Author Archives: Cree McCree

July 1st 2005

Chris Whitley, Soft Dangerous Shores (Messenger)

Chris Whitley has always played as if his life depended on it. Last year’s masterful manifesto War Crime Blues was so raw you could practically taste the blood on the strings of his National Steel guitar. Soft Dangerous Shores is just as emotionally urgent, but it’s a far headier brew, an atmospheric dreamscape set to [...]

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May 1st 2005

Fest Focus: Wilco

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May 1st 2004

Fest Focus: the subdudes

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May 1st 2003

Club Crawl: G. Love and Special Sauce

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May 1st 2003

Various Artists, Boozoo Hoodoo! The Songs of Boozoo Chavis (Fuel 2000)

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February 1st 2003

MayFair, Five More Miles (Independent)

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October 1st 2002

Loup Garou, Dobbs’ Ferry (Tattoo Records)

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May 1st 2002

Fest Focus: The Dudes

Every first-time pilgrim to Jazz Fest has a “conversion band”: a musical discovery so ear-opening that it transcends the event’s numerous minor epiphanies. For me, and for many other Fest-goers in the late ’80s and early ’90s, that band was the subdudes. Now the ’dudes are back with a capital “D,” reformed as the Dudes [...]

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February 1st 2002

Knock-Knock-Knockin’ on Grammy’s Door

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November 1st 2001

Robert Earl Keen, Gravitational Forces (Lost Highway)

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