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I was born with a heart made of copper and gold…
So we have started watching Assassins Creed – the Television Series or Arrow as they are calling it. I am patiently waiting for Ollie to dive off a building and land in a wagon full of hay.
Updated the jukebox with a few newly released tracks and a few released not long ago. Check out shiny new tracks from Viv and the Revival, Thea Hopkins w/Peter Parcek, The Amends and The Delta Saints along with a couple of tracks from last year by The Heavy Horses and The Bixby Knolls.
(Sigh…I really wanted Copper and Gold (The Heavy Horses) for the juke but can’t find a version I can embed.)
The featured vid this week is Time Machine off the soon-to-be released album Turquoise by Devon Allman.
That’s pretty much it.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – Dec 29, 2012 to Jan 4, 2013
Mostly Harmless with Dammit Damian tossed up his Top 10 of 2012 and added a podcast to the mix.
Farce the Music listed their top 75 albums of 2012.
Easy Street Records blogged about the closing of their Queen Anne (Seattle) area record store. (- thanks Penny)
Rune from Ninebullets.net listed his favorite albums of 2012 while AutopsyIV spun out another amazing Ninebullets Radio Broadcast.
Usually I link to articles written by bluesman Peter Parcek, but today the article is about him. Check out George Pelletier’s interview with Parcek for the Bedford Journal.
From the Music Maker Relief Foundation – check out this new video of Ben Payton playing Black Dog Blues:
Finally, from Noisetrade.com, Mason Jar Music presented The Storm is Passing Over – A Hurricane Sandy Benefit album from Mason Jar Music and Friends.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn-based collective Mason Jar Music has assembled an all-star collection of indie-folk artists to create The Storm is Passing Over, a benefit album of fifteen classic American storm songs. Donations exchanged for these recordings will go directly to support ongoing relief work in New York City and the tri-state area.”
Lots of great songs on this. I am partial to the Memphis Minnie and Joe McCoy version of ‘When the Levee Breaks’ but Micheal Daves does a nice job on his rendition. ‘The Storms are on the Ocean’ by Aoife O’Donovan is beautiful and probably my favorite of the group. I also love ‘Lonesome River’ by Roseanne Cash (love, love her arrangment on this) and Tift Merritt’s ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’.
The album is available to download for free but a tip jar has been set up on the webpage and all tips will go to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
That’s it for me this week. If you have a music blog or site and want to be added to the list above just drop me a note with your addy either in the comment section below or in an email to guitarkit at gmail.com and I will pop your entry into the post.
- Kit
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The Week in Music Blogs – July 7 to July 13, 2012
Okay, had my coffee, ready to get to work.
In No ‘Rest’ for the Working Man, Steve Wildsmith from The Daily Times (Blount Co. TN) interviewed Jason Isbell.
Blues guitarist Cary Morin updated his blog, Open Mic Odyssey, with an entry about his west coast tour.
Peter Parcek added another installment to his Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar series. This week he profiled Muddy Waters’ guitarist Sammy Lawhorn and shared a couple of videos.
AutopsyIV reviewed Look Out Mama, the new Hurray for the Riff Raff release and streamed several tracks from the album.
Chuck Dauphin over on Billboard reviewed Uncaged, the new release from the Zac Brown Band. He also tossed up a couple of vids for the album tracks. (as of this morning two had been pulled from you tube by Warner Music Group but one is still available to view)
In more Billboard-esque related news, Ed Christman wrote about the digital music pricing wars presently going on between Amazon, iTunes and Google and the effect those wars are having on the Billboard charts.
Michael Barwise from Michael’s Music Madness has his own radio show. He wrote about it and his other work at Hospital Radio.
Finally, check out #Rock Out With Your #Folk Out Press, which is kind of a daily music news aggregate helmed by singer/songwriter Corey Koehler.
That is it for me this time around. I have been fighting a killer cold all week and am ready to just crash on the couch and play Dawnguard. As always, if I missed your blog or you have a link to share please send me a quick email or leave your addy and info down in the comments section.
- Kit
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The Week in Music Blogs – June 23 to June 29, 2012
Tony Conley from Rock Guitar Daily reviewed Tilting, the upcoming (and really good) release from Johnny Hickman.
