Articles by Eric Thom

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  Alejandro Escovedo / The Beauties

  Mod Club, Toronto ON July 7

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2008

  Fans think of a live Alejandro Escovedo show as a communion of sorts — a chance to take sustenance from his ever-radiant, always-energetic...

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  Tab Benoit with Louisiana's Leroux

  Night Train to Nashville

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  Tab Benoit arrived on the scene in ’92, steeped in the undeniable influences of his Baton Rouge homeland. Over the course of 15 albums, he’...

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  Ryan Cook & Sunny Acres

  Hot Times

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  Ryan Cook’s Hot Times deserves the same respect you’d give a fresh fox in the henhouse: all hell’s about to break loose but you have to adm...

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  Genticorum

  La Bibournoise

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  It seems the greater folk world is intent on preserving tradition. Yet one of the most distinctive representations of the folk form origina...

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  Steve Guyger

  Radio Blues

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  As Aesop taught us, slow and steady wins the race. The hardly prolific Guyger (with his fourth release in 40 years) is the epitome of a har...

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  Harry Manx

  Live at the Glenn Gould Studio

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  Harry Manx has been gently courting his audience with his Indian-inspired take on the blues, a marriage of Eastern music to Western, creati...

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  Tony Trischka

  Territory

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

  Renewed interest in old-timey music has kicked the banjo into overdrive lately. Hardly a trend-rider, the eclectic Tony Trischka has long b...

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  Mink DeVille

  Live at Montreaux 1982

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2008

  There is only one Willy DeVille and his band, Mink DeVille (1974 to 1985), were a one-of-a-kind band born of punk spirit (the were the orig...