Ry Cooder, The Chieftains, Carolina Chocolate Drops
Wild Mercury Sound (Free subscription) | yesterday
A bit of a respite from underground jams today, with a couple of very different takes on folk. Read more...
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Extended Q&A with Van Dyke Parks
local Cut (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, we don’t usually do this, but seeing as how Van Dyke Parks is a living legend and his Portland show is at Mississippi Studios on Wednesday (inconveniently, the same day WW comes out), we decided to run an extended Q&A with him a couple days before the article hit the racks. Enjoy! -Ed. Van Dyke [...] Related posts: Extended Q&A With The New Dawn’s Dan Bazzy Last week, Extended...
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Juliette Commagere, 'Nature of Things' -- Video Premiere
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Video , Exclusive Since her split from Hello Strangers in 2008, Juliette Commagere has made much headway as a solo artist. Although she collaborated with artists like Puscifier and Avenged Sevenfold since the breakup, Commagere has been praised for her ability to move away from the rock sound she was so heavily rooted in. The result of this is her debut solo album, 'Queens Die Proudly,'...
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Pampelmoose Picks For The Week Of February 5th
Pampelmoose (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Van Dyke Parks – Wednesday @ Mississippi Studios If you’re a music geek, the name Van Dyke Parks is music to your ears, considering the man’s pop pedigree. He has contributed lyrics to many great Beach Boys songs (”Heroes & Villains”, “Surf’s Up”), performed with The Byrds, produced albums by Ry Cooder and Randy Newman, and [...]
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Great Lost Singles of the 70s: The Road to Ruin
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
From the very first year of that lamentable decade, and the solo album that sold five or six copies in his hometown alone, please enjoy the amazing Ron Nagle and his kick-ass ironic (or is it') anti-drug anthem "Marijuana Hell." Although not, alas, a household word, Nagle's nonetheless a really interesting guy. A member of terrific first generation San Francisco band The Mystery Trend (click...
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Gerald McCabe passes
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Gerald McCabe, a furniture designer whose passion for woodworking and love of music led to the creation of the Santa Monica folk music institution McCabe’s Guitar Shop, died on Sunday, January 17 in Eugene, Oregon, two days after suffering a heart attack. He was 82. The store played an important role in the evolution of Southern [.....]
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Friday music - 29 January 2010
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Top bolero by probably the greatest Cuban singer, Beny More. And his big band. He couldn't read music, but sang the notes he wanted to his arrangers. (Ry Cooder and Ibrahim Ferrer pulled out this arrangement for the Buenavista Social Club version). The song was written by Ernesto Duarte Brito.
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Gig review: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
THE CHIEFTAINS WITH RY COODER **** GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL
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Gig review: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
THE CHIEFTAINS WITH RY COODER **** GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL
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Gig review: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
THE CHIEFTAINS WITH RY COODER **** GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL
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Do you have any info on the whereabouts of guitarist Manuel Galbán?
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
Manuel Galbán is a Grammy-winning Cuban guitarist, pianist and arranger, notable for his work with the legendary doo-wop vocal quartet Los Zafiros, which he founded, and the world famous Buena Vista Social Club with its repertoire of son, bolero, danzón and guajiro. In 2001 he recorded Mambo Sinuendo with Ry Cooder, winning the 2003 Grammy for Best Post Instrumental Album.
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St George-branded vintage Japanese guitar - pristine condition
Guitar Blog (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
guitarz.blogspot.com : This St George guitar, model EJ-2-T , is almost certainly a re-branded Teisco. It has a number of Teisco-like features inlcuding the highly-sought after and now legendary gold foil pickups, the attributes of which were brought to the world's attention by guitarist Ry Cooder. For a guitar that is going on for 50 years old it appears to be in amazing condition - it's practically...
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Ry Cooder and the Chieftans commemorate Mexico’s Fighting Irish at Glasgow festival
Times Online (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
The Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow is to stage the world premiere next week of a collaboration between the Chieftains — high priests of Irish folk music — and the American guitarist Ry Cooder.
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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Ry Cooder
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
A young Ry Cooder and band. Really fine... Editor's Note: Our own Mike Finnigan leaves tomorrow to play with Taj Mahal & Phantom Blues Band on the sold-out Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise . Bon Voyage Mike and break a leg!
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weekend randoms – 17 pygmies: the outlaw j.d. ray / we are bright & broken / woozy viper
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
have you ever wondered what makes a man play the washboard? i know i have. and if you are similarly inclined to ponder such things, you will want to check out the outlaw jd ray by 17 pygmies. or jackson del ray’s continued attempts to drag the concept album back into unfashion. i s’pose when [...]