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Review: Del Barber, “Stray Dogs (Collected B Sides Vol. 1)”
Douglas reviews the new album from Del Barber, “Stray Dogs (Collected B Sides Vol. 1).”
It seems like only yesterday when my friend called excitedly on the phone and said she’d just seen Del Barber in concert, and wanted to see him every night of the week for the rest of her life. With such a ringing endorsement, I needed no further encouragement to seek out some music for my library. From the moment I heard “Coming Home With the Summer,” on his “Love Songs For the Last 20” album,…
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5 Favorite Albums of 2014
It’s too easy to spend every spare moment this time of year catching up on the year’s best music, too easy to treat each year as a separate entity that stops mattering as soon as January 1st hits. In 2015, I made sure to give myself the time to keep listening to 2014 records that I had really enjoyed to see which ones held up once the year had ended and we had collectively decided to move on.
Below are 5 albums from 2014 that have stayed with me the most. These records are all slowly becoming some small part of my life, and they’re records that I’m fairly certain I’ll still be playing 10 years from now.
Angaleena Presley-American Middle Class
It’s a cliche to say an album gets better with each listen, but that’s how exactly how I feel about Angaleena Presley’s debut. The second half of the record, in stuns me every time. There’s quaint folk, country-soul, outright diva ballads, power pop, and that’s just the last four songs. Listen to the pain, admiration, and guilt when Presley sings “see, my daddy’s not well-read,” in “Better off Red.”
Against Me!-Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Major label classic rock-meets-indie punk-meets necessary, timely social statement. It’s a record that turns its rather bleak subject material--dead friends, empty coffins, gender dysphoria--into proud, triumphant rock and roll protest. No surprise that its best song is about that most purely American of pop subjects: wanting to find a home.
Del Barber-Prairieography
Del Baber is a soft-spoken Western Canadian who sings about his prairie home with compassion and conflict. The second song on this record is called “Farewell, God Bless You, Goodbye” and that’s about all you need to know. Saying goodbye to your upbringing is a long, hard thing to do, and this 14 song record letter is the longest, most heartbreaking goodbye letter you’ll ever hear.
Frankie Cosmos-Zentropy
Greta Klein channels Flo Rida, leaves her man behind for the club, and delivers a line on “I Do Too,” my favorite song on Zentropy, that feels more like a revelation every time I hear it: “I have no idea what I’m doing.”
Rosanne Cash-The River and the Thread
If Rosanne Cash were a man, this would be the mid-late career record that would have been hailed as her wise veteran comeback masterpiece, her Time Out of Mind, her Harvest Moon, her Wildflowers. Cash treats her own Southern roots as a myth worth interrogating, and her songs attack, admire, and antagonize the South--mid-century Memphis, Civil War balladry, New Deal public works--with a love and devotion to its many musical traditions, to the “50,000 Watts of common prayer,” as she puts it, that has melded blues, country, soul and jazz for the past hundred years.
Big Smoke - Del Barber
Favourite song off the album and favourite song from Del Barber of all-time. Listening to it as I think about what is to come sometime in the future. Some of you know what I'm talking about.
DEL BARBER'S 'O CANADA' IS THE BEST
Corner Gas, the movie, includes a making of pre-roll vignette that wraps with Del Barber's truly awesome rendition of "O Canada" - so impressive we've gone ahead and posted it. If you 'like' it, share it.
Del Barber in Australia - Part One
Del Barber in Australia – Part One
Del Barber’s
New Release ‘Prairieography’ Reviewed
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First Australian Tour
Del Barber is a highly regarded young Canadian folk, Americana and alt-country singer-songwriter, whose work has been Juno-nominated (the highest music recognition in Canada). He grew up in the Canadian Prairies and his new release Prairieography seems born out of a love for his home, its people and their stories.…
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