourself a country music fan and you weren’t at EJ Thomas Hall in Akron on Friday evening (Sep 13), then shame on you! Canada’s own Emerson Drive and special guests The Buck Naked Band put on what just might be one of the area’s best country...Read More »
As a perfect kick-off to the 2019 summer concert season, country music heartthrob Hunter Hayes brought his Cajun infused brand of country music to a highly enthusiastic and appreciative crowd at The Agora Theater in Cleveland. The platinum selling Louisiana native, who first rose to prominence in 2011 with...Read More »
It was one of those dreaded blustery spring days in Cleveland on Saturday (3/30) as rain, snow and falling temperatures filled the air. But that was not the case inside Masonic Cleveland Auditorium, where platinum selling country music superstar Gary Allan delivered his trademark raucous and heartfelt live performance,...Read More »
The stars shined a little brighter over Rootstown on Saturday night as Drake White and The Big Fire ignited both the stage, and the Sold Out crowd at the Dusty Armadillo. OMG! What a show it was!
White, a native of Hokes Bluff in Northeastern Alabama, is...Read More »
It’s been a while since I saw a concert at The Agora. In fact, the last time I was there was on a sultry summer night in 1978, Aug. 9, to be exact. On that evening a brash young singer from New Jersey and his band took the stage...Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Jo Dee Messina live in concert. I thought I knew what to expect when this diminutive country music powerhouse took the stage this past Saturday night at Thirsty Cowboy. But I was wrong. Very wrong!
Something had changed over the years. Yes, her voice...Read More »
As soon as Tracy Byrd’s band started on Friday (9/28) at Thirsty Cowboy, you knew you were in for a true country show. The group kicked off the night by performing “The Star Spangled Banner” …as a fiddle solo. Then Byrd took the stage and led the crowd through a...Read More »
There is something that is so pure, so enjoyable and reaffirming about great country music played in a bar. In today’s much-too-common big arena and stadium country music tours, feeling the energy and purity of a talented country artist up close in an intimate setting is something that has most...Read More »
It’s great to see country artists like Lonestar back on the road playing highly energetic shows to large crowds like they did this past Saturday (Sept. 8) at the Dusty Armadillo in Rootstown. It’s too easy to overlook many of the country bands from 90’s and early 2000’s due to...Read More »
