It’s a bold, compelling set of original tunes, full of glorious lyrical twists and melodic turns. Sincerely, Iris remains Savannah’s most idiosyncratic (and enjoyable) acoustic artist.
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Paula Deen issues an ‘apology’
“I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that I’ve done,” she said, near tears, in a short, edited statement posted on YouTube. “I want to learn and grow from this. Inappropriate and hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable. I’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way but I beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness.”
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Summer movie preview
The 2013 summer movie season began with a heavy metal act (Iron Man 3, which opened May 3) and will end with a pop performance (One Direction: This Is Us, […]
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Review: The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann misses an opportunity to draw out parallels to modernity and instead comes across as a cover band director – someone whose celebrated directorial ambitions coattail the mastery of others who came before him.
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Say hello to the Rosies
Kyrsten, 22, and Kourtney, 18, arrived in October 2012 with a couple of acoustic guitars, a satchel full of original songs, and a telepathic way with the sort of delicate harmony that only siblings can achieve.
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Grandma’s dance party
‘I really wanted to make it dance-y, because I feel that dance is one of the strongest forms of prayer that we can give.’
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Twin Tigers rock, Kyle James Hauser rolls
Powerful, loud and mysterious, and throbs with reverb-laden post-punk energy that seems to come from all directions at once.
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Savannah Music Festival: Rodney Crowell
We’ll just cut to the chase and say that the fact that they’ve just made their first album as a duo, Old Yellow Moon, is a cause for celebration.
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Savannah Music Festival: Tedeschi Trucks Band
It was just three years ago that Allman Brothers Band guitarist Derek Trucks dissolved his other project, the Derek Trucks Band, and announced the formation of an 11-member aggregate spotlighting […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Sarah Jarosz
In a way, Sarah Jarosz is the anti-Taylor Swift. They’re almost exactly the same age, and they’re both tremendously talented writers and performers. They even sorta look alike. But while […]
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Savannah Music Festival: David Grisman Folk Jazz Trio
‘Jerry Garcia and I both had very similar musical tastes and shared many musical heroes.’
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Savannah Music Festival: Sea Wolf
It makes sense that Alex Brown Church attended NYU film school; there’s a broad cinematic sweep to the songs he creates as Sea Wolf —haunting and moody, and committed to […]