⇒ See also “Musical odes to boxing and hockey“ The Baseball Project is what’s known in the music business as a supergroup. However, Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn, the two self-proclaimed baseball geeks who started the quartet and represent its songwriting half, might prefer the term John Stuper group, in honor of the St. Louis […]
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Musical odes to boxing and hockey
⇒ See also “Supergroup The Baseball Project sings stories of the dugout and beyond“ When talking the quantity and quality of songs that celebrate it, no other sport approaches baseball. You’ve got Sister Wynona Carr’s swinging gospel number “The Ball Game” and the Intruders’ Philly soul gem “Love Is Like a Baseball Game.” You’ve got […]
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Songs for Snüzz
Listen up! Download the Songs of the Week … … or stream them below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Mainstay is chiefly a nautical term, a strong rope that connects to the mast to provide core support. It’s used to describe people, toofolks like Britt Harper Uzzell, […]
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New Charlie Poole set from Loudon Wainwright
Speaking of Charlie Poole: On August 15, the same day that Tompkins Square released its two-disc Red Fox Chasers anthology, Loudon Wainwright III released his latest, titled High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project. On the two-disc set, Wainwrightwith help from the likes of David Mansfield, Geoff Muldaur, and Chris Thile, as well as […]
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The historic Red Fox Chasers, generously anthologized
The Red Fox Chasersthe Depression-era, northwestern North Carolina string band that’s chronicled on the new two-CD set I’m Going Down to North Carolinagot the name honestly. As Kinney Rorrer, a Danville, Va., radio host, musician and writer explains in the essay that begins the collection’s liner notes, the quartet’s fiddler, Guy Brooks, was an avid […]
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New Red Fox Chasers collection due Tuesday
Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers weren’t the only musicians in the Tar Heel State to put their stamp on handed-down ballads and to create their own misty mountain hops in the hardscrabble late 1920s and early 1930s. That said, it’s hard not to cite the music made by Poole and his two cohortsa […]
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Live: One Ol’ Hotenanny
Big Surprise Tour (Old Crow, Dave Rawlings Machine, the Felice Brothers, Justin Townes Earle) Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary Monday, Aug. 10 With anywhere from one person to 15 people onstage over the course of the evening, Monday night’s Big Surprise Tour in Cary was addition by subtraction and addition by addition and, maybe once or […]
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An elusive ailment puts the future of Durham’s Bombadil on hold
⇒ Read our review of Bombadil’s new album, Tarpits and Canyonlands The Durham band Bombadil is a little different. The guysDaniel Michalak, Bryan Rahija, James Phillips, Stuart Robinson, multi-instrumentalists alllike reading, politics, art walks and early rock shows. They’re fascinated by concepts such as the culture of a band, and they discuss the personalities of […]
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Seven dudes mix the state’s breweries and bands in Beer Y’all
In Germany, the purity law, Reinheitsgebot, declares that beer can be made only with water, barley and hops. Likewise, the new documentary, Beer Y’all, can be broken down into three parts: beer, music and the road. “It represents a confluence of things that we enjoy,” says Asheville’s Curt Arledge, one of seven guys who piled […]
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Live: Steely Dan fights its way out of a jar, but barely
Steely Dan Tuesday, June 9 Durham Performing Arts Center You don’t go to a Steely Dan concert in search of happy accidents and unscripted moments. No note is out of place, and no spotlight is late to a soloist. The tightly choreographed proceedings unfold with a precision that must inspire envy among Swiss watchmakers. In […]