Whether you like rap, rock, classical or country, you'll find your favorite music at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA.
Posted in Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Rock/Pop on Jun 7th, 2013
“Martin and Brickell are no accidental tourists. This is a sweet-sounding album with subtle depths, not really bluegrass, but a precisely gentle folk album that grows more graceful and revealing with each listen.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Posted in Bluegrass, Contemporary Country, Country, Folk on Jan 30th, 2013
“It’s a remarkably wide range and it’s effortlessly eclectic, with the Dixie Chicks bringing it all together with their attitude and understated musicality — as debuts go (and this does count as a debut), they rarely get better than this.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
“When Kathy Mattea made a hard roots turn on 2008′s Coal, a heartfelt examination in classic mining songs of the hard, often dangerous life of coal miners, it sounded like she’d been singing them all her life. On Calling Me Home, Mattea delivers a second album of material that has its origins in coal country [...]
Posted in Bluegrass, Contemporary Country, Country, Rock/Pop on Mar 12th, 2012
“Vince Gill received one of the greatest gifts of his professional life when he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011. One listen to Guitar Slinger, his first record in five years, makes it easy to comprehend why: he has carried the genre forward to embrace the rest of popular music [...]
“Union Station’s arrangements, immaculate and drumless, hint at old-timey roots without a glimmer of purism, and they never sugarcoat the sorrow.” –The New York Times Check Our Catalog
Posted in Alt Rock, Bluegrass, Folk, Indie, Rock/Pop on Sep 12th, 2011
““City of Refuge’’ couches Washburn’s virtuosity — both as a singer and picker — in a contemporary context that’s equal parts indie folk, atmospheric twang, and rootsy pop… Washburn ended up making a modern classic, a folk album for people who claim they don’t like a such thing.” –The Boston Globe Check Our Catalog
“Some of the songs are comedic: the hilarious faux-gospel harmony number “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs” is an album highlight despite its lack of an interesting melody, and “Women Like to Slow Dance” is both a wry reflection on gender differences and a straight-up bluegrass barnburner. “Jubilation Day” is one of the funnier kiss-off songs [...]
Posted in Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Traditional Folk on Oct 27th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “There’s a quiet elegance and an undeniable timelessness embedded in the ten songs that comprise When the Last Morning Glory Blooms, as if Peter Ostroushko didn’t so much write them as discover them, lying around undisturbed for a hundred years, on yellowed sheet music atop a forgotten parlor piano in some dusty [...]
Posted in Bluegrass, Country, Performed at the Crane on Apr 8th, 2010
Check Our Catalog Boogie with Boston Road, a bluegrass band that plays a lively mix of rhythm & groove music from traditional to new-timey bluegrass, at a live performance recorded at the Thomas Crane Public Library on July 13, 2008 by Quincy Access Television.
Posted in Alt-Country, Bluegrass on Apr 2nd, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Seventeen years old and already turning the heads of critics, producers, and session musicians alike, Sarah Jarosz is not only a jaw-dropping talent but a multidimensional one, as well.
Check Our Catalog “With her band Nickel Creek on “indefinite hiatus,” singer and fiddle player Sara Watkins makes her solo debut with a recording that gives a good sense of her hybrid musical heritage, combining traditional country elements with singer/songwriter pop.”–All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “Everyone knows that Martin can be very funny, but The Crow isn’t a joke. It’s a first-class banjo album.”–All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “Features 17 non-instrumental cuts from the pioneering progressive bluegrass/new acoustic guitarist, and as a companion piece to Rounder’s 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection, it’s a gem.”–All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “Saying that Charlie Haden’s Rambling Boy is a personal album is an understatement. In essence, this album is a tribute to his mother and father whose own vocal group — made up of Haden and his siblings — performed on radio programs in both Shenandoah, IA and Springfield, MO, where they hosted [...]