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Music Review: Grace Griffith –‘Passing Through’
Ethereal and crystalline: These are the adjectives used to describe the voice of Washington D.C.-based Celtic folk singer Grace Griffith in Richard Harrington’s liner notes to her new album Passing...
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Flurry of New Christmas/Holiday Albums Heralds the Season
It’s October, which means the record labels are busting out all over with new Christmas albums, most released this month and next. Here’s a roundup of some of this new music for your holiday-party...
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Music DVD Review: Celtic Thunder –‘Legacy Volume 1’
Celtic Thunder has just released Legacy: Volume 1 on DVD. This gives new and old fans the opportunity to bask in the spectacle and the pure performance bliss provided by these talented and handsome...
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Music Review: Van Morrison –‘His Band and the Street Choir’
Sir Van Morrison just lost his mother Violet, who was in her 90s. Because of this, he has canceled a scheduled series of concerts in Europe. PASTE magazine recently noted that it was Morrison who “went...
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Music Review: Dropkick Murphys – ’11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory’
The newest blast from Dropkick Murphys opens with a shout of Celtic holler-rock, no words needed. The rest of these 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory celebrate working-class folk, churn up...
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Music Review: Wytold –‘Fireflies, Fairies, and Squids’
William Wytold Lebing has broken barriers with the ingenuity of the electric cello. His original compositions are as penetrative as melodies woven from the acoustic guitar and as intriguing as...
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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, singer-songwriter Brendan McMahon has a new EP, entitled About Joe. The five-track EP features pop, rock, country, Celtic, folk, and blues elements, along with...
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Music Reviews: Pink Floyd – ‘The Later Years,’ Plus Seamus Egan, Big Mike &...
If you’re looking for an anthology with enough heft to do double duty as a doorstop, look no further: like Pink Floyd’s The Early Years, its just-released follow-up, The Later Years, fits in a ton of...
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Music Reviews: Lucinda Williams and John Sebastian, Plus Marshall Crenshaw,...
More Great Covers from Lucinda Williams In an earlier column, I wrote about the first four volumes of Lucinda Williams’s Lu’s Jukebox, a live-in-the-studio series featuring terrific covers of some of...
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Music Reviews: Dexys Midnight Runners, plus Jethro Tull and an Eric Andersen...
Dexys’ Do-over Kevin Rowland’s overlooked 1999 album, My Beauty, got a deserved second chance with its 2020 rerelease. Now Too-Rye-Ay, the sophomore LP from Rowland’s band, Dexys Midnight Runners, is...
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