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Article: Who's your uncle Earl?(musician)
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- Sing Out!
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- March 22, 2006
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How did old-time music get so hip all of a sudden? From coast to coast, young string bands are popping up; from the Crooked Jades and Foghorn String Band on the West Coast to Crooked Still and the Mammals on the East.
There is convincing evidence that this is no passing fad. It's a full-fledged social movement ... and in its merry vanguard is the softly provocative female quartet Uncle Earl. Like the best of the young string bands, their sound is at once deeply traditional and unmistakably modern; shimmering with the raw, wild grace of folk music, but palpably contemporary in mood, groove and nuance. Their sound aims to be neither ancient nor modern, but to evoke ...