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Son Volt’s In My Car CD-Player

Son Volt’s In My Car CD-Player November 19th, 2008 .:|richard|:. ·

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DVD Review: The Stax DVD (Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story & The Stax/Volt Revue: Live In Norway 1967)

You have to wonder what it is about Memphis Tennessee that so much great music has come out of that city. Sure there are plenty of other cities which are hot beds of musical talent, but it was two independent record companies out of Memphis that created what are arguably the sounds that have most influenced popular music. In the mid-1950's little Sun Records started putting out records that were a strange hybrid of white country and black blues music. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and ot

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Kmart Gifts for the Holidays

Are you starting to think about your holiday shopping list? Kmart currently has over 25,000 gifts that are priced under $25. You can bet that you’ll find something for everybody on your shopping list. They have some great brands including Craftsman®, Martha Stewart Everyday, and other well known products! My wife and I are looking at several gifts on their list to help us with our holiday spending budget. Here are some items on our wish list - Our Father’s - Check out the Craftsman 3.6 volt C

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Fans of Southern Rock/Americana/Indie Country Unite!

This "genre" (loose as it is) is probably where I spend most of my time musically these days. There seems to be a dearth of good straight up rock music these days, but the indie country/southern rock scene is exploding. The roots of the genre also take up a good deal of my time. Current favorite bands in the genre: Drive-By Truckers Blue Mountain Neil Young & Crazy Horse Bright Eyes Split Lip Rayfield Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit North Mississippi All-Stars The Dexateens a

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Pop Life: El Maestro, Escovedo

Sometimes it takes more than just walkin’ away to find you’ve lost. Sometimes it doesn’t take a good friend to say, “it’s just time, and it goes.” But that’s the way it goes. It’s just the way it goes. For those unfamiliar with the extraordinary body of work proffered by the incomparable Alejandro Escovedo, those opening lyrics to the Americana pioneer’s meditation on love, loss, and empty nostalgia from his “Thirteen Years” canon would seem to portend an evening of gloom and despair. Yet, as

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Sears Has LayAway for the Holidays

Sears Has LayAway for the Holidays Author: Mrs. Mecomber / Category: bargains, economy Here’s another excellent reason to toss out the credit card this holiday season– Sears Layaway! I am thrilled to see Sears taking up the LayAway system. This is a great way to reserve the things you see on sale and NOT have to use the credit card and NOT have to pay interest on the card. This is a great discipline, and it’s a terrific way to save money because you are able to take advantage of sales, instan

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Three More Years in Iraq?

Iraq's Cabinet Agrees Deal for US Troops to Remain for Three More YearsAssociated Press / guardian.co.ukIraq's cabinet today approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their UN mandate expires at the end of this year.The decision followed months of difficult negotiations and, pending parliamentary approval, will remove a major point of contention between the two allies.A government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said all but

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LSIFF Day Four: One Fast Move Or I’m Gone …

Everyone knows Jack Keroauc’s On The Road. This book brought a band of bohemians known as the Beat Generation out of the shadows and into the spotlight. It also changed Kerouac’s life as it established him as voice and public persona of the Beats, a role he neither wanted nor was able to fill. Fewer people know Kerouac’s Big Sur, tells the story of Kerouac’s struggle against his slide into dissipation as he struggled with his fame and the burden of expectations that came along with it. One

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November 12th ought to be a national holiday

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on this date in 1815. Today is also the birthday … of Wallace Shawn. The actor-playwright is 65. Inconceivable! He’s the son of the former New Yorker editor William Shawn, and he’s become well known as a character actor in Hollywood movies such as The Princess Bride (1987) and Clueless (1995). Most people don’t know that he’s also an avant-garde playwright. When he got out of college, a lot of his friends took jobs writing for his father’s magazine, but Shawn

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Lone Star International Film Festival Begins

Today begins the second annual Fort Worth International Film Festival and with that in mind, I have one thing to say to you, Fort Worth Go, or I will send this Swedish vampire to your house to bite you. How’s that for a sales pitch? Admittedly, we at West and Clear are homers about this. We love us some Fort Worth and this is another great opportunity to show the out-of-towners that we have more to offer the world than Cowtown. The best thing you can do in that regard is to actually get up a

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Uncle T´s last stand

Have been playing this blistering boot a lot lately, and I keep wondering why on earth it hasn´t gotten an official release just yet. The time sure seems right as the Uncle Tupelo legend lives on. They may not exactly have gotten the popularity they deserved during their existence (´87-´94), but nowadays almost everybody knows they more or less single-handedly defined the alt country genre, while the trio´s legacy keeps influencing loads of young gunslingers with loud guitars and crazy honky ton

