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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Daryl Hall Puts the Soul in Solo
posted: October 12, 2011
Right off the bat, the most difficult thing to get past is the impossibly youthful visage. Daryl Hall is, after all, now sixty-five years of age. In some lines of work, he might be looking…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Paul Kelly Knows His ABC's
posted: October 5, 2011
In the US, Australian songsmith Paul Kelly‘s cult-hero status was cemented by a pair of late-˜80s A&M releases”Gossip and Under The Sun. Kelly’s concise, cutting lyrics and no-nonsense tunes suggested sort of an Aussie answer…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Jonathan Wilson's Canyon Spirit
posted: September 28, 2011
With touches of everything from psychedelia to folk-rock to prog, singer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson‘s new album, Gentle Spirit, is something of a beard rocker’s”or more accurately, beard balladeer’s”wet dream, the kind of recording that sounds like…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Hank Williams III's Hankering For Metal
posted: September 21, 2011
Things could have been much easier for Shelton Hank Williams, better known as Hank Williams III, if only he was willing to play ball and give Nashville what it wanted from him. Just imagine the…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Jayhawks Soar Once More
posted: September 14, 2011
When The Jayhawks first got together in 1985 Minneapolis, Gram Parsons and The Louvin Brothers did not enjoy the same kind of default-option status they command as rock-band influences today. Country-rockers were thin on the…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Olivia Tremor Control's Elephant 6 Revival
posted: September 7, 2011
These days, the Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal and Jeff Neutral Milk Hotel Mangum, when regarded out of context, seem to have little in common beyond their status as indie-rock cult heroes. But a decade…
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