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Chip’s Top Albums of 2024

Thursday, January 02, 2025 By Chip Frazier

2024 was a difficult year to rank albums. There were so many exceptional releases this year that if I tried to re-rank the list it might look a lot different depending on my mood. My top 5 were the albums that really stuck with me, as for the rest it was very difficult to rank […]

Filed Under: Best of Year, Reviews Tagged With: 49 Winchester, American Aquarium, Billy Strings, Charley Crockett, Emily Nenni, Fantastic Cat, India Ramey, Jack White, Loose Cattle, MJ Lenderman, the Avett Brothers, The Mavericks, The Red Clay Strays, Waxahatchee, Yarn

The Avett Brothers – The Third Gleam

Thursday, August 27, 2020 By Chip Frazier

I have loved the “Gleam” series that the Avetts occasionally put out. It is the band in its most simple form. Let’s face it, the Avett Brothers have become more able than anyone in Americana to write Anthemic ballads. As they have grown, their lineup and live shows have also become bigger. They are in […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Indie, Reviews, Videos Tagged With: Avett Brothers, the Avett Brothers

Readers’ Pick: Best of Spring 2016: World War Willie by Willie Nile

Friday, July 01, 2016 By Tom Osborne

Willie Nile, World War Willie - cover art

WILLIE NILE, World War Willie beats out JARED DECK, Jared Deck as your favorite for the Spring 2016. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Top 25 Spring 2016 WILLIE NILE, World War Willie (275) JARED […]

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Jared Deck, the Avett Brothers, The Felice Brothers, Willie Nile

Regretfully Overlooked in 2010

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 By Tom Osborne

James Maddock, Sunrise on Avenue C

It’s just too hard to listen to every album that gets released in a given year. I certainly can’t. What that means is a handful of good recordings escaped me until this year. Fortunately, it’s never too late to discover good music. Here’s a few recommendations in case you missed them too. JAMES MADDOCK, Sunrise […]

Filed Under: Best of Year, Reviews Tagged With: Bruce Springsteen, james maddock, My Jerusalem, Ryan Adams, the Avett Brothers

Readers’ Pick: I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 By Tom Osborne

Twangville readers picked ‘I and Love and You’ by The Avett Brothers as their favorite release for week of September 29, 2009. After five full-length albums and two EPs on Ramseur Records the Avett Brothers have decided to go BIG with their latest release ‘I and Love and You’. What do you do when you […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Americana, Folk, Pop, Readers' Pick, Reviews, Rock Tagged With: the Avett Brothers

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