Twangville
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Twangville is a Music Review blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Emphasizing the Alt side of Alt-country, we cover releases, reviews, downloads, links, and more. Explore Reader's Picks, Artist interviews, and more in our latest posts.
Twangville
50m ago
Taj Mahal … Keb’ Mo’ … Corey Harris … Guy Davis … Otis Taylor … Eric Bibb. These guys, along with a few others, are the vanguard of modern acoustic blues. With all of them, but especially with Bibb, listeners can be sure that every recording, every performance matters. Bibb’s new live album shows the ..read more
Twangville
3d ago
Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters talks about why the Chrysler Town & Country is the mullet of vans, the importance of picking a band name carefully, and working on a golf course ..read more
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3d ago
What’s better than one show in Dallas? How about two! Yup, before we gather in the back yard on April 28th, we’re gonna meet up at Double Wide, a Dallas institution, on the 24th for a big ol’ rock show. Tickets and info here. How’s this for a line-up: Here’s a video playlist to get ..read more
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5d ago
You picked Old 97’s – American Primitive as your favorite new release for the week of April 5, 2024. Poll Results New Releases Readers’ Tops Spring 2024 Old 97’s – American Primitive (10 Votes) Phosphorescent – Revelator (7) Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe (7) Cedric Burnside – Hill Country Love (6) Larry Campbell ..read more
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1w ago
Ray Wylie Hubbard once said that good poets didn’t have good childhoods. I’m sure that was a broad commentary on how adversity can be the inspiration an artist of any kind uses to shape their work. A brilliant case in point is the upcoming album from Minneapolis singer/songwriter Clayton Ryan, entitled Ghost Town. He took ..read more
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1w ago
Nick Gravenites is cool. For his instinct for finding the moment, particularly back in the 1960s, I’d liken him to Neal Cassady,* the counter-culture icon who was taken into the beatnik fold in 1950s New York by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s On the Road was said to be ..read more
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1w ago
Fiddler Alastair Caplin of Scotland’s The Langan Band shares a tour lesson learned and talks about eating healthy while on tour and time spent teaching horse-back riding ..read more
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2w ago
You picked Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – Revelations as your favorite new release for the week of March 29, 2024 ..read more
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2w ago
Humans have always spent a lot of energy trying to outdo each other, and social media has supercharged all the motivations causing that. So it’s a nice change to run across someone who’s comfortable with just who they are. Santa Cruz, CA, native Mira Goto acknowledges “there are always going to be better guitar players ..read more
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2w ago
Singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly talks about rehearsing at home, working at a chicken plant when he was 20, and the time that his tour bus caught on fire ..read more