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Dumb Angel, the stage name for Shaun Mason. The stage name in no way fits the
intelligent music he has created. This solo debut by the mid-twenties Mason is
sensitive and ethereal. In a word: gorgeous. Mason's searches for his sense of
place while picking out beautiful melodies on his acoustic guitar. Mason evokes
Nick Drake, Mark Kozelek (Red House Painter), and Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) as
he quietly explores his inner emotions. Mason's solo debut establishes him as
an artist to watch. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (self-released) 
The sound is eclectic while not disconnected. There is gentle '70s soul-pop, aching
country laments, a pinch of punk, and the trash of meshing Crazy Horse guitars.
Yet, Dizziness and Darkness is cohesive. There is no doubt, track-to-track, that
this is the same band but they manage to incorporate a variety of texture that
make them impossible to pigeonhole. Fans of Whiskeytown, Grand Drive, Minibar,
and the aforementioned Crazy Horse will find this 2006 release to be a winner.
Songwriters Bradley Putze and Kevin Stokes have a way of lulling you, only to
smack you around with a wry passage. Gentle, spacey, rocking, and original. --
Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (Open Plan Records)
Kara Suzanne's expressive, emotionally wide-ranging voice gives this release its
kick. One moment she is melting your heart with a mournful torch song, then she's
shaking her sassy finger at you. The Gojo Hearts never let Suzanne get too far
out in front. Suzanne is the show, but much like the original Lone Justice kept
Maria McKee in line, The Gojo Hearts keep this from becoming all about Suzanne's
terrific voice. Through the course of the album they explore country balladry,
bluegrass, jazz, and turn-of-the-century Western barroom music, all of which Suzanne
masters. A terrific debut from a talented band. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music
(Ksue Productions)
Old school Hoboken is in the house. Veterans of The Feelies, Trypes, and Speed
The Plough have returned with their first new album since 1995's Tricycle. Brenda
Sauter's disconnected Nico-like vocals front the not-surprising '80s New Wave
feel. Sauter is joined by guitarist Richard Barnes, and drummer Christopher O'Donovan,
produced by fellow Hoboken native James Mastro. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music
(Lucky Pig)
Telecaster-master
Bill Kirchen, joined by Nick Lowe, Geraint Watkins, Robert Trehern, Austin DeLone,
Cindy Cashdollar, Paul Riley and others, showcases his tasteful guitar virtuosity
along with an emphasis on his song writing. Kirchen cuts a wide path of Americana-
styles, touching on country, rockabilly, and vintage R&B giving the record
a varied, but cohesive sound typically described as "dieselbilly". Kirchen's
work as a critically acclaimed solo-artist as well as a member of Commander Cody
and His Lost Planet Airmen, will enjoy Hammer Of The Honky Tonk Gods. -- Jeff
Weiss, Miles of Music (Proper America) 
**Free
With Purchase limited to first 30 orders!" The V2unes Sampler. 16 Tracks,
include songs from: Ray Davies, Josh Ritter, Grandaddy, Gosling, The Rosewood
Thieves, Elbow, Ame Brun, The Mooney Suzuki and more! ***
Endless
Highway - The Music Of The Band includes interpretations from the likes of Jack
Johnson, the Allman Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket and Blues
Traveler. Highlights include Jim James’-It Makes No Difference, Warren Haynes’
aggressive slide guitar on The Shape I’m In, and Gomez’s funky take
on Up on Cripple Creek. Track Listing : Jack Johnson-I Shall Be Released/The Allman
Brothers-The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down/Death Cab For Cutie-Rocking Chair/My
Morning Jacket-It Makes No Difference/Lee Ann Womack-The Weight/Jakob Dylan-Whispering
Pines/Gomez-Up On Cripple Creek/Bruce Hornsby-King Harvest/Rosanne Cash-Unfaithful
Servant/Blues Traveler-Rag Mama Rag/Joe Henry-Bessie Smith/Guster-This Wheel’s
On Fire/Widespread Panic-Chest Fever/John Hiatt & North Mississippi Allstars-Ain’t
No More Cane/Jackie Greene-Look Out Cleveland/Animal Liberation Orchestra-Ophelia/Steve
Reynolds-Stage Fright/Josh Turner-When I Paint My Masterpiece/Government Mule-The
Shape I’m In. (429 Records)
Even
as the first sounds of new wave and punk rock were being heard in New York City
in the mid-'70s, the first stirrings of "indie-rock" and "guitar
pop" were occurring in the unlikely locale of Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
where Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and Mitch Easter were recording arguably the first
"low-fi" records ever in their band the Sneakers. Though heard by few,
the reverberations from these recordings spread everywhere from New York-where
Stamey and Rigby were to form the dB's-to Athens, Georgia-where a band named R.E.M.
