Rolling Stone RS Country Music Picks for the Week of February 1st
Sam Williams’ warning about lying to kin, Dillon Warnek’s how-to tidy up a death scene, and Jake Hoot’s majestic duet with Kelly Clarkson
By Alexa King
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.
Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.
Jake Hoot featuring Kelly Clarkson, “I Would’ve Loved You”
Jake Hoot’s debut EP
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A diverse mix of American roots music, out-of-the-box pop flourishes, gospel harmonies, and barroom rock & roll,
The Comet spotlights a songwriter whose left-of-center music redraws the lines between genre and generations.
It s a collection of songs whose paradoxical twists and turns are as unique as the man who wrote them. Raised on a farm in New England, Charlie grew up listening to the music that suited his working-class surroundings Delta blues, country classics, work songs, and Bob Dylan records before traveling the country as a busker, accompanied by his acoustic guitar and 1988 Oldsmoble Cutlass. After a Kerouac-worthy series of milestones and mishaps led him back to the Northeast, he established himself as one of the region s folksinging heavyweights before heading south to Nashville, where he found a new home in a city that had become synonymous with Americana music. Charlie easi
A diverse mix of American roots music, out-of-the-box pop flourishes, gospel harmonies, and barroom rock & roll, Charlie Treat s The Comet spotlights a songwriter whose left-of-center music redraws the lines between genre and generations.
It s a collection of songs whose paradoxical twists and turns are as unique as the man who wrote them. Raised on a farm in New England, Charlie grew up listening to the music that suited his working-class surroundings - Delta blues, country classics, work songs, and Bob Dylan records - before traveling the country as a busker, accompanied by his acoustic guitar and 1988 Oldsmoble Cutlass. After a Kerouac-worthy series of milestones and mishaps led him back to the Northeast, he established himself as one of the region s folksinging heavyweights before heading south to Nashville, where he found a new home in a city that had become synonymous with Americana music. Charlie easily fit into that musical community, even as his own songs ventured into the
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Work and Vision under Peril: Need to Preserve and Protect Visva - Bharati | Aurobindo Ghose
Saturday 19 December 2020, by Aurobindo Ghose
In 1940, a year before he died, Rabindranath Tagore placed a letter in Mahatma Gandhi’s hand. The letter said: Visva-Bharati is like a vessel which is carrying the cargo of my life’s best treasure, and I hope it may claim special care from my countrymen for its preservation”.
A century after being founded in 1921, Tagore’s life’s treasure - the Visva-Bharati University - may now be in peril. Far from being preserved, that vessel - which will have its centenary celebration this December - is rocking.
Highlight: Stray birds return to roost for second season
By Diane Baker / Staff reporter
A year ago this month, Lai Hung-chung’s (賴翃中) Hung Dance (翃舞製作) produced its first Stray Birds Platform (漂鳥舞蹈平台) at the Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center’s Experimental Theater.
Lai had long wanted to produce such a show to highlight creations by young choreographers working in Taiwan or abroad, as well as display the talents of young Taiwanese dancers, and last year’s two-show production featured eight works, mostly duets and solos, by seven choreographers, including himself.
The works could be new, or ones that have been performed elsewhere, such as choreography or dance festivals.