Jack White, by Michael Bialas
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There's been a lot of talk on the site in recent months about the integrity of purchasing music versus getting it for free. The main argument is generally that folks want to support artists and brick-and-mortar record stores. But, with so many record stores chalking their profits up to the buying and selling of used CDs - which, when you purchase them, no money goes back to the artist - what's the difference between purchasing something used and getting it for free online? It's a fair question, posed by Easy Ed. Chime into his forum, or simply keep reading for some highlights from the past week.
(By the way, there's still a few days to enter the Johnny Cash contest. Make sure you don't miss out on the opportunity to win that great package of CDs and a concert DVD.)
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Getting to know Drew Kennedy
by Mando Lines
Drew Kennedy hails from New Braunfels, Texas. This bearded, bespectacled singer songwriter is friendly, witty and extremely talented. We renewed our acquaintance at this year's Telluride Bluegrass Festival, where he was chosen as a finalist in their Telluride Troubadour Contest (he finished second out of 445 entries). Kennedy and I first met at a house concert in Mississippi a couple years ago. Actually, it was an outside-the-house concert. On a cold evening, he and Josh Grider... More
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Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier & a 50-concert weekend
by Kim Ruehl
It hasn't been easy getting Mary Gauthier on the phone. It's been a few days of trying to connect when a call finally goes through. Even then, the connection is not fantastic. I'm on the road in the rain. My voice recorder won't work. But what's happening is well worth discussing. In roughly six weeks - Oct. 1, to be exact - Gauthier will join Catie Curtis and... More
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Inside the Songs: Creative Writing with Jeffrey Martin
by Hearth Music
As a music writer, I get a fair amount of album submissions from hopeful musicians. I listen to them all, or as many as I can, but honestly these days most of my musical finds come from my own research or from friends. That said, every now and then and album comes completely out of the blue to blow me away. Jeffrey Martin's Gold in the Water is a perfect ... More
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The night I met the Byrds and the Burrito Bros. band
by Tim M. Otto
I seem to gravitate back to the 80's a-lot for comfort because that was a great time for me. I was in a popular local band here in Portland, Oregon called The Surf Cowboys (USA) and I was only in my 20's. I also had a great girlfriend named Jackie that it seemed everybody including me loved. For some of us, the 1980's was an innocent time. It wasn't... More
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JP Harris & the Tough Choices - 'I'll Keep Calling'
by Ben Bonin
You wouldn't know it from tuning in the radio dial, but country music is alive and well. Quite well in fact, if the debut Cow Island Music release from J.P. Harris and the Tough Choices is any indication. I actually did a double take when I read "debut album" in the press sheet that came with I'll Keep Calling. What I heard coming from the speakers was the kind of... More
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From the Archives
Vic Chesnutt - Little big man
by William Bowers
In a closer-to-perfect world, Vic Chesnutt would be played on the radio, and it would happen not because of committee calculations but as a result of free-willed DJ across the country independently choosing to air his finicky, endearing art-folk. In a closer-to-perfect world, a majority of American radio stations wouldn't be disinformative monstrosities controlled by a corrupt, agenda-fied company whose vice chairman bought the Texas Rangers from a certain future president... More
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Review of Blackberry Smoke - 'The Whipporwill'
My first encounter with Atlanta's Blackberry Smoke - Charlie Starr on Lead Vocals, Guitar, Richard Turner on Bass, Vocals, Brit Turner on Drums, Paul Jackson on Guitar, Vocals and Brandon Still on Keyboards - was seeing them open two shows for ZZ Top at the Beacon theater. The neo-Grecian Beacon was originally a deluxe movie place... More
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Down Home in
New York With Ollabelle
I've often heard of New York City referred to as America's largest small town. It's that strange interconnectedness that happens to people in a city of eight million -- it's the not-so-rare moments of serendipity when you bump into a friend on the street who you haven't seen in years. And, like all small towns, summers in New York City give musicians their respective.... More
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