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Sara Watkins branches out

Thursday, 14 July 2016, 16:54 Last update: about 11 years ago

Sara Watkins describes her latest venture as "a breakup album with myself," but it seems like there might have been someone else involved. The songs on "Young in All the Wrong Ways" have bite to...

Tribute to Dennis Brown hails peerless reggae singer

Wednesday, 13 July 2016, 16:48 Last update: about 11 years ago

"We Remember Dennis Brown" is a much-deserved tribute to one of reggae's top crooners, a vocal marvel whose music was widely acclaimed in Jamaica and Britain and merits even broader attention...

Allen Toussaint's 'American Tunes' is elegant adieu

Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 16:44 Last update: about 11 years ago

Allen Toussaint finished recording "American Tunes" just weeks before his death in November, an elegant and fitting adieu from the New Orleans master. Solo piano versions of tunes from the...

Band of Horses takes it easy on 'Why Are You OK'

Friday, 8 July 2016, 16:04 Last update: about 11 years ago

Band of Horses takes it easy on "Why Are You OK," wordy songs rooted in domestic situations that pleasantly glide but rarely soar. Producer Jason Lytle from Grandaddy gives Ben Bridwell's tunes a...

Ex-Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos serves up covers disc

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 16:03 Last update: about 11 years ago

Bun E. Carlos' drumming introduced some of Cheap Trick's biggest hits; his sticks were the first sound audiences heard on "I Want You to Want Me" and "Ain't That a Shame," among others. Now six years...

Neil Young goes green on hybrid 'Earth'

Wednesday, 6 July 2016, 16:02 Last update: about 11 years ago

Longtime environmentalist Neil Young takes a hybrid approach on "Earth," a double disc compilation of live tracks loosely related to sharing our planet with the animal kingdom. The sounds of...

Sarah Jarosz has an elegantly understated new album

Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 15:59 Last update: about 11 years ago

On her fourth solo album "Undercurrent," Sarah Jarosz doubles down on understated elegance. Not that anything she's ever done could be described as rowdy. But in her first release since...

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