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One of the higher-profile jam bands of the 1990s and 2000s, Widespread Panic meld classic rock with elements of jazz, funky blues, and world music. EARTH TO AMERICA, the band's 2006 release, finds the group paring away some of their excessive noodling to focus on tighter songcraft and sharper grooves.
For starters, the band flirts successfully with Latin rhythms on "Crazy" and "You Should Be Glad." Hard funk ("Goodpeople") and swampy, psychedelic vamps ("Second Skin") are also represented alongside folky acoustic tunes like "From the Cradle." All of this adds up to a varied, intriguing listen--to one of the band's stronger releases.
Audio Mixer: Terry Manning.
Recording information: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas.
Widespread Panic: John Bell (vocals, guitars); Terry Manning (vocals, keyboards); George McConnell (guitars); Dave Schools (bass instrument); Domingo Ortiz, Todd Nance.
Personnel: George McConnell (vocals, guitar); John Hermann (vocals, keyboards); Dave Schools (vocals); Todd Nance (drums); Domingo Ortiz (percussion).
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DEJA VOODOO serves as a comeback for Gov't Mule, who ...
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This is, perhaps, the one. Derek Trucks has been on an aesthetic quest for something since he began his own recording career in 1997 ...
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Like Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, and Kurt Cobain, among others, Lucinda Williams is an artist with that certain difficult-to-define quality, the ability to channel the collective soul through a voice ...
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| | Randy Newman Good Old Boys CDs (1974)
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Rhino's superbly compiled reissue of Randy Newman's masterpiece, GOOD OLD BOYS, raises the stakes on what was already an essential disc. The remastering of the original album is an aural treat, bringing a new clarity to Newman's own performances and brilliant arrangements, and tacks on a stripped-down demo version of the song "Marie," one of Newman's most heartbreaking and beautiful love songs. It also includes a bonus disc, entitled JOHNNY CUTLER'S BIRTHDAY (the working title for GOOD OLD BOYS), that includes earlier versions of the songs that ended up on the finished album. The second disc is fascinating as a sketchbook work-in-progress, and thoroughly enjoyable as a piece of music in its own right.
Whereas 1972's SAIL AWAY played like a superbly crafted collection of short stories, 1974 's GOOD OLD BOYS was Newman's first novel. The literary analogies are not misplaced--Newman brings a writer's eye to character development, detail, setting, and scenario on GOOD OLD BOYS, a concept album about life in the Deep South. The opening track, "Rednecks," is a mercilessly scathing swipe at Southern racism, with a rollicking, sing-along chorus that only sinks the song's knife in deeper. And "A Wedding in Cherokee County" is a lovely ballad about a highly suspect backwoods marriage.
But for every attack on provincialism, Newman offers a tender portrait of a Southern character in the throes of personal turmoil. "Guilty," for example, is a self-destructive man's confessional lament, while "Marie" may be Newman's most heartbreaking and beautiful love song. By inhabiting his characters with uncanny accuracy, Newman achieves a sense of comedy and empathy that might be impossible were he narrating these tales from his own point of view. There are lighter tracks, too, like the good-time "Rolling" and the enigmatic "Naked Man," but even these are graced with the artist's fine arrangements and ear for melody. Unique, confrontational, and moving, GOOD OLD BOYS remains one of Newman's finest achievements.
The crown jewel in the first wave of Rhino's extensive Randy Newman reissue series is Good Old Boys -- which perhaps is appropriate, since it's arguably Newman's finest album. Then again, perhaps its status as the outstanding release in this wave was inevitable since unlike Sail Away ...
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| | Marcus Schmickler Amazing Daze CD (2007) (Import) Sweden
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This collaboration between sound artist Marcus Schmickler and free-reed instrument player Hayden Chisholm is best summed up by its title, Amazing Daze. It consists of two 20-minute drone pieces designed to put listeners quickly into a dazed trance and keep them there, as long as they are willing to lose their grip on reality. In the title piece, dedicated to minimalist composer/filmmaker Phill Niblock, Chisholm plays the bagpipes, which are multiplied, evened out, and fractalized into odd harmonics by Schmickler and his electronics and computer. In the second track, titled "Infinity in the Shape of a Poodle," Chisholm plays shô, a traditional free-reed wind instrument from ...
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