Category: Americana
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The Low Anthem Play SXSW (and many other dates) – No Stops in Western Canada!
So yes, promo emails are currently running rampant in many a blogger inbox. SXSW must be right around the corner. I think I got 5 just on my drive into work today (I can only imagine for the larger blogs!). I am all for info, but I just hate being struck across the face (albeit…
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Album to look forward to: Weinland – “Breaks In The Sun”
Upcoming on April 21st, 2009 – Badman Recording Company is releasing the next album from Weinland called “Breaks In The Sun”. If you are familiar with Weinland, you will know it will be an album of rich textrure and at times ethereal acoustic melodies. Believe me, it is that good. If by chance you find…
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New Jitney Album Released on Rock Proper!
A busted leg, a year plus recovering and two years driving a taxicab came between Casey Meehan’s Violet and his new project Jitney. Kind faces, cruel faces, always going somewhere, were the wildflower seeds planted in the cracked leather backseat that grew into these songs. 6pm to 6am, 6 nights becoming dawns each week, with…
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Bonus Presidential Downloads
Just because I have been trolling various music sites in the last few days, I have found a few tracks that I would have attached to previous posts, but simply didn’t find them by the time I posted. Bad, bad blogger – research all available venues, exhaust every possible nook and cranny of the internet…
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Still on tap: “Various Artists” Vol. 2
I tolds ya I would be back with some more various songs, loosely threaded together by some sort of “themed post”. I won’t let you down today folks. More good ones available below for consumption. Various Artists playlist part 2: “River of Dirt” by Marissa Nadler (new track from the upcoming release “Little Hells”) “A…
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Now on tap: “Various Artists” Vol. 1
This “Various Artist” band sure records a lot. I mean, how many albums can these guys put out…and on a regular basis! Okay, lame opening, but wouldn’t it be a great name for a band – “Various Artists”. Everyone would be know you, although there are a few inherent pitfalls I see in that name……
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Matt Jones – Michigan talent pool finds even more depth
The photo above features Matt Jones. Matt Jones is more or less new to me. The fact that the trailer in the photo above is made by John Deere is not lost on me. Michigan isn’t just the city of Detroit. Michigan is as vast as it’s songwriter talent pool is deep. This fact says…
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The Long, Dusty Road that is Beastheart
Sometimes a photo can strike a chord in you and make you understand something that cannot be described (or at least is hard to put to words). The sounds created by Beastheart can be best described in an image such as the below. I don’t know what it is about Beastheart, but they make me…
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If you haven’t heard – Magnolia Summer
Hey, if you haven’t heard….”Magnolia Summer”! Welcome again kiddies to another installment of “If You Haven’t Heard” and the band in question – Magnolia Summer. This St. Louis based “rock” band (as they describe themselves) is a bit of a collection of friends that have been interchanged over the past few years under the moniker…
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Song, by Toad presents…pretty damn good music.
I have finally got around to adding a new member to the blogroll – of this ever elusive list of who’s who… ;-) and so I have with Song, by Toad! I have mentioned in the past that I enjoy this certain blog by the Toad (mentioned here) and I was oblivious to the fact…
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In Lieu of new
In more ways than one this post is not “new”. I have decided not to do my weekly post “New on the ‘nets” this Saturday as I am working on a “10 things that WON’T be on my Best of 2008 list” post in it’s place and this band is not my discovery in any…
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Who needs a new album? Tom Brosseau, that’s who.
Tom Brosseau just so happens to be this native North Dakotan pictured above. Other than being magnificently displayed above he is one who brings well wanted heartland country folk to my ears. I am not saying that Brosseau NEEDS a new album, but maybe I need him to have one, yeah, that’s probably more accurate. …