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Neko Case - Canadian Amp (EP) (2001)
mp3 192kpbs | 33MB | 23:38 min.
Alternative Country, Americana, Indie Rock
| Quote: | Canadian Amp is a 2001 EP by Neko Case. The recording features Case performing four covers of material by Canadian songwriters, along with a Hank Williams cover, a traditional folk song and two original songs written by Case (one of which was in collaboration with The Sadies). The disc was originally a tour-only release.
Guest musicians include Andrew Bird, Jon Rauhouse, Kelly Hogan, Brett Sparks and Chris Von Sneidern. --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Case
In the liner notes to her Canadian Amp EP, Neko Case enthuses about the joys of home recording, writing "it's so much easier than I thought, and you can do it in your underwear!" As befits such an attitude, Canadian Amp sounds a good bit more casual and (pardon the expression) stripped-down than Case's two full-length albums, and the disc's emphasis on covers puts the focus squarely on her gifts as an interpretive singer rather than her impressive abilities as a songwriter (Case wrote only two of the EP's eight tunes and, except for Hank Willliams' "Alone and Forsaken," all the songs are the work of artists born and raised in Canada). Cut in Case's kitchen with a handful of friends pitching in (among them Andrew Bird, Jon Rauhouse, Tom Ray, Kelly Hogan, and Brett Sparks), Canadian Amp is purposefully sparse, with Case's voice front and center throughout. Thankfully, she sounds just as strong, sure, and emotionally true singing other people's material as she does on her own stuff; while Neil Young's "Dreaming Man" might seem like an odd choice for Case, she effortlessly slips into its weary mood, and her take on Lisa Marr's "In California" manages to sound cynical, plaintive, and heartsick all at once. Canadian Amp sounds like a between-albums stopgap project rather than a full-fledged album, but that's not to discount its charm or the subtle impact of this music. Everyone who enjoyed The Virginian or Furnace Room Lullaby will want to find places in their CD racks for this brief but beautifully rendered set of late-night music. --
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1. "Andy" – 1:40 - Mike O'Neill
2. "Dreaming Man" – 3:46 - Neil Young
3. "Knock Loud" – 3:08 - Sook-Yin Lee
4. "Make Your Bed" – 3:15 - Case/The Sadies
5. "Poor Ellen Smith" – 2:17 - traditional
6. "In California" – 3:29 - Lisa Marr
7. "Alone and Forsaken" – 2:42 - Hank Williams
8. "Favorite" – 3:17 - Case
Personnel
* Andrew Bird – Violin
* Neko Case – Vocals, Electric and Acoustic Tenor Guitars, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Photography, Drawing, Recording
* Mike Hagler – Producer, Engineer, Mastering
* Kelly Hogan – Vocal Harmony
* Andy Hopkins – Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
* Jon Rauhouse – Guitar (Acoustic), Banjo, Engineer, Hawaiian Guitar, Pedal Steel Banjo, Recording
* Tom Ray – Bass (Upright), Banjo-Ukelele
* Brett Sparks – Vocals
* Chris Von Sneidern – Guitar (12 String Acoustic)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:07 pm |
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Clarence Bucaro - 'Til Spring (2009)
mp3 320kpbs | 101MB | 43:35 min.
| Quote: | A great album to sit around and listen to when you need to slow down and just think. Soulful modern country meets rootsy classic rock with a hint of that choir feel (could be the organ?). His country-tinged guitar and haunting, echoing vocals are still lingering in my head.
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Produced by Tom Schick (Norah Jones, Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright) and Bucaro over two intensive days in New York City, the album reveals a remarkably genuine and expressive young artist who seamlessly intertwines the introspective singer/songwriter tradition of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and the acoustic Neil Young with the silky soul of Curtis Mayfield and pre-What's Goin' On Marvin Gaye. The New York Times compared Bucaro's sound to "late-1960s Van Morrison"; that, you'll recall, is Astral Weeks territory.
These 10 songs traverse the emotional gauntlet from despair to renewal, as the protagonist of this real-life tale is buffeted by the bitter final stages of one relationship and enflamed by the first tantalizing blush of the next in a song cycle laced through with hard-earned insight and emotional resonance. Written with poetic simplicity and sung with soulful understatement, 'Til Spring marks the arrival of a gifted artist who has found his own unique voice through a process of disappointment and self-doubt on the way to an abiding self-belief, the struggle bringing a vital – and highly relatable – dimension of psychological nuance to Bucaro's songs and vocals.
