Peter Blackstock
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Buddy Miller Mixes Country-Soul Classics With Fresh Originals on Self-Titled Return (opens the original)
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Buddy Miller has recorded music under his own name for the last 30 years, but his influence on roots music stretches far wider. He began playing in the ’70s in Austin, where he met his future wife Julie Griffin when they both were in a band called Partners in Crime. Later, the Buddy Miller Band — which featured a nascent Shawn Colvin — began playing bars in New York City in the 1980s. He and Julie have made highly acclaimed duo records, too, two of which won Album of the Year honors from the Ame
The Jayhawks Mine Youth, Nostalgia, and New Places on New LP 'Sanctuary Park' (opens the original)
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Back in the late 1980s when the rootsy Toronto group Blue Rodeo arrived on the scene, Rolling Stone issued a provocative declaration: “The best new American band may very well be Canadian.” Just south of the border back then, a fledgling Minneapolis band called The Jayhawks were taking early steps toward becoming a prime mover in what became known as Americana music. But band leader Gary Louris now lives in Canada, after marrying a Canadian woman a few years ago. And when the band reconvened to
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Margo Price Sings Truth to Power, Plus New Music from Luluc, Mason Jennings and More (opens the original)
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Here’s a challenge to all Americana artists: Start recording and releasing sociopolitical songs NOW (if you haven’t already). Write new songs if you’re good at that, but if not, there’s plenty out there that could always use a wider airing. As Margo Price recently told Salon of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” which is featured on her new album: “I wish everybody would cover it, because it needs to be sung and we cannot look away from what is happening right now. We cannot act like this is normal.” T
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