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JJ Cale & Eric Clapton The Road To Escondido

October 18, 2006

The new JJ Cale and Eric Clapton collaboration, The Road To Escondido is a must hear for any Clapton /Cale/Blues/Guitar fan. Its got a laid back blues, rock, soul, americana sound and some killer guitar work. In addition to the licks of Cale and Clapton, Derek Trucks also lays down some slide work on this [...]

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Shooter Jennings Live At Irving Plaza 4.18.06

October 13, 2006

Shooter Jennings is the son of the late great Waylon Jennings (for those why might not know) and his brand of outlaw music could be described as Waylon Jennings meets Led Zepplin. His brand of rock and roll kicks soooo much ass and asures us that outlaw music lives on! His most recent release Live [...]

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More On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 10, 2006

Joel Selvin has a fantastic review of this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle.  The article also has some great photos.  I’m going to figure out a way to make it to this festival next year come hell or high water.  Hopefully they will break the “you can only play once [...]

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Willie Nelson & Ryan Adams

September 13, 2006

I was just reading on Rolling Stone’s website how Ryan Adams produced Willie Nelson’s latest album entitled Songbird which is set to be released on October 31. Ryan Adams has really gotten a ton of attention lately. In addition to putting out 40 albums per year he’s been playing shows with Phil Lesh and Friends. [...]

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Bob Dylan On Google Video

August 28, 2006

Google Video is serving up exclusive video footage from Bob Dylan’s new album Modern Times which is scheduled for release tommorow (August 29th). Google Video also has tons of other really great Bob Dylan footage spanning his entire carreer. Check it out!

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New Lemonheads!

August 24, 2006

One of my favorite acts back in the day was the Lemonheads. Takes me back to my high school days of fooling around and having way too much fun. Well they’ve jumped on the comeback bandwagon and will be releasing a new album on 9-26-06. You can stream the first single from the album on [...]

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Radiodread

August 17, 2006

Found this killer reggae album that is actually a reggae version of Radiohead’s OK Computer. It features all sorts of performers including Toots and the Maytals. Some of the songs don’t really sound anything like the Radiohead originals, but they are all really cool takes on the originals. My favorite cut so far is Karma [...]

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Weather On The Wood Chords and Lyrics

August 14, 2006

I really love the South Austin Jug Band Song Weather On the Wood from their latest album Dark and Weary World. This weekend I figured it out on the guitar. I was having a hard time finding the lyrics so I had to transpose them myself. I thought I’d share the lyrics and chords. Its [...]

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Tom Petty Highway Companion

July 21, 2006

I’m streaming the new Tom Petty solo album Highway Companion on Rhapsody. So far I have to say it rocks just like everything Petty touches. Highway Companion has a more honest, less radio friendly appeal to it not unlike his record Echo which is one of my favorites despite the fact that it was relatively [...]

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Stream New Thom Yorke Album The Eraser

July 6, 2006

Good news for Radiohead fans, you can listen to the new solo album from Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke entitled The Eraser which will be released next week. Stream it on NME.com right now!

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