Archive for April, 2011
Free Download: CMT Presents The Country Way Digital Vol 2
In conjunction with our new country music issue, American Songwriter and CMT proudly present The Country Way Digital Volume 2, featuring 31 must-hear tracks from some of our favorite artists. And the best thing about it? It’s free! You can download the sampler on May 2nd, 2011, by going to this URL: http://americansongwriter.bandcamp.com/album/country-way-digital-sampler-presented-by-cmt Check out [...]
Listen: Thee Oh Sees, “I Need Seed”
No matter where you stand on the musical front, you’ve got to have mad respect for a guy who can go from a punk rock burner at a South By Southwest house party to a seaside 1940s New Orleans-y jazz ballad. That’s John Dwyer though, the musical wunderkind behind SF garage heroes The Oh Sees. [...]
Levon Helm, Widepsread Panic, Los Lobos Guest On David Bromberg’s Use Me
David Bromberg is best known as a guitarist whose tasteful chops can be heard on albums by Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, The Eagles, and Carly Simon. Now the roots artist has rounded up a few of his famous friends, including Levon Helm, Dr. John, Widespread Panic, Vince Gill, John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Los Lobos, Tim [...]
Cloud Report: Apple, Amazon, SoundCloud
Life in the clouds. While we’ve been writing about Apple‘s cloud music service – and the recent coup of signing Warner Music to a licensing deal – on Wednesday GigaOm reported that the Swedish company Xcerion was putting their domain iCloud.com up for sale, reportedly for around $4.5 million. Xcerion was running a storage cloud [...]
MerleFest Thursday: Randy Travis, Lost Bayou Ramblers
(photo: Jamie Younger) Randy Travis played the evening set at the Watson stage Thursday, dipping heavily into a back catalog of fan favorites, including “Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart” and “Deeper Than The Holler,” and relating stories about his misspent youth. The set marked the first time the North Carolina native had played MerleFest. [...]
No One Listens To The Band Anymore: The Damnwells Bounce Back
The first time I talk to Alex Dezen, he’s 30 miles outside of Tennessee. Traffic on the I-40 is bad, he explains, and it’s hard for us to hear each other. Eventually, he convinces the guys in Harper Blynn – the Brooklyn group that will double as his opening act and backup band during a [...]
The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. Discusses Bonnaroo
One of the most anticipated sets at this year’s Bonnaroo will come from The Strokes, who will play the Manchester, Tennessee music festival for the very first time this June. “We’ve never played [Bonnaroo] so I have no idea what the crowd is like,” says Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. “I’ve only heard stories from [...]
MerleFest Thursday: Corb Lund
(Photo: Jamie Younger) 3:30 p.m. There was some dirty weather knocking about Wilkesboro last night, dashing our plans to camp creekside on the festival grounds and pick guitar ‘till sun up. Camping is part and parcel of the MerleFest experience, and sleeping under a roof just felt like cheating. But the skies have now cleared, [...]
Legendary Designer Rupert Neve Addresses Chicago Engineers
“It’s an unfinished job, looking for high quality audio. It never finishes.”-Rupert Neve Rupert Neve said it had been 15 years since he last addressed the Chicago engineering and recording society (EARS), who were gathered in the Rogers Park neighborhood at the state-of-the-art Mayne Stage. Unfortunately, this time, Neve, nearing the age of 85, was [...]
Nikki Jean Co-Writes With Bob Dylan, Carole King, Burt Bacharach
Three years ago, genre-hopping artist Nikki Jean crossed the country on a quest to collaborate with her songwriting heroes. She succeeded, in a major way. Her debut album, Pennies In A Jar, due July 12 on S-Curve Records, features songs co-written with Bob Dylan, Carole King, Carly Simon, Lamont Dozier, Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach and [...]
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