Category: Genespeak – The Cranky Dubmaster
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Mr. Gene is absolutely here for the artistry of VIKINGUR OLAFSSON, who pays gorgeous tribute to JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH (just out) & PHILIP GLASS (last year) on two dazzling releases.
VIKINGUR OLAFSSON’s “Johan Sebastian Bach” is essentially a perfect record. Olafsson delivers sublime listening on all levels; thoughtful and seamless curating and recreating of selections by one of history’s most important composers,
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ERIC BACHMANN’S in-store show to celebrate his new album No Recover was magnificent. We’ve got plenty of copies still in-stock, and we thank you for coming out, Greenville!
The renowned ERIC BACHMANN (of Archers Of Loaf, and Crooked Fingers) played at Horizon on Friday Sept. 7th, to celebrate the release of his superlative new record “No Recover.” We were enthralled by his unique and delightfully dark songwriting poetics
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NATHAN SALSBURG’s new album, “Third,” is his first solo album in five years, and we’ve missed his singular style of acoustic guitar wizardry.
Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It’s been five years since his last solo record (Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, 2013) — but not because he hasn’t been playing guitar.
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Cosmic Americana music heroes unite on DAVE ALVIN and JIMMIE DALE GILMORE’s odyssey across the American west, ‘Downey to Lubbock,’ and they’re playing the Grey Eagle in Asheville on Sat., Nov 10th!
Friends for over three decades, it took Alvin – the founder of seminal punk roots band The Blasters – and Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate at long last. .
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BRAD MEHLDAU returns with his boundary-breaking trio, Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier, on his new album, “Seymour Reads The Constitution!” out now on CD & vinyl LP!
The Brad Mehldau Trio’s Seymour Reads the Constitution is out now on CD and vinyl LP, featuring the boundary-breaking pianist and his longtime trio, drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier.
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Another incredible RECORD STORE DAY has come and gone, but we’re still glowing, and we’ve still got lots of cool stuff by TOM WAITS, GOV’T MULE, NEIL YOUNG and many more, while they last!
Record Store Day 2018 was nothing short of amazing, thanks to our incredible customers and a marvelous in-store performance by The Wood Brothers.
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Spartanburg’s beloved and underappreciated UNCLE WALT’S BAND rides again, thanks to OMNIVORE RECORDINGS new anthology, out NOW!
Uncle Walt’s Band, from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was an eclectic music trio that moved to Nashville in 1972 and shortly thereafter to Austin at the urging of Willis Alan Ramsey.
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S. C. BACH returns for a very big spring concert on Sunday, March 25th: Explore the beauty and majesty of BACH!
S.C. Bach returns for a very big spring concert on Sunday March 25 from 3:30-6pm at Christ Church in Greenville (Saturday 7-9:30pm at Wofford in Spartanburg). Artistic director and conductor David Rhyne offers us the beauty and majesty of Bach’s music yet again since his choir and instrumentalists were re-formed and rejuvenated when they started…
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HORIZON mourns the untimely loss of TOM PETTY in the midst of an already sad week. But his music lives on, through his amazing records.
He took a Dylan-esque, Byrds-type rock & roll sound, tinged more than a little by his Florida Southern roots and the greatest American rock band EVER, and backed all of it up with an underlying uncompromising instinct & integrity in the art. Just Google the story of his fight with his record label about not…
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ECM Records has a stunning new series of releases that should have every jazz, classical and avant-garde music fan (including Mr. Gene) excited!
The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, Italian pianist Guidi, US bassist Morgan, and Portuguese drummer Lobo continue the work begun on the 2011 recording City of Broken Dreams, with pensive, abstract ballads which shimmer with inner tension. Each of the players has a strong…