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 […]
It’s a funny thing, the blues. It is the acceptance of struggle, but also the affirmation of the healing spirit, of hope.
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Let’s be honest. Who hasn’t thought of adopting some badass persona, and just living life as that character; maybe something like an in-your-face, rockin’ and rollin’ private detective, for instance? That would be fun, right? So fun, in fact, that John McMurray has been doing it for three decades, and he’s churned out some pretty […]
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The way to make change is to affect the creative thinking behind what goes into learning to play a guitar, or any art form, because once you think differently they can’t take that away from you.
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Terry Adams cuts an angelic figure with his white hair in the stage lights, and there’s a tangible aura surrounding him.
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Alternating between his twelve and six strings, Case sat center stage and wove stories throughout an evening that could have been billed “Peter Case, This Is Your Life.”
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Providence Canyon is real red dirt storytelling and honoring of summertime Americana music traditions.
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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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Cooder has constructed one of the year’s most incisive musical commentaries on our current political climate.
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A hallmark of exceptional songwriting is the ability to paint a picture through words and melodies. This album does a fantastic job of doing just that
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