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"'Til Spring" features an outstanding cast of allstar musicians including Neal Casal (The Cardinals), Anders Osborne, Konrad Meissner, Kirk Fletcher (Fabulous Thunderbirds), Glenn Patscha (Olabelle) and George Rush (Hem). Produced by Tom Schick (Norah Jones, Ryan Adams) and Clarence Bucaro. |
1. ‘Til a Spring Wind Blows Again
2. When Man Plays God
3. Renew My Faith In You
4. Back in the World
5. On the Map
6. Caught in a Dream Turning Real
7. Take My Love
8. Tirelessly Blue
9. Standing on Old Grounds
10. For When you Arrived
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William Elliott Whitmore - Ashes to Dust (2005)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 45MB | 35:00 min.
Country-Folk, Neo-Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Blues Gospel, Americana
| Quote: | | William Elliott Whitmore's stunning debut album, Hymns for the Hopeless, a death-haunted collection of country-folk dirges sung in an ancient croak of a voice, begged the question, if an acceptance of death is both redemption and deliverance from a life of pain, struggle and regret, where to next? With Ashes to Dust, his second album, Whitmore makes it clear that the answer is simply more of the same. Like the first offering, this release practices a stern folk minimalism, with Whitmore's whiskey gargle of a voice delivering slow-burning gospel sermons to the sparse accompaniment of banjo or guitar, and when the occasional electric slide guitar enters, it seems to come from the next century, so insular is the tone here. This is country music that is still attached at the hip to gospel and the stern Baptist church hymns that are tailored to the three-note vocal range of the everyman, and Whitmore's astounding voice makes it all stick in the mind like a cautionary tale. But while most of Ashes to Dust could fit seamlessly alongside Hymns for the Hopeless, there are some subtle differences that make this album at least a partial step farther down the road to redemption. Death is still the dominate force here, and it sits atop the sequence like a huge shadow in songs like "The Day the End Finally Came," "Diggin' My Grave," and "The Buzzards Won't Cry," but Whitmore has decided to embrace hope and love in the fiercely romantic "When Push Comes to Shove," the stunning train song "Lift My Jug (Song for Hub Cale)," and the masterful portrait of his farmer father that closes the album, "Porchlight." These three songs in particular lift the album out of its harrowing fascination with death and allow some light in on the proceedings. Redemption, Whitmore appears to be saying, just might be attainable in the here and now after all. Ashes to Dust is another powerful album from one of the brightest talents on the Americana scene, one who understands that country isn't about how you wear your hat, it's about how you handle the inevitable. -- <AMG> |
1. Midnight 3:34
2. The Day the End Finally Came 4:18
3. When Push Comes to Love 3:50
4. Diggin' My Grave 4:06
5. The Buzzards Won't Cry 2:22
6. Sorest of Eyes 3:30
7. Lift My Jug (Song for Hub Cale) 3:36
8. Gravel Road 3:52
9. Porchlight 5:47
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:57 pm |
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Whiskeytown - Pneumonia (2001)
mp3 192kpbs | 76Mb | 57:17 min.
| Quote: | | Whiskeytown had ceased to be a band in the truest sense by the time they recorded their third (and final) full-length album, Pneumonia; the group began to collapse during the touring following Strangers' Almanac, with members coming and going at a remarkable pace, and for the Pneumonia sessions, the only musicians on hand who had appeared on Faithless Street three years earlier were lead vocalist and songwriter Ryan Adams and violinist and backing vocalist Caitlin Cary. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Daly and percussionist/producer Ethan Johns dominated the sessions' sprawling cast of players, with James Iha and Tommy Stinson popping up on some tracks. Ultimately, Pneumonia sounds more like a Ryan Adams solo project than anything else, and it walks a decidedly different path than the Whiskeytown albums that preceded it -- there are no charging rockers in the manner of "Drank Like a River" or "Yesterday's News," and the country twang of "Too Drunk to Dream" or "Someone Remembers the Rose" has receded into the background (though Cary's violin and occasional mandolin or steel guitar lines from Daly do add a high-lonesome undertow to several songs, especially the plaintive "Sit and Listen to the Rain" and "My Hometown"). This is easily Whiskeytown's most ambitious and eclectic work, and the sparkling pop of "Don't Be Sad" and "Mirror Mirror," the lovely faux-tropicalia of "Paper Moon," the haunting tape-loop reverie of "What the Devil Wanted," and low-key power balladry of "Crazy About You" all prove that, despite his reckless public persona, Ryan Adams had gained a wealth of maturity and intelligence (at least as a songwriter and recording artist) since the last time he'd entered a recording studio. Pneumonia was recorded in 1999, but the closing of Outpost Records in the wake of that year's Polygram/ Universal merger put the album on the shelf for two years; in the meantime, Pneumonia developed an underground reputation as a lost classic, and while that description is going a bit far to make a point, it is an undeniably striking and beautifully crafted set of songs, and it's interesting to imagine where this music would have taken Whiskeytown if the album had met its original release date -- assuming that Whiskeytown was still a band by the time the record was finished. <AMG> |
1. Ballad of Carol Lynn
2. Don't Wanna Know Why
3. Jacksonville Skyline
4. Reason To Lie
5. Don't Be Sad
6. Sit and Listen to the Rain
7. Under Your Breath
8. Mirror Mirror
9. Paper Moon
10. What The Devil Wanted
11. Crazy About You
12. My Hometown
13. Easy Hearts
14. Bar Lights
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Orchestre National de Jazz - Around Robert Wyatt (2009)
mp3 320kpbs | 160MB | 76:48 min.
