The Dial

In 2024, we bid farewell to The B-Side at One Lucky Guitar. 

Rayland and I basically grew up together. I mean, we have the same dad. His genetically, mine symbolically. I bought the lucky guitar from pop—Bucky Baxter. This would be back in 1999, twenty damn years ago.

2018 is upon us and the music has kicked off at The B-Side. On January 25th, the Tim Easton performed his—and our—first concert of the year, with a sold-out, boot-stompin’, harp-blowin’ set of gritty Americana fare. One February 5th, we held our [...]

Hot times at OLG! We’re working on some amazing projects that I can’t wait to show… but for now, here are some posters I’ve been whippin’ up lately. — Emma Michaela Anne’s latest album, Bright Lights and The Fame, is [...]

Best Album Ever, Tonight is a new monthly series—part of our celebration of 13 years at 1301 Lafayette—at The B-Side. Once a month, we’re going to host a listening party, for the best album ever. Of course, the best best-ever lists [...]

So I was going to write a Dial post to end all others about Middle Waves; had been thinking about it for several weeks. But those several weeks became consumed by…cookin’ with Middle Waves, of all things. So, here are [...]

Around a decade ago, my colleague Emily Bermes challenged me to write a “ten-year vision” for One Lucky Guitar. At the time, I wasn’t sure where I’d be in two weeks, much less ten years. It was a topic too daunting [...]

On Saturday night, my band is going to perform the music of Bruce Springsteen on stage at the historic Embassy Theatre, as part of an event called Down the Line. This event marks Down the Line’s tenth anniversary, and that downright [...]

There are only a couple requirements to play at The B-Side at OLG, and even then, the rules are more than a little loose. Anyway, the most important rule is that someone at OLG has to love the person playing. [...]

Disclaimer: This is an over-excited post about any and everything that has gone on at The B-Side this summer, but it’s also a really long “thank you” note to everyone who helps these events happen—all of my teammates at OLG, all the [...]