Articles by Stuart Henderson

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  Dwight Yoakam

  Second Hand Heart

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2015

  Dwight Yoakam recorded Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc., his debut record for Reprise Records, back in the late 1980s, when radio country musi...

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  Calexico

  Edge of the Sun

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2015

  They say that Tucson, Arizona's Calexico were in need of a change of scene, so they headed down to Mexico City to write this, their ninth a...

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  Gill Landry

  Gill Landry

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2015

  This self-titled third release from Old Crow Medicine Show's chief multi-instrumentalist marks a bit of a departure. Gill Landry's previous...

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  Lead Belly

  The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

  The king of the 12-string guitar, Huddie William Ledbetter was, by most accounts, a difficult and volatile man. He was in and out of prison...

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  Angaleena Presley

  American Middle Class

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014

  Nashville's embrace of what music critic Jody Rosen has termed "bro country" has had a curious and, it seems to me, beneficial effect on ma...

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  The Barr Brothers

  Sleeping Operator

  PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2014

  On this Montreal-based Americana outfit's delicate, immersive sophomore album, pleasures abound. Between Brad Barr's shrugging vocals and i...

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  The Barr Brothers

  The Art of Restraint

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2014

  "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength," Mahatma Gandhi is said to have observed, "the latter becomes irresistible." You know...

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  Tweedy

  Sukierae

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2014

  "It took me 18 years to do this solo record," dad-joked Jeff Tweedy from the stage at Toronto's Urban Roots Festival this summer, "because...