Category: Music
15 review(s) found that match this category.
The Wakefields: Falling Down Blue
Fall 2007
Country music always seems to be filled with nostalgia—looking back on the days of old with a southern drawl, an acoustic guitar, and a broken heart. Yet every so often artists like The Wakefields come along to alter these perspectives. Falling...
Categories: Music
Tags: WSU Creamery
Destinations Unknown
Summer 2006
Broken hearts, barrooms, rodeos, and crying in your beer—the new CD, Destinations Unknown, from Chris Guenther '04 has all the ingredients of a traditional country from the heart of country music, Nashville. Chris separates himself from his cro...
Categories: Music
Tags: WSU Creamery
Where the Fins Meet the Frets
Fall 2008
If life imitates art, then for Ray Troll, so does music. More specifically, his music imitates his art. The debut CD from Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers titled Where The Fins Meet The Frets contains 16 original songs that one could say leap dire...
Categories: Music
Tags: Children's music
Louisiana—A Pianist's Journey
Fall 2008
In one of my first musical memories, I am sitting with my grandfather at his player-piano, watching the punched rolls spin as we listen to the popular music of his youth. As a young child, I hadn't yet developed a curiosity for the vast wealth and br...
Categories: Music
Tags: Piano
Acoustic Jazz Quartet: Organic
Spring 2004
It becomes clearer the longer you listen to Organic that the title of this CD indicates the playing style that the Acoustic Jazz Quartet allows to grow in the middle of its straight-ahead jazz sounds. Most of the numbers begin s...
Categories: Music
Tags: Percussion, Jazz
The Way I Feel Tonight
Spring 2008
For a lot of musicians, recording a second CD is typically a tough proposition. Do you take your music in a new direction, or do you maintain some aspects of the first CD that garnered attention and fans? Jennifer Lynn '03 manages to do both on her s...
Categories: Music
Tags: WSU Creamery
Wiggle Like a Fish
Summer 2008
Sometime in the 1970s or '80s, when National Public Radio was airing a program called Folk Festival USA, I recorded a concert from one of those broadcasts by a singer named Sam Hinton. Among the songs Hinton performed was one called "Barney McCabe." ...
Categories: Music
Tags: Children's music
The Dozier-Jarvis-Young Quartet: You Guys From Around Here?
Fall 2006
The photo of the Moscow/Pullman highway which graces the cover of the Dozier-Jarvis-Young Quartet's debut CD release, You Guys From Around Here? brought the memories flooding back, as I settled down to listen to the opening track, "Homecoming." You s...
Categories: Music
Tags: Jazz
Handmade
Winter 2006
It's no accident that the cover art for Paul Ely Smith's compact disc, Handmade, features a detail from an oriental rug. Paul, an instructor in the General Education Program at Washington State University, has been a collector of tribal woven piecesâ...
Categories: Music
Tags: Instrumental music, World music
East West Encounter
Fall 2002
From the first quietly unsettling notes of Susan Chan's East West Encounter, it's clear that this is no ordinary piano CD. A delicate initial passage suddenly explodes into a dramatic and resonant section of lower keys; two contemporary pieces ro...
Categories: Music
Tags: Piano, Instrumental music
