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Results for James Williams
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by Jim Welte•September 17, 2008•
Holland, a supremely gifted singer, has established herself as a singular, visionary talent over the past decade. The Texas-born chanteuse, something of a nomad in her late teens, moved to Vancouver in the late ’90s and co-founded the female folk ensemble Be Good Tanyas before leaving the group abruptly in 2000 to pursue a solo career.
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by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known
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by j. poet•August 6, 2008•
Fantasy became the studio of choice for acts as diverse as Robert Cray, Sammy Hagar, Bobby McFerrin, Aerosmith, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Counting Crows, to name just a few. Santana recorded his blockbuster Supernatural there. In 2000, Billboard named Fantasy the number one Recording Studio in America. In 2004, the Concord Music Group bought the Fantasy label and sold the Studios and all their equipment including a vintage microphone collection
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by Ben Westhoff•July 16, 2008•
The album is pure ’70s rock radio excess, dominated by long, psychedelic-flavored electric guitar solos. The Gram Parsons influence and the bare vocal harmonies are gone
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by Greg Gaston•June 4, 2008•
With the release of Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, the Truckers have yet again dealt with internal turmoil and regrouped to record this sprawling epic. Most bands are lucky to have one gifted songwriter on board, but these guys have three strong contributors. They wrote and recorded over 50 songs for Creation’s Dark, eventually whittling them down
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