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Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 1994
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Ojai Sam
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The Bottle Rockets - The Brooklyn Side
The uneasy reintegration of the South after the Civil War has been a frequent subject for musical debate over the decades. Billie Holiday painted it in somber tones during the 1940's:
A decade later, The Louvin Brothers as rural whites saw Alabama in idealized terms as a place of creeks running with laughter:
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Canadian Neil Young saw nothing ideal among the banjos playing through broken glass windows:
But Lynyrd Skynyrd embraced the whole rebel redneck ethos:
It took two more decades and the alt country revolution for a white band from Festus, Missouri to be able to view the region and its culture in self-critical terms:
This album is chock full of individual stories that add up to a devastating portrait of a part of the country still struggling with its past.
Spotify album link has this one and their eponymous debut. Both are well worth a listen.
The uneasy reintegration of the South after the Civil War has been a frequent subject for musical debate over the decades. Billie Holiday painted it in somber tones during the 1940's:
A decade later, The Louvin Brothers as rural whites saw Alabama in idealized terms as a place of creeks running with laughter:
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Canadian Neil Young saw nothing ideal among the banjos playing through broken glass windows:
But Lynyrd Skynyrd embraced the whole rebel redneck ethos:
It took two more decades and the alt country revolution for a white band from Festus, Missouri to be able to view the region and its culture in self-critical terms:
This album is chock full of individual stories that add up to a devastating portrait of a part of the country still struggling with its past.
Spotify album link has this one and their eponymous debut. Both are well worth a listen.
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Joshua Redman - MoodSwing
EDIT: One of my desert island albums.
EDIT: One of my desert island albums.
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