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Songwriter Sam Phillips to receive prestigious Denise Levertov Award
By MIKEL TOOMBS
She’s been nominated for two Grammys, under both her Christian name Leslie and her self-adopted one, but Sam Phillips has never won the award.
Now, in a ceremony to take place May 5 at Seattle’s 415 Westlake (maybe you held your wedding reception there), Phillips will be the recipient of the eighth annual Denise [...]
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CD REVIEW: Paul Simon returns with ever-graceful ‘So Beautiful’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
As he has since at least 1956, when Simon and Garfunkel first became a duo, Paul Simon ponders the mysteries of the music that enthralls him: “Lord, is it Be Bop a Lula,” he asks at one point on his new album, “or ooh Papa Doo?”
In fact, the wonderful “So Beautiful or So [...]
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This Mountain Man doesn’t sport facial hair but plays ’simply good folk’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
You’d probably expect an act called Mountain Man to be a bearded guy in a flannel shirt.
Well, the first thing you’ll notice about Vermont’s Mountain Man, which opens for The Decemberists Friday night (Feb. 18) at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, is that there is (er, are) three of them and, happily, none [...]
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Rising Texas singer-songwriter Sahara Smith has a really haunting sound
By MIKEL TOOMBS
When Sahara Smith was introduced to me as a “222-year-old rising Texan artist,” I knew I had to check her out. Pretty impressive, I thought: Was the “rising” in question from an Austin graveyard?
OK, so it turns out, not surprisingly, that the lovely Ms. Smith is only 22. But that’s pretty impressive in [...]
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Lilith Fair cancels dates, but the show will go on at The Gorge amphitheater
Organizers of the 2010 Lilith Fair tour have announced that nearly a dozen upcoming concerts have been canceled, but Saturday’s show (July 3) at The Gorge will go on as planned.
“We are in the midst of one of the most challenging summer concert seasons, with many tours being canceled outright,” Lilith Fair cofounder Terry McBride [...]
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