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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Everly Brothers – On The Wings Of A Nightingale: The Mercury Studio Recordings

After a live reunion in 1983, the Everly Brothers recorded three studio albums that showed they could transcend nostalgia. On EB 84, producer Dave Edmunds crafted a rock/country sound that suited the Everlys’ talents, from the Rockpile-flavored “I’m Taking My Time” to the melodic pop of “On The Wings Of A Nightingale”, penned by Paul [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

David Childers & The Modern Don Juans – Jailhouse Religion

Don’t put much stock in the title of this latest release from Mt. Holly, North Carolina, artist David Childers, his second with the Modern Don Juans and his seventh, and best, overall. There’s nothing opportunistic or reborn about the evangelical fervor that seems to drive Childers when he’s rocking and rootsing. Since his 1994 debut [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

John Fogerty – The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Forgerty-Creedence Collection

Because brothers, lawyers, and egos were involved, we’ll never really know what actually happened to Creedence Clearwater Revival. What they did during their spectacular five-year run was pretty simple: They topped the charts while writing and recording archetypal American rock that retains every little bit of vigor all these years after. These 25 tracks represent [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition

As the members of Fleetwood Mac will tell you, behind every great album there’s usually a great back story, but Born To Run appears to have been the exception. From the beginning, its creation lacked a certain essential melodrama. Bruce Springsteen, then two records into a promising career as the early ’70s’ latest New Dylan, [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Snooks Eaglin – New Orleans Street Singer

Few formats are as unforgiving as a singer accompanying themselves on an acoustic guitar. This can be especially true of moonlighting electric players, and Snooks Eaglin is one flashy electrician, with fast fingers, a taste for distortion, and a name-that-tune repertoire that is said to top 2,500 songs. In 1959, Eaglin was already a familiar [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Various Artists – My Goodness, Yes! Soul Treasures From The Silver Fox Label

My Goodness, Yes! collects twenty of the best singles released on the Nashville-based Silver Fox label. It’s a great portrait of late soul music, and suggests that soul — commonly regarded as the product of specific cities and studios — had by the late 1960s become a free-floating pop style, an amalgam of the approaches [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Various Artists – Shake What You Brought! Soul Treasures From The SSS International Label

Shelby S. Singleton was Nashville’s ultimate fat cat, remembered by keyboardist Jim Dickinson as a “redneck” with a “long, greasy ducktail and mirror sunglasses,” passing out cigarettes with his name embossed in gold. Perhaps Singleton’s most famous move was purchasing the legendary Sun catalogue in 1969, then reissuing it on 28-minute fake-stereo platters with “Lifetime [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Lyn Collins – Mama Feelgood: The Best of Lyn Collins

“Funky Drummer”, a minor hit for James Brown in 1970 — with Clyde Stubblefield in the title role — features the propulsive percussion break that is said, with less exaggeration than you might think, to have “launched a thousand raps.” Stubblefield’s ubiquitously sampled groove grounds the rhythm on such indelible tracks as NWA’s “Fuck Tha [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Los Pinguinos Del Norte – Corridos De La Frontera

North of the Rio Grande it is called conjunto; south of the river it is referred to as Norteño. On the Texas-Mexico border, it’s just plain musica, and when it’s performed by Los Pinguinos Del Norte, a trio that’s been playing for more than 54 years, it is simply some of the most soulful music [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006

Various Artists – Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security, 6-CD box

The Atomic Cafe, an acclaimed 1982 cinema verite documentary (and its soundtrack LP), brilliantly presented America’s official atomic preparedness propaganda of the 1940s and 1950s, laughably dated and discredited by the ’80s. Though it debuted during the Reagan years, most negative commentary came from witless pacifists unable to grasp the film’s ironic humor, who whined [...]

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From the Blogs

  • The Felice Brothers On Tour
    The Felice Brothers will be hitting the road again this summer with a stop at the Newport Folk Festival August 1st before heading to Europe for several engagements. Upon their return to the U.S. in September the band will perform shows in Nashville, Sante Fe, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit, Washington and… […]
  • Freight Train Boogie podcast #80
    TIM O'BRIEN's new CD, Chicken & Egg is featured on show #80. Also new music from ROMAN CANDLE, STONEHONEY and CHATHAM COUNTY LINE. The full playlist is posted below. Check the artist's w… […]
  • Hot Rize / Red Knuckles tour announced
    Eight shows in late October early November. Featuring the astounding Bryan Sutton, Tim O'Brien, Nick Forster and Pete Wernick. This outfit rarely plays more than a few festivals per year so catch them when they stop at your local honky tonk. ' /> […]

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    A sad song on an album is expected, but an album full of depression and substance abuse is genius. I'm wondering, what are some of your favourite albums - sad or not - that manage to tear you up/depress the hell out of you? […]
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    I'm kinda digging these guys. A local record store has a bunch of their CDs used ($5 each). I might run by after work and grab one or two. What would you say are their best albums? In case they don't have what you consider to be their top album, what are the next best ones? Also, I'll go ahead and welcome myself to the board. I'm just st […]

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