It's that time of year again. The time of year when new releases dry up and we've got to look back and think about the year gone by. I never make a list but I will repost some of my favorites in no particular order. ----- I know there's a lot of music out there. Lots of different genre's, sub genre's, and micro sub genre's. I know we're all inundated with pr mailings, email submission requests and a stack of cds to plow through. And [...]
Ignoring performance norms, a thin older man in oversized clothes, messy pony-tail, and cheekbone chops breaks into song. "My heart loses time / Oh where has it gone / Your love has the answers / In the mountains of home." When his sweet song ends, he mumbles, "I'm Malcolm," and moves his swollen knuckles quickly to his next country-folk tune, brimming with heavy picking and drowning in his own gravel-rasp. Barely keeping all four legs of his chair on the floor for an entire song, Malcolm Holcombe played folk standards and depressing [...]
I let time get away from me on this one. I've been meaning to write about Malcolm Holcombe's new album To Drink The Rain for some time now. I caught these Songs From The Shed performances by chance when someone tweeted at Slowcoustic about them, and I was really impressed by what I heard. Holcombe's gravelly delivery and demeanor immediately reminded me of a rustic Tom Waits. His guitar playing, however, was like a fiery Bruce Cockburn, with loads of intense flourishes. It's a potent mix, and an invigorating [...]
Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday." This week, I'm going to focus on a couple of albums I had already received in a physical form before they were added to the ReviewShine site. First up is Out of These Blues from Texas songwriter Robyn Ludwick . Music is sort of a [...]
This album feels so effortless, the skill of the performer using a musical sleight of hand that lulls the senses with the beauty of it's simplicity, this is Holcombe's eighth album and has been produced by long-time sideman Jared Tyler – they know each other well and To Drink The Rain reflects that, recorded over three days in Austin TX with a seasoned band of cohorts from Texas and Nashville on-board the album is a live studio recording capturing the one-take essence of the writing and performance in their minutiae. The opening track kicks things off [...]
Sometime around late January I realized I was completely and utterly bored with my music archive. To shake things up I'm trying an experiment: for the remainder of 2011 I will only listen to music released in 2011. This is an account of the year. This Week's Purchases Dynamite Steps The Twilight Singers Buy It Hey, have you heard the new Afghan Whigs [...]
I know there's a lot of music out there. Lots of different genre's, sub genre's, and micro sub genre's. I know we're all inundated with pr mailings, email submission requests and a stack of cds to plow through. And then we have our favorites that we champion. I have mine and you have yours. But I can't believe there's not more consensus on the music of Malcolm Holcombe . The guy is a major talent. Blogs like Nine Bullets, Herohill, Slowcoustic, Here Comes The Flood, and You Crazy Dreamers have all sung [...]
Nashville gets a bad rap and, for all intents and purposes, it's well earned. Sure Nashville is too blame for Big & Rich . But it's also ultimately to be thanked for Malcolm Holcombe and a whole host of other highly revered Americana artist. Ultimately, Nashville is a lot like the hub of any industry whereas the first 10 layers are gonna end up being homogenized and prebuilt for mass appeal while the real meat lies within the struggling supporting staff. Meet Andrew Combs. I've never been to Nashville but from what I [...]
Delighted to get Bob Lefsetz ' latest post this morning which happens to be about Malcolm Holcombe. I don't remember if I first heard about Holcombe from England's DJ Hillfunk or from No Depression mag...both happened about the same time. But not long after I saw Malcolm Holcombe in a tiny venue in Jacksonvillle with my friends Barb and Karl. We sat maybe three feet from the stage. It was like no one i'd seen before. If you ever get the chance to see Malcolm Holcombe live Please go out of [...]
The December podcast will ring out 2009 here on ninebullets. This month there were no themes and no sponsors, just me, a bottle of sweet tea vodka and a huge list of some of my favorite songs of this year. Some made this podcast but most didn't...not because they were inferior songs, mind you, they just didn't fit the show. Believe it or not, I do try to maintain even flows throughout these things and avoid too many whiplash tempo changes. Had I made the podcast the day before or the day after I did, it probably would have turned [...]
