I typically let the music speak for it's self in this series, but the soundtrack to The Squid and the Whale has been one of my favorite compilations in the past few years. As carefully crafted as your favorite mix-tape. Here are the three Bert Jansch downbeat-folk selections off the OST.
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MP3: Bert Jansch - Courting Blues
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When The Brokedown give you a heads up on rising new artists, you best take notice. Such is the case with Los Angeles based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Scott Claassen. Embracing both the quirkiness of early Tom Waits, and songrwritng prowess of Warren Zevon, this guy is one to watch. Like Athens, GA's HAM1, Claassen is offering up his debut album, Monterey, for
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File under: Country & Western heartbreak.
Gustavo Santaolalla's instrumental score to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain frames the film as much as Lee's sweeping Wyoming cinematography. Much like his work on 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries,
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After a long hiatus, Idaho's Built To Spill are back April 11th with the release of their fourth Warner Brothers album You In Reverse. Their MySpace page features a new song...I ripped the stream using Audacity -- listen below. "When Built To Spill wanted to find out what their music sounded like they locked themselves in Doug Martsch’s garage. Without . . .
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"The Mezzanine was produced by Vic Chesnutt, who has worked with Durrett on her previous album, “Husk”. The new album was recorded by Andy Baker (Macha, Japancakes, Glands) in Athens, GA. " DOWNLOAD:MP3: Liz Durrett :: The Mezzanine----------www.lizdurrett.com
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The always excellent Dreams of Horses turned me onto Alec's solo work: Read what Dreams of Horses says about these tracks here. The below demos are off the Alec Ounsworth Web site.DOWNLOAD:MP3: We/Should/Drop/Like/FliesMP3: Wide . . .
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Perusing the list of bands slated for the upcoming 2006 SXSW festival , I noticed The Silos were again on this year's roster. These folks somehow get overlooked in the whole "genesis of alt.country" debate. Revisionist history I suppose. Here are a couple of tracks off the re-issue of their 1987 album become a member or log in.
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Two mp3s from their last EP,Whitewash the Blues....DOWNLOAD:MP3: Cassavettes - Empire Central MP3: Cassavettes - Research Boulevard ----------www.cassavettesmusic.comwww.myspace.com/cassavettes
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I met NYC musician Jeremiah Vancans at a New Year's party. Check out his track entitled Hipster...I think you'll love the lyrics. I do. DOWNLOAD:MP3: Jeremiah Vancans - Hipster----------www.jbvproductions.com
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The Late Gram Parsons DOWNLOAD:MP3: The Flying Burritos :: Hot Burrito #1 MP3: The Flying Burritos :: Hot Burrito #2----------Amazon: The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin . . .
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While listening to the "Colin Meloy Sings Morrisey" ep I got interested in the originals I hadn't heard in years. Here are a few tracks he covers found on various albums, most succinctly on the mostly B-side compilation My Early Burglary Years.DOWNLOAD:
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Part V of my ongoing 50 states project in which I am marrying my interest in retro travel-postcards with music indigenous to each state. Every Thursday like clockwork I check WQFS Mayhem's blog to see what J's radio show consisted of the night before. It's both inspiring and a tease as it's a North Carolina based show, and . . .
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Angels of Light & Akron/Family A couple of weeks before I took some vacation during the Christmas holidays I received a copy of the Angels of Light & Akron/Family album from Young God Records. The break proved to be a great time to soak up a new album. The beauty of this partnership is that Akron/Family, while completely unique and original fronting . . .
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DOWNLOAD:MP3: Heavy Trash - Justine AlrightMP3: Heavy Trash - Walking Bum ----------Amazon: Heavy Trash - S/T
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