hooked up with Easter to record their first two albums-to just about every college
radio station in the land during the '80s. Now, Stamey and Easter have gone back
into the studio to produce the definitive look at this seminal power pop band,
consisting of tracks from their 1976, Don Dixon-produced EP 'The Sneakers', their
1978 LP 'In the Red' and their 1992 "reunion" record, 'Racket', plus
three unreleased bonus tracks, all (except the debut EP) remastered and/or remixed
for superior sound. (Collector's Choice) 
Warm
In The Wake describe their music as simple American songs that have been gently
thrown into the space rock realm. Their Livewire Recordings debut Gold Dust Trail,
with tracks produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo, Helium),
is a fine mix of verses and audio flashcards, character sketches, rough-hewn acoustic
ballads, and bent rhymes. Gold Dust Trail is a beautiful launch for this band`s
excursion. From the Wilco-esque intro of `Tame Thoughts` to the feel-good Southern
swing of `Hearts vs. Heads,` the music is immediately familiar, yet unquestionably
the band's own. Warm In The Wake envelop the listener in waves of sonic pleasure.
And while sonically pleasing, the lyrics are sure to entice the most discerning
listener. (Livewire) 
Yorkston's
third release confounds categories once again. It's an uplifting, arresting, intimate,
and subtle album. It features a blending of James's extreme-close-up vocals with
an acoustic guitar, electric piano, clarinets, violin, and concertina, and a gently
thrumming rhythm section. "This is music that slowly charms rather than immediately
stuns you. Once there, the lovely, understated melodies, autumnal arrangements,
and warm, wry lyrics are virtually impossible to shift" - The Guardian. (Domino
Recording Co.) 
Track
Listings: Keep Your Hands to Yourself/Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on/Games People
Play/Battleship Chains/Open All Night/Every Picture Tells a Story/Shake That Thing/Railroad
Steel/Don't Pass Me by/Stellazine Blues. (Rhino Flashback)
Digitally
remastered reissue of this 1969 album from Soul legend Solomon Burke. Featuring
the monster hit version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival standard, together
with a whole bunch more from the Daddy of Soul! Backed by the famed Muscle Shoals
band, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, Solomon Burke blisters the paint off the studio
walls, enough to make his congregation and his 21 children more than proud. Wonderfully
remastered in true Rev-Ola style and beautifully packaged with detailed notes
by the celebrated Tim Tooher.Tracks Listing:Proud Mary/These Arms Of Mine /I'll
Be Doggone/How Big A Fool/Don't Wait Too Long/That Lucky Old Sun /Uptight Good
Woman /I Can't Stop (No No No)/Please Send Me Someone To Love/What Am I Living
For. (Rev-ola)
With
Not To Late, Norah's songwriting takes center stage, allowing for a much more
complete picture of Norah herself, her personality, her humor, her mind. Many
of the musicians on Not Too Late will be familiar to Norah's fans, including guitarists
Jesse Harris, Adam Levy, Robbie McIntosh, and Kevin Breit, drummer Andy Borger,
and singer Daru Oda, with many special guests lending their talents as well, from
