You can’t talk about the history of music in Iowa without mentioning the seminal (and sadly defunct) grassroots record label Trailer Records, started by Iowa City musician David Zollo. Recently on the Iowa Music Archive Series, Zollo shared the genesis of the label. “…[Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, Radislav Lorkovic and I] wanted something more funky […]
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Bo Ramsey, Joe and Vicki Price set to make the Ideal Theater feel like the Mill this Saturday
Young musicians dominate the press and public consciousness, because talent and the energy of youth will always be compelling. But if we’re talking about music as a capital ‘A’ Art, people like Bo, Joe and Vicki have been making music for well nigh five decades…
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LV Recommends: The new food menu at Octopus, Cedar Falls’ accidentally iconic music venue, makes it even harder to ever go home
I arrived at the Octopus in Cedar Falls for the first time on a Friday around 6 p.m., hoping to catch the weekly 5 o’clock Free Chicken Wings special, a tradition/homage to the old crew that ran Stebs. Clocking the where-are-the-wings look on my face, the bartender chuckled good-naturedly and said, “Yeah, we had a […]
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Rush Cleveland, elder statesman of Iowa blues, will celebrate a banner year in Cedar Falls Saturday before competing in the International Blues Challenge
At every step in roughly six decades of making music, Rush Cleveland’s remained true to himself. He doesn’t use a setlist, preferring instead to read the audience and go with his gut. And he’s a living encyclopedia of American music — “From Muddy to Merle and all points in between,” he likes to say. Yet […]
