Ben Hall!
Tompkins Square
Nashville-via-Mississippi thumbpicker Hall was brought to the Tompkins Square label by the late Charlie Louvin, who stumbled across him thanks to a casual stop by Hall at the Louvin Brothers Museum in Monteagle, Tenn.
Tag: jazz
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band
American Legacies
McCoury Music/Preservation Hall Recordings
Dixieland meets bluegrass: Right off the bat, the fact that both use banjo comes to mind. But imagining the result of such a union isn’t easy.
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Michael Chapman
Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010
Tompkins Square
In an online work-in-progress documentary about him, British folk “outsider” Chapman lists his early influences as Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt and jazz organist Jimmy Smith, the latter because “he’s like a self-contained bass player, and I try to do that on the guitar.”
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Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
Crazy for Christmas
Surfdog
Dan Hicks has had his second wind for 10 years now, after going on a 25-year recording hiatus with the exception of 1994’s live “Shootin’ Straight.” His 2000 comeback, “Beatin’ the Heat,” featured several big-name guests and was well-received, as were 2001’s “Alive and Lickin’,” 2004’s “Selected Shorts” and 2009’s “Tangled Tales.”
