Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: Being that it is December, I'm going to [...]
Seems one way or another a lot of the music I’m listening too of late is from female artist’s, I’m not making a conscious decision to limited my listening it’s just appears that all the best albums I find on Reviewshine, my inbox and post box fall into that category, not that I’m complaining over the years my listening taste has seen a definite shift away from the male dominated music of my youth and as my regular reader will know, I’m a sucker for a sultry female vocal, the latest in my ever growing list of female musical muses [...]
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." There are Several albums that I'm digging right now, and I need to catch up to the massive amounts of music in my inbox... so let's briefly blast through a handful of artists today. Folk-Worn Prose is the sophomore release from Los Angeles' Shaun Cromwell . Cromwell is [...]
Most singer/songwriters can't help but bring a rather self-centered vision to their music. When it's simply you, your voice and guitar or piano, the focus is often pretty limited, even with a talented producer on board. Natalia Zukerman , however, brings a decidedly different and welcome perspective. A world-class guitarist -- acoustic, electric, pedal steel -- the Brooklyn-based performer approaches her songs not only as a compelling writer and vocalist but with the added dimension of being an instrumental member (so to speak) of a group of players . As the follow up to her auspicious '08 album [...]
I discovered Natalia Zukerman in 2003. Not her music, at first, but the musician herself. I walked out of my bedroom, and there she was, standing in my living room, tuning her acoustic guitar. It was my first summer in Washington, DC, and my group house occasionally hosted acoustic shows in our living room--the result of some friendly connections to the ever-expansive lesbian folk network. (PSA: Don't mess with a short-haired woman with a guitar. You can pretty much guarantee she's got an enthusiastic posse of supporters not far down the road.) [...]
Each weekday, My Morning Download introduces you to some of the coolest new music on the web. We clear through the noise so you don't have to. Meet Natalia Zukerman She's the daughter the world famous conductor and violinist Pinchus Zuckerman and flutist/writer Eugenia Zukerman,, but on her own Natalia Zukerman works in the folk-blues genre and is an accomplished guitar, slide guitar and dobro
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