For your new year’s eve listening pleasure, a 30 track collection of music generally released during 2012 in one form or another. I’ve included links to where you can find or listen to the music. Drive carefully. “Neptune City (for […]
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I rang in 2012 at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, South Carolina, at an Avett Brothers concert. It was one of two or three times that I’d see the Avetts in 2012. Another memorable moment came at the Austin City […]
Michael Packer has had a long history as a solid blues sender. Born in New York City in 1950, he began playing guitar in the early 1960s. His first “real” gig was at Greenwich Village’s Bitter End when he was […]
(Cover of the 1976 album on Flying Fish) In between Uncle Josh Graves and Jerry Douglas, there was Mike Auldridge, the preeminent dobro player of his day. Now, unfortunately, his long day has closed. Just one day prior to his […]
Progressive Bluegrass anyone? The title track which opens the album kicks it into life with a 30 second ‘duelling banjos’ type intro; but these banjos appear to have a Punk-Folk tuning. When Paul Givant’s fulsome voice comes in, the whole atmosphere […]
It’s traditional, after all the lists have been listed and the compilations compiled, that you catch up with another contender… This year it is Peter Buck, the first solo album from the former REM guitarist, which slipped out with little fanfare in […]
Stacie Collins has been called, “a country fried version of Joan Jett.” While the latter may no doubt figure as an influence, blues harp player Collins’s gritty voice, distinctive phrasing, and relentless energy show her hometown that an ostensible “country” […]
For me, “music is the elixir of life.” It’s the soundtrack to my every day. It alters my mood like no other drug. It brings me joy when there’s none to be found and comforts me when there is no […]
The pairing of JT Nero (aka Jeremy Lindsay of JT and the Clouds) and Alice Russell (Po’ Girl) in a collective under the name Birds of Chicago is the sort of magnificent union you’re rooting for at a wedding with […]
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