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Record Review from web archive January 31, 2009
Drew Blackard
If you think that Right About Now I’d Like To Move To Austin And Buy A Purple House is a rather long title for a record, know that it’s also the title of the first song on this five-track EP – and that the song is seven and a half minutes long. Know, also, that [...]
Record Review from web archive January 30, 2009
Mickeys
Walk Along is the second album from the Mickeys, a duo of lovely, talented twin sisters from Michigan who sing heartfelt songs in the kind of dulcet harmonies only siblings can. The album should swell the ranks of their following here and overseas (they’ve done a couple of European tours), and will no doubt please [...]
Feature from web archive January 30, 2009
Lost Crusaders: Praise the lord and pass the maracas
For many years Michael Chandler has been on a journey – sure, you can go ahead and call it a crusade – to a place where he could make an album like Have You Heard About The World? A gospel record with indie pedigree, country-soul undercurrents, and a take-responsibility message. A gospel record on which [...]
Record Review from web archive January 29, 2009
Andy Friedman & the Other Failures
“I haven’t been to the lake since music’s mystery has been replaced.” For many musicians, this would be a profoundly sad lyric, but “Weary Apology”, the second-to-last song on Weary Things, doesn’t have such a feel. Instead, it’s a nostalgic look at accomplishments, a mixture of past joys and current responsibilities which is echoed in [...]
Column from web archive January 28, 2009
R.E.M.’s still-echoing Murmur
Recently, through the networking magic of Facebook, I reconnected with an acquaintance from my university days for the first time in more than twenty years. During the brief, ensuing exchange of memory-lane messages, she recalled that way back in early ’80s, I was the first person to introduce her to the music of R.E.M. In [...]
Record Review from web archive January 28, 2009
Fiction Family
The fact that Hear Music, the label which keeps the front counters at Starbucks littered with CDs, was the initial home to this debut collaboration signals what’s in store: sunny folk-pop that goes well with caffeine and the Sunday paper. But Jon Foreman and Sean Watkins demonstrate deeper into this album that they have far [...]
Record Review from web archive January 27, 2009
Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Hawks of a different feather
We each inevitably hear music in the particular ways that we do at least partly because of all that we’ve heard before – because of the context and expectations we bring to new work. For instance, many of us have anticipated Ready For The Flood, an album by Mark Olson & Gary Louris, in light [...]
Record Review from web archive January 26, 2009
April Verch
You may not recognize the name, but seven albums into a sixteen-year career, Canadian musician April Verch has gained an audience far beyond her native Ottawa Valley. The accomplished fiddler and stepdancer brings a wealth of talent and creativity to her latest release, on which she’s supported by an impressive cast of acoustic musicians and [...]
Column from web archive January 26, 2009
Change is gonna do ya good:
The music of Otis Gibbs
One of my favorite songs of this still-fresh century is Otis Gibbs’ “I Wanna Change It”. From his album One Day Our Whispers, it’s an inspiring sing-along that has only grown in relevance since its release in 2004. Allow me to quote from the song at length. Gibbs sings: There’s been an awful lot of [...]
Live Reviews from web archive January 25, 2009
Connie Smith
You may imagine that seeing a full-force, honky-tonk-loaded set from the great Connie Smith and her crack band is commonplace in Nashville, seeing as how she’s on this town’s Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts regularly, and more recently is also seen doing a number or two on her husband’s lively Marty Stuart Show on RFD-TV [...]
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