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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
In place of a gear-change this weekend, let's do 'missing beats' instead*. Here's a fairly faithful version of "Rolling and tumbling" by Muddy Waters. The riff (which is in A) between the singing parts isn't repeated four times , it's repeated three-and-a-half times or it's three times with two empty beats where they slide up to the singing parts (which are in D or E) depending on which way...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Uncut , U.K. dad-rock magazine, has released a list of the top albums of the decade, on which the White Stripes' White Blood Cells took number one. But before you start praising Uncut for that pick, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand album hit the top ten. And so did two Bob Dylan albums. To which all I can say is, "No." Jack White is on the cover of the Uncut issue that counts...
East Bay View (mostly a food blog) (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
My big three Dylan albums* will forever be The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , Bringing It All Back Home and Blood on the Tracks , but Love and Theft is top of the second tier. It's an album about staying in Mississippi a day too long, then finding there's now no reason to leave. On "Po' Boy" he employs the novel concept of playing the Fool for laughs, not tragedy. He sings like an old man, but...
DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
New issue of Uncut magazine features retro-rock dullard Jack White on the front cover. FREE CD! THE UNCUT 150! 15 tracks from Uncut’s 150 Albums Of The Decade, including Wilco, Ryan Adams, The Hold Steady, Bright Eyes, Lambchop, Calexico and more… It's the 150th issue of Uncut, the magazine gets a slight redesign but the music coverage hasn't changed or expanded. THE UNCUT 150: To celebrate...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Uncut, a less-popular-than-Word music magazine, has published it's list of the top 150 albums of the decade in the latest issue. The top ten are - 10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 9. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker 8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times 7. Arcade Fire - Funeral 6. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 5. The Strokes - Is This It 4. Brian Wilson - Smile 3. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born 2. Bob Dylan...
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