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The Rough Guide To AmericanaAward winning rock writer and musician Sylvie Simmons handpicked the tracks on this album to showcase the genre's best twenty first century takes on the themes of old country. Pain and trouble are rife in country music: you can barely sink a whiskey in Nashville without a side order of melancholy and fries. Delivering a healthy dose, Giant Sand opens the album with anguished track 'Man On A String'. Closing the album with dark desperation, Mary

The Independent on Sunday

The influence of these brother's open-tuned

Oumar Barou Diallo on bass guitar

conjuring both the casual violence of life in present-day Buenos Aires and the spooky

as roving musicians hammered out high-spirited tunes for the drinkers and dancers and got the bar swinging

challenging and startingly beautiful

Bessie Smith sang with a kind of heartfelt emotion and raw unfiltered passion that could only come from someone with first-hand experience of the deep dark shades of the blues

to the bark of a dog

With a guitar technique related to the ichumar style

15 Death Letter Blues (Part One) (1934)

and a uniquely valuable bridge between East and West

His years of absorbing influences from diverse cultures is expressed through the establishment of the Bob Brozman Orchestra - a unique concept in which Bob intricately played each instrumental part

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