Chuck Hicks

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The Everybodyfields: Plague of Dreams

[17.Nov.05] :. Close your eyes, and Quinn and Andrews' keening, close harmonies will transport you to the late 1940s, to that blissful world of battery radios before the Nashville Sound came and sanded the edges off country music.

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Michael Holland: Tomorrows American Treasures

[8.Nov.05] :. Holland maintains his extraordinary focus, showing his astute respect for traditional American music while varnishing it with enough trippy nuance to keep it vital.

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Michael Holland: Bootlegger's Dreams

[29.Sep.04] :. Well, Jeff Tweedy said it: "You'll never hear it on the radio / Can't hear it on the radio..." That statement may be true for the new release from songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael...

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Jennyanykind: Peas and Collards

[26.Feb.04] :. What's in a name? With Jennyanykind, a latent possibility of moving in any of several musical directions. The band, whose core consists of identical twins Michael and Mark Holland, has made a few...

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Country Gentlemen: Can't You Hear Me Callin': Early Classics 1963-1969

[9.Feb.04] :. Driving through the country half-listening to bluegrass radio, it would be easy to mistake a Country Gentlemen recording for the bucolic, barn dance sounds of Bill Monroe or the Stanley Brothers. One...

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Books   The Bill Monroe Reader by Tom Ewing

Music    The Allman Brothers Band: The Road Goes on Forever: A Collection of Their Greatest Recordings [Expa

Music    Breakaway: Hold with Hope

Music    Karen Nunis Blackstone: Give Me Sanity

Music    Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-fonics: Rhythm Rhyme and Truth

Music    Reverend Gary Davis: Live at Newport

Music    Dr. John: Hoodoo - The Collection

Music    Electric Light Orchestra: Eldorado

Music    Fanmail: 2000

Music    Fine China: When the World Sings

Music    Fold Zandura: Ultraforever

Music    The Jimmy Nations Combo: Tarheel Boogie

Music    Joy Electric: Unelectric

Music    Kansas: Leftoverture / Masque

Music    Kansas: Somewhere to Elsewhere

Music    Kerry Livgren: Collector's Sedition (Volume 1)

Music    Annie Lin: Kicking Stars

Music    Frank Lenz: The Hot Stuff

Music    Blind Willie McTell: The Essential

Music    Roger McGuinn: Treasures from the Folk Den

Music    Beaver Nelson: Little Brother

Music    Pine Mountain Railroad: Knoxville Train

Music    The Raging Teens: Rock 'n' Roll Party!

Music    Roosevelt Sykes: Raining In My Heart

Music    Soulhat: Experiment on a Flat Plane

Music    Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder: History of the Future

Music    Squad Five-O: Bombs Over Broadway

Music    Ralph Stanley: Man of Constant Sorrow

Music    Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden

Music    Conway Twitty: Love Songs

Music    Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: Absolutely the Best

Music    Tess Wiley: Rainy Day Assembly

Music    Yonder Mountain String Band: Town by Town

Music    Various Artists: Hot Rod Magazine -- Doo Wop Heaven

Music    Various Artists: The Art of Traditional Fiddle

Music    Various Artists: Preachin' the Blues: The Music of Mississippi Fred McDowell