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Ryan Dugré Three Rivers

Jim Hynes easy listening, jazz, making a Scene February 19, 2021

Ryan Dugré Three Rivers 11A Brooklyn guitarist and composer Ryan Dugré works as a sideman with folks like Cass McCombs and Eleanor Friedberger, but his solo music is composed of cinematic, guitar-led instrumentals. The pieces feel intimate, warm and nostalgic but perhaps not what you are expecting if you’re thinking John Fahey or Leo Kottke […]

CD Reviews/ Easy Listening

Mary Black Orchestrated

Jim Hynes jazz, making a Scene, mary black November 20, 2019

Mary Black Orchestrated Gifthorse Mary Black, long considered Ireland’s premiere female vocalist, has been recording now for three decades but this is a first. Like early Emmylou Harris, Black is an interpreter, not a writer. Yet, she has a sizeable catalog from which she chose 11 songs to be orchestrated by Ireland’s acclaimed RTE National […]

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