An election year both as bizarre and as crucial as this brings out the best in Was (Not Was). Regrouping after a recording hiatus of almost two decades — as bassist Don (Fagenson) Was achieved a higher profile producing Bonnie […]
An election year both as bizarre and as crucial as this brings out the best in Was (Not Was). Regrouping after a recording hiatus of almost two decades — as bassist Don (Fagenson) Was achieved a higher profile producing Bonnie […]
For Will Hoge, it’s never been about the lyrics. And, no surprise here, it still isn’t. Draw The Curtains, the follow-up to last year’s self-released The Man Who Killed Love, finds him tossing around comfortably familiar heartland rock phraseology. But […]
JEFF Finlins narrative songs are soaking in imagery about traveling, leaving, living in the moment and regret. They are colored with drive-through biscuits, carousel horses, skull-and-crossbones tattoos, skimming stones and coffee-colored skylines. In Nothings Enough, Finlin sings, We had it […]
You could almost call it the perfect storm for fans of Big Star: In addition to an exhaustive new biography of the power-pop godfathers (by U.K. writer Rob Jovanovic), In Space marks the group’s first studio recording in three decades. […]
Kelly Joe Phelps has a naturally resonant voice that walks a fine line. He can sound richly appointed but untethered to the earth, a fate that sometimes befalls others with naturally beautifully timbres, such as John Martyn and even the […]
Ah, yes…Fastball…you remember their sadly typical rise-and-fall story, right? Out-of-nowhere pop-rock hitmakers with the wondrous “The Way”, from the 1998 album, All The Pain Money Can Buy. The epitome of lightning caught. Then the follow-up two years later, The Harsh […]
Since his 1998 debut Dressed Up Like Nebraska, Josh Rouse’s vigilantly understated music has adorned the backgrounds of TV shows such as “Ed” and “Dawson’s Creek”, and Cameron Crowe arranged a scene in the film Vanilla Sky as if to […]
For years, Oregon’s Kelly Joe Phelps has fascinated fans, many of them accomplished musicians, with his lap-style acoustic slide guitar technique. His virtuosity as a player and his skills as an interpreter of country blues classics have never been in […]
When characters in the film of Edith Wharton’s The House Of Mirth discuss Americana, the setting is genteel society in 1905. To these ladies and gentlemen, Americana is simply American art, quintessentially colonial and indigenous. See also: Andrew Bird’s Bowl […]
Taj Mahal-like, Alvin Youngblood Hart continues to forage where he pleases. Start With The Soul finds him combining ’70s soul, rock and jazz in the company of Big Star and Replacements producer Jim Dickinson. Hart covers Chuck Berry’s “Back To […]
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