2013

Milk Carton Kids: The Ash & Clay

The Ash & Clay, the latest album from The Milk Carton Kids, is no-frills, utterly simple folk music, and it is beautiful. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale use nothing more than acoustic guitars and their effectively intertwining vocals to tell a series of tales that are both timely and timeless. The emotions are expressed subtly, the subjects are deep and the payoff is big. If you long for a return to the old days of folk music, then this is your ticket to happiness.

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The Stone Foxes – Fundamentally Vintage

He is out in the crowd before you know it. Blood is running down his hand yet he is jumping around and dancing amongst the fans gathered in a circle around him. The energy is buzzing as young and old come to investigate the musical commotion going on in front of the stage at the New Orleans Voodoo Music Festival. If you didn’t know the name The Stone Foxes before this then you surely know it now. And just like that, Shannon Koehler, vocalist and drummer of this San Francisco band, is back on the stage, singing his heart out and grinning ear to ear. This energy is why he became a musician.

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