Dr. John kicked off Live on the Green, a free Nashville outdoor concert series, on September 6. Jon Cleary and Moon Taxi opened.

Tom Petty. Photos courtesy of New Orleans Jazz Fest. Unlike last year’s Jazz Fest where the programming felt more-than-slightly schizophrenic (Kid Rock, Bon Jovi, Tom Jones, Kenny G, Cyndi Lauper), this year’s fest was a model of roots-festival booking, a wholly integrated piece of spectacle-making where the possibility of transcendence — which by its very [...]