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		<title>Travelogue: Festival In the Desert 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Festival In the Desert 2012 Photos and Essay by Ezra Gale In January of 2012 I travelled with a friend to Timbuktu, Mali, for the legendary Festival in the Desert. The trip was a long-planned for pilgrimage to the breeding ground of some of my favorite music on the planet—the crossroads of West African rhythms, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3080&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Jon Chandler, The Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Chandler The Gang Arroyo Records You can&#8217;t sing about the land if you don&#8217;t ride the land. When it comes to the rugged Wyoming terrain, Jon Chandler certainly knows a thing or two since he&#8217;s been riding the Outlaw Trail (near Kaycee, WY) with a crew of cowboys since 1978. Hence, the inspiration for The Gang, songs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3115&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Kardemimmit, Introducing Kardemimmit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kardemimmit Introducing Kardemimmit [World Music Network-digital download only (2012)] Kardemimmit is a Finnish group composed of four young women who sing and play the Kantele, which is the national instrument of Finland. The Kantele is a zither of 15 or 38 strings that is played by plucking the strings, and produces a sound similar to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3083&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Karen Collins &amp; the Backwoods Band, No Yodeling on the Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Collins &#38; the Backwoods Band No Yodeling on the Radio [CDBY (2012)] &#8220;Country music is as good as it’s ever been,&#8221; Ray Price once remarked in an interview backstage at the 2008 Country USA music festival in Oshkosh, WI. &#8220;The problem is that they don’t always play country.&#8221; If Price should ever see Karen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3075&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Paul Thorn, What the Hell Is Going On?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Thorn What the Hell Is Going On? [Perpetual Obscurity/Thirty Tigers (2012)] Tupelo-born songwriter Paul Thorn&#8217;s soul streak runs deep. On What the Hell Is Going On?, he takes songs from Lindsey Buckingham; Ray Wylie Hubbard (who guests on vocals); Allen Toussaint; Buddy &#38; Julie Miller; Elvin Bishop (who also contributes guitar); Rick Danko of the Band; Paul Rodgers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3072&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feature Review: Willie Nelson, Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willie Nelson Heroes [Legacy Recordings (2012)] Unless you’re among the legion of hardcore devotees who worship everything Willie Nelson has released in recent years, ya gotta admit that the Red Headed Stranger can be uneven at times. Luckily, Heroes doesn’t follow that suit. It&#8217;s a tight and focused record recalling disparate elements of Nelson’s 1966’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3068&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Chicha Libre, Canibalismo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicha Libre Canibalismo [Barbès Records (2012)] Chicha is Spanish for any variety of fermented beverage. In the late 1960s, it was also a fermentation of various musical styles that were &#8220;loosely inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3066&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Orpheum Bell, The Old Sisters&#8217; Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orpheum Bell The Old Sisters&#8217; Home [Self-released (2011/2012)] These days, it&#8217;s no surprise to find a musician influenced heavily by Tom Waits. It&#8217;s not particularly unusual to find a musician who imitates Waits&#8217;s voice, either, though it&#8217;s usually done tongue in cheek, because, seriously, we all know that Waits is not exactly a &#8220;good&#8221; singer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=2908&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Andrew Luttrell Band, Paint by Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Luttrell Band Paint by Number$ [Self-released (2012)] The opening of Andrew Luttrell Band&#8216;s Paint by Number$ (yes, that&#8217;s a dollar sign in the title) is a minute and a half of guitar solo. It showcases the band&#8217;s most obvious talents: improvisational, retro, jammy folk rock with nods toward The Dead, Knopfler, Neil Young, and many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3056&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The House Devils, Crossing the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Devils Crossing the Ocean [The Living Tradition (2012)] The title of the most recent album by Ireland&#8217;s The House Devils, Crossing the Ocean, clearly references that chestnut of Irish music, emigration. However, a closer listen to the music shows that the group has subtly twisted expectations by incorporating American folk back into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3048&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Dahlstrom, Gem State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Dahlstrom Gem State [Self-released (2011)] This might be only an EP, but Karen Dahlstrom has found and done proud a sorely neglected American folk song: the west coast miner. Although the last seventy years has seen plenty of stories told about Appalachian miners (thanks of course to Merle Travis and the persistence of workers&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3042&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feature Review: Dry the River, Shallow Bed</title>
		<link>http://driftwoodmagazine.com/2012/04/24/feature-review-dry-the-river-shallow-bed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dry the River Shallow Bed [RCA (2012)] Dry the River&#8216;s first full length album is a work of supremely passionate material. The band draws musical tropes from indie arena rock (which despite the logical ingruity is a real thing thanks to Arcade Fire) and hymns (directly acknowledging the influence in song titles, like &#8220;Shaker Hymns&#8221;) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=driftwoodmagazine.com&#038;blog=14750210&#038;post=3030&#038;subd=driftwoodmagazine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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