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• The Real Cupid Revealed Thanks to Eilen Jewell
  Valentine's Day is upon us. Its time we revisit Eilen Jewell's Bang Bang Bang from 2011's Queen of the Minor Key. Cupid firing at random...using a sawed-off shot gun...random and even cruel. These sentiments line up more with most people's love experiences than the traditional depiction of Cupid and love. This is a live clip of Bang Bang […]
• Americana Boogie: New music this week from Punch Brothers, Kevin Gordon, Otis Taylor, Albert Lee & more...
  Original post on Americana Boogie.  Here's some of the new Americana and roots-type music for the week of February 14th, 2012, otherwise known as Valentine's Day. The artist's names link to their websites and the CD title links go to either Amazon or… […]
• Too Much, The Magic Boat
  After forty years or so, the concert experience gets a little old even though some of the people who have playing through the ages still can put on a pretty good show. Even so, too many of us have lost interest in the endless hassles of scoring good seats, waiting on long lines and fighting the crowds. In the past we'd be herded through the turnstiles […]
• Interview: A Discussion with Charlie Parr
  I discovered the music of Charlie Parr by starting with a pair of his albums that were recorded with two of my favorite artists: Glory In The Meeting House (featuring Black Twig Pickers) and Backslider (featuring Trampled By Turtles). After absorbing these two, I moved onto Roustabout, Jubilee (featuring Dave Simonett of TBT), and When The Devil Goes Blind. […]
• Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas Papa Mojo's Roadhouse Durham NC 2/11/12
  Nathan and the Zydeco  Cha-ChasPapa Mojo's RoadhouseDurham N CFeb 11, 2012  By Grant Britt Nathan Williams doesn't just stand on a stage- he owns it. And even if the venue has no stage, Williams presence fills up the room. At Mel Melton's Papa Mojo's s Roadhouse in Durham Saturday night, Williams and his band, the Zydeco Cha-chas, had  t […]
• day after day after day
  I made it through the first seventeen minutes of the Grammy Awards before I went upstairs to where the kids hang out and watched a couple episodes of The Wire, Season Five on DVD. My wife was doing work in front of the downstairs television so she kept the show on, and I caught or heard a few snippets like the Beach Boy's reunion, Glen Campbell's […]