Filed under: Concerts and Tours , The Hit List Nearly every musical genre under the sun will be represented in Austin for the annual SXSW festival, but the number of cowboy hats per capita [...]
Credit: Rocky Schenk The great Emmylou Harris will be returning with a new studio album on April 26th. Hard Bargain is the 21st studio record from the roots icon. The album takes it's name from a Ron Sexsmith track, which she covers. Also of note is "Darlin' Kate", a song Harris penned in tribute of the late Kate McGarrigle. Here's the track list: The Road Home Sweet Home My Name Is Emmett
With records like Jessica Lea Mayfield's Tell Me declaring that a few young guns may be out to update what angel-faced country singing sounds like these days, it's no wonder Ms. Emmylou Harris seems like she's in a rush to release her second album in less than three years. Titled Hard Bargain , and due for release on April 26th (via Nonesuch ), the 13-track effort features production by industry-lifer, Jay Joyce, and came together in a snapshot moment in Harris' life. As she explained [...]
Today's been sort of a slow day (fun fact: the music industry likes three-day weekends), so let's spend a few minutes looking ahead to one of music's more exciting days. On April 16th, Record Store Day returns for another early morning bonanza of long waits outside your favorite local establishments as you scramble to find a limited-edition clear vinyl version of The Hold Steady's Heaven Is Whenever only to find out four hours later that it probably wasn't worth the legwork and $30 you spent. But I digress. We're still two months off from this year's [...]
photo by tapsjg Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It's easy to hate LA. I don't have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its path like a tornado made of assholes. I get the hate. So, let's channel that hate into song. Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown [...]
Famed Nashville guitarist Buddy Miller has achieved near-legendary status as a gifted sideman and Grammy-nominated producer on projects like Robert Plant's recent Band of Joy. But beyond Miller's skillful fretwork and finely tuned studio ear is a deep appreciation and encyclopedic knowledge of classic American roots music: the dusty musical intersection of raw and honest country, shuffling blues riffs, colorblind soul and the power of rock and roll. His inspired and inspiring new album Buddy Miller + The Majestic Silver Strings (March 1, New West) is a welcome culmination of Miller's unequivocal genius. With a world-class [...]
Of the 14 gazillion acts that will end up playing South by Southwest 2011 , here are some more to consider: Widespread Panic, Emmylou Harris, Black Lips, and Okkervil River head the latest batch additions to this year's lineup. Other newly confirmed notables include Diplo, Kylesa, Wavves, Times New Viking, Cold War Kids, Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam, Greenhornes, The Raveonettes, Friendly Fires, The Chain Gang of 1974, OFF!, Boys Noize, Richie Hawtin, Esben and the Witch, The Chapin Sisters, Cults, Tennis, and Tech N9ne. Still going: Raphael [...]
Of the 14 gazillion acts that will end up playing South by Southwest 2011 , here are some more to consider: Widespread Panic, Emmylou Harris, Black Lips, and Okkervil River head the latest batch additions to this year's lineup. Other newly confirmed notables include Diplo, Kylesa, Wavves, Times New Viking, Cold War Kids, Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam, Greenhornes, The Raveonettes, Friendly Fires, The Chain Gang of 1974, OFF!, Boys Noize, Richie Hawtin, Esben and the Witch, The Chapin Sisters, Cults, and Tech N9ne. Still going: The Moondoggies, [...]
Lucinda Williams is surely better known - or at least more easily recognized - for her ragged heartbroken delivery and emotional way with a guitar than her songbook per se. But as we noted back in May of 2009, when we featured her interpretations of other peoples' songs , it wasn't always the case: her first Grammy win was as a songwriter, for Mary Chapin Carpenter's 1992 performance of Passionate Kisses . In many ways, of course, Williams' is an unusual path towards stardom: though her 1979 debut [...]
We pay tribute today to Charlie Louvin , long-time Grand Old Opry member and elder statesman of Country music, who passed this week after complications from pancreatic cancer. Charlie Louvin's work with his elder brother Ira in the fifties found familiar placement on the Country charts - indeed, until the brothers split up two years before Ira's death in '65, the close harmonies of the brothers Louvin, with their mandolin-guitar accompaniment, were arguably among the most heavenly sounds on the radio. And though he was ever-dismissive about his own contribution to the songs for which he [...]
Emmylou Harris : I Will Dream [ purchase ] I Will Dream is a song of unrequited love. There is a tenuous quality to both the emotion and the song. Emmylou Harris captures this quality perfectly with her performance. The song is a co-write with Harris and Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Jane Siberry contributes the wonderful intertwining background vocals. Three of my favorite acts all do their best here, and the collaboration works, well, like a dream.
Th is is a republication of an Emmylou Harris concert we first featured on the 22nd October 2007 and the download includes four tracks missing from the original feature, which therefore now makes this a full concert archive recording. Emmylou Harris contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded. I am always pleased that I got to read a review of 'Elite Hotel' her second solo album, back in 1976 when it was first released. Not only did [...]
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I am a huge fan of this new practice by indie/rock artists of posting mixtapes for their fans to download. It provides a welcome insight into the tastes of artists that we typically only know via their own songs or, at most, via twitter feeds and myspace pages. In a sense, it personalizes the artists, revealing that, at heart, they are as much 'fans' as we are. The most recent mixtape to pique my interest came as a New Year's present from Memoryhouse , a band that had a very productive and underrated 2010. The name [...]
The 2011 festival season lineup news continues to roll in, as Colorado's Telluride Bluegrass Festival has announced the beginning (emphasis on beginning ) of the lineup for its 38th incarnation. Leading the list of familiar names are Robert Plant & Band of Joy, The Decemberists, The Sam Bush Band, and Béla Fleck & the Original Flecktones ('original' refers to the groups 1991 lineup, which recently regrouped). Further highlights include Emmylou Harris and Yonder Mountain String Band. Bush and Fleck will also be part of the Telluride House Band, set to feature Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News A longtime American festival standard, the Telluride Bluegrass festival, held annually in the rural and scenic town of Telluride, Colo. for nearly four decades, has announced this year's initial lineup. Robert Plant and the Band of Joy (pictured) tops the bill, followed by a unique and intriguing supergroup calling themselves the Telluride House Band. That band's roster includes Bela Fleck , Sam Bush , Jerry Douglas , Edgar Meyer , Bryan Sutton and Stuart Duncan . [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News A longtime American festival standard, the Telluride Bluegrass festival, held annually in the rural and scenic town of Telluride, Colo. for nearly four decades, has announced this year's initial lineup. Robert Plant and the Band of Joy (pictured) tops the bill, followed by a unique and intriguing supergroup calling themselves the Telluride House Band. That band's roster includes Bela Fleck , Sam Bush , Jerry Douglas , Edgar Meyer , Bryan Sutton and Stuart Duncan . [...]
As a defining event at the heart of the Western world's most dominant religion, the Christmas story is perhaps the most sung-about narrative in history. But it's not just its religious importance which makes Christ's birth so present in the air and the airwaves. The prophecy foretold; the kings, the star, the road; Bethlehem and the manger; Mary and Joseph - as a text, the multifaceted story breaks down into a dozen moments, stretching far enough for a myriad of narrative approaches, from a multiplicity of perspectives. And whether we grow [...]
Good news for friends of the Rebellion! After months of keeping it under wraps, London-based band The Boxer Rebellion (seen on-stage in the film Going the Distance ) have finally announced details of their brand new studio album, The Cold Still . Created with legendary producer Ethan Johns , who has worked with the likes of Ryan Adams , Kings of Leon , Emmylou Harris and Laura Marling , the forthcoming album features ten new songs and will be released on the [...]
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