| Quote: | Robert Wyatt's status as a living English institution now equals that of, say, Stephen Fry. So much so, that there's a danger of the shy, self-effacing man being swamped by wearying hyperbole. But, just as you're about to surrender to cynicism, along comes something as wonderful as Around Robert Wyatt: a collaboration between the bearded one and Daniel Yvinec and his French ten-piece Orchestre. One listen and any doubts about Wyatt's are laid to rest.
The album does this is by taking Wyatt's compositions as well as his most famous cover versions (cf: Shipbuilding), re-casting them in a jazz setting. These expanded, joyous, limber explorations of the basic bones of Wyatt's work reveal structures that are both rock solid and light as a feather. Hardly SPAMising when you consider thay were all originally written and performed by a jazz fan, albeit one who never considered himself to be a 'proper' musician.
Highlights are pointlesss, but easy examples are Rokia Traore's incredible reading of Alifib. The child-speak of the Rock Bottom classic fits her mouth to a tee. The incredible duo of Yael Naim and Arno, balance delicacy with cartoon gruffness to highlight Wyatt and partner Alfreda Benge's unflinching look at their relationship, Just As You Are (from his Cuckooland album). And Daniel Darc's lounge version of the Matching Mole perennial, O Caroline which eventually lurches into Tom Waits noir? Believe me, it works.
Wyatt, himself, joins the throng on several pieces and his voice sounds rejuvenated by the experience, especially on the bonus version of his obscurity, Rangers In The Night, which benefits from modern looping techniques to achieve an other-worldliness. The Orchestre features players of outstanding calibre, especially the guitar and banjo of Pierre Perchaud who swoops, plunks and grinds. Yvinec's innovative arrangements leave enough room for the songs to breath again, buffing up material grown dull with over-familiarity.
If you've recently tired of Wyatt, or people banging on about how marvellous he is, buy this album. Your faith will be restored. It deserves as much hyperbole as it can get. -- BBC |
1. The Song (feat. Robert Wyatt)
2. Alifib (feat. Rokia Traoré)
3. Just as You Are (feat. Yael Naïm, Arno)
4. O Caroline (feat. Daniel Darc)
5. Kew Rhone (feat. Robert Wyatt)
6. Shipbuilding (feat. Yael Naïm)
7. Line (feat. Eve Risser)
8. Alliance (feat. Camille)
9. Vandalusia (feat. Robert Wyatt)
10. Del Mondo (feat. Irène Jacob)
11. Te Recuerdo Amanda (feat. Robert Wyatt)
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The Whispertown 2000 - Swim (2008)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 51MB | 36:47 min.
Neo-Traditional Folk, Alternative Country, Contemporary Singer/ Songwriter, Americana
| Quote: | Led by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Morgan Nagler, the Whispertown 2000 was an indie rock band that started out as a solo vehicle but developed into a full-fledged band around 2004. Nagler was moved to write and perform by friend and Rilo Kiley member Blake Sennett, who helped -- along with Jenny Lewis -- Nagler on her path to musical notoriety. The original pairing (that is to say, Nagler and Tod Adrian Wisenbaker), under the aforementioned original name, played their first show as an opener to Sennett's side project the Elected, and soon began working off their own momentum, changing names and adding members. The new four-piece edition of the Whispertown 2000 hit the road, and eventually released an album, 2006's Livin' in a Dream, which included contributions from Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett. 2008 would see the group build on their strong touring schedule with a new album, Swim. -- AMG
“Swim is the kind of record you wish people made more often: rural music played by suburban kids with an intuitive feel for the unruly punk heart of old-time country.” -- UNCUT
“Nagler sings of love, dope, and life/death’s positive/negative balance with Appalachian front-porch lonesomeness while garagey drums crash along and assorted guitars veer from bluegrasss breakdown to psychedelic echo and distortion.” -- MOJO |
Whispertown 2000:
Morgan Nagler (vocals, guitar)
Tod Adrian Wisenbaker (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harp, piano, bass instrument, drum set, hand claps, background vocals)
Casey Wisenbaker (vocals, bass instrument, drums)
Vanessa Corbala (vocals, drums, tambourine, percussion).
