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Next One" by
Jacqueline Van Bierk
"I See You
Tiger" by Via Tania
"Lost the
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Bright Eyes,
Black Soul" by The Lovers
Key
"Cool Thing"
by Sassparilla
"These Halls I Dwell"
by Michael Butler
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Peters and Barry Walsh;
"Who Do You
Love?"by Elizabeth Kay;
"Rebirth"by
Caterpillars;
"Monica's
Frock" by
Signel-Z;
"Natural
Disasters" by
Corey Landis;
"1,000
Leather Tassels" by
The Blank Tapes;
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Machines" by Outer
Minds;
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James;
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"Darkness" by Leonard
Cohen;
"Sweetbread" by Simian
Mobile Disco and
"Keep You" fromActress off
the Chronicle movie soundtrack;
"Goodbye to
Love" from October
Dawn;
Trouble in
Mind 2011 label
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ATWOOD - "A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliverance" -AVAILABLE
NOW FOR KINDLE (INCLUDING KINDLE COMPUTER APPS) FROM
AMAZON.COM. Use
this link.
CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects
the building of America in a trilogy of novels
collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores
the development of the American West through the
lens of public policy, land planning, municipal
development, and governance as it played out in one
of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of
the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious
and cultural traditions that imbued the American
Midwest with a special character that continues to
have a profound effect on American politics to this
day. Book One creates an understanding about
America's cultural foundations that is further
explored in books two and three that further trace
the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one
isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as
an icon in the development of a certain brand of
American character. That's the serious stuff viewed
from high altitude. The story itself gets down and
dirty with the supernatural, which in ATWOOD
- A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the
outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the
monumental to the sublime. The
book features the epic poem "The
Toiler" as
well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard
Padilla.
Elmore Leonard
Meets Larry McMurtry
Western Crime
Novel

I am offering another
novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its
sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado,
1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm
equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of
individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and
distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.
It is a ripping good yarn, filled
with suspense and intrigue. This was designed intentionally to
pay homage to the type of creative works being produced in 1950,
when the story is set. Richard Padilla
has done his usually brilliant work in capturing the look and feel of
a certain type of crime fiction being produced in that era. The
whole thing has the feel of those black & white films you see on
Turner Movie Classics, and the writing will remind you a little
of Elmore Leonard, whose earliest works were westerns.
Use this link.
EXPLORE THE KINDLE
BOOK LIBRARY
If you have not explored the books
available from Amazon.com's Kindle Publishing
division you would do yourself a favor to do so. You
will find classic literature there, as well as tons
of privately published books of every kind. A lot of
it is awful, like a lot of traditionally published
books are awful, but some are truly classics. You
can get the entire collection of Shakespeare's works
for two bucks.
You do not need to buy a Kindle to
take advantage of this low-cost library. Use
this link to go to an Amazon.com page from which you
can download for free a Kindle App for
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Amazon is the largest,
but far from the only digital publisher. You can
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Music Reviews
Archives
Index:
Edo Castro - Sacred Graffiti - by RAR
Elizabeth Kay -
My Fugitive Years - by RAR
Sam Broussard - Veins - by RAR
Angie Mattson -
Skeleton Arm - by RAR
The Laynes -
It's For You - by RAR
Henry Oden - You're Wrong For That!
- by RAR
Tia Carroll Live at Armando's by Douglas Strobel
Michael ONeill -
Ain't Leavin' Your Love
- by RAR
Sarah Stanley -
Tuesday Girl
- by RAR
Hilary York -
In The Dark
Hilary York- by RAR
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You're Stupid!
When Mia Michaels
says that - "You're Stupid" - on the hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" it is
a supreme compliment. Unfortunately, when I get told that same
thing it is invariably because of something I have done. I am
not astonishing in any way, just "stupid" in the traditional
sense.
This edition I have
posted a review of country showboat Michael ONeill's new
CD (click here to read the review),
and "stupid" is what he thought I was when I commented on the
strength of the players on the recording, prompting this instant
message from his iPhone:
"Holy shit the players on this
record are the best of the best,
Dony Wynn drums / Robert Palmer - Brooks and dunn
Will sexton bass. Charlie sextons brother
Lloyd mains Dixie chicks
Carl bromel -my morning jacket
Goggle these folks
Randy korhs"
So chastened, I did
some "Goggling" and learned about some great talent in the
process.

