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...show to be. It took them five years and three well-received albums to make it to this, the second date on their first-ever U.S. tour—for good reason. Their releases are meticulous, alien, and almost impossible to imagine taking form on stage: spare collisions of folk and studio where left-field vocal samples interrupt twilight plucks and crescendos are spliced and diced...
...Zammuto, a Williams College alum, half-closing his eyes to commune with an acoustic guitar. To his right sat de Jong, accented and eccentric, tearing mean riffs with his bow. At far left, frequent Book collaborator Ann Doerner offered tense keys and ethereal vocal harmonies (including a haunting Creole folk solo...
...brimming with energy as it is stifled, one of Oldham’s first releases, under his original moniker, is an excellent introduction to the paradox that is his peculiar brand of folk-country-rock-core, complete with cracking inflections and murky wordplay...
After abandoning the Palace name, Oldham retains his role as acoustic country-folk troubadour, relaying hushed, honest music that makes you trust him, while whispering absurdist lyrics that make you question his motivations. Confusing, but worth...
Almost every Saturday morning since 1975, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., WHRB has filled the waves with traditional country, bluegrass, folk, Cajun, and Tex-Mex tunes, spun by Joiner and his late co-host Brian “Ol’ Sinc” Sinclair...