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Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole"
by Doug Collette
In something of a reflection of its sardonic title, Marshall Crenshaw's From “The Hellhole" is not an album of all-new, never-before-recorded original material. It consists instead of revamped versions of recordings the Detroit native 'completed' for release in various forms in recent years (not the least of which is the now out-of-print #392: The EP Collection (Red River, 2015). Like the remix of Rare Earth's Motown hit “I Just Want to Celebrate," the details of the reworkings of ...
Continue ReadingEggs Over Easy: Good 'n' Cheap: The Eggs Over Easy Story
by Doug Collette
Because the pub-rock moment of the Seventies was essentially relegated to the British Isles and had no corollary in America, it remains a one-line footnote in the chronicles of contemporary rock. Yet as with so many (self-)limited niches of style, its proponents are as fervently devoted as its practitioners like Ducks Deluxe, Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood. Yet history as documented on this 2CD package, will show it was, in fact, United States natives Eggs Over Easy who (re)ignited devotion ...
Continue ReadingDoyle Bramhall: Fitchburg Street
by Mike Perciaccante
You may not realize it, but not only do you probably know Doyle Bramhall -- you love him! Drummer, singer, songwriter and impresario Doyle Bramhall was/is the writer or co-writer of most of the great Stevie Ray Vaughan's hits from the 1980s. Bramhall had his hand in “Dirty Pool,& quot; “House Is Rockin'," “Life By The Drop," “Hard To Be," “Long Way From Home" and “Change It." Bramhall has also played drums on and produced Marcia Ball's Presumed Innocent and ...
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