M. Ward to jazz organist Larry Goldings to Kronos Quartet cellist Jeff Ziegler.
The Not Too Late deluxe version includes a DVD with a special Norah Jones interview,
the "Thinking About You," "Until The End," and "Sinkin'
Soon" music videos, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the "Thinking
About You" and "Sinkin' Soon" music videos, PLUS two live bonus
tracks filmed in Burbank, CA, in November 2006.(Blue Note Records) 
With
Not To Late, Norah's songwriting takes center stage, allowing for a much more
complete picture of Norah herself, her personality, her humor, her mind. Many
of the musicians on Not Too Late will be familiar to Norah's fans, including guitarists
Jesse Harris, Adam Levy, Robbie McIntosh, and Kevin Breit, drummer Andy Borger,
and singer Daru Oda, with many special guests lending their talents as well, from
M. Ward to jazz organist Larry Goldings to Kronos Quartet cellist Jeff Ziegler.
(Blue Note Records)
"John
Mellencamp's country has fallen on dangerous times. Ghost towns haunt the highways,
adults brutally exploit children on country lanes, and the devil lurks just around
the bend on even the finest roads. Something's happening here, as Buffalo Springfield
might have said, and while Mellencamp doesn't find much to celebrate, he does
find reasons for hope. That hard-fought optimism and the search for commonality
that fuels it lays the foundation for his strongest album in years." ---Brian
Mansfield, usatoday.com
".
. .an enormously likeable little album that, while far from the most consistent
piece of work, exudes the kind of personality and sass we rarely see from mainstream
pop singers anymore. With the assistance of such songwriters and producers as
Future Cut, Greg Kurstin, Mark Ronson, and Pablo Cook (among others), Allen displays
a preoccupation with a wide variety of styles, from ska and rocksteady, to the
Madchester stylings of Happy Mondays, to the drollness of Ian Dury, to hip-hop,
to rock (good examples of her varied musical interests can be heard on her two
mixtapes put out earlier this year), creating an ebullient musical backdrop for
her lyrics, which have a tendency to be biting, heartfelt, and hilarious at the
same time." -- Adrien Begrand, popmatters.com (Capitol)
You
may best remember Pat MacDonald as one half of the husband and wife duo Timbuk
3, the Austin-based act that spawned a Billboard top 20 hit in 1986 with "The
Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades". Now, with the unfortunate dissolution
of his second marriage, MacDonald is embarking on another journey,"Troubadour
of Stomp", a collection of dark, introspective, highly personal songs penned
during and following his divorce.From the deeply cathartic "Wish You Would
Die", to the acceptance of "Thanks Man" (a song where MacDonald
thanks a friend for sleeping with his wife, and makes no bones about making it
clear why the marriage is dissolving). Through the comical "This Band Sucks",
MacDonald may be having a bad year, but he uses that to his advantage. All played
in his 'Troubadour of Stomp' style (thus the title of the record), a sound that
features only his low-tuned, distorted guitar, harmonica, voice, and a board to
stomp on for percussion. Fusing blues, rock, folk, indie slyness, and darkness
into a late-night, subdued party gone awry, MacDonald takes the one-man band into
new heights, bucking the conventional for a sound that is anything but. (Broken
Halo Records)
Gavin
Bellour (guitar, vocals), Brian Ulrich (drummer) and Yonatan Elkayam (keys/bass,
upright, harmonica…), first came together as LA based trio million/billion
in 2005. Their music is all embracing, their style eclectic. Their sound -combines
punk-folk intensity, classic-rock hooks, pop jangle, Western twang, jazz-tinged
filigrees and soul grooves with ease. The band's unique formula has already made
them a BMI Pick of the Month, earned them opening spots for international music
icon Beck and such acclaimed artists as Ray Lamontagne, Shooter Jennings, Keaton
Simons and others (Mercy Records) 
Wish
I Had You combines country and urban blues, roots-based indie rock, and traditional
country as only the Rounders can: brilliantly and in a completely original way.
