The All Music Guide's review of the Botticellis' debut full-length begins by noting that "you'd never know from listening that it took the Botticellis four years to craft their debut album Old Home Movies. It sounds like the work of one sun-soaked late summer afternoon spent playing tunes with friends and family."
Singer and songwriter Alexi Glickman - who is bringing the San Francisco-based quintet to the Capitol Theatre in Davenport on Friday as part of a quadruple bill presented by Daytrotter.com - would be pleased.
Another
busy week is in store for us here in between and during the
thunderstorms and tornado warnings. Once again, the offer stands for
anyone who wants to buy merchandise - CDs, vinyl, T-shirts - from
any of the bands recording with us who aren't playing a show in
town to write (daytrotter@gmail.com), and we'll make an arrangement
for you to meet up with the group. They'll be more than happy to do
so.
For
many musicians starting out, a day job is a means to support that
which they love.
The first thing you're likely to notice about Keith Lynch's voice is that it often sounds like Kurt Cobain's.
The
Daytrotter hive is in the middle of three heavy weeks of recording
sessions and shows. We're welcoming to the studio Margot & the
Nuclear So & Sos, Miles Benjamin, Centro-matic, The M's,
Cryptacize, Ben Sollee, Nik Freitas, Weinland, Snowblink, and Dan
Goodman this week. If anyone would like to purchase any wares from
these bands - vinyl, T-shirts, etc. - let us know at
(daytrotter@gmail.com) and we can try to coordinate this. Helping
these bands out any way possible is always appreciated.
Martin
Dosh, a frequent collaborator with Andrew Bird and a member of his
live band, makes electronic music that doesn't sound the least bit
electronic.
In their song "Old Salt Wells," the honky-tonk musicians of the Alkali Flats - based out of Sacramento, California - perform an up-tempo ode to the titular establishment, described in one of songwriter Tim White's lyrics as "the place where I first fell in love." It begins: "If you ever get the notion / That you'd like to see some motion / And you really wanna have yourself a ball / There's a roadside attraction / That'll give you satisfaction / They let it all hang out and that ain't all."
It's a busy day for Daphne Willis.
Kent Burnside is the grandson of blues legend R.L. Burnside, the nephew of blues musicians Duwayne and Dan Burnside, and the cousin of blues performer Cedric Burnside. Yet during a recent phone interview, the 36-year-old Kent recalls that when he decided to finally embark on his own professional blues career in 2006, his inspiration for doing so wasn't one of his famed family members.
