If Buddy Holly made an electronic album, it might sound like Dorado. If the Black Keys decided to cover the Everly Brothers, it might sound like Dorado. If the Beach Boys and Springsteen got together and pulled out all the hand claps and electric guitars, it might sound like Dorado. Mostly Dorado sounds like Dorado, … Read more
Photo courtesy This Is American Music I love it when bands who don’t sound like anyone else coin their own genres for me (because I like to coin weird genre descriptors myself): Teen Getaway, another supremely talented band out of the overflowing Alabama scene, calls the dueling guitars, thumping bass, processed girl-boy harmony songs of … Read more
Photo by Alexandria Santangelo I got distracted on Friday by the fact that we’re having October in August here in North Carolina this weekend, which delayed me bringing you this excellent song from Florida’s Have Gun, Will Travel. It’s appropriate, though, because ‘Standing At The End Of The World’ is a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, autumn-feeling sort … Read more
Photo courtesy This Is American Music i climbed to the top of your mountains and i swam to the bottom of your creeks and i drank all the whiskey that you’ve been pouring into me and i ran from the ghosts of the soldiers walking cross the ancient field and i prayed in the church … Read more
Photo by Brian Manley would i be a good valentine if i sang a good line Happy Valentine’s Day, lovers. Party Dolls aren’t an Athens, Ga, supergroup; that’s because Athens, like Chapel Hill, doesn’t have supergroups. What they have is “other projects”, whenever a band takes a hiatus and a songwriter has more output than … Read more
For reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture, I have spent a lot of time walking up and down the rarely-used railroad tracks that run as the dividing line between the nearly inseparable towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC. And Fire Mountain’s May release All Dies Down has been one of my most … Read more
Photo courtesy of the artist tonight i am lonesome for you Sometimes you’re in a rough place and a record hits you the right way; for me, right now, that record is Caleb Caudle’s Paint Another Layer On My Heart. It’s the album that’s where I am, and where I need to be, at this … Read more
Art courtesy of the artist You’d probably recognize Browan Lollar if you saw him; if not from his six years playing guitar with Jason Isbell’s band the 400 Unit, from another one of the moonlighting stints he’s done with a variety of Alabama and Mississippi bands. “Freight Train Hearts”, though, is from his first purely … Read more