Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Front cover: You’ve got a leggy heavenly being with an Elvira hairdo and a heart tattoo on her right hip, the kind of image that might adorn the mudflaps on a long-haul rig. Factor in the album title, Trailer Park […]
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Capitol City Five’s harmonies shine on
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The recorder is off. But the Capitol City Five is not finished: David Jones, who didn’t say more than a word or two for the past hour, is swaying in his seat, under the spell of his strong baritone. Warren […]
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Killer Filler
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. It’s beyond cliché to declare an instrumental album the perfect soundtrack for a party. But you could get more specific: A soiree at the Jungle Room of the local roller rink/ drag strip in 1968, with go-go dancers and Ennio […]
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Patterson Hood
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. There are some telltale signs for spotting a musician who’s a true liner-notes-memorizing music fan. Such a musician might create a rock opera inspired by a doomed Southern rock band and affectionately name-drop Molly Hatchet and Blue Öyster Cult in […]
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The struggle for musicians’ health insurance
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. This weekend, a pair of Raleigh benefits will arrive too late for Drew Glackin: Glackin was a gifted New York multi-instrumentalist, a member of the bands the Silos and Tandy, and an in-demand touring musician. He was known for his […]
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Justin Roberts’ “Picture Day”
Listen up! or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Kids are just little adults, and adults are just little kids,” Justin Roberts has been known to say. It’s a notion that drives the award-winning kids music (four Parents’ Choice Gold awards and counting) of Chicago’s […]
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The Port Huron Statement
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. It’s fitting that The Port Huron Statement’s Man of the Match opens with a brief instrumental that recalls “Auld Lang Syne.” To these straying ears, the invocation is a welcome to genre: “Hello, indie rock, my old friend. It’s been awhile.” […]
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Reckless Kelly
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Music writers and fans love categories. Musicians, on the other hand, are typically not so thrilled with pigeonholes and gratuitous generalizations. One might expect Cody Braunwho contributes fiddle, mandolin, harmonica and vocals to Reckless Kelly, the band he leads with his […]
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Familiar with Strangers
We asked several musicians, journalists and fans to share their thoughts on Strangers Almanac 11 years after its release. Chris Stamey [Whiskeytown producer and collaborator] I first heard Strangers Almanac, unsequenced, in Mark Williams’ hotel room at SXSW. I sat there under headphones and played it all the way through. “Inn Town” was what grabbed […]
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Whiskeytown
Do you really need three versions of “Houses on the Hill”? You bet. “Houses on the Hill” remains one of Whiskeytown’s most striking vignettes. Caitlin Cary’s lyrics foreshadow her stellar post-Whiskeytown work, and the song’s delicately layered county-folk-rock pulse captures the lyrics’ fragile heart. But, on record, it’s also one of the band’s more tightly […]