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Tag Archives: country music
Melissa Carper Ramblin’ Soul
Melissa Carper is indeed a ramblin’ soul, as the title of her new record would have it. Just in the short time I’ve been aware of her and her music, she’s moved around quite a bit. She was living in … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-country music, Americana music, country music
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Teddy Thompson’s Upfront & Down Low
Those unfamiliar with his family history might be surprised that Teddy Thompson chose to do an album of country covers. But given the fondness of his parents — that’d be Richard and Linda Thompson — for American country standards, it’s … Continue reading
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Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s All Music Guide to Country
The All Music Guide to Country profiles more than 1,000 musicians and reviews more than 5,500 CDs in the stupefyingly enormous field of country music. It’s a good resource for the fan looking for some help in weeding out the … Continue reading
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Kurt Wolff’s Country Music: The Rough Guide
The turn of the Millennium seems as good a time as any to release this sort of book, and a better time than any in the past two decades. Country music has been in a transition period since the early … Continue reading
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Nolan Porterfield’s Jimmie Rodgers, The Life and Times of America’s Blue Yodeler
Most people who know anything about American popular music know something about Jimmie Rodgers. They may know he’s sometimes called “the Father of Country Music,” or “the Singing Brakeman.” That he died young of tuberculosis. That he yodeled a lot. … Continue reading
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