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Blues News

This evening Canada Live (8 p.m.) has the blues, with live sets from "Ottawa Blues Night," recorded at the Rainbow Bistro, featuring Tony D, Tracy K, Robert Farrell and Maria Hawkins. Plus you can hear a bluesy CBC studio recording from Melissa McClelland & Julian Fauth. Which brings me to some blues news. This week, the Toronto Blues Society announced the nominations for the 2009 Maple Blues Awards. The voting is underway -- to cast your ballot, go to Maple Blues until 11:59 pm (PT) December

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A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins (2001)

Creo que no tengo mucho que decir sobre este disco.. Es muy bueno, inclusive si no te gusta el genero gotico o el industrial, las versiones son excelentes.Lista de rolits!1. Smashing Pumpkins - 01 - Guenter Schulz & En Esh - Rhinoceros (4:59) 2. Smashing Pumpkins - 02 - Candymachine 88 & Tina Root - Ava Adore (4:23) 3. Smashing Pumpkins - 03 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (4:32) 4. Smashing Pumpkins - 04 - Dark Corridor - The End Is The Beginning Is The End (4:53) 5. Smashin

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St. Louis Record Show Haul

Better late than never. Sorry to be so slow in posting. I've been dealing with a sick little boy at home this week. A couple of trips to the doctor and some antibiotics later, he's doing fine and back at school today. Here's what I got at last weekend's record show in St. Louis. Mostly soul and r&b this time around. Per usual, stuff runs the gamut from near mint down to just playable.Lee Maye: At The Party (Tower)Aaron Neville: Space Man (Par Lo)Cleve Nickerson: Big Bob (Savoy)Bob and Earl: You

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Top 5 On Friday

Top 5 "Country" or "Alt-Country" songsWell, now you are talking my territory, Music Memoirs! Now, I enjoy some old-timey country, but this contemporary stuff churns my innards. I dig the country-rock, alt.country twangy stuff, though, and I still listen to all of that 90's stuff. Johnny Cash - Ring Of FireLucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel RoadUncle Tupelo - The Long CutThe Jayhawks - BlueWhiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart TonightI have tons of runners-up and I can't eve

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CD of the Day, 11/6/08: Charley Dush-September's Sun

As long-time readers of the site well know, my favorite genre after power pop is alt-country/Americana, so when an artist is at the junction of these two genres I definitely take notice. St. Paul's Charley Dush is one such artist, and he's refined his art to a craft here on September's Sun, his fourth album. Members and former members of such bands as The Jayhawks, Son Volt and The Honeydogs help Charley out here, and if your tastes run in the George Harrison/Tom Petty/Traveling Wilburys area, t

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Tased and Confused

Tased and Confused November 5, 2008 Written by Laurel Chesky, Good Times A Watsonville family says a stun gun stopped Steve Butler’s heart, resulting in brain damage. Now they’re suing the manufacturer in what could be the first case of cardiac arrest caused directly by shocks from a Taser gun. When Steve Butler stumbled onto the bus, the driver was less than thrilled. He didn’t want to deal with a drunk on the bus disturbing his driving, harassing or falling on passengers, perhaps barfi

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I GET THAT CHRIS CILLIZZA ISN'T DAVID SIROTA OR EVEN JONATHAN RICHMAN, BUT HE SURE IS A PROFESSIONAL GOOFBALL

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/11/sunday_afternoon_fun_the_best.html?nav=rss_blog There are about 1000 reasons why this post of Cillizza's is "Aristophanes-Ridiculous" (thanks DISTRIBUTORCAPny, great fuckin headline to a post! http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/2008/10/aristophanes-ridiculous.html). I want to leave the politics out of it for the moment, though, I'll get there. For now, I merely offer a contrary opinion on the artistic merits. WILCO is your perfect earnest MSM

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Top 100 Artists of the Decade: #62 Wilco

Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rockers Uncle Tupelo, who disbanded in 1994. While Jay Farrar, one of the group's two singer/songwriters, went on to form the band Son Volt, his ex-partner Jeff Tweedy established Wilco along with the remaining members of Tupelo's final incarnation, which included drummer Ken Coomer as well as part-time bandmates John Stirratt (bass) and Max Johnston (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and lap steel). Guitarist Jay Bennett rounded out the group, which in 199

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Live Review: Ray LaMontagne at Macky Auditorium

Ray LaMontagne Macky Auditorium Monday, October 27, 2008 Better than: than the last time I saw him. A lot better. Nearly four years ago I saw Ray LaMontagne for the first time at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom. His impressive debut, Trouble, had been gaining a lot of traction and within a year he started selling out bigger venues. Four years and two more albums later, the singer-songwriter sold out CU-Boulder’s 2000-seat Macky Auditorium and he’s sounding better than ever. LaMontagne

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