March 2010

Eric Bibb - Booker's Guitar

Eric Bibb – Booker’s Guitar

by Alex 31 March 2010 Reviews

A welcome return to our Rootie channel is Eric Bibb. I can still remember buying his 1997 album Good Stuff from the basement folk section of Rays Jazz in London. He has maintained that smooth baritone and unfancy guitar delivery since.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jigs

Carolina Chocolate Drops

by Alex 31 March 2010 Reviews

The Carolina Chocolate Drops just keep getting better. Having seen some recent performances, I figured it was only a matter of time before they released a finely honed album that would be an amalgamation of their modern day musical influences crossed with their hallmark Piedmont String Band sound from the foothills of the southern Appalachian [...]

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LITTLEgiants

LITTLEgiants

by Alex 29 March 2010 Reviews

I came across LITTLEgiants recently when trawling through myspace one night. What appealed to me was that they didn’t have that all too common over-produced sound you often hear today, instead they had a sound I love that dates back to a bygone era when bands sang around one microphone.

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Brooks Williams – Baby O!

by Alex 29 March 2010 Reviews

Blues Americana guitarist singer and songwriter Brooks Williams delivers the deepest and most intense interpretations of everything from early blues songs to his recent original compositions on Baby O!, his 17th CD, his first recorded in the UK.

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Holly Throsby

Holly Throsby

by Alex 28 March 2010 Reviews

Holly Throsby is, for want of a better word, a travelling troubador, whose deeply personal lyrics and warming voice have made her the winner of many hearts both at home in Australia and abroad.

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Aija

Äijä

by Alex 28 March 2010 Reviews

Äijä are a male choir from Pirkanmaa, Finland. They offer a unique experience in traditonal singing. I was actually seeking out some Finnish music a few weeks ago…

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Aidan O’Rourke News

Aidan O’Rourke News

by Alex 27 March 2010 Music News

Celebrated and feted as the fiddle playing third of Lau, Aidan O’Rourke’s An Tobar (The Well) is a celebration of the geography and life of the island of Mull and at the same time the 10th anniversary of its innovative arts centre, overlooking Tobermory Bay, that commissioned the work.

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London Word Festival

London Word Festival

by Alex 26 March 2010 Art and Culture

The London Word Festival is a pioneering, annual celebration of words, text and language; daring in its approach to cross-artform programming, commissioning new work and exploring non-traditional spaces.

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Bill Callahan in Concert

by Alex 25 March 2010 Video

Bill Callahan dropped by NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert in the summer last year so I thought I’d share this seeing as he has a new live album out which I posted about here. Settle back and enjoy this lovely concert on which he plays three great intimate tracks:

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Homegame Video Highlights 2010

Homegame Video Highlights 2010

by Alex 25 March 2010 Video

We selected some videos to show of some of the highlights of this year’s Homegame which is the Fence Collective highlight of the year in Anstruther, Scotland. These are just a very small handful

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Among the Oak and the Ash

Among the Oak and the Ash

by Alex 25 March 2010 Reviews

On Among The Oak & Ash, Pennsylvania-born New Yorker Josh Joplin and the Mississippi-bred, Nashville-based Garrison Starr lend their distinctive voices to a dozen folk songs

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The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

The Creatures… – Clogs

by Alex 24 March 2010 Downloads

It was by complete chance that I came across this release. The chain of events that led me to it are not worthy of a mention, honest. My initial thoughts were that I must have missed something somewhere, I did.

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Karen Elson

Karen Elson Announces Album

by Alex 24 March 2010 Reviews

Karen Elson’s The Ghost Who Walks marks the debut solo release from the British singer/songwriter. Her transformation from fashion’s favorite redheaded ingénue to beguiling chanteuse has been something of a slow burn. In 2003 she provided vocals for a version of Robert Plant’s “Last Time I Saw Her”

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Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void

Blitzen Trapper

by Alex 24 March 2010 Downloads

Sub pop release Blitzen Trapper’s latest album, Destroyer of the Void, on 8th June. It is fitting that ten seconds into Blitzen Trapper’s fifth full-length record, front man Eric Earley utters that most sacred of rock ‘n’ roll tropes: “For to love is to leave or to run like a rollin’ stone,” he sings in [...]

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Coco Rosie - Grey Oceans

Coco Rosie – Grey Oceans

by Alex 24 March 2010 Music News

Things are hotting up for Coco Rosie with their new album, Grey Oceans due for release in May 2010. They have this to say about their new album:

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Video – Watch Kila live

by Alex 24 March 2010 Video

Kila perform live at St.Mary’s Collegian Church in Youghal to launch their 2010 album Soisín. Kila performed the sound track for the 2010 Oscar nominated animated feature ‘The Secret of Kells’.

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Beach House – Teen dream

by Alex 24 March 2010 Downloads

The latest record from Baltimore based duo Beach House is their best and most complete yet. Teen Dream is just that, a dream of a record that rekindles the tender wide-eyed sentiment of a teenager open and ready for the world ahead.

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White Hinterland - Kairos

White Hinterland – Kairos

by Alex 24 March 2010 Reviews

Talk about a transformation. In a move motivated by nothing more than the need to try something new, Casey Dienel transformed her piano-led White Hinterland project from a pitch-dark jazz revue to a looking-glass take on the bleeding-edge of pop music.

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