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Fountains of Clarity Interview Series: Brent Best of Slobberbone

Friday, September 22, 2023 By Erica Bruce

(Fountains of Clarity Interview Series will be an ongoing series of low-fi podcast-like chats.) “We were booze band not a boobs band.”-Brent Best on Slobberbone In the words of a friend recently, “You either know Slobberbone or you don’t, but if you do know them, you love them.” The band hasn’t played much in the last […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Rock Tagged With: Brent Best, Slobberbone

Monday Morning Video – The Drams & Slobberbone

Monday, May 06, 2019 By Mayer Danzig

I’ve been digging back into the Brent Best catalog lately. Here are two songs that I somewhat overlooked in the past but are in heavy rotation now: “Crudely Drawn” from The Drams 2006 release Jubilee Dive. and “Sweetness, That’s Your Cue” from Slobberbone’s 2002 release Slippage.

Filed Under: Rock, Videos Tagged With: Brent Best, Slobberbone, The Drams

Monday Morning Video – Brent Best and Matthew Ryan

Monday, October 08, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

There’s something special about seeing artists share a stage for a song swap. It becomes all the more magical when the artists are clearly enjoying themselves as much – if not more – than the audience in attendance. Such was the case when Twangville brought together Brent Best and Matthew Ryan for a special house […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Brent Best, Matthew Ryan

Monday Morning Video – a Brent Best Double Play

Monday, July 30, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

One of the great things about spending time in Dallas has been the opportunity to see some of the local legends, not the least of which is Denton’s Brent Best. I saw him two weeks ago and he played this tremendous unreleased gem called “Footnote.” What’s not to like about a chorus that goes, “I […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Brent Best, Slobberbone

Monday Morning Video – Brent Best Tells the Tale of Robert Cole

Monday, January 04, 2016 By Mayer Danzig

The centerpiece of Brent Best”s most recent solo album (Your Dog, Champ) is a haunting tale of family tragedy, written from the perspective of an eight year old boy. The song had been kicking around for awhile – here”s Best performing it back in 2006.

Filed Under: Americana, Videos Tagged With: Brent Best

Mea Culpa! A Special Summer Playlist, Part 2

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 By Mayer Danzig

Devil in Me, Anderson East (from the Low Country Sound/Elektra Records release Delilah) There’s something special about that old-school soul sound. It’s all the more impressive when it is created by a young whippersnapper like Anderson East. The Nashville by way of Alabama singer-songwriter serves up an exhilarating debut album that is steeped in Muscle […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Downloads, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Soul/R&B, Streams Tagged With: Alvvays, Anderson East, Banditos, Brent Best, Daniel Romano, Greg Trooper, Low Cut Connie, Uncle Lucius

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