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 Alt Rock, Country Folk, Indie, Rock/Pop on May 13th, 2011
“The album winds up with trace echoes of all eras of Costello, but that’s only a reflection of how National Ransom is a masterwork in the traditional sense: he’s summoned all his skills to deliver an album that summarizes his world view.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Posted in Folk, Folk Rock, Indie, Rock/Pop on Mar 29th, 2011
Check Our Catalog “The tired snivels of the spindly-armed strummer have no place here; it’s an amped-up, bass-heavy, banjo-picking pity party made of the same violent stuff that once inspired a lusty 17th-century cleric to demand of his deity: “Batter my heart.” This is an album that knocks you over at first. But when you [...]
Posted in Blues, Contemporary Folk, Country, Rock/Pop on Mar 25th, 2011
Check Our Catalog “Having won enough awards to keep his mantelpiece groaning for years for his 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss, Robert Plant resists the temptation to repeat the Americana formula and give us Raising More Sand. Instead he invokes the name of Band of Joy, the psychedelic blues group he originally fronted before the [...]
Check Our Catalog “Americana with a thrillingly cosmopolitan flair, Jack Rose’s acoustic-guitar pickings encompass all manner of sounds not generally associated with that instrument: the elegant drone of ragas or jazz’s syncopated swing. This collection of 10 instrumentals…captures the late Rose’s limber, relaxed guitar style, and the charm of his low-key songs. Jack Rose suffered [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Contemporary Folk, Folk, Indie on Feb 8th, 2011
Check Our Catalog “As the former lead singer of the Canadian folk-pop trio the Be Good Tanyas, Frazey Ford turned out some quietly affecting performances. But they’re demure delights compared to the heady pleasures of her debut solo album. It’s a luxuriant album that unfurls with acoustic guitar, hushed drums, banjo, organ, and little swells [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Contemporary Folk, Folk, Rock/Pop on Jan 20th, 2011
Check Our Catalog “New Hampshire native Ray LaMontagne returns with his fourth studio album — and it’s an absolute gem. It exudes a homespun, rootsy intimacy as he shares his profound talent for rustic storytelling and a haunting voice that crosses the rasp of Gregg Allman and the spiritual intensity of Richard Manuel of The [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Contemporary Country, Contemporary Folk, Country, Country Rock, Folk on Nov 24th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Whether backed by simple guitar or a full-band ramble, Bingham’s intricately detailed portraits of the wayward and lost are some of the best short stories you’ll hear all year.” –Entertainment Weekly
Check Our Catalog “The Witmark performances were intended simply as sketches for other artists to record, and thus present Dylan with his guard down. They were sung in a voice that was deadpan, mischievous, that linked cries of Dust Bowl indignation and the lonesome drone of the blues to a rock ‘n’ roll future brimming [...]
Check Our Catalog “Neil Young calls his new album with producer Daniel Lanois “folk-metal,” and the description is pretty apt. “Le Noise” (Reprise) was recorded with just voice and guitar, but Lanois’ sonic treatments make it sound as epic as the Grand Canyon.” –The Chicago Tribune
Posted in Alt Rock, Contemporary Folk, Indie on Oct 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “It’s a kindly, enveloping sound that Ms. McLachlan has long used to conjure passion and empathy laced with melancholy. But now it encompasses a new anguish, deeper and sharper than what she hinted at with “Afterglow” in 2003.”–The New York Times
Check Our Catalog “Josh Rouse has never stayed in one place for very long, but El Turista — his third album as a Spanish citizen — suggests he isn’t leaving the Mediterranean anytime soon. Roughly half of El Turista is performed in Spanish, and far more than that bears the country’s influence, from the strum [...]
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 Alt Rock, Folk, Folk Rock, Indie on Sep 30th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Armatrading produced This Charming Life and played all the instruments herself (except for the drums, manned by Miles Bould), and it represents the toughest and most aggressive music she’s recorded since Walk Under Ladders and The Key in the ’80s…Armatrading takes to the swagger of rock & roll like a duck to [...]
Posted in Celtic, Folk, World Music on Jun 2nd, 2010
Check Our Catalog “The Chieftains’ Paddy Moloney has been obsessed with the historical account of the San Patricios, a band of immigrant Irish soldiers who deserted the American Army during the Mexican-American War in 1846 to fight for the other side, against the Manifest Destiny ideology of James Polk’s America. San Patricio, more than merely [...]
Posted in Contemporary Folk, Country, Country Folk on May 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “It was always clear that she was a folk-influenced singer/songwriter who found a way to coexist with Nashville rather than an artist whose first goal was landing singles on country radio. Now that Carpenter has left the major labels, she seems more than willing to let the country side of her musical [...]
Posted in Country Folk, Folk on May 20th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “The New Lost City Ramblers were instrumental in bridging the gap between the young urban folk musicians of the early ’60s, who embraced the form and feel of old-time American music, and the last of the great rural singers and players who had actually grown up with the music in its original [...]
Check Our Catalog “You really can’t go wrong with a single song here, making it a great sampler for both newbies and pint-swinging hobbyists.” –All Music Guide
Check Our Catalog “Folk singer-songwriter Caroline Herring’s keening alto and hummingbird vibrato will grab you hard on her blisteringly beautiful new album, Golden Apples of the Sun…Herring proves again she is a performer of remarkable skill who deserves a spot among contemporary folk’s brightest lights.” –Pop Matters
Posted in Celtic, World Music on Apr 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “The quartet (plus guests) wheel freely through it all…they’ve developed into a superb, tight unit, but one which so obviously enjoys the music. They do what they do, and they do it very well.” –All Music Guide
Posted in Folk on Apr 28th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “A singer/songwriter famed for his rich, expressive baritone, New Jersey native John Gorka was one of the leading lights of the new folk movement.”–All Music Guide