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Trudy Lynn: Turning the Same Ole Corners

by Ron Kalb
May 20, 2026

Listening to the February 2026 digital release of Trudy Lynn's Turning the Same Ole Corners inspires a trip back in time to the Consumer Electronics Show at McCormick Place, Chicago, where Sony unveiled its first CD player. The sound was clean, crystalline, futuristic. Great for classical. Great for pop. But for blues--the music of roadhouse sweat, smoke and booze--it always felt like someone had wiped down the bar with antiseptic. That tension between polish and grit hangs over ...