Reviews...
Various Artists /
Four Decades Of Folk Rock
True, in the '70s folk rock morphed into the singer-songwriter
and country rock genres, but if you think of folk rock as any music with
both folk and rock elements, you can create a compilation that traces
the lineage of folk in rock right up to the present.
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Folk Sophistication:
Eveningland Expands on Hem's Eclectic Sound
We wanted to work with a bigger palette and take in elements of music
from the fifties, sixties, and seventies that Rabbit Songs didn’t
really touch on...
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Robert Belfour / Pushin' My Luck
At turns wild and raucous, and controlled and hypnotic, Belfour's playing
recalls the best of the Hill Country legends from Fred McDowell and Junior
Kimbrough, to a bit of Mississippi John Hurt.
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Jojo Hermann / Defector
His songs are at once strong and linear, a driving force like a freight
train blowing through a kudzu-laden valley, and loose and touching, able
to target the deepest of human emotions.
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The Blind Boys Of Alabama / Higher Ground
From the opening notes of Ben Harper's fingerpicked
intro to Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready," to the closing
whine of Robert Randolph's pedal steel, and all places in between,
Higher Ground is an intense, passion-fueled, dancin'-in-the-pews,
gospel gem.
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Junior Kimbrough / You Better Run: The Essential
Junior Kimbrough
...When Junior was a child, his mom and dad sat him down and told
him, "Son, your gonna have hard days and lonely nights..."
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Rev Pearly Brown / You're Gonna Need That Pure
Religion
In a style that rivaled that of his hero Blind Willie Johnson, Brown
played and sang with all the emotion of a man who had seen it all, though
he had never seen much of anything...
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Asie Payton / Just Do Me Right
He sings with all the hopelessness of a man who spent his entire life
in the field under a torturing sun on the tractor he would die on...
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HEM / Rabbit Songs
The album unwraps itself time and again, showcasing hidden flourises
of emotion and musicianship...
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Etta James / Blue Gardenia
Etta James makes Blue Gardenia a personal statement of mellow
truth...
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Anders Osborne / Ash Wednesday Blues
Like fellow swamp blues men Tab Benoit and Gatemouth Brown, Anders Osborne
prefers stretching his blues beyond the usual 12-bar progressions favored
by many artists...
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