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Tonight I'm hanging with #SkeetUlrich as we talk about #Parish on AMC, as well as his time as #BillyLoomis in #SCREAM
Arlo Parks & Chris Kasper will also drop in + I'll play some favorites from Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Air, Bill Withers, Chappell Roan, etc
6p ET on 91.9 WFPK
Album Review: Chris Kasper - Sunlight in an Empty Room
Whether it was intentional - and with co-production, keys and percussion from the inimitable Jano Rix and a cameo from Oliver Wood, it probably was - Chris Kasper’s Sunlight in an Empty Room sounds like a Wood Brothers spin-off.
Recorded straight-to-analog-tape, and opening and closing with studio chatter, the LP finds Kasper writing in the Woods’ playful style on such tracks as “Cry Me a Creek” while borrowing chord progressions from the Band on “The Weight”-inspired “Books from the Jailhouse” and Golden Earring’s “Radar Love” on “Its not Me, it’s You,” one of a few cuts among the 11 that can be called filler.
But when Sunlight shines, it does so brightly. Wood adds a touch of funk to the neo-gospel stylings of “Getting Right” and G. Love blows some fancy harp on “Ain’t it a Shame.”
Sunlight in an Empty Room is not essential listening, and probably has limited appeal, though Wood Brothers fans will find much to enjoy in it literal and figurative grooves.
Grade card: Chris Kasper - Sunlight in an Empty Room - C+
6/18/24
Song Review: Chris Kasper - “Cry Me a Creek”
With Jano Rix seated in the producer’s chair, behind the drum kit and at the keyboard bench, Chris Kasper’s “Cry Me a Creek” is basically a Wood Brothers song with a guest vocalist.
Clip-clop percussion?
Check.
Distorted keys?
Check.
Woodsian - though less-clever - lyrics?
Check.
Cry me a river/cry me a creek/keep on keeping on like the levee sprung a creek, Kasper sings to open the cut.
It’s one of three singles from Kasper’s forthcoming (May 10) Sunlight in an Empty Room - read Sound Bites’ reviews of “Getting Right” and “Shuffle on Through” here - and Wood Brothers fans are apt to enjoy it. Yet, they might also opt to just listen to the Wood Brothers - specifically “Alabaster” - for a similar, superior, experience.
Grade card: Chris Kasper - “Cry Me a Creek” - B-
5/8/24
Song Review: Chris Kasper feat. Oliver Wood - “Getting Right”
Chris Kasper goes gospel on “Getting Right.”
And while the lyrics are purely spiritual, the music - save for the handclap-channeling percussion - is all secular, outfitted with some barroom piano and Oliver Wood’s slide guitar and harmony vocals on the chorus.
Before I leave/before I go/I’m getting right with god /I’m getting right with god, Kasper and Wood sing.
The track follows “Shuffle on Through” from Kasper’s forthcoming (May 10) Sunlight in an Empty Room.
Grade card: Chris Kasper feat. Oliver Wood - “Getting Right” - A-
5/1/24
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Carsie Blanton goes shameless diva with "Vim and Vigor"
@CarsieBlanton goes shameless diva with "Vim and Vigor"
Featured image from “Vim & Vigor” (0:37) Carsie Blanton is not one to shy away, as any of her fans could tell you. Even at first glance, it’s easy to figure out that Blanton has moxie–the wild curls, the bright red boots, the bold tattoos all form the image of a woman who is her own, whether you like it or not. Blanton, a former sweetheart of the Philadelphian pop/folk scene, is currently on tour…
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