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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moe. / Warts & All, Volume 3
This
three-disc collection catches the band's November 1998 performance at
the Vic Theatre in Chicago.
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Jeff Buckley / Live At Sin-e (Legacy Edition)
With
only Buckley and his guitar, the two-disc set features original material
as well as Buckley's covers of Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan
and Ray Charles material...
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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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Jet / Get Born
A reflection on Jet's U.S. debut...
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Paloalto / Heroes And Villains
...makes you want to cheer the hero and understand
the villain.
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The Ben Taylor Band / Famous Among The Barns
The production on Famous Among The Barns is stripped-down, allowing
Taylor's smooth voice to rise to the top of each track.
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Kathleen Edwards / Failer
Failer is a wonderful record that lacks all the glamour, slick
production, and bare midriffs that radio would have us believe is music
today, but builds on a firm foundation of smart lyrics, thoughtful melodies
and honesty.
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Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers / Cockadoodledon't
Anybody brash enough to go out and claim legendary status as their first
move, even before cutting a record, has either a keen sense of how to
get attention or a pretty good idea of just how talented they are.
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Todd Snider / Near Truths And Hotel Rooms
Near Truths And Hotel Rooms is everything that Snider or his fans
could've hoped for in a live record. About the only things missing are
Snider's animated facial expressions and his chicken dance.
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Ed Harcourt / From Every Sphere
From Every Sphere is the ultimate grower, which moves, in your
mind, from quite nice to utterly compelling and addictive over a matter
of days, or better, nights.
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Jon Langford & His Sadies / Mayors Of The
Moon
At turns a wildly raucous rampage through the best that
Langford and his tainted country ways have to offer and a softer melodic
stroll through the surf-a-delic beauty that the Sadies create, Mayors
is easily among the best of the Sadies' work, and may as well rank among
the best the Langford has ever offered up.
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Turin Brakes / Ether Song
They turned their back on their previous restraint, and the result is
an album that is at once melancholy and euphoric; nostalgic and visionary;
grand and intensely personal - and still simply about the music.
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Jojo Hermann / Defector
His songs are at once strong and linear, a driving forces 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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Les Honky More Tonkies / Greatest Hits
Over the past four years, LHMT has been building
a fan base of like minded folks who have been searching for a band with
the musical integrity of Motley Crue and the over the top showmanship
of Moe Bandy. Or is that the other way around?
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The Byrds / The Byrds Play Dylan
Roger
McGuinn's innovative guitar stylings lend themselves to the structures
of the great songsmith's works, and the band's chemistry follows suit.
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Mark Olson and The Creekdippers / December's
Child
Loaded with banjos, fiddles,
dulcimers, harmonicas, and mandolins, Olson's assembly manages an unrestrained
acoustic rock-and-roll vibe that harkens back to the Grateful Dead or
Dylan's days with the Band.
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Paul Thorn / Mission Temple Fireworks Stand
Over the crowd, it is impossible to hear exactly what he is saying, but
you can rest assured that he is doing exactly what he does best - as a
father and songwriter - getting to the heart of the matter.
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Solomon Burke / Don't Give Up On Me
...He is seated, in a throne no less, draped in a robe, playing his role
of the "King of Rock and Soul" to a tee.
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Luther Wright & The Wrongs / Rebuild The
Wall
Wright and company rework the 1979 Pink Floyd behemoth into a bluegrass/country
outing where banjos and fiddles are as prominent as electric guitars and
synthesizers.
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Josh Rouse / Under Cold Blue Stars
Under Cold Blue Stars is, simply, a great collection of
love songs.
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Cracker / Forever
That oddball Cracker sense of humor pervades, but there are some uncharacteristically
tense moments that help add real depth to Forever.
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Her Space Holiday / Manic Expressive
The difficult task of deciphering this album's genre is further complicated
by the implementation of some absolutely breathtaking orchestration,...
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Sloan / Pretty Together
...Sloan stops sounding like Boston mixed with the Beatles on this album
and manage to create a more concrete sound that seems much more original
than derivative.
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January / I Heard Myself In You
Reason 2: The electric guitar sucks you in until you start turning cartwheels
in a field of wildflowers...
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Matthew Jay / Draw
The classic rock and British folk he learned at his parents' knees are
just a few of the ingredients in the album's eclectic mix..
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Seks Bomba / Somewhere In This Town
Somewhere In This Town offers an unlikely blend of surf, garage
rock, bossa nova and kitschy spy music on one disc...
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Nikka Costa / Everybody Got Their Something
Somewhere tonight, Sly Stone will be driving around listening to Nikka
Costa's Everybody Got Their Something...
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Coldplay: Live in Atlanta
After twenty minutes of stage swapping, a local radio personality stood
at a microphone and enthusiastically announced, "And now... COLDPLAY!!"
The sold out crowd went wild - though eleven minutes too soon. When the
band finally did take stage...
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Whiskeytown / Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an ambitious effort that meticulously combines urgency,
sadness, edge, grit, honesty, wit, and glee in fourteen tracks...
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George Harrison / All Things Must Pass
The year was 1970. Together with legendary producer Phil Spector, the
"silent" Beatle created the landmark recording, All Things Must Pass...
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