Alela Diane

Blitzen Trapper Play Like Two Bands

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) February 24, 2009 3:13 pm
It may have been cold and snowy on the streets of Toronto, but the heat inside the Horseshoe Tavern felt like a blistering sirocco off the Sahara Desert. The small club was sold-out for the return performance of Blitzen Trapper, fresh off the late 2008 release of Furr. The night began with the at-times maudlin sound of Alela Diane, a Nevada...
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Blitzen Trapper (photo by Carrie Musgrave)
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Alela Diane — To Be Still

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) February 20, 2009 2:45 pm
Thanks to some early experimentation, Alela Diane was initially labelled a psych-folk artist. But her material on To Be Still — the follow-up to 2006's The Pirate's Gospel debut — has clearly migrated towards uncomplicated, plaintive and delicate country and folk (courtesy of some bluegrassy violin and banjo accompaniment). On the whole, To Be...
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Alela Diane Always Drawn To Folk Music

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) November 13, 2009 5:18 pm
Alela Diane is only 26 years old, but that doesn't come across at all when she speaks about her music. Diane considers herself a "late bloomer," having not learned the guitar until she was 19, and the California native is confident that regardless of how she got into music, she deserves to be there. Folk music has made a big...
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