Category Archives: Music

Anna & Elizabeth’s Sun to Sun

Posted on 23rd July 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle took the folk music world by storm with their 2014 self-titled album. It made my Top 10 for the year and was similarly honored by media from American Songwriter to No Depression to NPR to … Continue reading →

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Çudamani: The Seven-Tone Gamelan Orchestra from the Village of Pengosekan, Bali

Posted on 23rd July 2016 by Robert

Implicit in the subtitle of this CD is a bit of information that is important in Balinese gamelan music: most orchestras come from particular villages, working in the traditions of those villages. They also compete for honors, reflecting glory not … Continue reading →

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Various Artists’ American Pop: An Audio History

Posted on 19th July 2016 by Diverse Voices

Brendan Foreman penned this review. American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957, Allen Lowe’s amazing examination of the origins and nature of American popular music. To accomplish such a daunting task, Lowe sifted through his obviously … Continue reading →

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Red Mountain White Trash’s Chickens Don’t Roost Too High

Posted on 17th July 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

The Red Mountain White Trash is a traditional band with a decidedly untraditional name. But don’t let the moniker put you off. This outfit plays old-time fiddle-based dance music with roots deep in the rich Southern soil. The Birmingham septet … Continue reading →

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Various Artists’ Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot 

Posted on 14th July 2016 by David Kidney

“The way I feel is like a robin Whose babes have flown to come no more Like a tall oak tree alone and cryin’ When the birds have flown and the nest is bare” When Gordon Lightfoot was in hospital … Continue reading →

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The Traveling Wilburys’ Collection

Posted on 8th July 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

The entire output of the supergroup known as The Traveling Wilburys is at long last available on various digital platforms. To mark the occasion Concord Music Group is reissuing this 2007 collection in a nice package that includes both of … Continue reading →

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MacKeel’s Plaid 

Posted on 8th July 2016 by Jack Merry

Nova Scotia’s MacKeel have figured out a way to be heard over the din of the Maritimes’ many Celtic bands: Turn it up. On Plaid, the Celt-rock newcomers’ debut album, fiddles and bagpipes intertwine with distorted electric guitars and punchy drums.It’s … Continue reading →

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Uun Budiman and the Jugala Gamelan Orchestra’s Banondari: New Directions in Jaipongan

Posted on 8th July 2016 by Robert

One realizes, after a while, that popular music, while it may appear in many guises, has certain things in common. Sometimes it is subject matter, sometimes it is more elusive. But, more on that later. Jaipongan is a newly designated … Continue reading →

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Howard Pollack’s Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man 

Posted on 7th July 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

Aaron Copland is the central figure in serious American music, and Howard Pollack has produced a biography worthy of the man. His treatment of Copland in more than 500 pages is reverential but never blindly worshipful, candid without being lurid, … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 3rd of July: Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, SF from Lavie Tidhar and Warren Ellis, de Lint has a song for a us, a Charles Vess gallery in a book and other goodies as well!

Posted on 3rd July 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl’s eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. ― … Continue reading →

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