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Pictures and Sound: Pictures and Sound

[4.Sep.08] :. For his first solo project after Blue Merle, Luke Reynolds brings familiar musical elements to his even more familiar-sounding voice.

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Frank Carillo and the Bandoleros: Someday

[21.Aug.08] :. Frank Carillo takes the lessons learned from three decades supporting rock luminaries and makes an album that sounds like a synthesis of the music of three decades of rock luminaries.

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Johnny Flynn: A Larum

[12.Aug.08] :. Lest us Yankee folkies get lost in the woods of the Appalachians, Johnny Flynn is here to remind us of Americana’s roots in pastoral British folk.

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Portland Cello Project: Portland Cello Project

[11.Aug.08] :. Portland collective takes an all-cello approach to everything from Bach to Balkan to Britney.

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Greg Laswell: Three Flights from Alto Nido

[6.Aug.08] :. For devotees of piano balladeers and yearning strivers, Greg Laswell serves up a pleasantly melodic hour. But for those who long to find something substantive and new behind the album’s echoes of Coldplay, it can only prompt to keep searching.

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Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal

[25.Jun.08] :. A poetic country-gone-glam gem, the latest in Alejandro Escovedo's legendary alt-country career finds him chronicling the stories and characters of his past as a way to live in the present.

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