Josh Hathaway over on Blinded by Sound reviewed the new Norah Jones album, Little Broken Hearts and tossed a stream of the album up for listening.
Delarue from New York Music Daily reviewed the Haley Bowery and the Manimals/Hannah vs the Many concert at Webster Hall.
At Screamer Magazine, Richard Rosenthal interviewed Ron Young from Little Caesar.
Heading south to ninebullets.net territory, Romoesidvicious reviewed Nah, Death Ima Comin’ for You, the upcoming release from Michael Dean Damron, and streamed a preview track from the album. While you all are over there, check out the ninebullets radio show from this week. The show had tunes from Have Gun Will Travel, William Elliot Whitmore, Pawn Shop Saints and so many more good bands.
Rachel over at Adobe and Teardrops wrapped up Pride Month with her review of White Noise, the new EP from Sarah Walk. She also shared a link to download the EP for free or for a donation amount of your choice.
Also from the Adobe and Teardrops Facebook page, some Gary Clark, Jr.- Live from Bonnaroo -
Little Indie Blogs reviewed and provided a link to preview four songs from the Chapel Club upcoming release, Good Together.
The Steve Carlson / Jonah Dolan StageIt concert that had to be cancelled has been rescheduled for July 11th. Tickets are sold out now, but they usually release another bunch closer to show date.
Cameron Matthews over at Spinner previewed Hey Girl, a new single from Dig. Sow. Love. Grow., the upcoming (August 7th) album by the Buffalo Killers and offered it up as a free download.
Fire by Viv and the Revival is being used by NBC and Bud Light in their summer Olympics ads and promo spots. You all can see the first video on the band’s website and catch more over the next month.
The Young Electrics only need a couple more votes and they will be performing at the Olympics as part of the Emerging Icons. Pop over and click on the little star to help them. Seriously, how many times are you going to have the chance to say, “I picked one of the bands that played the Olympics“?
To finish out the list, bluesman Peter Parcek tossed out another in his series, Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar. This entry focused on Kid Ramos.
And that is it for me. As always, if I missed your blog post just leave a comment with the addy or shoot me a quick email.
I’ll leave you all with a cool little live vid of Peter with Willie Hayes, Jesse Hayes and Kevin Harvey doing Let The Good Times Roll.
Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – May ?? to May 12, 2012
I thought I was having slight technical difficulties with the blog this weekend but now it is more like problems with my internet connection. Going to try and get the list out anyway.
Dave Reffett from Guitar World interviewed Walter Trout in an awesome monster article that covers the new release, Blues for the Modern Daze, gear, other blues players and much more.
Autopsy IV from Ninebullets.net reviewed There’s A Bomb In Gilead by Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires.
Over on L.A Weekly Blogs, Rebecca Haithcoat interviewed one of my favorite new bands, The Record Company.
Arkansas blues guitarist Michael Burks passed away earlier this week. ( by Matt Marshall from American Blues Scene)
Leanne Sherman from Cat on the Wall profiled The Carpels and shared some of the tracks from the upcoming The Neon Sessions release.
Those couple of weeks I was unable to put the music blog list up I missed several Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar articles by musician Peter Parcek. This weeks article is on Jimmy Nolan but if you have a few minutes check out some of the others as well.
Linda Leinen (shoreacres) from The Task at Hand was in Iowa, Louisiana at the spring Rabbit Festival for food, fun and Zydeco music.
Okay, I have tempted fate and my connection long enough and the thought of roasted rabbit is making me hungry. If I missed your post and you would like me link to it please drop a comment on the post or send me an email at guitarkit at gmail dot com
Off to make (sadly non-rabbity) chili!
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs March 31 to April 6, 2012
Josh Hathaway from Blinded by Sound tossed out a list of releases for April, including stuff from Tab Benoit (yea!), the Smiths and Elvis Costello.
Brandon over on The Burning Ear streamed All the Rowboats, a track off the upcoming Regina Spektor release, What We Saw from the Cheap Seats.
Michael Barwise from Michael’s Music Madness posted the Favourite Songs Of 2012 So Far:
So March is now over which means that we are a 1/4 of the way through 2012. Three months of great new music. I asked radio DJs, bloggers and more about what music they’ve been loving so far this year…”
Rachel at Adobe and Teardrops streamed Bully, from the upcoming album, When the New Wears Off, by The Only Sons.