Personnel: David Rawlings (vocals, acoustic guitar); Gillian Welch, Jenny Lewis (vocals); Jake Bellows (whistling, synthesizer); Jonathan Wilson (electric guitar, piano, organ); Rami Jaffee (piano, organ); Nick White (piano); Colt Maloney (bass instrument); Jason Boesel (drum set, percussion); Megan Memmott, Mandy Richardson, Dave Richardson (hand claps, background vocals).
Tracklisting:
1. 103
2. Done With Love
3. Pushing Oars
4. No Dope
5. Old Times
6. Erase The Lines
7. Atlantis
8. Lock And Key
9. From The Start/Jamboree
10. Ebb And Flow
11. Mountain
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:56 am |
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The Whispertown 2000 - Living in a dream (2007)
mp3 192kpbs | 65MB | 56:13 min.
| Quote: | For those of you who are fans of Gillian Welch , you'll be interested in checking out The Whispertown 2000 , the first band to be signed to her and David Rawlings ' (her longtime musical partner) new label Acony Records . You might jump to some conclusions about the band's music based on that connection, and many of those conclusions will probably be correct. Their music has an old time country/bluegrass feel to it that mates up well with the vocals of Morgan Nagler and Vanesa Corbala , whose voices handle the country inflections well.
There are some instances where the music jumps into overdrive, almost a westernized version of the Breeders with a pair of female voices up front over a simple yet booming sound, but just as quickly things cool down. For instance, half way through the album, the loud Erase the Lines eases into Atlantis , a piano driven number featuring a four woman choir made up of Nagler, Corbala, Gillian Welch, and Jenny Lewis. |
1. Livin' In A Dream
2. Good Bye Baby
3. Iron Will
4. Untitled (Get Used To You)
5. Hello Wishin' Well
6. Restless
7. House And Home
8. Untitled (I Sould Have Known)
9. Intentions
10. New York Minute
11. On The Move
12. Untitled (Take Me Home)
13. Through A Hole
14. I Think You Should Know
15. Lean Back
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Richard Buckner - Meadow (2006)
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| Quote: | "Pretty destroyed/comin' through/sees your spin/around the room...are you sitting down?" These are some of the lyrics from "Town," the opening track on Richard Buckner's Meadow, sung to an urgent progression of distorted electric and acoustic guitars and drums. As unsettling as this is, the song is chock-full of Buckner's inherent melodic sense, and it's easier to bear, somehow, this darkness and melancholy. Produced by J.D. Foster at his home studio, and at Buckner's, with some additional work done at Brooklyn Recording, this is an album of absences, of ghosts so far down the highway only their traces remain. Buckner's sense of rock & roll is infused with images from country, folk, the desert, the blues, early American popular music; virtually everywhere he's been. In some ways one can say that these ten songs are his own companion to his recording of some of the Spoon River Anthology on Hill. Each track here has a one word title except for the final one, "The Tether and the Tie." But Buckner's revisiting the cautious grief and optimism on Bloomed, too. Everything here is written in a state of absence, of the previous, the past, and how it can be reconciled. The gorgeous shimmering piano, drums and guitars intro on "Lucky" ease into the startling words: "Forgetting where the roads align, bowing out and back again/Something made it over/A chance to cross the shards you see...." These lyrics are held together by bridges and refrains that further underscore their poetry. Its strength is in the missing middle, the hole in the middle, the thing that needs to be revisited but can't quite be because it's already gone and only gray shadows remain.
This small group of players -- Foster (Green on Red, Dwight Yoakam, Alejandro Escovedo), Buckner, Doug Gillard (ex-Guided by Voices), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio), Steve Goulding (Waco Brothers, Mekons, Freakwater, et. al), and Kevin March (Jeff Buckley, Guided by Voices) -- focus on Buckner's melodies from the outside in. This is not music that tries to break out, it simply tries to hold itself together, and it does so beautifully. Where Buckner opens with what would, to others, be the beginning of the end: "Man, I was high/stepping out on goodbyes/And Once in a while/I'd stumble out into the open...All I thought was, 'How can I find it?'," the band covers him, they're in close, giving him just enough room to sing. He's on top of them confessing, letting it all fall out, but only because he has this intensely focused support and empathy. Musically, Meadow is perhaps Buckner's least formal album, though Since is a close second. Often what's happened on his albums, such as on Dents and Shells, or even the criminally underrated Devotion + Doubt, is that the darkness is rendered impenetrable by the instrumentation. Not so here. The symbiotic relationship these players have to the material and the singer takes it all further. You want to flinch when hearing these observations of a life broken further by its insistence on not hiding its brokenness and its poverty of ability to cement relationships, though not in spirit or heart which never quite gives up hope even as it surrenders one pairing, one grouping after another. No one writes love songs like these. They're funeral pyres adorned in fragrances, flowers, mementoes and rock & roll.
