West Coast Americana of country, folk and a taste of Dixieland Though this Los Angeles band’s second album includes eight tracks, it clocks in at only twenty-two minutes. With an average song length of 2’45, you might expect music that’s […]
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Having two kids in two years can cause even a tenacious music fan to lose complete track of what’s new out there. Case in point: I didn’t hear of the spectacular Los Angeles quartet Dawes until I caught their September […]
At the beginning of August I released a post on my favorite records I had heard in 2013 so far. Well, 2013 is almost at an end and I thought it only fair to pay homage to those records that […]
“Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty,” by Philip Buehler in Collaboration with Nora Guthrie and The Woody Guthrie Archives Review and interview by Douglas Heselgrave When Nora Guthrie invited me to call her at her home to talk about ‘Woody Guthrie’s Wardy […]
How do you take five not very noisy instruments that cannot be listened to without electronic amplification except in a rather small room and turn their music into something large groups of people can listen to? Add to this problem […]
Hope everybody had a good 2013. Here’s my yearly list. 2014’s a-comin’ – smoke ’em if you got ’em… 9. High Time – MC5 (Originally Released 1971) (CD – Rhino 1992) Strong third (and final major label) release of the […]
Day of the Outlaw front-man goes solo Former Day of the Outlaw front man Stewart Eastham debuts as a solo with this semi-autobiographical album documenting his transition from Los Angeles to Nashville, and his rebirth in Music City. Ironically, given […]
The Bottle Rockets celebrated the reissue of their first two albums plus their 20th anniversary Saturday night in St. Louis and emphasized from the first note that they would not only look back, they would lean forward. So, in a […]
When Tom Russell released his first collection of outtakes and obscurities in 2002, he indicated in the liner notes that “there is easily enough strong material for additional releases—the second volume is pretty much in the can already, if this […]
1-Jason Isbell “Southeastern” It seems like a landslide based on the reader’s poll. It’s that good. 2-Michael Rank and Stag “Mermaids” Rank cranks out two great discs in one year. This is my favorite. It features Emily Frantz who is also […]
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