Whilst we are on the subject of harmony duos, one of my favourites in recent years were The Civil Wars. Classed as Alt Country and unfortunately delivering the pain of that genre into real life, it seems their intertwining harmonies were closer than their relationship and after two studio albums they broke up in 2014 […]
You don’t see a lot Country artists on the In Deep Music Archive site even though I have every record by Lucinda Williams, have an affection for the Dixie Chicks and Taylor and the archive carries a fine collection of Wanda Jackson records. I also still have my original single of Ode To Billie Joe […]
Who were the great lyricists before Dylan? Well, from the fifties into the sixties you would probably say the men that wrote the words for the musicals, writers like Lorenz Hart. Hart wrote the lyrics for The Lady Is A Tramp and My Funny Valentine and was Richard Rodgers partner till alcoholism (Hart died tragically of […]
Mancunian electronic duo, Lamb (Andy Barlow and Lou Rhodes) returned in October with a new album Backspace Unwind, only their second release in eight years. Having followed them for the first four albums I finally got to see them live and although I can’t actually remember exactly when it was, I do remember them being […]
Just when you thought you’d heard every possible incarnation of popular music – the Chinese arrive! This fascinating hybrid of Electronic, Math Rock, Kraut, Psych, Indie Groove has evolved independently, away from the mainland of pop culture, like the animals in Australia – familiar traits, arms and legs, but different. This intriguing collective are from Shanghai […]
As a continuation of yesterday’s post about The Pop Group, here is the ever stimulating Annie Clark performing She Is Beyond Good And Evil on the Jimmy Fallon TV show whilst promoting the Strange Mercy record from 2011. Just why she would attempt such a left of centre and difficult cover by such an unknown […]