The hinge piece here is "Kingdom": "Kingdom calling, don't you want to come and hide/All the way to the other side?...What's lost, I knew but I thought couldn't be/all the time and everything...Downtown, let down, at the bottom of the lights/stray back, although/It's just too far the way we are...." One is reminded of the musicality of Robert Creeley's poems and the muscularity of Charles Olson's. But these songs are neither; they're infused by poetry but not of it. Meadow is not separate from Buckner's voice or his catalog, but it is fully inhabited by both. This is a culmination, a stepping stone to who knows where? In the final track where, sparsely accompanied, in his finest, most gentle voice, he croons near the end: "Something serves you right/Haven't you seen it move?/Always gone and almost new." There is no paradox here, just the embrace of what has passed being ever before us, haunting and moving with us like our shadows, into whatever comes next. Meadow is a new high-water mark. -- AMG |
01. Town 4:08
02. Canyon 3:08
03. Lucky 3:26
04. Mile 3:41
05. Before 2:23
06. Window 3:07
07. Kingdom 3:01
08. Numbered 3:28
09. Spell 3:33
10. The Tether And The Tie 3:51
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| Quote: | Possessing a bright clear voice that combines the vulnerability of a young girl with the intelligence and resilience of a grown woman, Laura Cantrell burst onto the international music scene in 2000 with a debut album that showcased her affecting vocals, literate songwriting, and superb taste in musicians and fellow songwriters. Cantrell, however, had followed a rather unusual path to become one of the new favorites of Americana -- she moved from her home in Tennessee to New York City, studied law and accounting in college, and juggles a career in finance with her busy sidelines as a musician and disc jockey.
In 1999, Cantrell recorded her first album, Not the Tremblin' Kind, which was produced by Jay Sherman-Godfrey, a former member of New York-based honky tonk rockers the World Famous Blue Jays (whose leader, Jeremy Tepper, is also Cantrell's husband). Released by a small Scottish label, Spit & Polish Records, Not the Tremblin' Kind soon received a stack of rave reviews, most notably from legendary British disc jockey John Peel, who called it "my favorite record from the last ten years, and possibly my life." Tepper's "rig rock" label Diesel Only Records released the album stateside in 2000, and Cantrell quickly began balancing tour dates and recording sessions with her careers in finance and radio. (Cantrell, describing music as "insanely expensive," has yet to quit her day job, despite her growing success in music.) Cantrell's second album, When the Roses Bloom Again, followed in 2002; to support its release, Cantrell toured Europe and the United States opening for another noted fan of her records, Elvis Costello. In 2004 she released the Hello Recordings, a five-song collection of demos, followed by the full-length JD Foster-produced Humming by the Flowered Vine in 2005. |
Laura Cantrell - Not The Tremblin Kind (2000)
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| Quote: | | Laura Cantrell's debut album, Not the Tremblin' Kind, is a mix of originals and covers by little known yet superb songwriters like George Usher, Joe Flood, Amy Allison, and the Volebeats' Bob McCreedy -- resulting in an evocative blend of neo-traditionalist country. As a singer, Cantrell doesn't have the pipes of a someone like Lucinda Williams, but, like Merle Haggard, her clear and simple way with a tale or sentiment leaves the listener hanging on every word. Cantrell's own "Queen of the Coast" tells the story of a female country singer from a bygone era who stands toward the back of a stage while her man basks in the spotlight. (Think Bonnie Owens: The mandolin line even slyly echoes one-time husband Haggard's signature "I Am a Lonesome Fugitive.") The era the song nods to is also expressive of Cantrell's sound, which is of clearly different stock than the high drama of alt-country young lion Neko Case or the good-natured folkyness of predecessor Nanci Griffith. Rather, Cantrell's music echoes a truck-stop jukebox circa the 1950s or '60s and such woman pioneers as Kitty Wells. Also, Cantrell's work as a DJ at famed free-form station WFMU allowed her to cull the finest tracks that crossed her turntable, and her ear for the right tunes to cover is clearly evident. On her heart-piercing take on the Volebeats' "Two Seconds," her plaintive voice is used to excellent effect, driving home the primary sentiment, "Two seconds of your love is all I need of you/two seconds of your time, that's enough to say we're through/two beats of your heart is enough to know we'll never part." Another great cover is Amy Allison's "Whiskey Makes You Sweeter," which Cantrell delivers with the poise of a woman who won't make the same mistake twice -- rather than the sloppy, temporary regret the song might suggest. Solid production by World Famous Blue Jays member Jay Sherman-Godfrey and strong musicianship make this first-class, enduring Americana -- with one foot in the past and an eye towards the future. -- AMG |
1. Not the Tremblin' Kind
2. Little Bit of You
3. Queen of the Coast
4. Pile of Woe
5. Two Seconds
