Album Stream: William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs

Album Stream: William Elliott Whitmore - <i>Field Songs</i>

While William Elliott Whitmore's record won't be out in stores until July 12, you can stream his entire album here this week.  read more

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Fourth Annual Reeperbahn Festival Boasts International Lineup

Fourth Annual Reeperbahn Festival Boasts International Lineup

If you're over Oktoberfest or just looking for an excuse to explore a different part of Germany, head over to Hamburg at the end of September for the Reeperbahn Festival, the three-night festival that brings 170 acts to 20 different clubs in the same city that launched Beatlemania more than 40 years ago. ...  read more

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Artist of the Week: William Elliott Whitmore

Artist of the Week: William Elliott Whitmore

William Elliott Whitmore needed a change of pace. After concluding his Southern Records trilogy, a series of albums steeped in country-folk and Delta blues variants...  read more

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William Elliott Whitmore to tour with City and Colour

William Elliott Whitmore to tour with City and Colour

Multi-instrumental blues vocalist William Elliott Whitmore is taking to the road during the month before the release of his sixth album. Animals in the Dark, due Feb. 17, is Whitmore's ANTI- Records debut....  read more

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William Elliott Whitmore

William Elliott Whitmore

William Elliott Whitmore is a 28-year-old punk who cradles his banjo and acoustic guitar in tattoo-scrawled arms. But if you didn’t know better, you’d think his voice belonged to some gritty old bastard with a longtime two-pack-a-day habit and an intimate relationship with Jack Daniels. Whitmore’s simple arrangements—often just vocals over banjo or guitar—and introspective lyrics (“Don’t alter my altar / Don’t desecrate my shrine / My church is in the water / My home is underneath the shady pines,” Whitmore rasps wearily but firmly in “One Man’s Shame”) make for a stripped-down sound that’s personal and endearingly pure. ...  read more

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