Tag: folk

The Carnivaleros

Dreams Are Strange

RootaVega

The Tucson, Ariz.-based Carnivaleros have always possessed a knack for unusually interesting arrangements, often combining instruments not normally heard together.

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Circles Around the Sun

Interludes for the Dead

Rhino

Looks like Jazz Is Dead finally has some competition in the subgenre of “instrumental interpretations of Grateful Dead songs” — sort of.

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GospelbeacH

Pacific Surf Line

Alive Naturalsound

Picture a warehouse full of mellow West Coast country-rock LPs from the 1970s. Imagine all those records being loaded into a gigantic “Star Trek”-style transporter and beamed to Alive Naturalsound Records in Burbank — where a malfunction causes them to rematerialize as a single platter called “Pacific Surf Line,” by a new group called GospelbeacH.

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Lowell Levinger

Get Together: Banana Recalls Youngbloods Classics

Grandpa Raccoon

Even serious Youngbloods fans may have had a hard time keeping up with Lowell Levinger (the artist almost formerly known as Banana) since that group disbanded 42 years ago.

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Arlen Roth

Slide Guitar Summit

Aquinnah

Throughout the past half-century of recorded music, the idea of “more is better” has been explored. A few examples:

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