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(Kemado)   www.kemado.com   Marisa Nadler is not so much a songwriter so much as she is a mood-maker.  Her song structures are simple and sometimes obvious-generally a couple o more...

(Crayonbox Records)   www.marissalevy.com   It's anyone's guess as to why Marissa Levy overstates the case, but considering 63 Songs About Joe is actually only five songs long, all fi more...

(Box of Cedar)   www.marissanadler.com   What's really special about Marissa Nadler's spooky folk is how deeply internalized it seems to be. That's the quality typically separating c more...

(DreamCrush Music)   www.dreamcrushmusic.com   Lest one get the wrong impression, Queens English refers not to some attempt to emulate Anglo influences, but rather to the New York more...

      (Porto Franco)   www.portofrancorecords.com   Songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark Growden started his career as a jazz saxist, a prior occupation that bring more...

(Porto Franco)   www.portofrancorecords.com   Songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark Growden started his career as a jazz saxist, a prior occupation that brings little to bear on his more...

(Reprise) www.warnerbrosrecords.com   Well along in his prodigious solo career, Mark Knopfler has finally shaken off the freewheeling shuffle of Dire Straits in favor of traditional fol more...

(Caldo Verde)   www.caldoverderecords.com   If there's anything that's been consistent about Mark Kozelek's solo career, it may well be his inconsistency. It's a scenario that's con more...

(Caldo Verde)   www.caldoverderecords.com     Temporary Red House Painters retiree/sometime Sun Kil Moon melancholia maestro Mark Kozelek is a master re-arranger. And not just more...

(4AD)   www.4ad.com   Blues Funeral is the Mark Lanegan Band's first album since 2004's Bubblegum, and it picks up more or less where its predecessor left off, setting Lanegan's broo more...