Adrienne Young: Free Man in Paris [ purchase ] I'm looking forward to this week. As one of the younger contributors here, Joni Mitchell is not exactly the voice of my generation. I freely admit to not knowing all that much about her career and her music minus the few songs that everybody knows. I look at this week as a possible learning experience. That said... I do [...]
This is from her second CD The Art of Virtue released in 2005. It is a wonderful mixture of folk and country, the sort of music which blurs the differences. MP3 File yousendit
I know Payton already did this exact same post over at This Mornin' I am Born Again , but I had to say something about this too. Most of you may already know this... but I am also a contributing blogger to another site called Star Maker Machine . It's a community blog with fifteen or so regular contributors and a few at large posts each week as well. Each week, a new theme is chosen. All songs posted during that week will have some connection to the theme. The goal is to give [...]
Ah, after a couple grueling weeks, i finally get to sit back and relax for a night. And there's no better way to do that than with some easy listening - not the genre - but the true definition of easy listening - pure instrumental music . i haven't done one of these since my first week of blogging. i was listening to Cold Roses today, and thought to myself that i would dig that album [...]
Thoughts of a return to the road have brought mixed feelings. On one hand I have always enjoyed the freedom that is part of having no ties to the land. I also miss the days of working long hard days for a year and then taking off for three or four months to enjoy what is really important in this life. Now that I have been settled in one place for over a decade, I am beginning to see some of the advantages of setting roots. Why, just last month we were looking at farmland in the [...]
Room To Grow is the third release by Nashville singer-songwriter and agricultural activist Adrienne Young. The songs run the gamut from country and bluegrass to pop and rock and even Celtic. The... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
This week, we focus on females who I don't feel guilty about liking and didn't make the Ten Favorite Album list. Adrienne Young ~ Once More Website = Ag-Rock at its finest KT Tunstall ~ Saving My Face Website = One-woman-band folk-rocks the house Grace Potter (and the Nocturnals) ~ [...]
I first mentioned Ag-Rock in this post about Adrienne Young. If you are too lazy to click the link and scan the post for my definition, here is what I said: "Adrienne Young plays ag-rock. That is short for agriculture… Ag-rock is a meshing of Celtic, Appalachian, Bluegrass, Country, Rock and Folk. Earthy lyrics. Young's voice reminds me of Barbara Cohen, another purveyor of Ag-rock. Maybe I should do a post of Ag-rock tunes." And here is that post. Here are some songs that capture the feel, sound, emotion, instrumentation, etc. of this genre. [...]
This is a mix of songs that are the last cut on albums released in 2007 by ladies. Of course, you could probably ascertain that from the title. Just call me The Duke of Redundancy. 1. Adrienne Young ~ Happy Ending 2. Clara Moreno ~ Tenderly 3. Feist ~ How My Heart Behaves 4. Bebel Gilberto ~ Words 5. Patty Griffin ~ Crying Over 6. Eleni Mandell ~ Miss Me [...]
2007 is a very good year for cover songs. Petra Haden ~ Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) Novi Split ~ Crazy In Love (Beyonce) Adrienne Young ~ Free Man In Paris (Joni Mitchell) The Bad Plus ~ Tom Sawyer (Rush) Beth Orton & M. Ward ~ Buckets of Rain (Bob Dylan) Erin McKeown ~ I Was A Little Too Lonely (You Were A Little Too Late) (???) [...]
Musikfest starts today. What is Musikfest? Only the coolest, most awesome 10 days of music (mostly for free) on the East Coast. Maybe anywhere. If you are in Bethlehem over the next 10 days, maybe check out one of performers below. Or just get some of those wonderful Musikfest money-tickets, buy a 22 ounce beer and POLKA all night long!!! Either way, look for The Duke, The Duchess and Duke Jr. to be traipsing around the 'fest. To get you excited, I made this mix of mp3s [...]
(Pssst...did you take my super easy and simple survey yet?) I'll describe the kind of party you'll Adrienne Young's music at: It's a dusty day. The wind whips little tornados around the gravel driveway. You brow is dirty with a mixture of sweat and grime. You just spent the last 15 hours hoisting hay bales under oppressive sun. You sit on your front porch watching the sun go down. A glass of lemonade or perhaps sweet mint [...]
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