"If we had a band motto, I think it would be, 'We like to make old music
sound new and new music sound old." (Blind Pig) 
Bluegrass
Music's highly acclaimed group, the Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, are going back
to their homegrown Southern Gospel roots with their latest CD, Tell Someone. Produced
by the group, the new album features Gospel standards that Kenny and Amanda sang
while growing up in church while also showcasing some powerful, original compositions.
Spotlighted on the project are featured guest artists, Rhonda Vincent, Wayne Winkle,
and Daniel Carwile. (Rebel) 
"...because
whatever it lacks in straightforward pop tunes, this album makes up for in rich,
multilayered weirdness. Gorgeous guitar melodies swoop across dancing basslines,
sink beneath carnivalesque swirls, do battle with random crackles and fuzz. Underwater
(You and Me) is the most immediately engaging moment, a buoyant song of blue skies
and floating balloons, but eventually even such recalcitrant oddities as Emily
Jean Stock and Goodbye to Mother and the Cove unveil their loveliness and grow
irresistible." --Maddy Costa, guardian.co.uk (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
This
singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist brings clear vision, personality, and
an independent attitude to his beguiling songs. His debut is a collection of soulful
melodies and dense instrumental textures that takes the work of classic singer-songwriters
as template (he's a professed Paul Simon fan). An advocate of Aboriginal rights,
Rudd also admires the dense simplicity of Aboriginal music, often building his
songs from his bare soles on a wooden resonator box and the breath humming in
his didgeridoo. (Anti-)
Nashville Fineline offers proof that this has been a very prolific period for
Ted Russell Kamp. And much like Nashville Fineline`s concurrent release, Divisadero,
it was written and recorded on the road - while playing bass with Shooter Jennings,
mostly - and other various locations in Kamp`s home base of LA. But Music Row
is definitely on the map here as we find Kamp co-writing the bulk of the material
with several Nashville writers. And while it seems like some of the tracks might
be pushing for radio-ready country, he keeps them grounded with his natural manner
and simple production. Kamp handles a variety of strings, keys and horns taking
musical assistance from pals Eugene Edwards (guitar), Mike Sessa (drums), Avi
Sills (drums), Tony Paoletta (pedal-steel), Eric Heywood (pedal-steel), Brian
Wheelan (electric piano, guitar) and Michael Webb (Hammond organ). A vocal appearance
by the late Robin Wiley on the funky bayou rocker "Swamp Water Whisky"
deserves a special note. -- Robinson, Miles Of Music (Poetry Of The Moment) 
Of late, multi-instrumentalist Ted Russell Kamp can be cited as a workhorse touring
member of Shooter Jennings` band, The 357`s. With much of his latest release written
- and even recorded - primarily on the road, Divisadero guides us through a division
of one man`s time, mind and heart; and Kamp comes through with smart lyrics and
a rich, coarse drawl to give it all credibility. Some of his "classic"
minded numbers recall Nick Lowe when he`s wearing his "Cowboy Outfit."
Others, including the funky and smooth duet with Shooter, "Better Before
You Were Big Time", have a decidedly Leon Russell-esque quality about them.
The disc featuring numerous other special guests from his many Nashville, Los
Angeles and "Jennings" associations including, among others, Eric Heywood
(pedal-steel), Eugene Edwards (guitar), Gina Villalobos (vocals) and a special
vocal appearance by Jessi Colter on the tender "Looking For Someone".
-- Robinson, Miles Of Music (Poetry Of The Moment) 
IOn Septmeber 9 & 10, 2005,
the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker hosted the first Camp Out in Pioneertown,
Calfornia. Led by singer David Lowery, the bands celebrated two decades of work
by coordinating special concerts with lineups featuring the original members.
The event also included rare sets from such notorious side projects as Monks of
Doom and performances by Johnny Hickman, Victor Krummenacher, Jonathan Segel,
Porch Stock Footage, Stephen Brower, Greg Lisher and David Immerglck. This is
the DVD that documents this special event, and the first of what this talented
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