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Live Harvest
On April 18, 2015, Blitzen Trapper released ''Live Harvest'' for Record Store Day. Recorded on October 17 at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, Oregon at the end of the band's ''VII'' tour, ''Live Harvest'' is a song-for-song interpretation of Neil Young's 1972 album ''Harvest''. The album was released as a 180 gram vinyl LP with a download card. The band launched a short tour in support of the record, including stops at several City Winery locations in New York, Nashville, and Chicago, in which they played ''Harvest'' in its entirety, as well as Blitzen Trapper songs. Blitzen Trapper's interest in Neil Young goes back before the band's inception: ""All of us have disparate tastes which comes out in our own stuff, but Neil Young is a common thread that’s run through all of our lives," bassist Michael Van Pelt stated, "I remember listening to ''Harvest'' on cassette in Eric’s mom’s car back in high school ... It’s a special record, and it gets pretty dark in spots, too. Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitzen Trapper
Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental country music, country/Folk music, folk/Rock and roll, rock band associated with Sub Pop Records, Vagrant Records and Lojinx. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a quintet, with Eric Earley (guitar/harmonica/vocals/keyboard), Erik Menteer (guitar/keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums/vocals/harmonica), Michael Van Pelt (bass), and Marty Marquis (guitar/keyboards/vocals/melodica). Blitzen Trapper self-released its first three albums. "Wild Mountain Nation" was No. 98 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. Blitzen Trapper released its third album, ''Wild Mountain Nation'', in 2007 to much acclaim from critics such as Pitchfork Media, The nerve magazine, The Nerve, and Spin Magazine. The group signed to Sub Pop Records in the summer of 2007. After the release of ''Furr'' in 2008, the group received a two-page feature in ''Rolling Stone''. The album was ranked No. 13 on ''Rolling Stones Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Fir Lounge
The Doug Fir Lounge is a bar and restaurant housed within the ground level of the Jupiter Hotel, in Portland, Oregon's Buckman neighborhood, in the United States. It was established in 2004 and features a basement music and event space. Reception Doug Fir Lounge won in the "Best Music Venue" category of ''Willamette Week'' "Best of Portland Readers' Poll 2020". File:Annie Clark DFL 2010.jpg, alt=Person with a guitar in their hand by a microphone stand, lit with purple lighting., St. Vincent plays at the Doug Fir Lounge in 2010. File:Jenavieve varga.jpg, alt=A person plays violin. They're lit with red light., In 2012, Jenavieve Varga played the Doug Fir Lounge with Lost in the Trees Lost in the Trees was an American orchestral folk pop band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The lineup consisted of Ari Picker (writer/vocals), Emma Nadeau (french horn/vocals), Drew Anagnost (cello), Jenavieve Varga (violin), and Mark Daume .... References External links * * 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel music, gospel, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. ''Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity'' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll."Kot, Greg"Rock and roll", in the ''Encyclopædia Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vagrant Records
Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock, but features artists in a variety of other genres including folk, soul, electronic, and pop. It is home to artists such as The 1975, Death Spells, Eels, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, CRUISR, Active Child, PJ Harvey, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, James Vincent McMorrow, Black Joe Lewis, Wake Owl, Blitzen Trapper, and Bombay Bicycle Club. Originally, Vagrant Records was mostly focused on emo bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Senses Fail, and Alkaline Trio. The label is considered one of the pre-eminent labels of the emo music scene. In 2014, Vagrant was acquired by BMG Rights Management. Co-founder Jon Cohen then became BMG's executive vice president of recorded music, until he left the company in September 2017. It remains to be distributed autonomously (outside of BMG's mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Across This Land
''All Across This Land'' is the eighth studio album by Blitzen Trapper, released on October 2, 2015. Conception In a lengthy essay regarding the concept and construction of ''All Across This Land'', the official Blitzen Trapper site compared the album to earlier albums like ''Furr'' and ''American Goldwing'': " 'All Across This Land''is a top-down, tightly defined piece of classic rock and roll, full of big riffs, bigger hooks and compelling, instantly relatable lyrics ... 'I think it’s a return to the sort of more "classic" Blitzen Trapper thing, for sure,' ongwriter EricEarley says." Earley also elaborated on the songwriting process: "Those two albums 'Furr'' and ''American Goldwing'' I wrote all the songs at once and they all hang together. But the records that came in between, they were written over the course of a year-and-a-half or so ... For ''All Across This Land'', he continues, “I had all the songs written and demoed in a three or four month span. And I think they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Store Day
Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday (typically the third) every April and every Black Friday in November to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store". The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores around the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, with a list of releases for each country, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event. Record Store Day is headquartered in the United States, where it began. Official organizers operate in the UK, Ireland, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Australia. Background Originally pitched as an idea to create an event similar to Free Comic Book Day by Bull Moose Music's Chris Brown and Criminal Record's Eric Levin, the concept for Record Store Day was created during a brainstorming session at a meeting of independent record store owners in Baltimore, Maryland. Record Store Day was founded in 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VII (Blitzen Trapper Album)
''VII'' is the seventh studio album by American alternative country band Blitzen Trapper. Described on the band's official site as "somewhat experimental ... a futuristic hip-hop/country-rock hybrid", and by lead singer and songwriter Eric Earley as "hillbilly gangster", ''VII'' was the first record Blitzen Trapper released with their new labels, Vagrant (US) and Lojinx (UK). The song "Thirsty Man" was released as the album's only single, hitting #29 on the Adult Alternative Songs ''Billboard'' chart. Conception ''VII'' took many writing and stylistic departures from its predecessor, 2011's country-rock ''American Goldwing''. Songwriter Eric Earley explains, "I get bored. I like to move things in a new direction ... I’m always writing, and if you’re always writing things are going to change. You’re going to try things out. And that’s going to make its way into the music.” Earley cites his influences on the album as diverse as John Cale, Townes Van Zant, the Wu-Tang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since the beginning of his solo career with his backing band Crazy Horse (band), Crazy Horse, he has released many critically acclaimed and important albums, such as ''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'', ''After the Gold Rush'', ''Harvest (Neil Young album), Harvest'', ''On the Beach (Neil Young album), On the Beach'' and ''Rust Never Sleeps''. He was a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature high tenor singing voice define his long career. Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk music, folk, rock music, rock, country music, country and other musical genres. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvest (Neil Young Album)
''Harvest'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on February 1, 1972, by Reprise Records, catalogue number MS 2032. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. It topped the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, " Old Man", which peaked at No. 31 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and " Heart of Gold", which reached No. 1. It was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States. The album has since remained Neil Young's signature album as well as his best selling. In 2015, ''Harvest'' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Background After the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their separate ways in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians (which he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded a country rock record, ''Harvest''. The record was a massive hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Winery
City Winery is a winery, restaurant, music venue and private event location in Hudson Square, New York City. Other locations include Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. Satellite locations are sited in Chicago and New York City. A location in Montgomery, New York, at former textile mill, the first one outside a major city, was also planned for 2018. A location at New York City's Grand Central Terminal was also leased in 2022. Founded in 2008 by chief executive officer Michael Dorf, the venue has hosted gigs by Graham Nash, Norah Jones, Lee Ann Womack and Graham Parker. In mid-2021, John Mulaney performed a several-week-long stretch of stand-up shows at City Winery in New York City, Mulaney's first shows since leaving rehab in early 2021. It runs a set of free early evening weekday gigs for local musicians. Each City Winery location is a fully functioning urban winery, importing grapes from all over the world to create unique locally made win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dukes Of Hazzard
''The Dukes of Hazzard'' is an American action comedy TV series that was aired on CBS from January 26, 1979 to February 8, 1985. The show aired for 147 episodes spanning seven seasons. It was consistently among the top-rated television series in the late 1970s (at one point, ranking second only to ''Dallas'', which immediately followed the show on CBS's Friday night schedule). The show is about two young male cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, who live in rural Georgia and are on probation for moonshine-running. The young men and their friends and their female cousin Daisy Duke, and other family (such as patriarch Uncle Jesse), have various escapades as they evade the corrupt county commissioner Boss Hogg and law officer Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The young men drive a customized 1969 Dodge Charger nicknamed ''the General Lee'', which became a symbol of the show. The series was inspired by the 1975 film ''Moonrunners'', about a bootlegger family which was also created by Gy Waldron an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
