Simon and longtime collaborator Roy Halee create a sonic landscape that's every bit as invigorating as their best work together. There are surprises around and tucked into every corner. And the melodies are Simon's sharpest in years, seeped in wit and insight. A late-career winner (Simon was...
When you think of Ritchie Blackmore, slide player isn’t the first thing that comes to mind — for me anyway — but when you look at his body of work and start adding things up, he actually plays quite a bit of slide and uses it quite effectively to enhance his melodies. Once he’...
like he's raymond carver, parsing the details until he finds the one that makes them real. typically, it's the musical details that do just that. the band kozelek assembled for ghosts -- anthony koutsos (red house painters), tim mooney (american music club), and geoff stanfield (black ...
With the country closed up for Covid, and music clubs struggling to stay afloat, she decided to help by launching Lu’s Jukebox, offering a series of themed, livestream concerts that pay tribute to specific artists, musical styles and eras. Fans could purchase tickets through participating ven...
Or, I might mess up a couple of words in my head, but it all makes sense. [Laughs] Then it’s a song. It’s not just “da-da-da-da-da”—it’s a song. That makes the way you phrase it better on the guitar and makes it more real. So, I’m thinking of the melodies and...
:There are several newer bands on the lineup who are definitely worth checking out. The Head & the Heart specialized in gorgeous, folk tinged melodies. Michigander is one of the most promising singer-songwriters of the last decade. And Wilderado’s tunes are cater to soaring sing-alongs, ...
On most of the tracks on the rock side of that LP, he had sounded like he was playing in front of a band, not with one. Because few people at that time knew that Dylan’s musical journey had begun in rock bands as a teenager, to many it must have sounded embarrassingly like the ...
Miz wrote the material while consciously avoiding his musical influences —“I feel like sometimes if I’m listening to Wilco constantly and then I’m writing tunes, some of those melodies are creeping in,” he gives as an example — but there are some nods to his heroes. While Miz finish...
“I went into it without a theme, just chose some people who were generous enough to cowrite with me, and a few [songs] I was working on a long and let the melodies direct me toward the song,” Helm said. “Melodies come to me first, and then, like with Elizabeth Ziman, I would...
Elsewhere on in the record, focus post-punk track ‘hondje’ is a story told through the perspective of a dog and the bittersweet relationship that he shares with his companion. Discussing further, they say “The dog’s best friend has returned to him after time apart; someone he has real...