Dony Wynn, who plays drums on
Ain't Leavin' Your Love, is most closely associated with
the late Robert Palmer, with whom he played for years, but he
got his first big-time tour experience as a teenager playing
with Dr. John. Other of his associations have been with Brooks
and Dunn, Steve Winwood, Patti LaBelle, and Wang Chung. He has
one of the coolest Websites around at
http://www.donywynn.com/
, which is packed with clever design, intelligent writing and
memorable lines, like this: My good friends, Jim Keltner and
Jeff Porcaro, supreme drummers each, both subscribed to the fact
that beatmasters are old souls who were drummers in past
lives..."
That
introduction of Will Sexton as "Charlie Sexton's brother"
is understandable as a context setter - Charlie Sexton came to
prominence as guitarist with Bob Dylan through Dylan's
resurgence in the late 1990s and into the new millennium.
Charlie has gone on to produce Lucinda Williams, tour with Eric
Clapton, and launch his own band, Arc Angels, with Tommy Shannon
and Chris "Whipper" Layton of "Double Trouble" (Stevie Ray
Vaughn's rhythm section). For all these reasons, Charlie
Sexton's name has resonance, but he and his brother Will
(pictured left in a photo by Todd Wolfson) share a provenance in
Austin, Texas, where Will performs constantly, and both were
taught guitar by Austin legend W.C. Clark, the "Godfather of the
Austin Blues". Will and Charlie were in the same band, "Will and
the Kill", which in 1988 released an album on MCA that was
produced by Joe Ely and featured Jimmy Vaughn on some tracks.
Will went on to collaborations with Waylon Jennings, Roky
Erickson (psychedelic), and punker Johnny Thunders. He was in
the "New Folk Underground" and he co-produced Ruby James with
his brother Charlie.

Lloyd Maines is the
multi-instrumentalist producer of the Dixie Chicks, and
father of Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. He was a member of the Joe
Ely Band and played with Guy Clark, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen,
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Golden Bear, and other Texas musicians. He
was a member of The Maines Brothers Band in the late 1970s and
early 1980s and has contributed to alt-country releases,
including Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne and Wilco's debut, A.M..
The Grammy Award winner has produced and recorded Butch Hancock,
Rita Hosking, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Robison, the Lost Gonzo
Band, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Wayne Hancock, Owen Temple, Robert Earl
Keen, Terri Hendrix, Pat Green, Roger Creager, Two Tons of
Steel, and The Waybacks.

Carl Broemel
is an American rock musician. He currently plays the guitar,
pedal steel guitar, saxophone and sings back-up vocals for the
Louisville, Kentucky band My Morning Jacket. Broemel was listed
among Rolling Stone's "20 New Guitar Gods" along with My Morning
Jacket front man Jim James under the title of "Skynard-Art
Theorists." He released a solo album titled "Lose What's Left".
(from Wikipedia)
Randy
Korhs came to prominence playing with Hank Williams III and
Tom T. Hall, and later the Canadian band Continental Divide.
Other associations have been with Holly Dunn, John Cowan
and Dolly Parton. In 2001, he released his debut solo album, A
Crack In My Armour, on Junction Records. In 2004, Parton
recorded a duet with him, “It Looked Good On Paper,” for his
third album, I’m Torn, on Lonesome Day Records. It spent
eight months on the bluegrass charts, rising into the Top 5. To
date, Kohrs has played on more than 500 albums, ranging from
those by such legends as Hank Thompson and Jerry Reed to current
and recent chart-toppers Trick Pony, Dierks Bentley and The
Wreckers. In the bluegrass domain, he has recorded projects for
Larry Sparks, Rhonda Vincent, Mark Newton, Bradley Walker, Lou
Reid, and 3 Fox Drive, among others. (Largely from his
MySpace site.)
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The
Leslie and the Badgers CD Roomful of Smoke is scheduled for release on
July 7, 2009.

To listen to Leslie and
the Badgers tracks, click here to
visit their MySpace site.
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Break from Classic Blues
Roy Rogers Issues a Songwriter CD
Slide master
Roy Rogers
has a new CD, Split Decision,
now available at www.roy-rogers.com in the Music Store and no
doubt soon available more widely. This new release features new
Americana, blues/rock and jazz influenced tracks. Regarding the
new release Roy says "Split Decision is more about the
songwriting and, in addition, I aimed to create a much more edgy
sound and cross-genre style. I really wanted to craft strong
stories and mix it up a bit with a lot of very different guitar
tones and textures - and still have those solid roots-oriented
grooves. My influences are from all over the map. I love
combining different elements on a recording, but ultimately it
is about 'the feel' of the total record. I hope that shines
through in a positive way for people."
Roy played a much talked about show
at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival that received a
glowing review in USA Today. That no doubt contributed to a
strong debut at #13 on the Billboard Blues chart.
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