Category: Singer Songwriter
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Hoquiam (2008?)
Just a mini post today, just because I didn’t get to due to the “guest blogger” situation below. I better get used to this as she may be a regular contributor to the ol spot on the web… I just had to post on this as I have been watching their MySpace profile for a…
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Hayden & Veirs, “Islands In The Stream”
**Guest blogger alert, guest blogger alert** So a few days ago we are on our way to see “The Dark Knight” and Smansmith is giving Stanley Brinks’ “Dank U” a whirl…I’m enjoying it but it makes me think of Hayden. So I say “When is Hayden coming out with something new?” Okay so, I am…
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Death Vessel — not just for the leather crowd anymore!
Yes, my friends I have been swayed to the dark side…I am a purveyor of all things hardcore and metal (enter devil horn sign with hand here). Oh wait, Death Vessel is not thrash-core metal…it is a very decent folk styled. Okay now we are back to normal, I hope nobody got too worried there…
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Horse Feathers or Chad VanGaalen — September’s most anticipated release?
So I am anxiously awaiting two releases this September and by the blog post title you already know who they are. I mean there are other important releases coming (also awaiting this), but I think Horse Feathers and Chad VanGaalen are able to make my hands shake while clicking for an online purchase. September 9th…
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If You Haven’t Heard – Blackbird Harmony
So I am going to try and start a new feature here on the ol’ website/blog space, and I am thinking of calling it “If you haven’t heard”. The title of the weekly installment will be followed by a band or artist name of the featured talent — not unlike the title of this post.…
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Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Alec Ounsworth, et al.
Independent Artist Vocals Styles – A dissection. I was thinking in traffic the other day about the “indie” band/artists and the vocal styling they can have. What I am alluding to is the fact that often a vocalist in the “off the beaten path” side of the music industry can sometimes be…”not a formally trained…
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Oweihops dual post starts here (or ends here…)
Hello Slowcoustic readers! I wanted to post today to advise of a fairly recent update to my blogging persona — my dual personality! Okay that sounds dramatic, but I wanted to do a dual post with my other blogging life over on the You Crazy Dreamers Blog. Yes, it is true, I cheat on my…
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Is Slowcoustic a bit too “Adult Contemporary”?
Typing that statement alone pretty much evokes strong feelings from me, and I don’t really know why. This is sadly something that comes up now and again, and is usually brought to light from “interlopers” who are not familiar with good music and/or are trying to be funny by assuming this will be taken as…
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Three parts that should be as one. Even Damien Jurado says so.
So now that I consider myself a blogger, I have to find where all my music has made it to over the course of the last few years. Sure you rip a CD, you find something online, you get a copy from someone — it all ends up for the most part as an mp3…
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And the winner is…I’m not completely sure!
I have already used up my “lazy Sunday” theme post, so this means it is officially the second full week of the new blog!!!! Huzzah! A little background on this post…I was working on a “Guide to Slowcoustic” as some people are still a bit lost on the concept of made up words and musical…
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A one trick pony? No Sir!
I wanted to try a blog post that really doesn’t have too much to do with music. “What?” you say!! Yes, it is true, I am more than a lover of all things somber and plucked across 6 strings. So what is this stray post going to focus on?? Why tech nerdy geeky-ness of course!!…
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Changing and Growing all the time…
“Changing and Growing” – this is a term used very often in my place of work. I might venture to say WAY to often used in my place of work. I use my professional life now in conjunction with my real life (day to day drone work vs. this website) and say that I am…