6. Churches off the Interstate
7. Whiskey Makes You Sweeter
8. Do You Ever Think of Me
9. Big Wheel
10. My Heart Goes Out to You
11. Somewhere, Some Night
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Laura Cantrell - When the Roses Bloom Again (2002)
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| Quote: | | With her debut, Not the Tremblin' Kind, Brooklynite Laura Cantrell quietly made a great little Americana album that earned kudos across the board. The effort also found Cantrell, an award-winning DJ at New Jersey's famed WFMU who knows her way around a record collection, championing tracks by little-known yet top-notch songwriters. Expect more of the same from When the Roses Bloom Again; Cantrell has completely sidestepped the sophomore jinx with a wonderful album that builds upon the strengths of her debut. Listeners may be familiar with the title track (adapted from traditional lyrics) through the Wilco/Billy Bragg collaboration that finally surfaced on the Chelsea Walls soundtrack in early 2002. Cantrell steers away from the rolling drama of that rendering, however, opting instead for a more subtle approach that emphasizes her plaintive delivery and is bolstered by mandolin, fiddle, and stark percussion. And Cantrell's version is just as heart-rending. Cantrell is no vocal powerhouse, but she has found a way -- much like Merle Haggard -- to use her gifts to maximum effect. One hangs on every word and each phrase is a clarion call to sincerity. This album also finds Cantrell once again paying fine tribute to songwriter Joe Flood; the upbeat, Byrdsy performance of Flood's "All the Same to You" is one of the finest tracks here. Just as with her lauded radio show, the listener is in good hands with this album; Cantrell mixes classic country sensibility, pop chops, and a great taste in tunes to stirring effect. -- AMG |
1 Too Late for Tonight 2:30
2 All the Same to You 3:06
3 Early Years 3:38
4 Don't Break the Heart 3:47
5 Wait 3:23
6 Mountain Fern 4:15
7 Vaguest Idea 3:06
8 Yonder Comes a Freight Train 3:21
9 Broken Again 3:43
10 When the Roses Bloom Again 4:05
11 Conqueror's Song 3:52
12 Oh So Many Years 3:10
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Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008)
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| Quote: | | Whether its songs were autobiographical or not, Tanglewood Numbers carried the weight of the hard times David Berman survived before making the album. By contrast, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is one of the Silver Jews' lightest albums, at times surpassing the most playful moments of Starlite Walker and American Water. Berman's sly sense of humor has always been a vital -- maybe even the most vital -- ingredient in the Silver Jews' music, but some of the songs here are so goofy, at least on the surface, they might put off fans who want him to be only a serious writer or wry raconteur. "Party Barge" opens with gleefully fake seagull sound effects and just gets wackier from there, with Berman and his wife, Cassie, trading off lyrics like "Send me your coordinates and I'll send a Saint Bernard." Yet even the silliest-seeming songs aren't trivial -- and like most Silver Jews songs, they're eminently quotable: the album's longest and wildest song, "San Francisco B.C.," a six-minute epic involving an ex-girlfriend who is a "vocal martyr in the vegan press," has almost as many narrative developments as a small novel; "Candy Jail" may have fittingly sugary marimba melodies, but the first words out of Berman's mouth are "pain works on a sliding scale." The darkness that drove much of Tanglewood Numbers resurfaces from time to time on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, sometimes in strange places, like the breakneck story-song "Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer," where a star-crossed romance with a very hungry country singer and the mysterious "region 10" combine in surreal, sinister ways. However, even on the album's most inward-looking song, the gorgeous "My Pillow Is the Threshold," which explores the night life of dreaming, that darkness feels like it's been put into a more manageable perspective. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea also boasts a few quintessential Silver Jews songs, including the opening track, "What Is Not But Could Be If," a lonesome, open-ended musing where the rumble of Berman's slightly frail baritone sounds like the missing link between Johnny Cash and Calvin Johnson. "Suffering Jukebox" is another classic from its title onward; written in sympathy of the mostly ignored jukeboxes in honky tonks everywhere, it's just another example of how the Silver Jews find imaginative perspectives on classic country sounds and imagery. They go a step farther on "We Could Be Looking for the Same Thing," delivering a love song sweet and straightforward enough to be a hit in a parallel country-pop universe, lyrics like "I hope I don't come across as a coyote in your eyes" and all. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea reveals more poetic, as well as playful, layers with each listen -- and above all, underscores what an inviting songwriter Berman is, whether he's taking a darker or lighter approach. -- AMG |
