For the first four volumes of our Vacation Coverfolk series, we pulled from the archives to bring you features on the songs and coverage of Elizabeth Cotten , Carolina Chocolate Drops , and Doc Watson , and a mixtape of coverfolk songs with Carolina in the title . Today, we turn to a new subject: Concord, North Carolina natives The Avett Brothers , whose rise to fame over the past decade has represented a coalescing of neo-traditional elements from the region and beyond. Read on for a look at one of [...]
What do you do if you admire a musician's skill and craft, yet can't quite get behind the results of that craft? Thus is the problem with Iron & Wine , the brainchild of Sam Beam, now on its fifth full-length record and featuring an ever-expanding sound that seems to go deeper into the past. Ghost on Ghost finds Iron & Wine turning into something of a modern Van Morrison , complete with smooth horns, jaunty folk tunes, and a flair for [...]
So before we get to far into February, 2013 I thought we should try to do a wrap up of some of the other musical events that took place in January, 1973. We have previously touched on several of these events including: the release of Aerosmith's first album: Carly Simon's chart topping single You're So Vain, and Stevie Wonder's hit with Superstitiion. Here are some of the other musical happenings from January forty years ago... In 1972 Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss were trying to decide where to head with their current band, Wicked Lester, which [...]
Joe writes: Quentin Tarrantino's current focus on revenge fantasies makes for some fantastically enjoyable films, albeit without the freshness, purity or shock factor of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. In his choices of music Quentin continues to excel and I was particularly pleased to hear Jim Croce getting the Three Dog Night treatment on Django Unchained. Not only that but the version of I Got A Name on the soundtrack sounds like it was dubbed from vinyl, complete with crackle: Here's a Jim Croce TV performance of Lovers Cross:
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation Getty | Getty Here at Spinner we've got an informal agreement with the cosmos -- you stay out of our business and we'll stay out of yours. That means no horoscopes, no inter-planetary navigation, and no astrology. Thing is, hardcore Capricorns are making it difficult to maintain this treaty. For some reason there are a LOT of super-important [...]
It's nearly New Year's / photo by Dan Muller It’s time again for Friday on My Mind , our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. With Hanukkah and Christmas behind us, it’s time to focus on the New Year which is why our theme for this week is time. With the New Year fast approaching, now becomes a chance for all of us to reflect on the past year, and to consider the possibilities of [...]
Released three months after his death, Jim Croce's second #1 single found the top of the charts thanks to a made-for-TV movie.
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Lightfoot.ca John Stockfish, a musician who was the original bassist for Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot , is dead at the age of 69. According to the Windsor Star , Stockfish died in his hometown of Windsor on Aug. 20. A post on Lightfoot's official site said he died from natural causes. Stockfish's daughter Jennifer told the publication he had been living in [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , Book Club GAB Archive, Redferns Jim Croce was a standout of the early-'70s singer-songwriter era with his hits "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" and "Time in a Bottle." Tragically, at the height of his fame, Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana in 1973. He was only 30. Though his songs projected an easygoing persona, Croce's success hid his professional and personal [...]
I Got A Name: The Jim Croce Story by Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock Da Capo Press, 336 pp., $25 That it's taken nearly four decades since his 1973 plane crash death at the young age of 30 for a biog... Continue reading "I Got a Name: Jim Croce's Story In a Bottle" >
Featuring music you didn't hear in the following Coverville episodes, and set aside for your Coverville Citizen listening pleasure: Coverville 725: The Sinead O'Connor Cover Story Coverville 727: The Decemberists Cover Story Coverville 736: The Jim Croce Cover Story This episode of Coverville Bonus Tracks features: Title Artist Album Original Artist More [...]
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Today marks the first day of Jam In The Dam 2012 at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Earlier this afternoon we posted Joshua Bogen's Jam In The Dam Diary about his arrival in Holland and last night's pre-party. We expect to have his journal entry and Jon Derow's photos from Day One up tomorrow, but in the mean time we wanted to fill our readers in on Mike Gordon's first set of 2012. [via @Mike_Gordon ] According to our friend [...]
Grateful Dead : Operator [ purchase ] Manhattan Transfer : Operator [ purchase ] Alexis Korner with Robert Plant : Operator [ purchase ] Jim Croce : Operator (That‘s Not the Way It Feels) [ purchase ] When I was a child, there was only one telephone company. If you needed any [...]
During several years as the head buyer for a very large record store, I had a few dozen label reps wooing me on a regular basis. As they were giving me stuff, I was receptive to being wooed and I got along quite well with all of them except for the one we'd dubbed Dodgeball. He went behind my back to get an order for some long-forgetten band called Space Monkeys. (no one needs 300 copies of Space Monkeys - not in 1997, not now, not ever) One rep who I always got a [...]
As far back as I can remember, skate videos have been one of the prime sources for musical exploration among our generation. Many still sit around talking about how badass it was to hear certain songs paired up with certain skater’s parts. Throughout the years, hundreds of teams have compiled footage and edited to amazing and at times even inspirational soundtracks. What they inspired us to do is not the point, but rather what the music inspired the skaters in the videos to do. Most of the time, skaters were known to handpick their own songs, and the ones they [...]
Jim Croce & Maury Muehleisen Photographs & Memories - His Greatest Hits is a 1974 compilation album by Jim Croce, originally released on ABC Records. The album was released following Croce's 1973 death in an airplane crash. Read more »
I am a member of two Mix CD clubs. They're great! You get 12 people together and each month someone is responsible for sending the other 11 members a mix. You get new music, new perspectives, all for the price of the effort it takes to make one of these yourself and the subsequent packaging and postage. For various reasons, I wanted to put together a mix of American music for my latest mix. Partly, I was trying to understand what American music means to me, and what kinds of songs and sounds I find distinctly American. To [...]
I’ve got the love/hate thing going on with today’s singer/songwriters. For me, it seems there’s a lot of something going on, but there’s really no substance. Almost like the soul has been sucked out of the songwriter. A lot of ego, a lot of faux sensitivity, a lot of rubbish. By today’s standards, it seems that a singer/songwriter simply needs to know how to or attempt to tap into their sensitive side. Ted Garber takes that standard and crushes it, bringing back the elements of the craft that have been forgotten . . . storytelling that contains vivid [...]
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