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The Acoustic Motorbike

I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me, see like me, or be like me," Bob Dylan sang in 1964. Given the richness of his writing, it's easy to forget that the man who set the prototype for the folk-influenced singer-songwriter has been as elusive as he's been prolific. That's not true, of course, for...

1992 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Riverside

1990

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The kid brother of Irish folk star Christy Moore, Barry Moore chose a professional alias that combined the surname of a character from James Joyce's Ulysses with a reference to the protagonist of a Suzanne Vega song. Likewise, the themes addressed in Luka Bloom's music, a Celtic-flavored folk-rock hybrid driven by the singer's vigorous "electro-acoustic" guitar work, have revealed a fascination wi...

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