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250 Word Album Review – Ashley Raines & The New West Revue – I’ll Fight: A Collection of Cover Songs
The consistently productive Ashley Raines returns with a small collection of cover songs. Before hearing a note it is instantly interesting for the section of covers alone. The title track is taken from possibly America’s greatest living band, Wilco. On … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
Jason Isbell’s last record “Southeastern” catapulted him into a whole new stratosphere of stardom. He used good songwriting as his main selling point and gladly traded in noisy half full bars for sold out mid sized theaters where the crowd … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: Ike Reilly – Born On Fire
Ike Reilly is so underrated it makes orphan children cry themselves to sleep. Alright, maybe not but the fact that he isn’t a more well know act if baffling. If you’ve never listened to Reilly before this is as good … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: William Elliott Whitmore – Radium Death
It might not have the impact that it did when Dylan went electric in the 60s but William Elliott Whitmore has now followed suit. With Radium Death he has definitely changed up his sound but it is still unmistakably Whitmore. … Continue reading
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Ashley Raines & The New West Revue – After The Bruising
David Byrne once said that singing was a trick to get people to listen to music longer than they would ordinarily, Ashley Raines takes the opposite approach. Raines has a lot to say and he uses the mood of his … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: Cracker – Berkeley To Bakersfield
Cracker has always used a lot of geography in their songs. Their lyrics often contain quaint places from the two chief songwriters’ pasts. Berkeley To Bakersfield makes a lot of sense because of this. The characters created by the band … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Artist: Lucinda Williams Album: Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (2014) Purchased at: Hastings (St. Joseph, MO) 3xLP vinyl for $34 A triple album is a lot to swallow. Throughout history double albums (as in the CD version of … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: James Williamson – Re-Licked
James Williamson was in The Stooges and he will always be linked to them. He embraces that (and uses it) on his “solo” album Re-Licked. The album is exactly what it sounds like, Williamson going through the Stooges vaults and … Continue reading
250 Word Album Review: Centro-matic – Take Pride In Your Long Odds
Will Johnson’s lyrics are the key to Centro-matic. Even with this being true the sonics of the band fight this song by song by trying to obscure the lyrics. The four-piece band consistently comes up with interesting textures for each … Continue reading
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