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What a tremendous album this is.
Brad Paisley has always applied a certain amount of wit to his records, and has written songs full of sexual politics, sentimentality, and recreational drinking in the great tradition of country music. As well as being among the best guitarists [...]
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Tags: American Saturday Night, brad paisley
This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
‘Cause some of that stuff don’t sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it’s changed you see
They’re not as backward as they used to be
He’s gone country, look at them boots
He’s gone country, back to his roots
He’s gone country, a new kind [...]
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Fucking Hell! £200?
I see that the perfect christmas gift this year for a Guardian reader is The Beatles’ remastered box set in mono, a snip at just £200 (less 2p). That’s only £15.38 per disc, fact fans, a mere 200% of the standard price for an album on iTunes. For the privilege of hearing the mono versions [...]
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Tags: EMI
Wey-oh-wibble
I’m a long-term Jonathan RIchman fan, but with the advancing years and overexposure I stopped listening to my old records (in the same way that I stopped listening to The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Beatles, The Who, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, to name but two) and I stopped buying his new ones as [...]
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Tags: 1980s, 80s, Jonathan Richman, JR, Music
On Band Camp
BandCamp does for musicians what WordPress does for writers. We’ve had MySpace for a few years now, but MySpace is nasty, ugly, chock full o’ shite and owned by News Corporation.
BandCamp, as you can tell from their introductory video, was created by Mac users: people who know good interface design instinctively, and appreciate the importance [...]
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Serendip City
Back when I was in a band, I was surrounded by musicians who were much better than me. This is as it should be. I was the one with the songs and the vision, but to create the perfect artefact, you need people around you who can realise your vision.
It wasn’t quite that way with [...]
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Tags: go dog go, home recording, pro tools
What a way
Download “What a way to go”
I’ve used a similar chord sequence before, on a song I wrote in the early 90s. This time, I’ve flipped the verse/chorus and added a middle bit.
UPDATE: A slight remix, pruning some stuff out that made it too busy in places, keeping it more in accordance with the arrangement I’d [...]
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Tags: home recording, pro tools
On Harmonicas
Nobody taught me to play the harmonica, and I don’t think it’s the kind of thing you can learn from a book, although there are books that purport to teach it. You just have a go, and if you can do it, you can do it. Bending notes is the thing that people imagine might [...]
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Tags: blues harp, harmonica, home recording, pro tools
I love this. The whole thing has a home-made feel, from the digipack sleeve with the black-blue-gold colour scheme to the record label (Vella Recordings), this was an artist-driven event from the start. The record industry can be despicable and doesn’t deserve to survive, but independent musicians like Tift Merritt are cause for joy and [...]
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Tags: buckingham solo, radcliffe centre, review, Tift Merritt
