Articles by Eric Thom

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  Various

  Roots Music: An American Anthology

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

  Leave it to roots-rich Rounder to issue this treasure trove of some of the best music available in any single collection. More a fascinatin...

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  Zubot & Dawson

  Tractor Parts: Further Adventures In Strang

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

  These twisted, multi-talented dynamos deserve special attention for this exhilarating, genre-busting release. Jesse Zubot (violin/mandolin)...

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  Blues Like Midnight

  Blues Like Midnight

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  The world's greatest guitarists seem to have a knack at mastering the element of surprise over the course of their careers, keeping their c...

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  Rachel Kane

  All In A Dream

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  All In A Dream marks the second release for this unassuming Winnipeg native. In a world where Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams hold cour...

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  Little Milton

  Feel It

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  The fact that 1999's Grammy-nominated Welcome To Little Milton focused a new legion of blues fans on one of the blues' most soulful singers...

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  Laura Nyro

  Angel In The Dark

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  I first fell head-over-heels with this female voice in 1968 to the entirety of Laura Nyro's Eli & The Thirteenth Confession. This was a voi...

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  Roomful Of Blues

  Watch You When You Go

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  Roomful of Blues is a 30-year-old institution that has over a career of some 12-plus releases continued to be the poster child for skin-tig...

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  Sean Watkins

  Let It Fall

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  All things that are authentically billed as bluegrass tend to originate from the hill country of Kentucky and its surrounding environment....