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“There’s this sound I hear in my head, I get really close, but I can never quite attain it. It's hard to say, it’s hard to verbalize, but it's a pretty fun time to be a guitar a young guitar player right now.”

An arc of mystery and music stretches across America like a vein of gold, an eternal blue highway that grows mired in fable as time both adds to and erases it. What Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America” can be heard in the music of Robert Johnson and Santo and Johnny and Tammy Wynette and Duane Allman, from the dark underbelly birthed in New Orleans that extends across the plains from Bakersfield, California, to Macon, Georgia; from Roscoe Holcomb’s “high lonesome sound” to Bob Dylan’s “wild mercury sound.” And it can most definitely be heard in the reflective, lightning-flash-of-brilliance that is the music of 29-year-old Charlie Ballantine.

Album

Cold Coffee

By Charlie Ballantine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Strange Idea; Zani; Cold Coffee; My One and Only Love; Further; East of the Sun; Bliss; Moon City.

Article: Album Review

Charlie Ballantine: Cold Coffee

Read "Cold Coffee" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
August 11, 2019

Indianapolis-born jazz guitarist/composer Charlie Ballantine has a special relationship with American music of all kinds: jazz, folk, the blues (his father was a blues guitarist, providing some of Ballantine's earliest musical memories) and contemporary rock. His previous album Life Is Brief: The Music Of Bob Dylan (Green Mind Records, 2018) made the inspiration outside of jazz ...

Album

Life is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan

By Charlie Ballantine

Label: Green Mind Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Times They Are a-Changin'; The Death of Emmett Till; She Belongs to Me; Masters of War; The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll; It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding); Don't Think Twice, It's Alright; A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall; Shelter from the Storm; Tears of Rage; One More Cup of Coffee; I Shall Be Released.

Article: Year in Review

Mark Sullivan's Best Releases of 2018

by Mark Sullivan
December 26, 2018

2018 was another year with too many favorites to choose from. I'm struck by the number of “extended ensembles" on my list: groups of eight or more, including a chamber orchestra plus jazz group. It was also an exceptionally good year for RareNoiseRecords, making it hard for me to stop at three albums. This list is ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

James Hall More: Than Just a Trombone

by Nick Davies
June 13, 2018

This show features an interview with trombonist James Hall where we discuss his new album Lattice which is out on Outside in Music as well as other hot topics. We also follow the theme of good music so expect to hear all types of jazz featuring the likes of Miles Davis and Chick Corea

Article: Album Review

Charlie Ballantine: Life is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan

Read "Life is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
May 18, 2018

Indianapolis-based guitarist/composer Charlie Ballantine has included a wide range of covers on his previous albums. Providence (Self Produced, 2016) included Leonard Cohen's modern anthem “Hallelujah" and Tom Waits' “Temptation." Where Is My Mind? (Self Produced, 2017) had the title tune from the Pixies and Sun Kil Moon's “Carissa," plus the traditional “Wayfaring Stranger." But the bulk ...

Album

Where Is My Mind?

By Charlie Ballantine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Real Things; Jones; Hallways; Where Is My Mind?; Telluride; Birds; Future Town; Carissa; Where Is My Mind? (reprise); Wayfaring Stranger; The Last One.

Article: Album Review

Charlie Ballantine: Where Is My Mind?

Read "Where Is My Mind?" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
September 11, 2017

Indianapolis-based guitarist/composer Charlie Ballantine continues on the eclectic path forged on Providence (Self Produced, 2016) on Where Is My Mind?, his third self-produced outing as a leader. Ballantine is again joined by alto saxophonist/flutist Amanda Gardier, with a new rhythm section of bassist Jessie Whittman and drummer Jay Tibbitts. In the absence of a keyboard there ...