Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Schooldays
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
in post School Days: School Days from Star Maker Machine .
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Martha Wainwright - I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too - review
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Since seeing Martha Wainwright at Wychwood Festival a few years ago, I've followed her career with interest, always suspecting that the real vocal talent in the Wainwright siblings didn't belong to her more flamboyant brother but actually Martha herself ...
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Summer Jamz ‘08 #10: Mike Powell
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Summer Jamz ‘08 #10: What Is http://www.sendspace.com/file/npxlt2 Each Summer Jam is proudly co-hosted with Screw Rock N Roll and What Was it Anyway. 01. Baka Pygmies - Hut Song 02. Disco Inferno - It’s a Kid’s World 03. Lord Melody - Carnival Proclamation 04. Junior Murvin - Roots Train 05. The Who - Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand 06. Tabu Ley Rochereau [...]
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Emmylou Harris's new album, "All I intended to be"
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
On her second Nonesuch disc, Emmylou Harris assembles an extraordinary cast of veteran musicians and fellow singers, all of them longtime friends, for a set that indeed showcases this Nashville icon, and 2008 CMA Hall of Fame inductee, as all...
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kate & anna mcgarrigle - matapedia
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
With Matapedia, Kate & Anna McGarrigle return to their strengths by trimming back the synthesizers and sticking with direct, folky testaments. Occasionally, they augment their songs with worldbeat flourishes, but mainly the album sticks to folky introspection. While their skills have diminished slightly since their stellar debut, they remain evocative, challenging, fresh, and inspirational. ---by Thom...
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Bad dad music
normblog (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
While we're in that sort of territory... I enjoyed the opening paragraph of the piece here:[P]erhaps no current music phenomenon is as odd as the sub-section of the singer-songwriter genre entirely devoted to songs about what a crap bloke Loudon...
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Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Talk to Me of Mendocino
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
in post In Which Rufus Wainwright Stares Into the Mirror With You from This Recording .
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Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
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Friday Random Ten: welcoming the new Volvo edition
Hugo Schwyzer (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
I’m really, really diggin’ the new Volvo that came to live at our place this week. It's name, of course, is Ingmar. I know two other people with Volvos named Ingmar, and one with a Volvo named Ingrid, but damn it all, it's just right. A very busy weekend with family in from various [...]
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The Nostalgia Mix
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
I’ve mentioned often enough that my Dad, being a Canadian and hence raised on the stuff, brought all sorts of Americana into my early musical consciousness. He played all sorts of stuff: Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Seger, James Taylor, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, The Band, The Holy Modal [...]
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Loudon Wainwright III - Unsane Weirdos
Qdtleroy's Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Season daughter Rufus and Martha be confined taken the public eye thereof exclusive of the grandfather with respect to asleep in Jesus, this (scarcely) soundtrack till Judd Aptow’s farce stance offensiveness, Knocked Up steps, is for called LW3’s optimal catalog sympathy 15 yearsFans tenacity be told that better self goes endpaper plash in excess of [...]
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wintershillsongs.com
OYAX (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
I'm a native Texan, performing as a solo artist and with the bands "Whiskey Dream" & "Cactus Rose" throughout Texas beginning in the mid 1970's, and writing / recording jingles for local businesses. Currently an independent artist, most recent CD released: "Shadow of the Mountain". In addition to composing original songs, I love to perform traditional American / Irish / Celtic songs. Influences and...
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Friday Five: Moving
RevGalBlogPals (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
(YouTube video: "Mendocino," Kate and Anna McGarrigle with Karen Matheson) We are right in the middle of a move--only twenty minutes away, but we're still a mix of busy, excited, nervous and surprisingly full of grief about what we're leaving, for me at least. So this week's Friday Five asks about your experience of the marvels and madness of moving... 1. How many times have you moved? When was the...
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Martha Wainwright hooks up with The Band, Steely Dan and The Who
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Martha Wainwright's new studio LP, 'I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too' has got a distinctly mid-seventies feel to it. Why? Well, she's called on the help of The Who's Pete Townshend, The Band's Garth Hudson and Steely...
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Dutchblog Israel: Four more beautiful renditions of Hard ...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
Four more beautiful renditions of Hard Times Come Again No More , a 150-year-old song by the legendary American songwriter Stephen Foster . Long live YouTube! I hardly have any spare time left ( which is the reason why I have not been blogging seriously for so long now ) but every now and then I sit down for a few minutes and try to find videoclips with songs and artists that I like. Searching for...
