Mr Blue Sky ! 8/10 My ongoing love affair with Wilco began at the time of Sky Blue Sky’s release, but not, oddly, with the album itself, which received fairly mixed opinions at the time. Sifting through those variable reviews I found myself tracking back to their earlier album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot‘, for me their [...]
Album Review: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock, post-rock
Tags:Acoustic·Alt-country·Glenn Kotche·Jeff Tweedy·Nels Cline·post-rock·rock·Wilco
My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Alternative, Best of 2003, Folk/Acoustic, Pop/Rock, Prog
Too long but It Still Moves me 8.5/10 The Louisville, Kentucky band’s third full-length is a whopping 75-minute set recorded in a grain silo and positively swimming in reverb. By eschewing modern recording techniques altogether they were taking a big risk on ‘It Still Moves‘, their first for a major label, but is with the [...]
Tags:Acoustic·Alt-country·Americana·Best of 2003·falsetto·Folk·grain silo·guitar solo·Jim James·Kentucky·Louisville·Neil Young·Prog·reverb·rock·Stax soul