01 What Is Not But Could Be If
02 Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer
03 Suffering Jukebox
04 My Pillow Is the Threshold
05 Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
06 Open Field
07 San Francisco B.C.
08 Candy Jail
09 Party Barge
10 We Could Be Looking for the Same Thing
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Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons - Cabin Ghosts (EP 2008)
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| Quote: | Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons don't like to be tied down to a genre. They list Americana, folk and neo-soul as their mainstays, but there is also some jazz, gospel, bluegrass and country shimmering through the cracks of the songs on their forthcoming EP Cabin Ghosts.
Like notable musicians before him, singer-songwriter Cory Chisel forged his first connection to the power of song through the music he heard – and made – in church. His father was a Baptist minister, his mother played piano during services, and an upbringing surrounded by sermons and spirituals instilled in Cory the passion and portent of language and melody, and a fluency in the gospel’s rich vernacular of loss and redemption.
Based in Appleton, WI with his band, The Wandering Sons, Chisel’s upcoming six song EP, “Cabin Ghosts” reflects the inspiration of his upbringing with a spare Americana-saturated sound that is its own exquisite blend of folk-country and Delta blues. With his voice full of soul and longing, Chisel’s expressive vocals and the Sons’ loosely orchestrated, impeccable playing emerge fully formed yet somehow familiar and as confident in its sonics as in its lyrical echoes of existential grace and mystery.
Recorded mostly live at Robinwood, his family’s cabin in the wilds of Elco, WI and at a live concert in his hometown, a collection of stark and haunted melodies grew from the beautiful woods of his home state into the songs now captured on the “Cabin Ghosts” EP. |
1. Lovers And Friends
2. See It My Way
3. So Wrong For Me
4. On My Side
5. It Won't Be Long
6. Home In The Woods
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Honeyhoney - First Rodeo (2008)
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Honeyhoney is the jazzy, twangy, rollicking collaboration between vocalist Suzanne Santo and guitarist Ben Jaffe. Prior to joining the duo, Jaffe recorded music for TV and film; he then met Santo (an actress whose resume included stints on Law & Order and Blind Justice) through a mutual friend, who took Jaffe to see one of Santo's solo gigs. The two began holding informal songwriting sessions and soon discovered a musical partnership. Adopting the name honeyhoney, they also discovered an early supporter in Keifer Sutherland, who signed the band to Ironworks Music, a label he co-owned with musician Jude Cole.
Honeyhoney made their studio debut by issuing the Loose Boots EP in early 2008; the musicians then hit the road with Lifehouse (another band on the Ironworks roster) while finding time to work on their debut album. First Rodeo was released later that year, featuring varied influences that ranged from crossover jazz to neo-soul to engaging alt-country.
