Four folk and country icons team up for what promises to be a very informal collaborative concert at the Pabst Theater. Three of the four—folkie Patty Griffin, country traditionalist Buddy Miller and country legend/alt-country queen Emmylou Harris—launched a similar tour in 2004 called the “Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue,” but this one, “Three Girls and their Buddy,” swaps Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for Shawn Colvin, the folk-rocker who scored a major hit in the late-’90s with her revenge tale, “Sunny Came Home.”

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everyone's iPod shuffle anyway, musicians considered how their songs
might congeal as a whole or form some sort of dram
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an Americana-inflected album working with country and folk traditions
for images of sawdust floors set to mandolin and fiddle. Costello
intended one s
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The enduring fantasy of older men is that a gorgeous
young woman will fall in love with them, find them sexually arousing
and long to imbibe their wisdom while sitting at their feet. That
fantasy is the spring driving Woody Allen's often-hilarious f
Away We Go, a droll comedy-cum-drama by director Sam Mendes (American Beauty),
perceptively explores the lives of more-or-less ordinary 30-somethings
lost in a world without much meaning. Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Bu


