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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tonight Tonight in Music: Ghost of Kyle Bradford, Darrius Willrich

Posted by on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM


Darrius Willrich - "Can't Get Enough"

Darrius Willrich
(Triple Door) Darrius Willrich is a trained jazz pianist who performs with local jazz bands and hiphop/funk groups like Jambalaya. His solo albums, however, are all about R&B. Not R&B and jazz, or R&B and hiphop, but an R&B that's strictly R&B. Can't Get Enough is Willrich's latest album, and because I'm not a huge fan of R&B, I'm not the best critic to examine the substance of this work. To my ears, it sounds like the real deal, as good as any R&B you could find in L.A. or NYC. It's smooth, soul positive, and has grooves that remind you of "summertime, summertime in the park." CHARLES MUDEDE

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Ghost of Kyle Bradford, Michael Vermillion, Zoe Muth
(Chop Suey) It's hard to do that kind-of-folky acoustic-guitar-and-voice thing. You have to be able to sound earnest without becoming one of those turtleneck-and-cardigan-wearing pseudo-Christian schmucks whom everybody loathes. Ghost of Kyle Bradford have the kind of brutal, literary lyricism that makes folk matter: Bradford sings about the lowered expectations of drunks who can't stand themselves with a pretty voice and spare arrangements. His songs are as real and as raw as a Raymond Carver story—sad, violent moments captured gorgeously in amber. PAUL CONSTANT

Listen to Ghost of Kyle Bradford via MySpace. And see the rest of tonight's listings here!

 

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Re: the R&B vid...SNARE DRUM BACK BEAT SOLO!!!!
Posted by hunky doreen on April 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM

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