Album review: Sheryl Crow's '100 Miles From Memphis'

latimesblogs.latimes.com : Album review: Sheryl Crow's '100 Miles From Memphis' By Ann Powers

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"Sheryl Crow’s seventh studio album is a summer skinny-dip into the retro-soul sound that has updated ’60s nostalgia for the post hip-hop generation. With a title invoking the distance between Crow’s Missouri hometown and the home of Elvis and Al Green, it’s more an exploration of the rhythm-and-blues diaspora than a straightforward re-creation of any particular Southern sound. (...)"

Amanda Jo Williams

Amanda Jo Williams' cosmic country | By Margaret Wappler | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/cYRpYg

Amanda Jo Williams : "The Bear Eats Me"

My Cabal - School of Seven Bells

Indie-rock fans are getting younger all the time — School of Seven Bells’ 2007 single “My Cabal” inspired this video treatment by third-graders at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks. SVIIB liked it so much, the band posted it on its website. The students star, but the clip also features a cameo from a marionette, Karl. Deep background.

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