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Artist: Pernice Brothers

The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006

The Pernice Brothers – The audience is listening

“At the time I thought I wanted to be a poet, but what I was discovering was that I wanted to use my mind to create things.” –Joe Pernice Every writer, some writers will tell you, has an ideal reader, real or imaginary, who receives their work, who they trust, who will take them out [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005

Pernice Brothers – Discover A Lovelier You

Despite what you may read, Joe Pernice is no Brian Wilson. He’s no John Lennon, either, nor a Paul McCartney, nor a Nick Drake. But he is an inordinately gifted songwriter, one blessed with an gorgeous set of pipes. He’s additionally possessed of an uncommon intuition when he steps into the studio; if a tune [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003

Pernice Brothers – Yours, Mine & Ours

It’s hard to believe Joe Pernice once stood around in muddy farm fields threatening to burn down silos and shoot the livestock. On Yours, Mine & Ours, the former Scud Mountain Boy sounds, more than ever, like someone who’s never set foot in rural America. He does, however, seem to have a newfound love for [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001

Pernice Brothers – The World Won’t End

In a wickedly funny essay accompanying the press materials for the new Pernice Brothers album, band mastermind Joe Pernice recounts a hellish airplane ride across the Atlantic. “The plane just dropped about 500 feet in a second, and a red-faced flight attendant, picking herself off the floor, readjusting her skirt, is hoping we didn’t see [...]

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The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #15 May-June 1998

Pernice Brothers – American stars & bars

It’s South by Southwest weekend in Austin, Texas, the year’s biggest gathering of up-and-coming musical acts, with more than 800 artists crammed into three dozen or so clubs, bars, coffeehouses and parking lots over a five-day stretch. Daytime parties and in-stores make it easy to do nothing but see live music from the moment you [...]

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From the Blogs

  • A Double Shot of Southern Comfort With Tom Petty and the Tontons
    The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, isn’t all about the headlining acts such as Kings of Leon and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The pride of Gainesville, Florida, Petty had sort of the home-field advantage Saturday night on the Hangout Stage, playing just one state over and practically a direct Interstate-10 shot from Heartbreakers… […]
  • CD Review - Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters "Just For Today"
    Just For Today Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters It's Ronnie Earl's band, but he doesn't dominate it. Recorded live at a couple of venues in his home state of Massachusetts,the Stony Plains release is a seamless blend of jazz, soul and r&b by a band of seasoned vets comfortable enough with one another to have an intense musical conversation […]
  • Americana Boogie Music Releases for the week of May 21st... Jude Johnstone, Red Dirt Rangers, Cold Satellite, Augie Meyers
    COLD SATELLITE (with JEFFREY FOUCAULT) Cavalcade (Signature Sounds) 2013 sophomore album from this band centered on the collaboration between songwriter Jeffrey Foucault and poet Lisa Olstein. Cavalcade both refines and concentrates the band's signature amalgam of Rock, Blues, and Country. Described by legendary music… […]
  • CD Review - Hans Theessink "Wishing Well"
    Although Hans Theessink has made a name for himself with his acoustic blues guitar proficiency, he's the closest thing to Ry Cooder other than Cooder himself. On his last outing on Blue Groove, Theessink collaborated with long time Cooder vocalist Terry Evans for 2012's Delta Time, a soulful, gospel drenched electric blues excursion. This time out […]
  • A Tribute to The Doors Ray Manzarek 1939-2013
    "You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way."    Ray Manzarek   In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years old. I was completely transfixed by the band. Having an older musician brother […]
  • CD Review: The Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band - Roots of My Raising (Melody Roundup, 2013)
    Country artist's fine return to his bluegrass roots Clinton Gregory had a run of Top-100 country hits in the early '90s, but both his releases and commercial success became scarce by mid-decade. He returned last year with Too Much Ain't Enough, his first album in… […]

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