Picking up where 2003's critically acclaimed "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes" left off, the songs on this record combine the band's pop-oriented qualities with their spaced-out ethereal thoughts. This beautifully lush and patient masterpiece was influenced by Captain Beefheart's "Mirror Man," but was inspired by Tim Rutili's recurring dream of a giant half-man/half-bird character. "Heron King Blues" brings together numerology, bird references, wartime tension, filthy rock, and tender mercy to form Califone's most ...   [ read more ]

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This two-CD collection, compiled and produced by the king of "Dawg Music" (a kind of swinging bluegrass jazz), David Grisman, is filled with overlooked treasures by a mandolin genius. Apollan was a bit of a novelty act in his early years, and much of the first disc is a bit bogged down with some of the promotional and film work that showcased him as a rather clownish Hungarian. But by the second disc, his fingers fly freely on masterful renditions of such wide-ranging work as "Perfidia," "Zigeuner...   [ read more ]

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Two Dollar Guitar began in 1992 when Tim Foljahn landed in Hoboken, New Jersey after several years spent nomadding about the country, absorbing the cultures of a vivid cross-section of American turfs: New Orleans, Albuquerque, Chicago. Armed with a book full of damned, heavy soul ballads inspired by both his psycho-spiritual and actual physical travels, he recruited his friend Steve Shelley to help animate them for public consumption. The music mines a sound and vision based on 'roots' music in the truest...   [ read more ]

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