THIS is American Music: A Rock 'n' Roll Revue

American Girl - This is American Music Revue



This video is what rock & roll is all about. It’s the last song played at the opening night of the This Is American Music Revue's first show in Denton Tx. What’s the This is American Music Revue you ask? Well it’s a group of bands (Glossary, The Drams, Two Cow Garage & Grand Champeen) that are playing a handful of shows together this week in the Midwest. It’s like a mini festival w/ each band playing a set then they all come up & play a song or two at the end. This video is of them covering Tom Petty’s American Girl. Unfortunately the audio with the video isn’t the greatest, but it’s listenable. But that doesn't matter, because it's the love for music comes in loud and clear. These are bands that will likely never hit the big time and will probably struggle to keep their music careers going. But it's not because they're not talented. Or because they don't play with heart. If you can't see that they play with their hearts on their sleeves from this video, you know what, just head on over the the Nickleback home page because you don't get it and likely never will.

So if the This is American Music Revue is playing near your town week, get out to the show. I'm sure you won't regret it. Supposedly they’re working on doing a bunch of these shows in the east this spring & if they’re coming anywhere around here I’m so there.

This is American Music Rock and Roll Revue

GLOSSARY - The Better Angels of Our Nature

Glossary’s fifth album, The Better Angels of Our Nature, may not be much of a departure from their previous work but it may be their best. Following up on 2006’s For What I Don’t Become, Angels takes the heartfelt lyrics and the guitar rock Americana they do best and infuses it in 10 new tracks. Whether it be the rockin' "Shout It From The Rooftop" to the lamentfull "Almsgiver" to the "we're still standing" anthem of the set's closer, "Blood On The Knobs." This is American music, music of the heartland, full of tales of regret, lost love and rebel sprit. Music reminiscent of The Band and Anodyne era Uncle Tupelo.

Music this good needs to be heard. Glossary knows this, which is why it needs to be mentioned how the band distributed this album. A full three weeks prior to the album’s release Glossary offered it up for free download on their website, in fact it’s still available there (see link below). Yeah, yeah, you say Radiohead did that too, what’s the big deal? Well, first Glossary didn’t ask for anything in return for the download, they would like your email to keep you up to date on the bands doings, but it isn’t necessary to download. Second, unlike Radiohead, Glossary offered a near cd quality rip of the album (up to 320kbps vs Radiohead’s 160kbps). For a band with no name recognition to give away an album, especially one of this quality, tells you one thing, they know they have something good that people will pay for even after hearing it for free. And for those that do pay for the album, they’ve hand printed the album art and are going to offer them in limited numbers. When the limited number of the art is up, they’ll print out another limited run of the album with different album art.

+++HIGHLY RECOMMENDED+++

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BLOG UPDATE

So I finally got a home computer & some of that high speed internet you hear talk of. What does this mean for you, the reader of this blog? Maybe actual posts more often then once every six months. Hopefully about once a week.