Articles by Stuart Henderson

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  Various Artists / The Grateful Dead

  Day of the Dead

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2016

  Jerry Garcia (possibly apocryphally) dubbed the post-war counterculture that he helped exemplify as "the plain old chaos of undifferentiate...

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  Jayhawks

  Paging Mr. Proust

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

  Perhaps the most quietly influential Americana band of the past 30 years, Minnesota's Jayhawks never achieved the commercial success that m...

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  Hayes Carll

  Lovers and Leavers

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2016

  Arriving almost six years after his breakthrough KMAG YOYO and its terrific blend of humour, insight and heartache, this melancholy set fro...

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  Margo Price

  Midwest Farmer's Daughter

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2016

  The story goes that Margo Price hocked both her car and her wedding ring to raise the dough to record this debut album at the legendary SUN...

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  Jason Isbell

  Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, February 29

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2016

  Jason Isbell has been riding an unlikely, but surely welcome, wave of popular attention these past several months. A recent Grammy winner f...

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  Caleb Caudle

  Carolina Ghost

  PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016

  Before recording his third record, Winston-Salem native Caleb Caudle moved home from New Orleans, kicked the bottle and hunkered down to st...

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  Waco Brothers

  Going Down In History

  PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016

  After a blistering run of seven records in the late 1990s and the early part of this century, it's been over a decade since Chicago's best...

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  Josh Ritter

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, February 16

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2016

  For 15 years or so now this poetic polymath from Moscow, Idaho has been touring at a frantic pace, writing and singing some of the most jaw...