Post Tagged with: "Roots Rock"

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Grayson Capps – The Lost Cause Minstrels (2011)

What Grayson Capps brings to country music, if you can call it that, is a real sense of danger. From the first of “Highway 42,” a tune that jangles like a loose fender, I was thinking about those long-haired rebels of the 1970s You May Also Like: Fortunato Isgro, “KeepRead More

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Neil Young and the International Harvesters – A Treasure (2011)

Time to rethink Neil Young and the 1980s. A Treasure, featuring live songs from a 1984-85 tour with a group of Nashville pros, is the sixth release in Young’s ongoing Archives Performance Series — and it shines a spotlight on an often overlooked period You May Also Like: Neil Young’sRead More

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Something Else! Interview: Roots rocker Sherman Ewing

Sherman Ewing’s Single Room Saloon arrived with a sound that is at once intuitive and raw, but somehow well-worn and familiar, too. You May Also Like: Fernando Perdomo, progressive rocker: Something Else! Interview Lucas Lee, progressive rocker: Something Else! Interview Ben Craven, progressive rocker: Something Else! Interview

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James McMurtry – ‘Just Us Kids’ (2008)

Since his early days of hangin’ with Mr. Cougar, James McMurtry remains the same guy he was back then, but with some subtle differences.

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James McMurtry – ‘Candyland’ (1992): On Second Thought

James McMurtry, we know now, had only just begun making steel-toe tapping records that take a while to sink in.

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One Track Mind: Little Feat, "Spanish Moon (Live)" (2000)

by Pico So I was listening to this tune off of Hotcakes and Outtakes the other day on the Pico ‘Pod and ohmygawd it hit me: this blog has never respresented for Little Feat before! After all, we did promise to deliver musical musings in the realm of blues, rockRead More