For years the only Christmas album I had was Ella Fitzgerald’s Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960). Not that I had anything against the holiday season, but they all seemed to contain the same songs sung in the same heartfelt […]
Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World (September 29) I always thought Sweet Old World never got enough love. While the critics took to it, the newly minted alt-country crowd not so much. Did they want Volume 2 of the Rough Trade album? Was it too […]
For those of us lucky enough to get a glimpse of the solar eclipse this week, it was a moment to pause and look skyward (with NASA-approved protective glasses, of course), mouths agape and brains abuzz with the wonders of […]
The Sweetback Sisters’ latest release, King of Killing Time, features the velvety vocals of Emily Miller and Zara Bode. Grounded in phrasings, melodies, and instrumentation endemic to country music, the singers and band draw tastefully from other genres and subgenres, […]
My uncle used to love me but she died. Chicken ain’t chicken until its lickin’ good and fried Keep it on the sunny side. -Sweetback Sisters It’s fun to be a critic. In pop culture, politics, academics, whatever, the world is […]
Signature Sounds’ unofficial mantra is “Music Abounds.” It says so on the right edge of 20th Anniversary insignia, printed on a 5-foot-by-5-foot circular sign that sits high above the center of the Academy of Music stage. The set design is minimalist, […]
The Kingston Trio – The Last Month Of The Year Although handfuls of new holiday albums are released each year, there are few that rise to the level of “classic” status. The Last Month of the Year, an LP originally released in […]
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