Because a pedal steel guitar is featured prominently in their sound, The Court & Spark often get pegged as an alt-country band, but nothing could be further from the truth. The steel guitar is just ...

The sandwich board outside Court & Spark, the Carroll Gardens bar on Court Street near the corner of 9th, informs that this is the business’s last week of operation. Folks who work there say its last ...

Three years ago, you might have gotten away with calling the Court & Spark a neo-California country-rock band. Indeed, the San Francisco group's ties to such forbears as the Byrds and the Flying ...

City Winery New York Presents The The Joni Project performing Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark album live in concert on February 26th at 7:30pm The Joni Project formed as a tribute in sound and spirit ...

Released 50 years ago, the singer’s commercial breakthrough is a masterwork of ambivalence. By Lola Seaton Technically speaking, the most popular album in Joni Mitchell’s sublime, defiantly variegated ...

As Court & Spark guitarist/singer M.C. Taylor unhurriedly lays down meaty, old-school Joe Walsh-style riffs, it’s impossible not to picture him affecting a self-satisfied pout — an image that seems at ...

The Court and Spark was originally lumped in with the alt-country movement largely because of the San Franciscans’ choice of instrumentation: Pedal-steel and acoustic guitars played prominent roles on ...