Articles by Brent Hagerman

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  Anne Lederman

  Fiddlesong

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  To call Anne Lederman a Celtic fiddler would do her a great disservice. She's practically the living epitome of The Red Violin - an ethnomu...

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  John Reischman & The Jaybirds

  Field Guide

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Perhaps the title of this record is meant to evoke the field recordings of Mike Seegar and others. And by the sounds of these songs, it's a...

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  Stringband

  The Indispensable (1972-2002)

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Long before Gord Downie or the Rheostatics injected popular music with a much needed Canadian lyrical slant, a fearless folk group was busy...

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  Tin Hat Trio

  The Rodeo Eroded

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Occasionally a group comes along that change the rules. And it's as if Tin Hat Trio's third chamber acoustic album, The Rodeo Eroded, is tr...

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  Various

  Omnium Omnibus

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  As a record label, Minnesota's Omnium Recordings specialises in interesting hybrids of rock and folk music. This compilation celebrates ten...

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  Nancy White

  Stickers On Fruit

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  More than once have I cringed when listening to CBC Radio 1 and Nancy White's faux political song, "Stickers On Fruit," destroys an otherwi...

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  Life in a Blender

  Tell Me I'm Pretty

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  The absolutely absurd and certifiably bizarre made this record. New York's Life in a Blender is an entire parade of irreverence and sonic b...

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  Shannon Lyon

  Bound

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Canadian bard Shannon Lyon has taken a self-exile in Holland. His love affair with the country is documented in his newest songs, nine of w...