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Like Amy Winehouse fronting a jazz-influenced country band, Honeyhoney's debut is a diverse offering of twang, swagger, swing, and stomp. Vocalist Suzanne Santo sings with a neo-soul croon that owes as much to the saloon as the nightclub, cracking one minute and lapsing into an elegant vibrato the next. It's a voice that adapts itself well to other styles, from the boozy elegance of ballads like "Bouncing Ball" and "Sugarcane" to the throaty, Nashville-influenced strains of "Not for Long." Santo also handles violin and banjo duties, two instruments that help emphasize her band's homespun blues, while her partner Ben Jaffe tackles most everything else, playing piano and electric guitar while claiming the bulk of the songwriting credits. Several of First Rodeo's highlights previously appeared on the Loose Boots EP, which previewed the band's genre-bending experiments in early 2008. Of those songs, "Give Yourself to Me" and "Little Toy Gun" stand out as the duo's most energetic material; the latter song even finds room for firearm sound effects, mixing sensuality with the sort of sassy, '60s-styled camp that often peppers Quentin Tarantino movies. New offerings only sharpen the band's approach: "Come on Home" is a dirty duet before Santo's alto and Jaffe's Mississippi Delta riffage, "David" orchestrates a breakup note with tasteful strings and piano, and "Slow Brains" begins with old-timey banjo pluckings before making room for lush harmonies and keyboards. First Rodeo covers a good deal of ground, yet its appeal never suffers at the expense of its diversity, which makes for a truly promising debut. -- AMG |
1. Black Crows
2. Little Toy Gun
3. Sugarcane
4. Not For Long
5. Bouncing Ball
6. Come On Home
7. Give Yourself To Me
8. David
9. Slow Brains
10. Under The Willow Tree
11. Oh Mama
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The Greencards - Viridian (2007)
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| Quote: | | The Greencards have titled their third album Viridian, probably in reference to their name, which is inspired by their immigrant status (Carol Young and Kym Warner were born in Australia, Eamon McLoughlin hails from the U.K., and these days they all call Austin, TX home). But the name also fits as a reference to the simple beauty of the group's natural sound -- much of Viridian sounds so organic and spontaneous that one imagines it could have grown rather than been recorded. Not that this music feels haphazard or ruled by chance; Young's vocals, which sound rich and downy sweet at once, dovetail so beautifully with McLoughlin's fiddle and Warner's mandolin and bouzouki that their musical communication seems nearly telepathic, but they achieve this without a moment sounding forced, and on Viridian, the open space around the music communicates as eloquently as what the musicians actually play. (Their approach is aided tremendously by Doug Lancio's sympathetic production and Jason Lehning's crisp engineering.) The Greencards use their very impressive chops to serve the songs rather than forcing the music to become a platform for their egos, and between the tunes they wrote themselves and the contributions from Kim Richey and Jedd Hughes, this disc quietly but impressively communicates a whole world of emotions and moods through the trio's precise arrangements and lovely harmonies. (And though Young takes on the majority of the lead vocals here, both Warner and McLoughlin are quite impressive when they step up to the mic.) Few acts in bluegrass or acoustic country are making music as soul satisfying as the Greencards, and Viridian captures them in lovely, affecting form. -- AMG |
1 Waiting on the Night (3:34)
2 Here You Are (3:52)
3 River of Sand (3:53)
4 Who Knows (5:32)
5 All the Way from Italy (4:24)
6 Su Prabhat (2:06)
7 Shinin' in the Dark (2:44)
8 When I Was in Love with You (3:57)
9 I Don't Want to Lose You (3:13)
10 Lonesome Side of Town (3:35)
11 Travel On (3:48)
12 Mucky the Duck (3:26)
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The Greencards - Fascination (2009)
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| Quote: | | The Greencards were beginning to stretch the boundaries of bluegrass and acoustic country on their third album, 2007's Viridian, and with their fourth set, Fascination, they've made it clear they're not going to let generic boundaries get in the way of their musical growth. The group's lineup hasn't changed, and they still play acoustic instruments exclusively, but Fascination features little that resembles traditional bluegrass. Instead, the Greencards adventurously try their hands at reggae ("Fascination"), lively uptempo pop ("The Avenue"), slinky jazz ("Three Four Time"), and atmospheric tone poems whose scope belies their status as a three-piece ("Into the Blue"). Even the tunes that bear the closest resemblance to traditional acoustic music find the trio putting a new spin on old sounds -- the simple but insistent percussion on "Rivertown" fuses a powerful energy to a melody in the classic style, and the wide dynamics and adventurous counterpoints of "Little Siam" suggest newgrass thrown into stylistic overdrive. One thing that thankfully hasn't changed is the remarkable skill of these three musicians and the magic that occurs when they play together; Carol Young's lead vocals are strong, heartfelt, and evocative (as is her bass playing), while Kym Warner's mandolins, bouzouki, and ukulele and Eamon McLoughlin's violin, viola, and cello reveal the gifts of a virtuoso and the imagination to do something fresh with their sounds. And the gentle but engaging beauty of the Greencards' earlier music certainly carries over to Fascination; if this album represents a brave step onto new ground, it also retains the beauty and soul of their best work, and while old fans will be pleased, it's easy to imagine some new ones will be drawn in as well. -- AMG |
01. Fascination (3:37)
02. Outskirts Of Blue (3:29)
03. The Avenue (2:57)
04. Chico Calling (5:00)
05. Three Four Time (2:54)
06. Davey Jones (3:46)
07. Little Siam (1:44)
08. Water In The Well (3:47)
09. Into The Blue (4:35)
10. Rivertown (4:01)
11. The Crystal Merchant (3:38)
12. Lover I Love The Best (3:55)
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