The No Depresssion Community gave Buddy & Julie Miller’s Written in Chalk the best album of 2009 and #13 for the best albums of the decade. Can’t say I disagree with that. Check out this […]
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the backstory: Jones Street Station Loses Its Campy Mojo
Brooklyn’s The Jones Street Brothers is now called Jones Street Station. I can take a pretty good guess as to why they changed their name, but I’m kinda bummed that they went mellow indie and […]
the backstory: Cory Chisel’s “Born Again”
On Columbus Day weekend when my family was in town, my dad was dying to go see some good music. Choices were pretty limited on a holiday weekend, but I stumbled across a WFUV show […]
the backstory: Sarah Jarosz
Now that Nickel Creek has grown up and moved on, it’s time for a new bluegrass prodigy to remind me that I’m a poser. That’s my feeling every time I listen to 18-year-old Sarah Jarosz, […]
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