John Jurgensen from the Wall Street Journal interviewed Bonnie Raitt about music and her new album, Slipstream.
AutopsyIV from ninebullets.net asked:
If you could only listen to the discography of 3 artists/bands for the remainder of your life. Who would they be?”
Finally, if you aren’t already reading Peter Parcek’s Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar, this is a great time to start. Check out his latest installment, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan.
The list seems a little short but I spent most of the week a bit sleep-deprived and didn’t read as many blogs as usual. If you want me to add your post to the list just send me an email, bug me over on Twitter @kitbrown_wmb or leave your addy in the comments section.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs March 24 to March 30, 2012
Pour yourselves a very big cup of coffee ’cause the links this week are going to take a while to work through.
Kendra Carter of The Gadsden Times eulogized Bluesman Jerry “Boogie” McCain.
Jim White from Community Voices reviewed Stronger for It, the new release by Javina Magness.
Pete Feenstra over on Get Ready to Rock reviewed the new Walter Trout, Blues for the Modern Daze.
Bluesman Peter Parcek took a little time out of his playing schedule to pen another in his Unsung Heroes series and profiled blues guitarist Leroy Foster.
MusiciansFriend interviewed Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks in their home studio:
Moving away from blues, Metal Insider tossed out their Top Five Live Metal Albums of ever and Spin shared several photos from Too Tough to Die, the soon-to-be published Johnny Ramone memoir.
Jordan Richardson over at Blinded by Sound reviewed the new Cannibal Corpse release, Torture.
Mike Ostrov from Ninebullets.net reviewed Giant Orange from Cheap Girls.
Over on Adobe and Teardrops, Rachel reviewed electronic pop band Xylos.
Sandy Auden from London Calling interviewed Steve Carlson about his music and his “mini” European tour.
Finally, Mark Memmott from NPR reminded us just how cool Earl Scruggs really was while Steve Martin nearly made me cry.
Okay, this is a slightly larger fraction of all the music blogs and posts this week. If I missed yours please shoot me an email or leave your post addy in the comment section below.
- Kit
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The Week in Music…Blogs – March 17 to March 23, 2012
Michael Barwise from Michael’s Music Madness interviewed indie pop band The Mutineers.
Peter Parcek continued his Unsung Heroes of the Blues Guitar series with slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk.
Michael Verity offered up a free mp3 from Math and Physics Club on michaelverity.com.
Rachel from Adobe and Teardrops also offered up free music from band The Attic Stairs.
Alan Ashton Smith reviewed punk band Zulu‘s new release ‘Way of the Zulu’ on Shout4Music.
Greg Barbrick over on Blinded by Sound was also digging the punk scene with his review of Pure Punk by The Vibrators.
Little Indie Blogs offered up Five Hot Ones (videos) of the Week.
Wesley Britton from BC Music (blogcritics) reviewed Solo by Vonda Shepard.
As always, these are a tiny fraction of the cool musics blogs written this week. If I missed your post drop me an email or leave your addy in the comment section and I’ll add your post to the list.
- Kit
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- Blurred…
February 12, 2013 | 4:06 pm
I have been trying to write the review for Blurred, by San Francisco singer/songwriter Alex Wise for a few months now but can’t seem to finish it. This is difficult for me to say but I get about halfway through the process and find myself so homesick I just can’t continue. The past few years have been full [...] - Arc & Stones…
February 11, 2013 | 4:53 am
Now that Scooter is back sleeping nights I proclaim this ’dig myself out from under the mountain of un-reviewed music‘ week. Kicking off the week o’reviewing is Arc & Stones, the debut EP from Brooklyn band Arc & Stones. The guys are Dan Pellarin (vocals), Ben Cramer (guitar), Joe Doino (drums) and Eddy Bayes (bass). I had [...] - Telegraph Taboo…
January 21, 2013 | 8:45 am
So, I was in the mood for some blues and whoosh – blues appeared. Other people get coupons, bills and news updates in the mail while I get blues music. Cool new blues music in the form of the debut release Telegraph Taboo from the Chicago-based band Nick and the Ovorols. This is not a pretty album. The vocals on a few tracks [...] -
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