Tag Archives: Richmond Fontaine

Best of 2011: The Honorable Mentions

The usual internal debating and spreadsheeting has been underway here for several weeks as List Season moves forward. Instead of giving you several dozens of albums this year, I give you this mix of the runners-up and soon, a Top Ten. You can grab the zip file here. I also made a Spotify mix, because [...]

Portland Show Calendar May – July 2010

May May 24th (Monday): Broken Bells at Wonder Ballroom $30/$34 SOLD OUT May 26th (Wednesday): Bobby Bare Jr. at Mississippi Studios $12 May 27th (Thursday): Local Natives at Mississippi Studios $10 May 30th (Sunday): Kasey Anderson at The Woods $5 May 31st (Monday): Mumford and Sons at Aladdin Theater $12 SOLD OUT June June 1st [...]

Portland Show Calendar: March – May 2010

MARCH March 9 (Tuesday): Weinland, The Maldives and Or, The Whale at Doug Fir. $9/$10. March 13 (Saturday): Star Anna and Kasey Anderson at The White Eagle. $5. March 24 (Wednesday): Okkervil River at Crystal Ballroom. Free with Jack Daniels promo tickets. March 28 (Sunday): The Low Anthem and Timbre Timbre at Doug Fir. $12. [...]

Richmond Fontaine

Richmond Fontaine is one of Portland’s most well-established and enduring Americana acts. Ironically, they’ve found greater fame overseas, particularly in the UK. I can only speculate that this is because the British are more comfortable with being drunk and depressive. Their songs are stripped down, plaintive and heavy on the pedal steel. They are steeped [...]

The Top Twenty of 2009

2009. I’ve but putting together an annual list of top ten albums for a few years now, and sending it to anyone who would read it. This year I have my own site, and with it, a few more readers and some co-conspirators in the form of The Bird List folks. I struggled more this [...]

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