Livestream Preview: Can’t Be There Today: Billy Bragg and The City Winery All-Stars @ YouTube, 5/10/20

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Parklifer in Preview and tagged Amy Helm, Andrew Bird, Billy Bragg, charity, City Winery, Fink, Joan Osborne, Jorma Kaukonen, Joseph Arthur, KT Tunstall, livestream, Loudon Wainwright, Mary Chapin Carpenter, music festival, Richard Thompson, Rosanne Cash, Rufus Wainwright, Shovels and Rope, Stella Donnelly, Steve Earle, The Indigo Girls, The Mountain Goats, Todd Snider, YouTube.

Billy Bragg (Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff)

Inspired by Billy Bragg’s recent Mother’s Day video release for his song “Can’t Be There Today,” City Winery and Billy are co-producing a special multi-artist Mother’s Day concert that will be broadcast on YouTube on Sunday, May 10.

Live Review: Billy Bragg @ The Birchmere — 9/19/19

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Kyle Gustafson in Live Review and tagged Billy Bragg, England, folk, The Birchmere.

Billy Bragg performs at The Birchmere on Sept. 19, 2019. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson)

Not many solo artists armed with only an amp and a guitar have done it longer or better than Billy Bragg. Accordingly, the recent trend of artists playing classic albums in their entirety is a great opportunity for Bragg, a master storyteller in addition to being a master songwriter, to look back on his career, but with a bit of a twist.