Folk road dog David Wilcox has crisscrossed the country many times over, playing empty coffeehouses and packed folk festivals. His 2002 collection, Live Songs & Stories, documents these journeys, alternating live versions of his best-loved songs with the humorous introductions the singer/songwriter has become known for. Wilcox's brand of intimate ...
A compilation of 15 performances originally broadcast on KCRW, a non-commercial radio station in Los Angeles. This is something of a grab bag of favorites on "AAA" radio, with mildly adventurous artists who are not odd enough to offend the taste of adult, mainstream-grounded listeners, like Tori Amos, Michael Penn, Los Lobos, Lindsey Buckingham, ...
Vista is David Wilcox's 13th album in 17 years (that's including a live one of old songs, a best-of, and a duo disc with his wife Nance Pettit of traditional poetry set to music), and he seems to have a pretty good idea by now of what he wants to accomplish. He recorded in his home studio, then took the results into a professional studio for some ...
The Very Best of David Wilcox is drawn from only the second, third, and fourth albums of a singer/songwriter who had recorded eight albums by the time of its release, which should give a good idea of its completeness. Wilcox signed to A&M Records in 1989 after issuing his debut album, Nightshift Watchman, himself, and he made three albums for the ...
Despite the critical acclaim for his two previous albums, David Wilcox appeared to be aware that he was about to be dropped by his label if he didn't break into the mainstream. While Big Horizon does contain some of his best work, it suffers from over-production and arrangements aimed squarely at adult radio. The album starts promisingly, with the ...
Neither David Wilcox or Nance Pettit planned on creating an album called Out Beyond Ideas when they started reading sacred poetry. The accidental project began when a friend gave the couple a book of mystic poetry for Christmas. Soon, they -- being musicians -- decided to set the poems to music. As they continued this experiment, just for fun, the ...
With his mellifluous tone and jazz and soul phrasing, Wilcox could be written off as a lightweight, but his songs and musicianship are far more worthy than a copycat's. This is the eighth album for the folksinger with the James Taylor voice, at times accompanied by acoustic band Jars of Clay. He tackles a back porch blues on "What You Whispered," ...
This volume of Martha Stewart Living is, not surprisingly, about putting children to bed, so the music is devoted to quiet NPR lullabies, balancing songs by new acoustic merchants like Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss, Tuck & Patti, and David Wilcox with adult alt-rock favorites like Barenaked Ladies, Lucinda Williams, and Everything but the Girl, plus ...
David Wilcox writes in the liner notes of Into the Mystery that he feels as though his first ten albums were practice and now he's really cooking. Perhaps the subtitle of the disc could have been "How David Got His Groove Back," because he certainly did, not that it was ever lost, necessarily. Into the Mystery is a gloriously lovely and ...
If you like folk music and have ever lived in Los Angeles, chances are you know the names Roz and Howard Larman. Their FolkScene radio show on KPFK has been an L.A. institution since 1970, and one of its highlights has been visits to the studio by just about everybody you can think of from the world of folk. There have been more than 1, 500 such ...
"I know compassion is all out of fashion/And anger is all the rage." So begins singer/songwriter David Wilcox' 13-part story of coming out from under and making it in the modern world. From the daily cynicism of the Alison Krauss-assisted title track to financial struggles ("Never Enough"), human loss ("Prisoner of War"), and the frustrations of ...
Christine Lavin's first album for 1-800-Prime, Big League Babe, Vol. 1, finds the singer-songwriter in familiar but appealing form, turning out a set of humorous urban folk songs. As always, if you don't share Lavin's sense of humor, you won't get into the album, but for longtime fans, there's a fair share of delights here. ~ Thom Owens, All Music ...
This 50th anniversary sampler ("sampler," not "best-of" or something like that, is the term used on the sleeve) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Vanguard label. Vanguard has recorded some important music, particularly in the folk, blues, and folk-rock fields in the 1960s. This is not the best way to get acquainted with its catalog, due to ...
For all the recordings they may do, folkies earn their living on the road, and David Wilcox has been doing that long enough to have developed a repertoire of crowd-pleasers that are not the sort of thing he likes to put on his more sober, earnest studio albums. Comic, bawdy, whimsical, sentimental, touching, these songs are in essence novelty ...
Vanguard Records has launched a series of mid-priced collections of music from artists in the catalog called Vanguard Visionaries, and North Carolina-based singer/songwriter David Wilcox is one of the former Vanguard artists who has had a disc drawn from his work. However, of the dozen albums Wilcox has released as of this writing, only two were ...
Unambitious and unassuming, this album nonetheless features the hot blues guitar that this Canadian party-music monster is known for. Quoting briefly from "In the Mood" on "Downtown Came Uptown" is about the only time he ventures from comfortable territory. The cover picture of him firing up a professionally rolled doobie and staring sideways at ...
This CD has highlights of the first annual Martha's Vineyard Singer/Songwriter retreat. Sponsored by Christine Lavin, it was recorded live at the Wintertide Coffeehouse. Standout cuts are Jonatha Brooke's "Dog Dreams," and Pierce Pettis's cover of Mark Heard's "Nod over Coffee," and James Mee's title cut. ~ Richard Meyer, All Music Guide
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