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Ralph Stanley has been performing the music he calls old-time mountain soul since 1946, but only recently has he started attracting audiences beyond folk and bluegrass festivals. "I've got 4-year-olds wandering up to me now and singing O Death," Stanley says of his star turn on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? sound track. "It's pretty funny...
...even bigger question: Which ones? Stone washed, distressed, low rise, sanded, boiled, whiskered, shredded, patched, relaxed fit, straight leg, boot leg, flare or with personally customized finish? The notion that jeans are the color they have faded to is passe. At the Gap they have run from "blasted bluegrass" to "moonlight." Next season there will be 15 more hues (or "washes," as they are called) to choose from--all blue...
...sound. The funky, upbeat “Too Much” and the infectious but shallow title track from the album are both more polished and restrained. The new songs deviates from the crunchy sound and lack of inhibition that characterized Root’s earlier work. With the bluegrass-influenced “Blue Diamonds,” Glabicki’s lyrics abandon the intriguing lyrical obscurity of earlier songs. Composed as a “love song to an angel” from a childhood memory of Glabicki’s, the deliberate and lucid lyrics lack...
...country, hip hop, rap or rock, the music inevitably transcends, or betrays, whatever image the artist is trying to present. After more than a year on the chart, the bluegrass/country/gospel soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou? is hovering just below the top 10 (key term: bluegrass...
...Dolly Parton Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill) Although lumped with the bluegrass revival, Parton's album sports little of the preciousness associated with most nouveau blue. On traditional tunes and unconventional ones (Collective Soul's Shine, Cole Porter's I Get a Kick Out of You), Parton tests bluegrass's elasticity - but gently. The whole album sounds fresh and playful...