Diamond Rugs: “Country Mile”

Songs
Exhibit A: The diamond. Luxurious, eternal, and effervescent. Exhibit B: The rug. Coarse fabric to wipe dirt off shoes. Alas, I present you the quasi-fictional, unlikely tale of how the diamond met the rug... ...

Deer Tick
“Main Street”

Songs
Deer Tick leeched on to me from the first time I heard The Black Dirt Sessions. John McCauley's music does to me what no other musician can do. His raspy, imperfect, atypical voice - combined with the soothing ...

2007: Overlooked

2007, Best Of, Songs
In anticipation of the annual year-end list (coming the final two weeks of this month), here is a collection of overlooked songs not included in last year's list. This is a recognition of tracks released in...
article placeholder

Deer Tick

Songs
"Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)"from the album War Elephant2007iTunesDeer Tick is Providence, RI's singer/guitarist John McCauley, backed by drummer Dennis Ryan. The band's debut release, War Elephant, arrived Se...