Paul Newell and Elvis Presley go way back: “I remember collecting Elvis cards as an 8-year-old in 1958. They were like baseball cards, you know, with the slab of bubble gum in the package,” remembers Newell. “I had a really good and rare card of Elvis on a motorcycle. I was proud of it.” Not […]
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Josh Ritter’s “The Temptation of Adam”
Listen! Download “The Temptation of Adam” (MP3, 9.6 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. On Hello Starling, Josh Ritter’s third release, there was “Wings,” a fanciful but sophisticated tale that played out like a sci-fi movie commissioned by PBS. Last year’s The Animal […]
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The Cartridge Family
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “There’s a hole in the soul of rock and roll!” That’s how The Cartridge Family ends Shine Like a Bottle, its sophomore album, clamoring that phrase again and again while backed by a sound that splits the difference between both Heartbreakers. […]
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Randy Whitt & the Grits
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Coltish” describes Randy Whitt pretty well: He’s on the lanky side, and his stride and stage presence suggest an abundance of energy waiting to escape. For the most part, he kept that energy bottled on 2006’s We’ve Had Some Trouble, a […]
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Hacienda Brothers
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Serendipity, or maybe a lagniappe: Those are words that a fancy talker might use to explain how the Hacienda Brothers acquired the phrase “western soul.” Ace guitarist Dave Gonzalez had been fronting the retro-rocking Paladins for years when he started gigging […]
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Stratocruiser
Tim Lee and Stratocruiser’s Mike Nicholson, musicians and big-time music fans, are guys to whom you want to turn over an interview. TIM LEE: What’s your favorite Saturday night record and your favorite Sunday morning record? MIKE NICHOLSON: Saturday night is without a doubt Dave Edmunds’ Repeat When Necessary. It has just enough shit-kickin’ & […]
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Jim Lauderdale
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Jim Lauderdale was part of the “Town South of Bakersfield” scene in Southern California in the early ’90s, and he’s acted in musicals. He’s written songs with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and he’s collaborated with rootsy jammers Donna the Buffalo. […]
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Jason Perlmutter is rebuilding the soul history of the Carolinas
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Jason Perlmutter started listening to soul music as a student at Raleigh’s Enloe High School in the late ’90s. For a while, the so-called “oldies station” was his main source, but he quickly began to dig beyond that. Perlmutter started collecting […]
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A grown boy’s gerund-driven look at Al Green
Al Green performs with Lizz Wright at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall Thursday, Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. The show is sold out, butwhether or not you have ticketsGreen’s 40-year career could keep you busy alongside a turntable for weeks or, here, a lifetime. Discovering Al Green Al Green’s “Call Me” reached No. 10 on the […]
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Tommy Womack’s “Alpha Male & the Canine Mystery Blood”
Listen! Download “Alpha Male & the Canine Mystery Blood.” Or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The key lines are right there in the first verse of “A Cockroach after the Bomb” on There, I Said It!, the fifth solo release from Nashville-based, Madisonville, Ky.-based […]