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TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
(OK Hotel) The magic of Jason Trachtenburg and his Family Slideshow Players is hard to nail down. It could be the idea itself--him and his family performing simple yet brilliantly catchy songs relating to slides they find on weekend yard sale hunts. It could be his eight-year-old daughter, who does a damn good job of playing the drums, scurrying offstage at intervals to work on her homework while her dad and mom keep the show going. Or maybe the magic is just that it's different. No big, amped-up guitars, cool thrift store clothes, or trumped-up trashy sex appeal, just plain old innocent pop songs as pure as the virtues of an eight-year-old. Nice, huh? MARK DUSTON
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, PIG IRON, JOHN HERALD
(Tractor Tavern) These four definitely have their own thing going on. Yonder Mountain String Band, an eccentric, electrified, fast-pickin' acoustic quartet from somewhere out there yonder in them hills of Colorado, boasts that if the power suddenly cut out, you'd still hear the band getting down loud and clear. Though traditional bluegrass has no bass--or anything having to do with electricity, for that matter--YMSB certainly get away with defying tradition. The low end carries the band's sound into a t
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Who are the Sons of the Pioneers and why do they have the audacity to claim to be “Icons of Western Music”?
The short answer is they singularly built a new genre and library of music that is an American original, one that has become synonymous with the American West and Cowboy and one which keeps enthralling generations of audiences. Although others have followed, although others have openly emulated them and although others have subsequently added to the genre of Western music, the Pioneers were the first and the best. They rightfully hold a legendary place in Americana.
What would the West be without it’s own style of music? Think of the term “the West” and you think of natural beauty, a cultural mind-set and a very distinctive type of music. The term evokes the image of the singing cowboy and of songs that paint vivid mental pictures of Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Cool Water, Tall Timber and that Strawberry Roan. The West has always had its heros but until the 1930s a distinct type of music was not part of Western lore. The public did not connect any separate genre of music to the West and the cowboy. Starting in the early 1930s the film and radio industry changed all that forever.
From the earliest days of the film industry the cowboy has been