Greg Trooper passed away on January 15, 2017 at the age of 61. He had been dealing with pancreatic cancer for some time, but the singer-songwriter lived up to his last name, performing shows up until the end. If you are […]
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There’s just something about the intersection of music and TV that can be magical when everything is just right. Think the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, or that Nirvana set on MTV’s “Unplugged.” Sturgill Simpson may have just launched himself onto […]
It takes Greg Trooper less than ten seconds to stop you in your tracks. Accompanied by organ, upright bass and his own guitar, Trooper has only to sing his first note to grab your attention. His voice is so open, […]
With its rousing opening, excellent guitar picking that leads into the compelling lines: “My heart is a ghost town…” Texas-based Matthew McNeal’s gritty poetic voice hooks the listener as quickly as a magnet attracts metal. Then boom…a dynamic drum beat lassos your […]
For his eighth album, Greg Trooper has turned his folk blues into folk soul, southern-fried at that, with his Nashville-by-way-of-Jersey singer-songwriter sensibilities given gasping new depth thanks largely to the production of Dan Penn. It’s a funny place to find […]
In the early ’90s, Hear Music’s mail-order catalog introduced me to Alejandro Escovedo and Michael Hall when I read about, and instantly purchased (the writers were nothing if not persuasive), Escovedo’s Gravity and Hall’s Love Is Murder. In that same […]
Captured live in June 2000 at the renowned Pine Hill Farm house-concert venue in Durham, North Carolina, this between-releases informal recording turns out to be a very comfortable platform for the funny and sad, straight-on and quirky, uniformly intimate music […]
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