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Ray Materick’s Life and Times

When I was scuffling around playing coffeehouses for bus fare and coffee, back before I even drank coffee, there were some models for me to emulate (or not). One of them was Stan Rogers, and my experiences with Stan will … Continue reading

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Kyler’s A Flower Grows in Stone

Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Kyler England’s newest album is a thing of beauty. Her previous album and EP dealt with the death of her mother from cancer, and of trying to comprehend how and why this could happen. … Continue reading

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David Celia’s Organica

Michelle Erica Green wrote this review. If David Celia‘s Organica didn’t declare in the liner notes that all songs had been recorded in his house on a Macintosh G4, I would not have suspected this was a home-grown project. The … Continue reading

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Mary Ann Harris’ Crow Girls

Having heard Mary Ann Harris’ backup vocals on husband Charles de Lint’s Old Blue Truck, I still wasn’t prepared for her singing on her own EP, Crow Girls. The element of surprise seems to be something the two have in … Continue reading

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Charles de Lint’s Old Blue Truck

I’m not sure what I expected Charles de Lint to sound like as a singer. Whatever it was I expected, it wasn’t what I got. We’re calling it folk/trad-singer/songwriter music, and I suppose that’s as good a description as any. … Continue reading

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Eric Taylor’s Scuffletown

Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor has been influential on a whole crop of younger folks of the same ilk, including Nancy Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle. Lovett, for instance, included one of Taylor’s songs on his 1998 double-CD tribute to … Continue reading

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