Word: albums
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...Julie’s Waltz,” named for Julie M. Wright ’11, who played piano and percussion back-up for the band.Though they did not yet know that they would walk away from the contest with the opportunity to record an album with Veritas, the trio knew they needed to figure out how to identify their band.“We went to bandnamegenerator.com,” O’Neill said, which produced results such as Pear Tree at Point’s End and Running for Rabbits. Unready to accept these alliterative suggestions...
...Kottke. Over the last four decades, he has established himself as an innovator, not only of the acoustic guitar but of a movement whose interlocking eclecticism and traditionalism have informed generations of music makers. The novel musical themes of his 1969 debut—an entirely instrumental album called “6- And 12-String Guitar”—are only surpassed by the technical skill necessary to execute them. Kottke is the most recognizable living American associated with acoustic guitar performance and not without good reason. His career straddles the divide between the independent, underground performer...
...aftermath of this week’s election, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals are running on the strength of “Cardinology.” While the album doesn’t propose solutions for the left or right, its appealing, coalition-building tracks should appeal to a broad base. After over a year since his last major release with the Cardinals—“Easy Tiger”—Ryan Adams is back, still sober, and on the verge of publishing his first book, “Infinity Blues.” Adams finally...
...movie and then disappeared, Kanye West and Estelle bounced irresistibly delicious sounds back and forth from both sides of the Atlantic, but nothing really changed—nothing was really revolutionized. Hip-hop continued to sit quite comfortably in its own little groove. The Knux’s debut album, “Remind Me in 3 Days…” doesn’t necessarily change all this, but it tries to. In the process, the album also introduces a new and ambitious kind of hipster hip-hop—a repackaging of techno, jazz, rock, dance...
...enough / I ain’t as good as I once was / But I’m as good once as I ever was.” But years aren’t always so easy to overcome, and the 47-year-old Keith’s 12th studio album, “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy,” bears all the signs of an artist aging out of what made him great. Gone for the most part are the brash, irreverent lyrics, bold build-ups, and devil-may-care hooks that characterized...