As a music year, 2012 was incredibly impressive. I feel like I haven’t actually felt that way about the past few years, so I’m excited to share some of my favorite tracks from this year. As a preface, my favorite songs are the …
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Marcus Mumford and Taylor Goldsmith – Not in Nottingham
I am a HUGE fan of covers. It doesn’t even have to be particularly good. Sometimes I’ll go on YouTube and just listen to average people play their renditions of someone’s work. There’s something about the reinterpretation of a song, whether dramatically different, …
Casey’s Take: Mumford and Sons – Babel
Editor’s note: I’m writing this as a response of sorts to Jake’s review, meaning that I’ve already read his and thought I’d add my own for posterity’s sake. “Well, I know that time has numbered my days, so I’ll go along with everything …
Jake’s Take: Mumford and Sons – Babel
The Sophomore Slump is a terrifying curse. It can take what seem like the most brilliant of musicians and expose them for their inability to create music equivalent to the quality found in their breakthrough performance. For some musicians, the second album will …
The Widowmaker – The Wink and the Gun
The Widowmaker is the moniker for Ian Easton, a folk musician from the United Kingdom. The Widowmaker prides himself on “counter cultural” music. This, his second album, is a masterpiece of music history. It is, in many ways, a history of rock all …
Film Review: Big Easy Express
As a lover of folk music and a music blogger, I was obviously excited when I heard about “Big Easy Express”, a documentary made last year that documented The Gentlemen of the Open Road tour. If you’ve been in a cave for the …
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