MUSIC NEWS - Surprisingly, it's been five years since Texas-based, New England-raised Slaid Cleaves released an album of original material. I know, he's not known as 'prolific', but still, five years is too long for MNN !. And now, Slaid has delivered an album full of uncommonly fine-tuned songs built to stand the test of time. The new music on Everything You Love Will Be Taken Awa
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This is the album of Slaid Cleaves's career. It's also the best alt-country album of 2009 thus far.
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Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves returns with an album of Americana whose quiet beauty belies lyrics of deep resignation. Just as Springsteen's anthems can obscure his bite, Cleaves presents his songs with an offhandedness that, on the surface, offsets the despondency of his words. [...]Original Story
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I saw Slaid Cleaves last night at The World Cafe Live in Philadelphia and was not disappointed. Why the tag "WRITER-singer-songwriter"? It seems to fit the kind of songwriting he excels at - slice-of-life songs about the locals in the bars he used to play, songs about everyday people and not ME ME ME. Story songs, not love songs, though there is love aplenty within. He's somewhere between folk ...
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I saw Slaid Cleaves last night at The World Cafe Live in Philadelphia and was not disappointed. Why the tag "WRITER-singer-songwriter"? It seems to fit the kind of songwriting he excels at - slice-of-life songs about the locals in the bars he used to play, songs about everyday people and not ME ME ME. Story songs, not love songs, though there is love aplenty within. He's somewhere between folk ...
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Another great song from Slaid Cleaves, called "Working Stiff" - about working in the porn industry. Naaahhh, just kiddin'. Really about the diminished dreams we settle for.
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Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves returns with an album of Americana whose quiet beauty belies lyrics of deep resignation. Just as Springsteen's anthems can obscure his bite, Cleaves presents his songs with an offhandedness that, on the surface, offsets the despondency of his words. [...]Original Story
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Mississippi Studios was politely packed by the time Slaid Cleaves took the stage for the first of two sets. Despite the fact that it was early in the work week, every seat on the main floor was filled, and even more people hung loose-limbed over the balcony rails. Throughout the tour, Cleaves has been performing with a rotating set of accompanists. This stretch featured Billy Bright, a reserved...
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This is the album of Slaid Cleaves's career. It's also the best alt-country album of 2009 thus far.
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| 2 Hard to Believe |
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| 3 Beyond Love |
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| 4 Green Mountains and Me |
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| 5 Run Jolee Run |
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