Circle: unbroken. 1. We don’t want to overstate the case, but at least right now, on our back porch with a breeze blowing through,
Session Americana’s old-timey double-album
The Table Top People,
Volumes 1 & 2 feels like one of the most loose, spontaneous, warm, and homespun acts of community and decency since the
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s
Will the Circle Be Unbroken. The local country-folk megagroup talks to Jonathan Perry in “
Cellars by Starlight” and takes over
Club Passim this weekend.
Session Americana, "
Froggy Went a Courtin'" (mp3 from
Tabletop People)
Session Americana, "
Leather Wing Bat (Rough Mix)" (mp3 outtake)
Circle: broken. 2. Just in case you missed
Mary Timony's record-release party for
Ex-Hex at T.T. the Bear's Place a couple months back,
Bradley's Almanac has mp3s of the whole damn thin. Or you could get the fuck off the Web and go see her tonight --
T.T.'s again.
Opening: the
Medications, who are on
Nike Records. Sorry, make that
Dischord Records. Damn, that
marketing gimmick is starting to work.
Matt Ashare reviews the Medications
here.
Medications, "
Twine Time" (mp3)
Medications, "
Safe and Sorry" (mp3)
Word to
Reebok: Bad Brains could use some bank, duders. Just sayin'.

