Stop yelling! I get it. I GET it! Jim White has roots! Jesus, does he have roots. He has more than roots, though. He has music in his soul, some of it folky, some jazzy, some somewhat dissonant, all of […]
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When I was a kid, if you couldn’t plug it in I didn’t want to hear it. Unfortunately, or so I thought at the time, not everything was plugged in. Radio, even rock ‘n’ roll radio, played anything and everything, […]
I couldn’t resist. I don’t know why but I really love the movie Casablanca and repeat lines from it whenever possible. In the movie, Rick Blaine (as portrayed by Humphrey Bogart) spews one of my favorites when Lauren Bacall makes […]
Serendipity, that’s what I call it. When something happens for a reason. Living in Oregon, I have grown so used to watching the world of music pass over what used to be a black hole in terms of touring. Most […]
My first thought hearing Felsen’s Blood Orange Moon? Winterpills. Only in places, of course, but in enough places that the thought pops up throughout the album. Never heard Winterpills? You should. One of the best folk/psych bands around. Start with […]
First thing I did when Steven Casper’s new album (Sometimes Jesse James) came through the door was dive through stacks of CDs looking for the one Casper album I knew— Topanga Ranch Motel. I remember being quite taken by it […]
About a year ago, in Seattle, five musicians searching for a voice found one. Thus began Moon Palace. But it is never as easy as that. The music scene is its own universe. Maybe the story is not as simple […]
I have known Mariana Bell’s music for a few years now. She had been recommended by a few musicians around Charlottesville, Virginia as one to watch. Americana was breaking out all over then, though I could never quite put my […]
Not that they play the standards — not on this record, anyway — but they damn well could if they wanted to. Twisted Pine’s latest album almost got past me but I was lucky and grabbed it just before it […]
I’m freaking out! Remember when I wrote that glowing review of Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton’s Declaration album? (If you missed it, read it here) Well, the guy who produced that record, Luke Plumb, is in the process of releasing […]
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