Well, I guess it's my turn. Kasey and RSV have already dropped their faves of the year ( here and here ) on y'all, so there's just no avoiding it for me now. This year was particularly difficult due to the sheer amount of great music that came out, and had I made this list tomorrow it would certainly change. That said, you can edit forever but eventually you have to settle on something and call it your list. So, with out further ado I am gonna steal RSV's formatting and get this show on the road: [...]
Last December I posted a compilation of cover songs perfomed by the Drive-By Trucker's . The original compiler was (and is) of unknown origin but the compilation has just been begging for a follow-up. Enter Smitty from the DBT mailing list. He's taken the liberty of assembling a new collection of covers songs culled from the numerous live DBT shows freely available on the internet. He is supposed to have a Vol. 3 already near completion as well as a collection of unreleased DBT originals. I dunno about you, but I'm looking forward to [...]
It's called "For The Mission Baby" and it is FINALLY making into serious rotation over here. I am not reviewing the album in this post as I am still only ankle deep in it. But like a recent tweet I made (yeah, I said tweet): @Slowcoustic - I feel like I'm down on my luck and there is whiskey on my breath after the first track from the new Malcolm Holcombe album I also have to admit I have only [...]
Un an après Gamblin' House, Malcolm Holcombe nous revient déjà avec un nouvel album intitulé For The Mission Baby. On n'attendait pas une révolution, juste des folk-songs honnêtes jusqu'à la moelle, et ce que nous offre Holcombe une fois de plus. Et bien sûr il y a sa voix qui, rassurez-vous, n'a pas changé d'un poil - grommelante, rocailleuse, profonde - elle transpire l'expérience, la
Noting else needs to be said. Malcolm Holcombe stopped by Daytrotter and played songs from Gamblin House . Yeah, that album that I gushed over last year and one that was followed up by the even stronger For the Mission Baby . MP3:: Malcolm Holcombe - You Don't Come See Me Anymore WEB:: http://www.malcolmholcombe.com / D/L:: Daytrotter
Last week Kasey wrote a piece about Tom Russell and I wanted to put this up the very next day. It failed to happen because I am exceptionally lazy and terribly behind. I wanted to put those posts back to back because I think there are a lot of parallels between their careers. Both have been around, seemingly, forever and despite that longevity neither have ever managed to really break into the mainstreams conscience. Hell, it could be argued that they've barely even cracked the conscience of the folks that follow this genre(s) of music. At [...]
"Not quite country, somewhere beyond folk, Holcombe's music is a kind of blues in motion,mapping backwoods corners of the heart." ~David Fricke- Rolling Stone Magazine Who Carried You I just think this is one of the best renditions of any tune I've heard in a long time.
photo: Bill Emory Malcolm Holcombe has one of the roughest voices in music. You can smell the nicotine coming out of speakers. For The Misssion Baby is the follow-up of his 2007 album Gamblin' House and this time around the upright bass is more prominent in the mix, making his toe-tapping songs like Leonard's Pigpen and title track For The Misssion Baby more powerful. Holcombe digs deep, coming up with impressive slow songs like Another [...]
I get a lot of music sent to me every week. I mean a lot of music. I get submissions through e-mail, regular mail, Reviewshine... I even get packages left for me at the radio station. It's a lot of music to wade through. The problem is that I also have two jobs, a wife, a dog, and a new house to take care of. I don't often have time to listen to everything I receive or write extensively about everything that I like. That's why I'm taking some time today to clear out my inbox and share [...]
Here's my modus operandi: find something I like that no one else has written about and share it with you. It's a pretty hard and fast rule for the site. With exceptions. Malcolm Holcombe is one such exception. See the new record has already been mentioned by The Velvet Rut , 9B , and on Hero Hill but that's not going to stop me. I chose the title track to share since it clearly struck a chord with Holcolmbe and it's also got more of an old timey sound than [...]
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