Articles tagged "americana"

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Caethua: The Long Afternoon of Earth

by Deanne Sole

[4.Nov.09] :. A thoughtful, wistful, and likable album.

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Spring Creek: Way Up on a Mountain

by Deanne Sole

[25.Jun.09] :. Honest Downhome Folk

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Betse Ellis: Don’t You Want to Go?

by Deanne Sole

[17.Jun.09] :. Proof that Americana is still winning her over.

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Books Review

The English Major by Jim Harrison

by Christopher Guerin

[3.May.09] :. This book asserts that however ineluctable sex and death may be, the life of the mind, or lack thereof, is where we find or lose our true selves.

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Music Review

The Felice Brothers: Yonder is the Clock

by Zach Schonfeld

[15.Apr.09] :. The Felice Brothers’ latest effort is a looser affair -- far more The Basement Tapes than Blood on the Tracks -- yet still mirrors their self-titled in both its strengths and flaws. Where’s the growth?

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Kate Mann: Things Look Different When the Sun Goes Down

by Deanne Sole

[6.Apr.09] :. A swaying, strong-jawed album.

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Jerks of Grass: Come on Home

by Deanne Sole

[23.Mar.09] :. When these musicians push their instruments as far as they'll go they don't hide it.

 

Jenny Scheinman: Crossing

by Will Layman

[10.Dec.08] :. The jazz/Americana/anything violinist creates a new set of riveting soundscapes.

 

It Still Moves by Amanda Petrusich

by Derek Beres

[30.Oct.08] :. Petrusich is not concerned with how many records are sold or what tactics artists use in the studio. Her approach is more intangible, hence more emotionally tactile.

 

Joan Baez to receive ‘Spirit of Americana’ Free Speech Award

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler [PopMatters.com]

[17.Jul.08] :. The Americana Music Association has announced that cultural icon and seminal American recording artist Joan Baez will receive the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award at the...

 

The War on Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues

by Timothy Gabriele

[15.Jul.08] :. Wagonwheel Blues daubs electronic and acoustic watercolor sketches of Americana from the Midwest prairie through the lonesome crowded west on to the beaches and rocky shores.

 

2008 Americana Honors and Awards Are Announced

by PopMatters Staff [PopMatters.com]

[12.Jun.08] :. Yesterday in Nashville, the Americana Music Association announced the nominees for the 2008 Honors and Awards ceremony, to be held on September 18 at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville....

 

Hoots & Hellmouth: Yin and Yang and acoustic music

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. A couple of years ago, before they were reborn as acoustic act Hoots & Hellmouth, Sean Hoots and Andrew Gray had grown weary of what Hoots calls “the rock `n’ roll...

 

Linda McRae: Carve It to the Heart

by Lester Feder

[1.Aug.07] :. Is it still "Americana" when recorded by a Canadian? Singer-songwriter surveys the old-timey side of the traditional music pallet.

 

Scott Miller & the Commonwealth: Reconstruction

by Mark W. Adams

[30.Jul.07] :. Since Scott Miller's turn as frontman of seminal 1990s alt-country luminaries the V-Roys, he's been perfecting -- in both sound and lyric -- the South-as-microcosm template.