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Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'townesvanzandt'

March 5, 2008

Here's another chance to get out there and support the, cough, "dying" Seattle music scene. This is going to be a killer show for all you folky, country-loving, singer/songwriter-digging people out there. Jack Wilson and his band are kind of Townes Van Zandt-y folk-rock. Husbands Love Your Wives is lyrcis-driven country-pop....think Victoria Williams. And, Eric Miller is just a beautiful songwriter--kind of Dylan-meets-Jeff-Buckley. Gosh, sometimes we think it's kind of silly to describe music......

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January 24, 2008

If you've yet to hear Barton Carroll's work, you should get on it. There's a Billy Braggish quality to it, a little Bruce Springsteen. There's a little Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark going on there, maybe even a little bit of the Pogues. His guitar work isn't necessarily extraordinary, but it builds cascading walls of sound that wrap around you, creating a nice little room where the songs dance amid filtered light and......

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November 13, 2007

Melbourne-based quartet The Drones are a little bit country, a little bit blues, and a lotta bit rock 'n' roll. And check it out, they've got one of the most eclectic list of influences we've ever seen: Van Morrison or Dylan or Suicide or Bad Brains or Nina Simone or Black Flag or the Scientists or Ornette Coleman or Thelonius Monk or (australian)X or Townes Van Zandt or John Lee Hooker or Karen Dalton......

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