Articles by Jason Schneider

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  The Black Keys

  Magic Potion

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Four full-length albums into a career should probably mark the point when most blues rock guitar-and-drum duos start to run out of ideas —...

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  Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals Starvation League

  The Longest Meow

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Following the brilliant diversity of 2004’s From the End of Your Leash, Bare Jr. and all his rowdy friends take a definite turn on The Long...

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  David Myles

  Things Have Changed

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  On this sophomore effort, Myles has assembled a who’s who of the Halifax scene for an unorthodox approach to what could have been standard...

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  Johnny Dowd

  Cruel Words

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Since embarking on a full-time music career in 1998 at the age of 50, Johnny Dowd has become a throwback to the kind of artist once so prev...

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  The Sadies

  The Family Way

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Waterloo had never seen a gathering of musicians like this. In the dressing room of the Starlight Club, Steve Albini and Jon Spencer caught...

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  Gram Parsons

  The Complete Reprise Sessions / Fallen Angel

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Every art form seems to require tragic heroes in order to persist — even country rock. And although Gram Parsons is the undeniable figurehe...

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  Ramblin' Jack Elliott

  I Stand Alone

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Often recognised as the link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Elliott’s career has been overshadowed by both, out of his choice to be a...

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  Gram Parsons

  Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  While many troubled young poets have been embraced after tragically being struck down in the prime of youth, Gram Parsons is someone who ou...