One of my coworkers told me about the brilliant musician Justin Vernon who took a number of months while recovering from illness in a cabin in Wisconsin to record a full album on his own employing some basic equipment and would have sold the album entirely on his own but decided to sign to fantastic record label Jagjaguwar, home of such other luminaries as Dinosaur Jr. and Black Mountain.
Sometimes you hear about an album with such an outrageous name that you just have to hear it to find out if the sound on the album can stand up to the quality of the name. Such was the case with the new album by Akron / Family, being “Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT.”
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B.J. Reagon — Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon — is one of those rare SuperGenius talents that cannot be boxed in by mind or musical genre. Is she a Blues singer? Is she a Gospel singer? Is she a Folk singer?
Our beloved Bob Dylan is releasing his first Christmas album on October 13, 2009. Bob is our rock, our touchstone, and the magical mind that took folk music from acoustic and into the wired sound of really rolling rock.
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