Ruminations On New Multitudes

Posted by Corey on January 28, 2012

Interview: Ruminations on New Multitudes by New Multitudes

New Multitudes is: Jay Farrar (Son Volt), Will Johnson (Centro-matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline) & Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket)

New Multitudes is an intimate interpretation of American icon and musical legend Woody Guthrie’s previously unrecorded lyrics from a dream team of Americana torchbearers: Jay Farrar (Son Volt), Will Johnson (Centro-matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket). What makes this album such a rarity in today’s music world is the allowance of the songs’ infectious simplicity to stand alone in all their glory. In doing so, Farrar, Johnson, Parker, and Yames have paid the greatest compliment to Woody Guthrie and the collaborative spirit he so greatly embodied. This is an album which seamlessly converges the sepia-toned essence of the time honored past with the risks needed to forge the future.

Album Release Date: 2/28/2012
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New Music from Ani DiFranco: ¿Which Side Are You On?

Posted by Corey on December 6, 2011

photo by Patti Perret

¿Which Side Are You On?
COMPLETE TRACK LIST
1: Life Boat
2: Unworry
3: ¿Which Side Are You On?
4: Splinter
5: Promiscuity
6: Albacore
7: J
8: If Yr Not
9: Hearse
10: Mariachi
11: Amendment
12: Zoo

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ani DiFranco has announced the upcoming release of her eagerly awaited new album. ¿Which Side Are You On? arrives via the Grammy-winning artist’s own Righteous Babe Records on January 17, 2012. ¿Which Side Are You On? marks DiFranco’s first studio album in more than three years. The collection features 11 new songs alongside a radically reworked rendition of the classic title song, famously popularized by the one and only Pete Seeger nearly five decades ago, but no less relevant today. Backing DiFranco is a remarkably diverse line-up of stellar musicians, including members of her own crack touring band as well as such guest players as Ivan and Cyril Neville (of New Orleans; first family of funk and R&B, The Neville Brothers), avant-saxophonist Skerik (Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, The Meters), acclaimed singer/songwriter(and Righteous Babe recording artist) Anaïs Mitchell, guitarist Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Amos Lee), and a host of New Orleans-based horn players known for their work in such outfits as Galactic, Bonerama, and The Rebirth Brass Band.

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