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A Tribute to The Doors Ray Manzarek 1939-2013

"You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way."    Ray Manzarek  

In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years old. I was completely transfixed by the band. Having an older musician brother, playing the Sunset Strip, signed to United Artist Records and playing frequent live gigs made me no stranger to live…

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Posted by Terry Roland on May 20, 2013 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Life At the Edge

Brown Bird's Dave Lamb faces a crisis, and his fans have his back in a big way.

Spend a few minutes hanging at the warm side of street musicians’ guitar case, lost in the rawness of word and melody, and a niggling sense will creep into your reverie: Playing for quarters and raggedy dollar bills is a scary way to make a living. That musician, however, might have paying gigs too.  Hell, they might even tour with a partner or band.  What a life!  Unfortunately, no…

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Posted by Angus Edward on May 18, 2013 at 11:00am

Down the Hiss Golden Messenger Stream: "Haw" and more

Rivers flood broad expanses of the Southern imagination. The mythic Mississippi rolls through literature, our watery national spine, by turns torpid and apocalyptic. But there are countless intimate tributaries and every Southerner knows one. Flowing water provides blessed relief in summer, spiritual cleansing and profane recreation.  If you grew up messing around in creeks and rivers, you pushed through thick, brown water past insect skaters skimming the surface in sunny pools -…

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Freight Train Boogie podcast #211 featuring "The Moorings" by Andrew Duhon along with Deadstring Brothers, Samantha Crain and Free Range Folk

FTB podcast #211 features The Moorings by New Orleans singer/songwriter ANDREW DUHON. Also new music from FREE RANGE FOLK, SAMANTHA CRAIN and HE’S MY BROTHER SHE’S MY SISTER.

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Posted by Bill Frater on May 18, 2013 at 10:00am

Roger Knox: Stranger in My Land (Bloodshot, 2013)

Moving and socially significant Australian country music

Though country music is most typically associated with the Southern United States, its impact has been felt all around the world. In addition to Nashville and Texas exports, a strong but little-known strain developed among Australian aboriginals in the second half of the twentieth century.…

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The Great Escape, Brighton, 2013: day two

It was definitely Billy Bragg's day, with a strong contender for performance of the year, not just of TGE. In comparison with the other stuff I saw, it's a bit like wondering how the rest got on when Mo Farah turned up for the dads' race at sports day...

It was probably the fifth or sixth time I've seen Billy over the last 25 years or so and the first that he's had a full band available throughout. We still got some solo and stripped-down numbers, but it was…

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Posted by Peter Wrench on May 18, 2013 at 1:30am

Brittany Holljes on the Origins of Delta Rae and Her Healthy Fleetwood Mac Obsession

Carry the Fire cover Delta Rae might sound like the down-home name of a backwoods country singer but it’s really just Greek to Brittany Holljes.

“I think there are a lot of ‘Delta’ bands out there, too, so we kind of get that ... people get confused,” said Holljes, the whip-smart singer of the North Carolina-based sextet (like Deborah Harry used to say about Blondie, Delta Rae is a group). “And I completely…

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Posted by Michael Bialas on May 17, 2013 at 11:47pm

Crowd-sourcing to crowd-pleasing: The rise of Kat Edmonson

If Kat Edmonson ever becomes a household name, she can put it down not just to her talent as a jazz singer, but to some decidedly modern financing as well.

The 29-year-old Texan, an old-school chanteuse with a contemporary lilt, has funded production of her second album via a community workshop and through…

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Posted by musicJJMG on May 17, 2013 at 11:34pm

When to get your ass saved and when to drown

How does the co-writing song process differ from the alone songwriting process you just wrote about?

Co-writing is quite different from writing alone. When I'm working on something alone I have complete freedom. Freedom to experiment, to make mistakes, to try things I'm quite sure won't work and the freedom to reconstruct whatever has come before and rebuild it like a bad water pump. When I'm working on a song with another writer there is the presence of…

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Posted by Rod Picott on May 17, 2013 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

CD Review - Fiddleworms "See The Light"

The ambitious new album See The Light, from Alabama quintet Fiddleworms is a cavalcade of styles with literally a parade of guest musicians including the University of North Alabama marching Band. The eleven original tracks are interspersed with snippets of radio sound effects and spoken word segments that flow from jazzy blues to stomping country rock fusion all centered around the lazy everyman vocals Russell Medford. The level of production and…

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