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Listen: The Harrow & The Harvest

Friday, February 3, 2012
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Listen: The Harrow & The Harvest
The Harrow & The HarvestGillian Welch (Acony Records, 2011)Gillian Welch has described the 10 songs on The Harrow & The Harvest as “10 kinds of miserable.” And that’s pretty accurate.
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Listen: Working in Tennessee

Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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Listen: Working in Tennessee
Working in TennesseeMerle Haggard (Vanguard Records, 2011)Merle Haggard has been a monument of American culture for almost 50 years. His life story is the stuff of myth. He really did grow up dirt poor in a home his father made from an old boxcar. He really did do hard time in San Quentin prison for armed robbery.
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Listen: A Dreamer's Christmas

Monday, December 12, 2011
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Listen: A Dreamer's Christmas
A Dreamer's ChristmasBy John Zorn (Tzadik, 2011)If Christmas has something to do with wonder and the joy of the unexpected then news of John Zorn making a Christmas album should stir inordinate Christmas spirit. After all, what could be more unexpected than an avant-garde jazz musician known for discordant noise foraying into that most conventional of musical genres, the Christmas album?
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The King of In Between

Sunday, August 14, 2011
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The King of In Between
Garland Jeffreys (Luna Park Records, 2011)OK, so the guy’s 68 years old, and it’s been about 15 years since his last record. And his sound is still anchored to a guitar-centered rock/reggae/soul amalgam he forged 37 years ago. “So?” as they would have said in Garland Jeffreys’ old Brooklyn neighborhood, “You wanna make something of it?
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Hard Bargain

Monday, July 11, 2011
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Hard Bargain
Hard BargainEmmylou Harris (Nonesuch Records, 2011)Emmylou Harris’ Hard Bargain is the joyous, bittersweet album that a 64-year-old country-rock legend should make.
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Collapse into Now

Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Collapse into Now
    Collapse into nowR.E.M. (Nonesuch Records, 2011)
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KMAG YOYO

Monday, May 23, 2011
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KMAG YOYO
    KMAG YOYOHayes Carll (Lost High, 2011)
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Let England Shake

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Let England Shake
Let England ShakeP.  J. Harvey (Vagrant Records, 2011)
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City of refuge

Monday, February 21, 2011
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City of refuge
City of RefugeAbigail Washburn (Rounder Records, 2011)
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I Know I've Been Changed

Monday, January 24, 2011
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I Know I've Been Changed
I Know I've Been ChangedBy Aaron Neville (EMI Gospel, 2010)
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