I got turned on to The Glass Family in Austin at SXSW through the Brokedown folk. There album is out on I Eat Records, and is getting some good press today on a couple of music blogs. Read: Scatterbrain. Read: become a member or log in.
Talkdemonic :: Beat Romantic
photo credit (www.luckymadison.com)Last night, The National , exceeded my expectations playing their show at The Troubadour -- and I had pretty lofty expectations. Opener, Talkdemonic, were fantastic as well in a Live setting, working up their batch of ambient folk awash in banjos, violins, live drums and laptop beats. I had spent a few weeks with their latest album prior to the show and . . .
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The National :: Tonight @ The Troubadour
To be honest, if I had spent more time with Alligator last year before making the "'best of '05" list, chances are, ol' Sufjan might have had a real run for his money. Regardless . . .
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Robert Walter’s 20th Congress :: Soul Jazz
If you are into funk/soul/jazz Robert Walter's 20th Congress is an act to see Live if at all possible. Former Greyboy Allstar, Robert Walter, continued on his West coast boogaloo mission and expanded on it further with his band the 20th Congress after the Greyboy's demise. Fans of the B-3 organ will love these. Notes . . .
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Lost Album Series VII :: The Tall Sessions
The unreleased album Tall is the holy grail for Black Crowes fans. It is reported to exist, but that is all.
If you ever had a doubt about The Black Crowes owning rock & roll in the early to mid-nineties you need look no further than the sessions that would have been the Tall album. Stop and go recordings -- high . . .
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Kris Kristofferson :: This Old Road
One of the artists I really hoped to catch while in Austin at SXSW was Kris Kristofferson. The man embodies the country-music-outlaw-scoundrel-legend mythos, and I wanted to latch on to some of that magic in a live setting. Being Texas, even my cab-driver had a "Kris story" -- turns out Kristofferson was his father-in-law's private helicopter pilot in the early '60s, making daily runs from Houston out to the Oil rigs and back. I silently wondered how man tunes Kris . . .
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Centro-matic :: Fort Recovery
Quickly edging in as one of my top albums of 2006, Centro-matic's Fort Recovery keeps all the promises made by their (and Will Johnson's) lofty back-catalog over the years. Others have noticed as well. Just last week I read Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood is heralding it as his favorite . . .
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Loose Fur :: Born Again In The USA
The new Loose Fur joint is good. It came out last week. On the Drag City label. It makes me want to: whistle, stomp feet, clap hands, drink beer, do my signature dance, turn it up, as well as other unmentionables. Get on it. Here is the first track entitled, ahem, "Hey Chicken." Tweedy on . . .
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Live Upload Series VIII :: Foamfoot (1-8-94)
If you're a serious Black Crowes fan you probably already own this. The first thing you should know about Foamfoot is that it is a cover band, a damn fine cover band at that, playing mostly Southeren Rock and '70s staples. Formed and fronted by Chris Robinson in Los Angeles in the mid-1990's, Foamfoot did a one-off show at the Troubadour here in L.A. Read what Frayed.org has . . .
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Buck Owens :: RIP Bakersfield Sound
Drunkard favorite, and Country music visionary, Buck Owens passed away yesterday, Saturday March 25th 2006. Head over to Yerblog for some tunes and pay tribute to old Buck.----------Amazon: The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990)
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The Minus 5 :: The Gun Album
Resident 5'er (Scott McCaughey) is back with a whole slew of guests on this seventh Minus 5 album. Check it: Kelly Hogan, Peter Buck, Colin Melloy, John Wesley Harding, the Wilco crew, Sean Nelson, etc. etc. This album has been covered pretty . . .
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Josh Rouse :: Substitulo
Earlier this week Josh Rouse released his seventh album, Subsitulo, recorded with a small group of friends this past year in his adopted home of Spain. Check out this track below -- quickly becoming a Drunkard favorite. Remember when this cat was a sad . . .
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National Grain :: ATL’s Honky Tonk Heroes
Honky Tonk. Americana. Alt.Country. Any and/or all three of those terms could be used to define Atlanta's National Grain. Mining a similiar vein of Drunkard favorites, the now defunct Star Room Boys, National Grain incorporate the best of Nashville before all the Music Row posturing took hold. If you read here regularly, you know what I like, and if you like country, I can tell you both the . . .
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Lost Album Series :: Dylan/Cash Sessions
Back in college, Nashville Skyline was the first Dylan album I ever really connected with. From there on out, there was no turning back. The claws were in, and in good. That being said, I was pretty excited when a friend passed these sessions/live/rare recordings on to me a few years ago. Two iconic masters of their craft . . .
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Track A Tiger :: Woke Up Early The Day…
Shit...is there an echo in here? Oh, wait, no...okay cool, I get it now, it's just every major music blog within the past month has written something about Track A Tiger's debut album. Fast forward now if you have had your fill, if not, press play and we'll continue.Still here...okay, let's get to it. Chicago's Track A Tiger started out a few years . . .
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