Blogcritics Category: Music: Acoustic

BC Radio Live: The Classic Crime, Bag of Toys, and Author Douglas Preston

Lisa McKay — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:52:54 EDT

From the power of music to murder in the Florentine countryside...
BC Radio Live is the flagship program of the BC Magazine station on BlogTalkRadio. It's hosted by Phillip Winn, Eric Olsen, and Lisa McKay and airs weekly on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Shows are archived and available for streaming or download after the live broadcast. Our guests on July 16 were representatives from the bands The...

Music Review: Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In the Light

Eric Whelchel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:21:05 EDT

A review of Will Oldham's latest.
Lie Down In the Light is in many ways an atypical Will Oldham record. For the most part, the themes most often associated with his albums (death, fractured relationships and lives on the skids, a touch of dread, and a little more death) are now tempered with a tranquility and contentment rarely seen on any of Oldham’s previous releases....

Music Review: David Bromberg - Live New York City 1982

David Bowling — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:23:23 EDT

David Bromberg returns with an excellent album of acoustic American music.
David Bromberg has had a long and storied musical career. He performed at the historic Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 and released a series of respected rock-blues albums for the Columbia label during that decade. He gradually began to explore the country and bluegrass idioms as time passed and began playing the violin himself. He retired from the...

Music Review: Amy Ray - Didn't It Feel Kinder

Anna Creech — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:56:36 EDT

This album signals a shift to a more introspective Ray.
Amy Ray has been through a lot of changes over the past couple of years. Her musical partnership with Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls, finished out their contract with Epic Records, and then signed with Hollywood Records. The album they released, Despite Our Differences, was well-received by their dedicated fan base and critics alike, but despite...

Satire: Engaged Couple's Musical Differences Threaten to Derail Wedding

Eric Whelchel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:02:45 EDT

Musical differences threaten to wreck one couple's wedding
Engaged couple Kristen Tiffington and Curtiss Ian announced today that their June 2013 wedding is in jeopardy due to ongoing conflicts regarding the music that will be used to commemorate their special day. Ian, a 30 year-old maintenance supervisor and self-proclaimed “indie snob, but in a good way” says the high point of his life...

Music Review: Creaking Tree String Quartet - The Soundtrack

Janica Unruh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:47:52 EDT

Beautiful music blending jazz, folk, and bluegrass to create a unique sound only known to Creaking Tree.
I’ve always been intrigued by music that deviates from the norm. When I was a teenager, I was the one blaring Bjork from my car. That or Handel’s Messiah, which isn’t strange in comparison unless you pull up beside the person singing at the top of their lungs to “Thus Saith the Lord.”So when the first song started...

Music Review: John Mellencamp - Life Death Love and Freedom

The Masked Movie Snobs — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:49:51 EDT

One of the most compelling of his storied career and a rewarding listen.
Written by General JabboJohn Mellencamp delves into American folk, blues and country on his latest release, the moody Life Death Love and Freedom. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album’s stark songs of life, death and hard living bare a similarity to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand, also produced by Burnett, but while that...

Interview: EvilMrSod

Angie Pardue — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:22:27 EDT

The rock 'n' roll bad boy talks Germany, Johnny Cash, and playing live.
Last month I reviewed I Am A Demon & I Love Rock'N'Roll, the latest album from EvilMrSod, who was nice enough to take time out of his recording schedule to answer a few questions for me. There’s going to be no avoiding the occasional comparison to Johnny Cash, but EvilMrSod has taken that influence and carved out his own sound,...

Music CD/DVD Review: John Mayer - Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles

Donald Gibson — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:18:55 EDT

Mayer delivers a solid performance that works far better as an album than it does as a film.
Lately the man garners more press for his private life than for his professional one, but John Mayer would be the first to concede that music remains his greatest passion. On his latest release, Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles, which comes in both CD and DVD formats, he delivers a solid performance that works far better as an album than it...

Concert Review: Bonnaroo 2008, Part 3

El Bicho — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:44:38 EDT

All good things must come to end, but what condition will we be in?
Morning came pretty early on Day Three as the pointless musings of Ted and Alice’s dopey friend pulled me from Slumberland. She was going on about the Disco Biscuits show, which Fumo and I had skipped because we weren’t in any condition to start a show at 2am. However, the rest of her group had been there, so she wasn’t telling...