Muzzle of Bees posts

Howdy folks. I know, I know. An actual update? Incredible ! Absurd! Unthinkable! Well, really its kind of a half-post. Not totally new content, just a collection of the posts I have made over the last five months as a contributor to the blog Muzzle of Bees.

It was a lucky connection to have made--basically I responded to an inquiry on twitter for a new contributor and my being in Champaign-Urbana was a good fit for the regional audience of the blog (Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and now CU). The perks are nice: review passes to concerts, occasional free music to review and keep up with, and--perhaps best of all--a new network of friends and connections in the music/blog-criticism world. It's been fun. Here's a list of my posts with links (from most recent to oldest):

• grass|roots 4 :: Tony Rice
• grass|roots 3 :: Punch Brothers - Punch
• Review: Joe Pug – Canopy Club, Urban
• Review: Retribution Gospel Choir – Canopy Club, Urbana
• grass|roots 2 :: Review: Béla Fleck – Canopy Club, Urbana
• Review: Juniper Tar – “The Howl Street EP”
• grass|roots 1 :: Jerry Douglas
• Review: Spoon – “Transference”
• James Taylor & Carole King reunite, incite JT nostalgia
• Review: Jeff Tweedy – Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix AZ
• Favorites of 2009
• Review: Andrew Bird – Foellinger Auditorium, Urbana
• “Golden” Moments: Shifting Tastes & Musical Watersheds
• Review: Maps & Atlases / Elsinore / Walkmen – Urbana
• Review: Neko Case – Canopy Club, Urbana
• Sarah Jarosz: Song Up In Her Head
• Review: Thao w/ TGDSD Canopy Club, Urbana
• The Beatles as the World’s First International Cover Band
• Review: Blitzen Trapper – Canopy Club, Urbana, IL.  

If you just read one, check out the one titled "Golden" Moments. I think it is fairly representative of the best part of having a blog that lots of people actually read.