It’s About the Fucking Songs: Sittin’ With Blaze Shows What’s Great About Tribute Albums A new Blaze Foley album came out last week, no mean feat for a songwriter who died in 1989. Sittin’ With Blaze: A Tribute to Blaze Foley brings together artists from across generations to interpret the revered Texas songwriter’s work, including […]
all photos by Glenn Cook Patterson Hood and John Moreland at the Birchmere Patterson Hood and JohnMoreland are co-headlining together on their tour through the Northeast and Midwest, and the experience of seeing their show is like being wrapped in a dual atmosphere, one like a deeply poetic coin with two distinct sides. At the […]
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Patterson Hood and John Moreland at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis Patterson Hood and John Moreland write very different kinds of songs. Hood looks outward, telling stories about the world around him, while Moreland looks inward, tracing the quiet fault lines of his own life. Sunday’s double-bill at Ram’s Head On Stage in Annapolis demonstrated […]
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Photos of John Moreland and Ramsey Thornton by Alison O’Brien, AOB Photo John Moreland Sad Songs and Quiet Salvation Ram’s Head Tavern / Annapolis, MD May 7, 2025 “We’ll open up old wounds in celebration / If we don’t bleed, it don’t feel like a song,” John Moreland sang midway through his stunning set at […]
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Top Picks of 2024: Dave Nowels Self-Indulgence When I first began writing this year-end wrap up, I wasn’t feeling exceptionally well, and found myself struggling to maintain a semblance of optimism about life in general, much less the state of music in 2024. I’d gotten sick the Saturday before, some type of chest and head […]
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Editor’s Pick: Favorite Albums of 2024 Albums are perennially in style. Yep, we all stream, and yes, playlists and mixtapes are great too, and some of us really get into earworms. But the whole album concept abides, even if it’s sometimes in CD or in streaming form. At times it’s hard to find the time […]
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Road Trip Earworms 2024 – Editor’s Pick for Favorite Songs There’s nothing like an earworm, sounding so good no matter how many times you play it. I’ve been an earworm listener since I was a kid – hitting repeat to keep that feeling going for hours. There were a lot of them this year. I […]
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John Moreland Visitor John Moreland returned to a stripped down acoustic style with his release this year, Visitor. Pretty guitar playing opens the album on “The Future is Coming Fast,” and then, ah the sweet sorrowful vocals and the song’s message: “the news keeps steady coming in, our condition shows its teeth again, a nightmare […]
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John Moreland at Tower Theater in Oklahoma City John Moreland played Oklahoma City’s Tower Theatre this past Friday night, fresh on the heels of having “surprise” released his newest studio album, Visitor via Thirty Tigers/Old Omens on April 5th. Visitor is Moreland’s seventh studio album, dating back to 2011’s Earthbound Blues. The album’s dozen tracks […]
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Like Fleetwood Mac, the Bee Gees, the Moody Blues, and a few other acts, England’s Animals had more than one distinct career. In the second, between 1966 and 1968, they billed themselves as Eric Burdon and the Animals and favored psychedelia-tinged material that included such U.S. hits as “San Franciscan Nights,” a hat-tip to the […]
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