Barely a fortnight after news of Glossary’s signing to Xtra Mile, comes news of another exciting hook-up for the UK label. Oregon’s mighty Larry And His Flask will release their next album, on Xtra Mile in June. To my mind, […]
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Due to an enrollment overload of adolescent baby boomers, I spent the first two years of my high school experience on double sessions. Interestingly, among that large sea of blemished teenage faces and new social experience, I could have counted […]
This record can be summed up with five words: “Def Leppard with a banjo.” Replace the leather pants and motorcycle boots with scuffed up Romeos and roughed up jeans and you’ve transformed England’s most successful arena rockers into America’s new […]
Well, after cleaning the house, mowing the lawn and dropping the kids at their various Saturday night functions, I dropped in on the used record shop downtown. Got to spend a whole hour there, believe it or not. Listened to […]
Motherlode of previously unreleased Big Star mixes The slow catching flame of Big Star’s belated renown has recently been stoked by a feature-length documentary, and now by this Record Store Day double-LP of period demos and alternate mixes, and a […]
Delta Moon is five shows deep into this spring’s European tour, and I’m settling into my road head. We started near Dusseldorf, made our way southeast across Bavaria to Salzburg, Austria, birthplace of Mozart, and then east to Vienna, birthplace […]
Think you know the ukulele? Meet folk singer-songwriter Kelli Rae Powell, who since 2003 has made this much misunderstood “baby guitar” her instrument of choice. Cradling it in her arms, Powell knows how to bring out the best in her […]
Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers Robert Randolph, Aubrey Ghent, Darick Campbell, Chuck Campbell, Calvin Cook Even though Robert Randolph’s name is writ large on this Concord Records debut studio album for the Slide Brothers: Aubrey Ghent, Darick Campbell, Chuck […]
Disclaimer: I love this band! Played their music at my wedding, used one of their songs (“Happy”) from their standout album, Dustbowl Lover, as a backing to my digital wedding album, so I am far from a neutral, disinterested reviewer. That […]
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