Nashville Music Blog

looks like i'll be avoiding the ryman like the plague on halloween

I do like the Drive-By Truckers but my jury's still out on The Hold Steady. Anyone here seen them live? What are they like?

I'm psyched that The Hold Steady are coming but I do wish this was going to be a standing room show with a bunch of sweaty drunks singing along, like when I saw them at Middle East in Boston. But alas it will be 200 people crowding the front of the stage while everyone else sits in church pews where it won't be loud enough, sigh.

I hear that on the Ryman—though I still think it could be pretty magical in a different way. And they're apparently doing 23 dates, so I'm hoping to get my club fix elsewhere.

do you have other dates for this tour? this is a show not to be missed!

DG: I have tickets to the Chicago show. Don't know how I'm getting there seeing as airfare has near tripled for a Southwest flight into Midway, and its a long ass drive. Who else is going?

That aside, a boy can always dream that his favorite band plays here too.

"a boy can always dream"

How old are you, really, to be so obsessed with bands whose last records came out almost 20 years ago, and is "boy" really the right word to describe yourself?

Maybe I have been asleep... but is the Hold Steady playing with the Counting Crows??