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Dan Hicks - Crazy For Christmas
I have a new CD review up on Glide. REVIEW » We all know there are no shortage of Christmas albums so I’ll forgive you if you skip Dan Hicks’ latest release for no other reason than the last thing you need to hear is another ode to Baby Jesus and American consumerism.  However, if you have the patience to give one more Christmas album a go, then you could do much worse than Crazy...
Dec 15th
My Top 20 of 2010
Each December I, like hundreds of thousands (millions?) of other writers, bloggers, music critics, etc., build their list of the best albums of the year.  Usually I keep it to my favorite ten, but this year I cannot manage to cut it so thin so I present to you my favorite twenty albums of the year. So, without further ado, starting at No. 20 and working my way up to my No. 1 album of the first...
Dec 12th
Various Artists - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows
I have a new CD review up at Glide, check it out. REVIEW » John Prine is one of those songwriters that makes songwriting seem easy; his words never forced and his wit never ending.  Couple that with the simplicity with which he writes and I think most musicians would find his songs easily adaptable and ripe to be covered. On Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine,...
Dec 11th