Mindy Smith has a new album coming out!  Stupid Love will be released by Vanguard Records on August 11th!  Youtube clips of some songs below!  Also, I’m a big fan of having a couple of songs on youtube to listen to before committing to an album.

“What Went Wrong”
2 more songs below the fold!

A follow up query, if I may.  My beloved Nashville, is it in “real America” or “fake America?”  Think about it.  The city votes Democratic, it has an outstanding symphony, Vanderbilt the best Starbucks I’ve ever been to (on 21st Avenue next to Mellow Mushroom) and a nice Opera season.  It also has the hony-tonks, [...]

Before I try to sort through reactions and the import of Boumediene v. United States, I wanted to mention that I will be doing so listening to Emmylou Harris’ new CD, All I Intended to Be. You can get it for 9.99 on direct download from Amazon.  ”Gold” features Harris with Dolly Parton again (woohoo!), and “Take That Ride” [...]

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I just love going to the Opera hear in Nashville.  It’s a real occasion for most of the people who go.  They get dressed up, they donate money to stuff, have nice drinks and mingle, and they really put a lot of feeling into the applause at the end.  Nashville’s attendees of the Opera are [...]

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Mindy Smith is at the center of my non-classical music universe right now, but I fear overplaying her two albums… who’s got some recommendations for some comparable Country/Americana/whatever you want to call it for me to get to help diversify my country holdings without going into the pop/campy territory?
I’m leaning towards K.D. Lang and the [...]

I went to Schemrerhorn tonight and saw Phillip Glass.  No, not just a performance of a Phillip Glass piece, actually Phillip Glass.  For one thing, he gave a talk for an hour in the Education Hall before the performance tonight.  He talked about working as a film composer and writing opera’s and the difference between [...]

The Leila performance at Schermerhorn was absolutely AWESOME.  Worthy of the countdown.  We had great seats, three rows back in the "Orchestra View" section.  Close enough to hear the snaps on the fretboards when the Bassists would pick their strings.  Close enough to see clearly all of Leila’s crazy facial expressions.  Close enough to see [...]

An unbelievable night… details to follow after I get some sleep.