For several weeks, Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s new album, Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc), has sat at the top of Amazon’s Americana/Alt-Country new releases. With fans of the Flatlander and the King of California eagerly awaiting the album’s release, the question is, will it satisfy their anticipation? The answer is yes. Alvin and […]
Americana, suggesting the many different types of roots and traditional music – not just country, but the jazz, swing, and roots rock found here – aptly describes the album.
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Hell-On (ANTI-) marks the first solo project from musical shapeshifter Neko Case in five years, and the dazzling album is well worth the wait. Case, never afraid to take risks, has produced a truly unique record unlike anything else I’ve ever heard. Sonically and lyrically, this album is an adventure you simply must experience. […]
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Deeply felt and deeply moving, To Rise, You Gotta Fall captures and communicates the myriad emotions Bluhm experienced during this turbulent period in her life.
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Listening to the whole album, I feel like I have seen the American landscape set out before me, from the Carolina tobacco farms to Richmond to Oklahoma. Barham’s intelligent, literary songwriting shapes a heartfelt vision of high, abstract ideals through in personal, intimate stories crystallized with poignant, powerful images.
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If this was pasta, this wouldn’t be fourteen small seashell noodles; this would be fourteen stuffed shells.
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If you get off the beaten path or you need help; when you get miles down the road, that’s when you’re going to meet someone else with an interesting story.
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Take a ride in Joachim’s cosmic ice cream truck, and maybe circle around the block a few times.
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Eleven years after the release of her last solo project, alt-country goddess Kelly Willis returns with the divine Back Being Blue (Thirty Tigers). Fans will heartily welcome Willis using her voice, as silky as her honey-blonde locks, to explore honky-tonk, rockabilly, and R&B stylings of country music. The album is diverse with six Willis originals […]
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People speak of old wine in new bottles. Luke Winslow-King puts new wine in old bottles.
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