Archives for 2008 » November
Record Review from web archive November 30, 2008
ND’s year-end roundup
2008: In Review — index:January 2: See the results of our annual year-end critics’ pollDecember 31: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, The Hare’s Corner (by Peter Blackstock)December 30: Como Now: The Voices Of Panola Co., Misissippi (by Grant Alden)December 29: Ersi Arvizu, Friend For Life (by John Morthland)December 28: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Sunday At [...]
Record Review from web archive November 29, 2008
Digney Fignus
If the name’s familiar, you most likely are steeped in mid-1980s music trivia. Digney Fignus had a modest MTV hit in 1984 called “The Girl With The Curious Hand” (beating out author David Foster Wallace’s short-story collection with its similar title by a few years). This new record has nothing to do with that, as [...]
Record Review from web archive November 28, 2008
Rodney DeCroo
Technically speaking, Vancouver’s Rodney DeCroo is a solo artist, but the strength of Mockingbird Bible is the team he’s assembled around him. Apart from Be Good Tanyas chanteuse Samantha Parton, most of his backing players aren’t exactly household names in America or, for that matter, in most of their native Canada.
On the Great White North’s [...]
Column from web archive November 28, 2008
Young in younger days; Eno/Byrne reunited
WHATTA TEASE!: The launch of Neil Young’s Archives series had been widely and fervently anticipated before the end of this year, after delays that have extended for decades. The project had originally begun as a follow-up to 1977’s career-defining Decade, but new technology and new Neil Young music interceded. The latest announcement is that the [...]
Record Review from web archive November 26, 2008
Trace Adkins
Trace Adkins’ recent publicity moves – a contrarian (if predictable) book, appearances on Celebrity Apprentice, and a cameo bit on The Young And The Restless – are par for the course for today’s mainstream acts. It’s not that Adkins requires the hype. His modern traditionalism, (mostly) free of warmed-over rock cliches, offers established ideas, moods [...]
Record Review from web archive November 25, 2008
‘Tis The Season
One of the categories I have in my mega-CD changer – it’s a 400-CD jukebox – is for holiday music. I have about 20 discs in there that I listen to on shuffle-play, usually when company is here, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. Every November, I take out the ones I’m tired of, and [...]
Column from web archive November 25, 2008
Ernest V. Stoneman’s proper place in country music history
One of 2008’s best country reissues, maybe even the best, is Ernest V. Stoneman: The Unsung Father Of Country Music, 1925-1934. The 46-track collection is smartly packaged, including a small hard-bound book with lots of photos. But it’s the savvy selection of some too-long-unavailable early sides of Ernest “Pops” Stoneman that excites. There’s his first [...]
Column from web archive November 24, 2008
Cash’s construct comes around
There’s a bonus interview attached to the brand new documentary DVD included the Legacy-edition box of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison in which his daughter Rosanne confides, or at least tells us, that “I’m just not very interested in participating in the posthumous version of my dad’s career…Enough’s been said. I was gonna say no [...]
Live Reviews from web archive November 24, 2008
Punch Brothers
When Chris Thile said goodbye to Nickel Creek last year, it was hard to know exactly what the mandolin virtuoso had in mind for his next move. But it was fair to expect that it would be something ambitious. Thile, after all, has been defying convention since he was a pre-teen mandolin champion, later leading [...]
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