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The young and exceptionally talented artist Sonya Kitchell is definitely showing signs of aging with the release of her sophomore album, This Storm. Certainly not aging as in numbers-based age (she's still only 19), but aging in the form of songwriting maturity and musical wisdom. Though still a teenager, Kitchell isn't exactly lacking in the experience category. The young songstress with the larger than life voice has been studying and performing jazz standards by the likes of Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday since the age of 10. More recently, Kitchell caught the eye (or ear) of jazz legend Herbie Hancock who enlisted her to sing in his band when he toured the West Coast last year in support of his Grammy Award-winning album River: The Joni Letters, which also features Kitchell's vocals on the bonus track "All I Want." Not bad for 19.
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As a music journalist, you live for that moment when you put on a record by some group you never heard of and it blows you away before track one hits the first chorus. That's what happened to me the other day with the self-titled first album from Pictures and Sound.
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At 25 I turned out the light
Cause I couldn't handle the glare in my tired eyes
But now I'm back, drawing shades of kind blue skies
"Across the great divide/ Just grab your hat and take that ride," sang another American institution, The Band. Since the late '60s, Glen Campbell has stared across a chasm just as deep and daunting as the Western frontier: the one dividing pop from "rock."
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Not surprisingly 1990's The Best of Van Morrison is among the best-selling albums in Morrison's catalog. After all, it's where the hits are. And, sure, if you've only known Morrison through the FM-band, you've come to know him for "Brown Eyed Girl," "Moondance," "Domino," "Wild Night," "Wavelength" and a handful of others.
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In the final chapter of his great book on Southern R&B, Sweet Soul Music, Peter Guralnick describes a curious phenomenon familiar to any long-term fan of any genre in popular music.
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You can hear nearly everything sad and beautiful and secret
and populist about upstate New York-based Americana
dance combo Donna the Buffalo
in the first couple of tunes on their seventh and best album, Silverlined.
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Modern Guilt is Beck Hansen's fourth album of this decade, following his exquisite 2002 breakup album Sea Change, 2005's scintillating, hook- and groove-packed Guero--my nominee for the quintessential modern-day SoCal album--and the spotty The Information in 2006.
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Music as religion. It's a concept that is often bandied about by those disenfranchised with proper organized faiths and whom also tend to fall into the category of die-heard music fan.
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TODAY'S BOOM TUNE
SHELF LIFE
