Articles by Emily Zimmerman

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  The Wainwright Sisters

  Songs in the Dark

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2015

  Half sisters Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche are both veteran songwriters as well as second-generation musicians. Songs in the...

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  Lynn Jackson

  Songs of Rain, Snow, and Remembering

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2015

  People have been writing songs and verse about the weather for as long as there have been people. The correspondence between the fury of on...

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  Salim Nourallah

  Skeleton Closet

  PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015

  There is a parallel earth somewhere out there where clever, twangy power pop is a genre that produces hit after hit, not just the occasiona...

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  Olivia Chaney

  The Longest River

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2015

  English multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Olivia Chaney defies categorization. Her classical background, traditional English inf...

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  Ron Hawkins & the Do Good Assassins

  Garden Songs

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2015

  From the beginning of Ron Hawkins' songwriting career, his work has been notable for its focus on location. He's a part of the Toronto land...

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  Various Artists

  While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records

  PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2014

  Bloodshot Records, the storied Chicago "insurgent country" label, has hit the double decade milestone, and is celebrating with the release...

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  Marianne Faithfull

  Give My Love to London

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

  In a career that spans nearly half a century, how does an artist stay interesting? Marianne Faithfull has always worked with diverse produc...

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  Maggie Björklund

  Shaken

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014

  Why would old and jaded vampires bother with glam rock in Paris or New York? It's much easier, listening to Maggie Björklund's cinematic ne...