Ray LaMontagne Live at the Beacon Theatre

For those of us who are retrospectively inclined music-wise, last Friday night at the Beacon Theater was a dream come true. Ray LaMontagne put on a show akin to those we might imagine were performed back in 1971 when guitars reigned supreme, or perhaps back in 1968 when light shows were still a thing.

Another Top 10 list? The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus

“The story we’re telling is about imprisonment, but the music we’re making is about freedom, the tiny moments of freedom you steal from a life you don’t own, that doesn’t belong to you, that you have to live.”