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Detroit Square Dance Society: So uncool it's hot

Edit Detroit news 29 May 2016
Ben Luttermoser and Rachel Pearson handle the guitar and stand-up bass respectively, as they do in their two-piece band Mountaintop ... From left, Aaron Jonah Lewis (fiddle), Rachel Pearson (bass), and Ben Luttermoser (guitar) are co-founders of the Detroit Square Dance Society, along with musician and caller Lindsay McCaw. (Photo ... McCaw plays fiddle, banjo, guitar and Hawaiian (or steel) guitar....

Album reviews: The Monkees | Bob Dylan | Malcolm Middleton

Edit Scotsman 28 May 2016
... sunny 60s pop pastiche You Bring Me Summer, replete with twanging guitars, xylophone breaks and handclaps, and Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo contributes the winsome She Makes Me Laugh ... The arrangements here are soft and sensitive rather than brash big band, infused instead with a soupcon of western swing courtesy of delicately picked steel guitar....

The Secrets of the Music Producer Daniel Lanois

Edit The Atlantic 26 May 2016
During his set he played ethereal, rootsy steel guitar, but also several works of electronica, performed with laptop and a mixer ... In this conversation, he discusses his initiation into electronic music and collaboration with Eno, his approach to steel guitar, and how he helped U2 reach its full potential on “Beautiful Day.” (This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.)....

The Shortlist's album reviews: May 27

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 26 May 2016
Bob Dylan. Fallen Angels. (Sony). ★★★ Advertisement ... his singing voice ... Brushed drums and contemplative pedal steel guitar licks form the arrangements, with a detour into frisky country for That Old Black Magic, and the 75-year-old provides a worthy counterpoint to Frank Sinatra, who during his career recorded these same songs bar one.  Craig Mathieson. Flume. SKIN. (Future Classic). ★★★★ ... ....

My 7½ Favorite Bob Dylan Songs

Edit The American Spectator 24 May 2016
Today is Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday. I have written about Dylan a couple of times over the years ... In honor of his 75th birthday, I would like to list my 7½ favorite Dylan songs. 1 ... Perhaps some are distracted by his voice ... 2 ... Featuring Pete Drake on pedal steel guitar and Charlie Daniels on lead guitar (yes, that Charlie Daniels), it is the centerpiece of Dylan’s country inspired Nashville Skyline. 3 ... 4 ... I could be you ... To see you ... ....

Album review: Bob Dylan back in classic form

Edit The Miami Herald 23 May 2016
The songs collectively known as the Great American Songbook apparently are like those famous potato chips, in that singers who start sampling them quickly discover you can't stop at just one ... They've been covered enough ... Donnie Herron's anguished steel guitar sits front and center in most, Dylan's closely miked voice otherwise sparsely surrounded by acoustic and electric guitar and bass, with drums tastefully added to a few....

Marty Stuart: Raised by the masters

Edit Herald Tribune 23 May 2016
Growing up in rural Philadelphia, Mississippi, Marty Stuart was surrounded by a rich melting pot of music ... They recently added Chris Scruggs, who achieved some rockabilly fame in his own right playing steel guitar with the cult favorite band BR5-49 in the early 2000s ... No ... “I’ve said it a lot of times, but walking into the Grand Ole Opry with him carrying his guitar was like walking into the Vatican with the pope,” Stuart said of Flatt ... ....

Bob Dylan: Fallen Angels review – easygoing charm

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
His vocals are engaging, the arrangements are sensitive and spare – gently brushed drums and steel guitar on Polka Dots and Moonbeams, dabs of ......

Review: Mudcrutch, ‘Mudcrutch 2’

Edit Boston Herald 21 May 2016
“Beautiful Blue” is a long, spacey country jam with sparkling pedal steel guitar while “Forgive It All” is a lovely ballad that features Petty’s nasal Dylan drawl at its finest ... ....

Will Butler's live track playlist: Sam Cooke, Prince, Violent Femmes and more

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016
In support of his new live album, the Arcade Fire member picks a selection of songs performed in front of a live audience, including hypnotic Motown, Prince’s epoch and his grandfather on steel guitar. Alvino Rey Orchestra – My Buddy. This is my grandfather playing steel guitar with his big band, taken from a live radio broadcast in 1940 ... But also that one emotional brass moment that swells a third of the way in and never returns ... ....

5 unique things to experience at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Edit Deseret News 19 May 2016
The Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii, features a variety of interactive and memorable activities for families ... 1. Statue of Hamana Kalili ... It came about after Kalili lost his three middle fingers in a sugar mill accident ... Joseph Kekuku (1874-1932), also from Laie, is credited with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar, according to the PCC ... More than 60 years after his death, Kekuku was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame....

Fallen Angels

Edit Rollingstone 19 May 2016
... are gone – no big loss – and the core band is nicely expanded with session guitar legend Dean Parks (Steely Dan, Dolly Parton, Marvin Gaye). Donny Herron steps up, adding Texas swing and Hawaiian flavors on steel guitar ("Young at Heart," "Polka Dots and Moonbeams") and using viola to channel Hot Club jazziness....

Bob Dylan, Fallen Angels review: The singer's oft criticised vocals shine here

Edit The Independent 18 May 2016
Instead, the restrained picking and creamy pedal-steel guitar of his live band imposes a smooth but demotic country mood behind Dylan’s elegant, world-weary croon as he tackles such circumlocuitous romantic rhetoric as “Is there ......
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