Time Stands Still
Signature Sounds
Smither is a true-blue blues journeyman, having started playing coffeehouses in Boston in the mid-’60s. Alcohol waylaid his recording career in the ’70s, but he emerged stronger for it and returned to the studio.
Tag: folk
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Things About Comin’ My Way:
various artists
Things About Comin’ My Way:
a tribute to the music of the
Mississippi Sheiks
Black Hen
This Canadian-American venture was put together out of pocket and on a shoestring by Vancouver-based guitar wizard Steve Dawson, thanks to connections with the artists and a few investors. It was recorded mostly at three sessions in both countries, with Dawson handling the chores on his side of the border as well as playing slide guitar on several songs and contributing his own track.
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John Fogerty/The Blue Ridge Rangers
Rides Again
Fortunate Son/Verve Forecast
On “Rides Again,” John Fogerty revisits the concept of his 1973 country covers LP, “The Blue Ridge Rangers” — this time minus the one-man band and with his name attached.
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Colin Linden
From the Water
True North
Linden is serious about outside-the-mainstream blues. Maybe it comes from his association with singer/harmonicat Paul Reddick, a fellow Canadian who often enlists Linden for production and slide-guitar duties and who has an even stronger penchant for the offbeat.
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Levon Helm
Electric Dirt
Dirt Farmer/Vanguard
Grateful Dead covers are always fun — remember the 1991 tribute album, “Deadicated”? And “Tennessee Jed” is a great song no matter how you slice it. So when Helm begins the followup to his comeback disc, “Dirt Farmer,” by singing “Cold iron shackles and a ball and chain” against a wall of sound made up of resonator guitar, piano, organ and horns (including the ubiquitous Howard Johnson on tuba), one can’t help but grin from ear to ear.
