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Booka & The Flaming Geckos – The Not So Meaningful Songs In The Life of Jeremy Fink
This is a soundtrack for an upcoming movie starring Oscar winner Mira Sorvino where the entire soundtrack was provided by Booka Michel and his band, the Flaming Geckos. There’s a little something for everyone on this collection – some Americana, a little bit of old-fashioned Country, as well as a touch of some more acoustic sounds, and each track seems to nicely set up the other. There are also a few great cameo appearances on the disc – such as Marcia Ball, Cindy Cashdollar, and the great Kenny Franklin...
Kellie Pickler: Tough and True on “100 Proof”
“I was born in the wrong generation,” said Kellie Pickler, looking through the windows at Sony Music Nashville’s offices toward somewhere far south of town. “I wish I would have been in the generation before Twitter and cell phones, when there was that mysteriousness about being an artist. I wish I could have been a part of that generation where you’d go to the Ryman and sing and then walk out the back door and go honky-tonkin’. Well, we do that anyway...
Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Mobile Marketing
As someone in the music industry, I don’t have to tell you how huge mobile marketing is. You already know how ITunes and Amazon have revolutionized the music industry and countless other industries. What you may not realize all the other ways Mobile Marketing has begun to have a huge impact. It is the next frontier. If you think about it, how many people do you know who access the web primarily from their mobile devices as opposed to their desktop or laptop computers...
Jefferson Grizzard – A Crack In The Door
Hailing from Rome, GA, Jefferson Grizzard is a unique pleasure to the ears. Some have described him as somewhat of a southern Bob Dylan. At times, that description is pretty much dead on. Though, I think his vocal approach is somewhat less polarizing than that of Dylan. Still, as a writer, Grizzard specializes in that deep introspective style, and there are plenty of examples of that here. “Forces They Fall” is a neat little piece of Americana-type sounds, with Grizzard handling the vocal part well. As writer on all...
Ed Littlefield, Jr. – My Western Home
Cowboy music over the years has made somewhat of a comeback, due to works by artists such as Michael Martin Murphey, and on a regional level by performers / poets such as Tennessean Woody Woodruff. Count Ed Littlefield, Jr. among that class as well. A member of the West Coast musical scene of the 1970s, Littlefield has assembled some very strong discs over the past few years chock full of songs concerning the lifestyle of the west, but this one might be his defining moment yet. Starting off with “Darcy...
Songwriting – The Hard Part
There is an old quote by Leonard Cohen or some other brilliantly cynical songwriter that the music business is full of liars and thieves and cheats and cutthroats and heartbreak – and there is also a dark side. The craft of songwriting is tedious, frustrating, intensive, challenging, demanding, and lonely. And that is the easy part. The hard part is the emotion raw material a good song is often craved out of and used as material to build a work of art. I have been talking to some...
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