You know who really deserves to get more love? Dads. They've been on my mind, and in my line of vision, a lot lately. The first of my recent father encounters was last week on the flight from Santiago to Sydney, sitting in a row with the cutest little baby girl, who was probably around 18 months old, her mom, and her dad, who spent the entire 14-hour flight doting on her. Maybe it's partly my own paternal instincts kicking in (as they have been since a few years ago when I cradled a naked baby while [...]
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ARTIST: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - [Album] DATE: 05-31-13 REVIEW BY: G. Murray Thomas Emmylou Harris has done as much as anyone to make me a country fan, and Old Yellow Moon demonstrates how. Put simply, she and Rodney Crowell deliver the deep heart and soul of country music on this album. Harris has always had a amazing talent for picking musical partners. She has worked with everyone [view more]
Dan Martensen The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record Mosquito has proven to be somewhat divisive. Some are finding it a terrific fourth long-player in their discography, summing together all that's come before for a record quintessentially them, others finding it a disappointing water-treading exercise that captures neither the fiery anarchy of their early work or the gleaming excellence of their last effort, 20092s It's Blitz! . Personally, I fall more towards the latter camp, finding it just alright but decidedly forgettable, which may well be [...]
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We've been big fans of Bob Weir's fantastic Weir Here since it debuted last year. The semi-regular web variety show, which is broadcast live from Weir's TRI Studios, has featured members of the Grateful Dead and its extended family swapping stories and performing a mix of tunes. During a recent episode, the former Bobby & The Midnights lead singer revealed that he will take the show on the road this fall, where he will be joined by Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Jonathan Wilson, Jay Lane (Primus), Jason Crosby and Jeff Chimenti (Furthur, RatDog), as [...]
Although she's only been recording for a decade, Boston-based fiddler, singer-songwriter, Berklee College of Music graduate and Boston Celtic Music Fest co-founder Laura Cortese has earned our respect and fandom dozens of times over, thanks to vibrant, voracious, and versatile output we described back in 2011 as "grounded in the lush, joyous, gleeful sound of the collaborative at work and play, and built around Cortese’s full-bodied, percussive, lusty fiddlework, her hearty yet oh-so-feminine vocals, and her playful, surprisingly deep songwriting." Indeed, one of Cortese's great strengths as an artist is her [...]
Today we look at Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, one of the heavy influences on "No Depression" music, or what he called "Cosmic American."
A long-delayed collaboration between two roots music greats proves perfectly pleasant but may leave the listener wishing for a little more spark and fire. Collaboration has, of course, always been central to Emmylou Harris's illustrious career. From the first, now legendary, Gram Parsons duets through her work with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton as one third of Trio to her partnership with Daniel Lanois on the career-redefining Wrecking Ball, Harris has sought out (and been sought out by) a highly diverse range of musical partners. This has allowed Harris to continue to raise harmony singing to new heights of...
The compilation The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver sees an official release today and features artists including Sharon Van Etten, J Mascis, Evan Dando, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris and many more reinterpreting some of the pop icon's classic tunes. Listen to a few choice selections from it below and order it via iTunes (USA) here . Follow @madmackerel
photos by Samantha Marble Emmylou Harris & Rodney Cromwell @ Beacon Theatre Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell , and Richard Thompson played Beacon Theater last night (3/27) as part of their tour together . (They played the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, NY on 3/24 too.) The dates are in celbration of the new Harris/Crowell effort Old Yellow Moon , an album more than thiry years in the making yet not the first time the [...]
There’s a whole bunch of blissed-out folk to be heard at Johnny Brenda’s tonight as Mount Moriah (from North Carolina) and Blessed Feathers (from Wisconsin) play one of the last shows of their tour together. The two acts are an appropriate pairing; Mount Moriah plays stripped down, rootsy country/gospel that focuses on highlighting Heather McEntire’s ... Continue reading
Phil writes: With all the Beatles stuff there's been in the past year, I was wondering why they hardly feature on WGM. The reason must be that their music, which is clearly amongst the world's greatest, is so well known that we assume readers of the blog will already know almost anything we might post. However, a great many of their songs have been covered and there are some excellent versions which may not be that well-known. This is one:
American music icons Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell are longtime friends, first-time collaborators on their new album Old Yellow Moon, and they performed together in the Public Radio Rocks showcase at South by Southwest, put on by WXPN, The Current, WFUV, KUTX and KXT. Below, watch video shot by WFUV of Harris and Crowell performing ... Continue reading
Yesterday a stacked, eclectic lineup took the Austin Convention Radio Day Stage for an afternoon-long show thrown by Triple-A public radio stations WFUV in New York, The Current in Minneapolis / St. Paul, KXT in Dallas, KUT in Austin and WXPN. The Public Radio Rocks! showcase kicked off with gritty rockers Divine Fits; went into ... Continue reading
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Having now learnt from the previous two days of SXSW (fully creamed up for a start) and the seemingly vastly increased numbers from 2009, I headed straight for The Red Eyed Fly determined at the third attempt to get into a Phosphorescent show...only to be greeted by more lines that stretched way, way into the distance. Having no further wish to baste in the midday sun, I implemented plan B and headed to the House of Spin; the party with free beer and cupcakes and a line up that included Wavves and The [...]
Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES - There's close to 40 years' worth of symmetry on "Old Yellow Moon," the new album from longtime friends and country-rock trailblazers Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Though it's taken until now for them to make their first full album as duet partners, the singers started out as a couple of unknowns who came together in the vibrant music scene of 1970s Los Angeles. "At one point it was just me and Rodney...
Painfully honest, yet intelligently more vague than the group's previous efforts, Bright Eyes knocks this one out of the park. While other musician in sub-genre either faded to nostalgia or mainstream, Conor Oberst and the gang stuck to course and released a whiskey-soaked alt-country masterpiece that seems to have just fallen out of the band members' brains effortlessly. If my hyperboles aren't enough, Oberst's will get you. Beyond the craftsmanship and poetry that this album represents, we see a powerful arsenal of guest appearances. On the opening track, "At The Bottom Of Everything", My Morning [...]
The late folk singer-songwriter John Denver will be remembered on April 2nd with a new tribute album by ATO Records. Titled The Music Is You , the compilation strings together covers by My Morning Jacket , Dave Matthews , J Mascis , Sharon Van Etten , Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros , Kathleen Edwards , Evan Dando , Lucinda William s, and more. To hear what Denver's 1972 track "Prisoners" would sound like by way of Amherst, MA, head on over to Pitchfork , where they're currently [...]
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