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11 Nov 2015

November 100-word Reviews, Part 3

Americana, blues, country, cowpunk, new release, rawk, review

Today as my regular series of hundred-word reviews continues, I turn my attention toward the sounds of Americana. For my purposes, the term is even more loosey-goosey than the one used by the Americana Music Association: I include blues, rock, and singer/songwriter styles. And why not? Various – In their Own Words, Vols. 1 and

14 May 2015

Hundred Word Reviews for May 2015, Part 9

By Bill Kopp

country, new release, pop, powerpop, rawk, reissue, review

Today’s roundup of capsule reviews focuses on reissues or previously-unreleased material by acts who came to prominence (or something approaching it) in the 1980s or later. Old 97’s – Hitchhike to Rhome In the 1950s, country and rock’n’roll were sometimes hard to discern form one another. Then they split into to two very different styles,

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