“I’ve got my hand over my heart,” Gregg Allman says of his extraordinary new album, “and if it’s a hit there, it’s a hit.”
As a founding member of the one and only Allman Brothers Band and in his own storied solo career, Allman has long been a gifted natural interpreter of the blues, his soulful and distinctive voice one of the defining sounds in the history of American music. Low Country Blues marks the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s seventh solo recording and first in more than 13 years. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album finds Allman putting his own stamp on songs by some of the blues giants whose work has long influenced his own, from Muddy Waters and BB King to Buddy Guy and Magic Sam. Named for the coastal Georgia region Allman calls home, Low Country Blues stands as a high water mark in an already remarkable body of work, rich with passion, verve, and the unerring confidence of a true survivor. Read more...
Feb 10 2011 | Posted in
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Formed in London in 2001, alternative rockers The Boxer Rebellion are not exactly strangers to the U.S. charts. In 2009, the band tasted Stateside success with their second album “Union,” which crashed onto the Billboard 200 album based on the strength of digital sales alone (becoming the first self-released album to do so). The record went on to be named iTunes’ 2009′s Alternative Album of the Year, and the buzz led to the group being featured in Drew Barrymore’s 2010 film “Going the Distance.”
But that respectable degree of success is looking to be eclipsed by the forthcoming fervor around the band’s third studio album, “The Cold Still.” Packed front-to-back with lush melodies, yearning vocals and swooning choruses that would tug at even Chris Martin’s heartstrings, the ambitious album is an epic, effortless offering from a quartet dead set on perfecting their pop-rock craft. Read more...
Feb 9 2011 | Posted in
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“I’ve got my hand over my heart,” Gregg Allman says of his extraordinary new album, “and if it’s a hit there, it’s a hit.”
