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Andrew Gilstrap
PopMatters Associate Music Editor
About Andrew Gilstrap
Andrew Gilstrap is a freelance writer living in South Carolina, where he's able to endure the few weeks each year that it's actually freezing (swearing a vow that if he ever moves, it'll be even further south). Aging into a fine curmudgeon whose idea of heaven is 40 tree-covered acres away from the world, he increasingly wishes he were part of a pair of twins, just so he could try being the kinda evil one on for size. Musically, he's always scouring records for that one moment that makes him feel like he's never heard music before, but he long ago realized he needs to keep his copies of John Prine, Crowded House, the Replacements, Kate Bush, and Tom Waits within easy reach.
Features
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
[18.Dec.07] :. If 2007 didn't invite any gripping controversies, it was certainly filled with competitive comparisons -- between young and old, past and present, and among splintered factions -- and both surprising hits and disappointing misses. All in all, a dynamic and at times resurgent year for the broad scope of Americana.
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
Film
[22.Aug.07] :. Hollywood After Dark, Killers from Space, and a conversation with Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni and The Film Crew member, Kevin Murphy, about RiffTrax and other stuff.
Recent features
Columns
Field Studies
[21.Mar.08] :. Protest music can go one of three ways: angry, storytelling, or communal. Sowing the Seeds is communal, meant to shore up the spirits of people who are locked together, arm-in-arm, to fight for a common cause.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[21.Jan.08] :. When it comes to his work with the E Street Band, Springsteen seems to have tempered or even jettisoned other songwriting trademarks, such as the sense of place that informed so many of his songs.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[10.Dec.07] :. If you thought Satan couldn't invent a few new rides for you, you obviously forgot that he's got all the time in the world and plenty of cheap labor -- and other thoughts on the 2007 roots music scene.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[21.Sep.07] :. While my wife sings sea chantys to our baby, I'm finding plenty of dark, tranquil passages from Bruce Springsteen to help her sleep. Beats tales of the Black Death, miscarriages, and executions found in traditional nursery rhymes.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[23.Jul.07] :. The co-founder of the maverick reissue label the Numero Group talks about seeking out the eccentric, saving the unknown, and releasing only what you love.
Recent columns
Reviews
Music
[14.Apr.08] :. Ryan teams up with longtime friends to create robust music that's the equal of his weighty rasp.
Recent Music reviews
Music
[9.Apr.08] :. This reissue accomplishes exactly what we've come to expect from the best titles in the Deluxe Edition series, but that may not be enough for the regular fan.
Recent Music reviews
Music
[8.Apr.08] :. Bo Ramsey is best known to some as a guitar force on Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
Recent Short Takes reviews
Music
[28.Mar.08] :. The Counting Crows raise a ruckus and then feel kinda bad about it, but lose sight of the more rewarding middle ground.
Recent Music reviews
DVDs
[25.Mar.08] :. An interesting, if brief (at 59 minutes), look at Hitchcock's craft that goes off in a couple of intriguing directions.
Recent DVD reviews
Featured Article
 Music
[6.Sep.07] :. To say this is an education -- not only into the Vee-Jay label's history, but also into the growth of American popular music -- is an understatement.
Recent Music reviews
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