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February 28, 2015
Scott Foley
Greg Brown was a gateway artist to folk music for me. I believe it was a cassette copy of In the Dark With You that ushered me in in the wake of the title cut, "Slept All Night With My Lover" and "Who Do You Think You're Fooling". Soon enough, I was a concert promoter in Oregon, where Mr B was a recurring figure on the scene, often accompanied by longtime guitarist and producer Bo Ramsey. Bo showed up at the KRFC studios this week, on the arm of Greg's youngest daughter, Pieta. I asked her some good questions, but not the potentially touchy one I really wanted to pose ("Say Pieta, how did you end up hitched to Uncle Bo ... ?"). Nevertheless, she is a talented writer who vastly overflows her reputation as a contemporary folk singer-songwriter.
Some tempting glimpses into a couple of the year's most promising releases: Tallest Man On Earth, William Elliott Whitmore and Hip Hatchet, each broadening their previously more intimate sound. I'm entertaining Hiss Golden Messenger-esque expectations for each of these Spring arrivals.

* Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pickers, "Dive For the Pearl" Seasonal Hire (Thrill Jockey, 15)
* Farrar Johnson Parker James, "Careless Reckless Love" New Multitudes (Rounder, 12)
* Pieta Brown, "Wondering How" live in studio
* Pieta Brown, "No Not Me" live in studio
* Mavericks, "Stories We Could Tell" Mono (Valory, 15)
* Girls Guns & Glory, "Moanin' the Blues" Tribute to Hank Williams Live (Dry Lightning, 15) D
* Kill County, "7 Billion Broken Hearts" Broken Glass In the Sun (Kill County, 15)
* Delta Routine, "Gone Again" You and Your Lion (Delta Routine, 15) D
^ Andrew Combs, "Slow Road To Jesus" All These Dreams (Thirty Tigers, 15)
* Wrinkle Neck Mules, "Sugar Bowl" I Never Thought It Would Go This Far (Lower 40, 15)
* Allison Moorer, "Tear Me Apart" Down To Believing (EOne, 15)
* Dwight Yoakam, "The Big Time" Second Hand Heart (Reprise, 15)
* Gill Landry, "Take This Body" Gill Landry (ATO, 15)
* James McMurtry, "She Loves Me" Complicated Game (Complicated Game, 15)
* Whitehorse, "Sweet Disaster" Leave No Bridge Unburned (Six Shooter, 15)
* Hip Hatchet, "Coward's Luck" Hold You Like a Harness (Hip Hatchet, 15) D
* Leon Bridges, "Lisa Sawyer" Coming Home (Capitol, 15)
* Tallest Man On Earth, "Sagres" Dark Bird Is Home (Dead Oceans, 15) D
* William Elliott Whitmore, "Healing To Do" Radium Death (Anti, 15) D
* Magnolia Electric Co, "Whip-Poor-Will" Josephine (Secretly Canadian, 09)
* American Aquarium, "Losing Side of Twenty-Five" Wolves (American Aquarium, 15)
* Sarah Gayle Meech, "Watermelon and Root Bear" Tennessee Love Song (SGM, 15) D
* John Statz, "Tulsa" Tulsa (John Statz, 15) C
* Sam Lewis, "3/4 Time" Waiting On You (Brash Music, 15) D
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