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Boasting an impressive stint of Monday night performances since 2005, the Jim Campilongo Electric Trio continues shredding through heavy country guitar riffs nearly every Monday at The Living Room, in the heart of the Lower East Side. Campilongo, who has performed with Cake, Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, and slew of others, is also on the road with Norah Jones this summer, both opening for the singer and appearing at festivals with her. Jones and Campilongo are also bandmates in the country and blues group The Little Willies, releasing a cover album earlier this year featuring songs from Johnny [...]

Norah Jones and friends deliver some good old country comfort.

Of the 25 albums I checked out this week I’m most looking forward to Scanners and Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three making their rounds in The Bay. Return Of The Wu by Wu-Tang Clan – I love Wu-Tang Clan. I do not love this album. It misses that head-bop mark [...]

Guitarist Jim Campilongo has been called a "national treasure" by Billboard, an extraordinarily intuitive and gifted player who is not only renowned as an in-demand session player (for the likes of Norah Jones and Martha Wainwright) but as a musical visionary who has staked out his own creative vision over the course of eight solo albums. With a ringing, sinewy style that sometimes sounds like its literally being squeezed from his trusty '59 Telecaster , Campilongo finds that rarified space on a song that is distinctive [...]

• Jim Campilongo - "Backburner" » Jim Campilongo - Backburner.mp3
• Jim Campilongo - "No Expectations" » Jim Campilongo - No Expectations.mp3