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The Gaddabouts – Look Out Now! (2012)

- Source: Something Else!

"Meat On Your Bones" then gives way to a series of knee-slapping, ass-wagging, smile-popping concoctions filled with roots rock, country blues, cocktail jazz, rockabilly, front-porch folk — 19 in all, song after song after song, each one a delightful puzzle of smart lyrics and sharp licks.

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Paul Simon: 'God's not into pop - he likes gospel'

- Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

"One of the things people have attached to me is that I'm always changing, but I think I'm just evolving, shedding some things and taking others along with me. There are things that I've taken from the first songs that I wrote when I was 15. I like doo-wop. I stick it in all the time. I like that finger picking I learned when I lived in England. I can't play much blues at all, but the little bit I play is slap and pushed strings that all comes from Davey Graham and Bert Jansch. A lot of things I learned about rhythm from African musicians were useful and made sense to me."

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Iron & Wine played Radio City Music Hall (setlist & video)

- Source: Brooklyn Vegan

"Iron and Wine kind of blew it last night. When an artist goes for a sound more or less the polar opposite of the one that made them famous, they better bring their A game. Sufjan did it last year, sadly Iron and Wine did not. Bloozy sax rock is not where its at man. 75 minute sets at a sold out Radio City at 50 a ticket aint too great either. That said, some of the new stuff was great, and the Trapeze encore was wonderful." [ Anonymous | January 30, 2011 1:25 PM ] Edie Brickell opened for Iron & Wine at Radio City Music Hall in NYC Saturday night, one night after the same band played a much more intimate and free (and even shorter) show at the SoHo Apple Store.

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