- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 18, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: The summery, engrossing instrumental guitar of William Tyler's "Cadillac Desert"
The second track off of Impossible Truth, the sophomore album from the instrumental guitarist, who plays at the Hideout Fri 4/26.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2013
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Online music journal Sound American asks us what American music is
The great online music journal's latest issue also features short but good interviews with Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square Records, Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: The old-time fingerstyle guitar of Lena Hughes
Music from the sole and impossibly rare album by the Missouri fingerstyle guitarist Lena Hughes.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 24, 2010
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More Treasures From the Old Byways of American Music
With three recent releases, "Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939," "I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll," and "Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts," New York's Tompkins Square Records keeps following twists and turns in the history of American music.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 8, 2009
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Tim Buckley, Captured Live in 1967
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2009
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Charlie Louvin's songs of praise and pain
Country great Charlie Louvin, just shy of 82 years old and with two new albums under his belt, returns to Chicago to play the Heartland Cafe on Friday night.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2009
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Adventures in minstrelsy with Polk Miller
A reissued artifact from one of the more ignominious chapters of America's musical past is up for a Grammy this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2008
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Death never goes out of style
A wonderful box set from Tompkins Square Records captures three decades of murder ballads and disaster songs.
