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This past Sunday MTV premiered Florence and The Machine unplugged performance. If you had any doubts about this band performing live, we are pretty sure this will answer any questions. Besides doing twelve songs from both their albums, the band performed covers of Otis Redding's Try A Little Tenderness and Johnny Cash and June Carter's Jackson (with the help of Josh Homme) Check out Only If For The Night below as well as the view the entire performance via MTV or listen via Spotify . [...]
Durante este año MTV Unplugged tiene programadas 8 presentaciones y la primera de ellas está a cargo de Florence + The Machine . Este primer episodio se estrenará el próximo 8 de abril y dos días después, se lanzará el respectivo CD y DVD de la presentación. Una de las canciones contenidas en el disco es un cover al legendario Johnny Cash . Se trata del tema “ Jackson” , donde Florence con la ayuda de Josh Homme (integrante de Queens of the Stone Age) rinden tributo a este ícono [...]
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Athens GA-based songstress Lera Lynn drops this brooding, 2 AM on the edge of town cover of the iconic June Carter-penned classic. Lera had this to say about the cover, "I always thought June Carter's "Ring of Fire" was written as a dark song, maybe it's just where I was when I heard it one dark day. It's been a lot of fun to rearrange it, almost making it my own. I hope we've done it justice. I hope they [the Cash Family] would be proud." Lera Lynn [...]
Swedish sister duo, First Aid Kit, sound to me like the perfect blend of Fleet Foxes and Bat for Lashes. I've only vaguely followed their musical career thus far. First obsessing over their brilliant cover of "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" off their debut Drunken Trees . Then the single "Hard Believer" off of their sophomore effort The Big Black And The Blue . And I guess this go around it will be the lovely and infectious alt-country single "Emmylou" from their most recent release, The Lion's Roar . Sadly enough I have [...]
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In our interview with Jay Sweet, producer of the Newport Folk Festival with extraordinarily awesome music taste, he mentioned a lot of bands. A whole butt ton of bands. So, being the curious people we are, we set out to listen to all of the artists he mentioned. Turns out, apart from creating an amazing playlist of folk artists they also trace the history and evolution of Newport Folk Festival . Listen to the entire playlist with one click of a button below using our YouTube playlist! [...]
In the slipstream of Johnny Cash came what would become known as the Outlaw Movement, an informal response to Nashville’s easy listening, corporate and safe style, often recorded in Texas, reviving the honky tonk sounds of Hank Williams with strong lyrical content. Starting in the mid-’60s with singers like Bobby Bare, Tompall Glaser and Johnny Darrell, the sub-genre’s standard bearers would include Waylon Jennings and his wife Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson (after he grew his hair), Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Billy Joe Shaver, Hank Williams Jr, Jerry Jeff Walker and Gram Parsons. More traditionally-minded country stars, many mentored [...]
Throughout these, my older years (I'll be 33 on Monday), I have incurred a long for the twang of country music. Let's be realistic, though, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood & the like are far from the country music our fathers grew up with. No I'm talking Johnny Cash, Hank Williams & Willie Nelson style country. Something with a steel guitar & a little accent just get's me going, love it. So how do I reconcile this with my love of rock music? Should I have to? In a sense, I shouldn't. They are not as diametrically different as [...]
The August 13 Friendly Fires completely sold-out gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn this past week will definitely be a night that the band will never forget (nor will anyone in the audience forget it for that matter). Charismatic Fires vocalist/synth player/bassist Ed Macfarlane introduction to the crowd: "We're Friendly Fires. This is our second and last night in New York. I want to leave here with happy memories, so come on, please!" Little did he know that the show was going to end up becoming a huge, crazy [...]
Nadat ik de qua publiciteit onopvallende eerste release van Deer Tick ’s War Elephant had gehoord, vormde zich een rode ring op mijn onderarm, die langzaam maar zeker groter werd. Hoe vaker ik er naar luisterde, des te meer verbleekte ik bij de genialiteit die dit meesterwerk wist te tentoonspreiden. Daarmee verbleekte ook de plek op mijn onderarm, vanuit het midden. Mijn plaatselijke platenboer verbleekte ook elke keer dat ik toentertijd – we praten 2007 - zijn winkel binnenstormde in een hernieuwde energieke poging de inmiddels out-of-print cd probeerde te bestellen. [...]
In my opinion, a four year wait has never seemed as painful as that spent longing for Warner Brothers Records to finally release Elephant... Teeth Sinking Into Heart (A Record In Two Parts), the new Rachael Yamagata album. However, from the album's opening lines, in which Yamagata states, "If the elephants have past lives / but are destined to always remember / It's no wonder they always scream / like you and I they must have some temper," all despair and longing are replaced by a sense of fulfillment and passion from the simple realization that [...]
A couple weeks ago we explored the improbably wacky world of country tango and rhumba songs , which functioned as a follow-up to a previous post about hillbilly mambos . We now turn our attention to country twist songs. The Twist officially came to life in January 1959 when King records released the song as a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters B -side. The A-side, Teardrops On Your Letter, reached #4 on Billboard's R&B charts. The Twist also managed to claw its way onto the R&B charts, stalling out at [...]
Released this week is a live performance by Johnny Cash entitled The Great Lost Performance. Recorded on July 27, 1990 (17 years ago this week), this album includes Johnny Cash's first performance anywhere of his original “ What Is Man ?,” his only recorded version of country gospel’s “ Wonderful Time Up There ” and “ A Beautiful Life ,” and his only concert version of “ Life’s Railway To Heaven ,” whose studio version by Cash was released only posthumously on the 2006 release Personal File. "Life's Railway to Heaven" is [...]
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