I haven't been posting much lately for a few reasons, but I've still been getting various folks sending me music to listen to. Unfortunately, for many of the same reasons I haven't been posting, I haven't been listening to this music either, so it's been piling up in my e-mail box. Which...leads to today's post. I feel guilty that people are taking the time to send me their music (and some even going the extra mile to include my name or the name of this blog in [...]
(These are artists that have queried the Duke via email .) Brett Dennen is a folky guy. Plays a mean guitar. Writes a catchy tune. Released a killer album. Sirius Coffeehouse has been playing “There Is So Much More†for weeks now. When you have a Sirius receiver, you can program songs into memory and have the machine search for it on all their music stations. When it comes on, the receiver beeps and you can jump right to the channel that is playing the tune. Brett’s song is [...]
"You can spend your whole life working for something, just to have it taken away." It's one thing when I am initially impressed with an artist, but when someone like John Mayer is willing to go "on record" (R olling Stone ) and erupt in praises for some kid from California, then I'm all ears. Brett Dennen writes affable folk songs and renders a middle class mien with his earnest, "plain-folks" lyrics. Even in all its steadfast simplicity, Brett's music is a [...]
Isn't Sunday supposed to be a day of rest? Final day and what a day it will be. Starting at 11:45, labeled as a "marching band gone wild", Anathallo makes music using almost anything and have a sound that mixes the Polyphonic Spree with The Arcade Fire. If you are easy like Sunday morning, see Rocky Votolato , a Seattle based songwriter with a that you expect to hear coming out of your local coffeehouse. In the [...]
Move over Jack Johnson, make way Rufus Wainwright, Josh Rouse and Ron Sexsmith (and don't be such a ball hog Josh Ritter). The next in a long line of folksy singer-songwriters is about to emerge from Southern California and once again it's KCRW leading the way as tastemaker. Brett Dennen's new cd, So Much More (September release date), is one of only 4 summer pledge drive prenmiums fror KCRW and Chris Douridas (host of New Directions ) has said his music is "unadorned, so pure in spirit and so eloquently written." Brett [...]
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