Kevin Nelson – Guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke will play Seattle’s Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on July 8 and 9.This excites me personally, because I’ve only seen Leo Kottke perform live once. And that one time was at his dad’s funeral.
Kevin Nelson – There’s a two-verse stanza from “Fletcher’s,” on Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn’s latest album Always Been, that hits like a knowing punch in the gut for any of the many transplants to this city.
Kevin Nelson – “Do you remember those times / Those times before there was a pandemic / And you could see Hold Steady’s Craig Finn at some guy’s house / located in the middle of Ballard?” While this might not have been a Hold Steady song, it definitely was for me, back in the pre-pandemic times of 2017.
