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Back in the late '80s, Dwight Yoakam's take on country music put him in the "alternative" bin of his local record store, and he's been squeezing past genre boundaries ever since. If you need proof, his latest album, 3 Pears, features Beck and Kid Rock. It also gave me the sweet opportunity to join Dwight on his tour bus for a chat, after his show at The Wellmont Theatre earlier this year.
Take the elastic rhythms of Charlie Musselwhite's harmonica and top it off with Ben Harper's killer guitar licks and vocals, and it conjures up something of an old juke joint: sometimes wretched, sometimes treacherous, but always a gas. Their new album is Get Up!, and from a great hang I had with the guys at Avatar Studios, you can hear that magic live.
About to ride a wave of discovery and excitement out onto a national tour, Brooklyn's The Lone Bellow squeezed one last WFUV show into their schedule at Manhattan's City Winery. We've been there from the beginning, watching their fans multiply with each show and each spin on the radio.
Bobtown is a NYC-based quintet that, much like Ollabelle, comes from a lot of different places geographically and musically. They originally got together to sing field hollers that group member Katherine Etzel learned growing up Iowa, but they've evolved into a more complex sound that could be called "unconventional Americana." They brought their great musicianship and soaring harmonies to Studio A for an exciting session that aired on the Sunday Breakfast.
Trixie Whitley may be a 25 year-old with a debut album, but she sounds more like a supreme soul singer with history. After releasing a few EPs and working with Daniel Lanois and Black Dub a couple of years ago, Trixie has now stepped out on her own with her first solo album, Fourth Corner, and she performed a few of the songs in Studio A using a guitar with an interesting story.
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