T BONE BURNETT "Tooth of Crime" ** (Nonesuch) Pervasive dread meets Texas blues shuffles and big-band horns on "Tooth of Crime." A major producer (the soundtrack for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and multimillion-sellers for Counting Crows and the Wallflowers), T Bone Burnett in 1997 wrote songs for a revised version of "Tooth of Crime," Sam Shepard's 1972 play about dueling rock
Dissillusioned with life, love and the break up of his band, at the end of 2006 Justin Vernon went to "hibernate" in a log cabin in the woods of Wisconsin. He chopped wood, he hunted and ate deer and he recorded 'For Emma, Forever Ago', a sort of musical version of Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'.
What is not immediately obvious as you stroll into the open-plan, 17th-floor offices of Tommy Hilfiger, brightly lit by windows that stare down New York's Hudson River, is whether you are entering the home of a fashion house or a music label. Sure there are racks of pick'n'mix clothes rolled across the aisles and a fashion shot or two on the desks, but the walls are adorned by guitars,
Over the course of their weekly two sets each at Mickey's Tavern, Robby Schiller and Blake Thomas had, as was their wont, kept their whistles very wet -- so wet, in fact, that they wound up not at the house on Ingersoll Street they share with other musicians and dumpster-divers and dogs and girlfriends and folksingers, but at B.B. Clarke Beach on the shore of Lake Monona, on whose frozen surface
It looks like desperation. Alistair Darling on Tuesday announced he was putting up personal tax allowances to help those on low incomes hit by the abolition of the 10p tax band.
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