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Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings
by Doug Collette
Solo musical performances are a rare and unusual experience unto themselves for both artist and audience. Whether song-oriented or in improvisational mode, the creator offers the work from a stance of vulnerability in the hope of connecting with the observers in such a way that the intimacy of the moment(s) provides insight into the minds and ...
Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album
by Doug Collette
It has been years since the woefully unsung pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali recorded Metaphysics and, while its circuitous route to release is worth more than a little note, that story seems to have taken precedence over insight into and observation of the music itself. In keeping with its customarily astute archival approach, the Omnivore curating team ...
Jimmie Vaughan: The Pleasure's All Mine
by Doug Collette
This double CD/triple LP set contains the first two segments of a Jimmie Vaughan musical trilogy begun a decade ago with Blues Ballads and Favorites (Shout, 2010). Succeeded a year later with a similarly-titled follow-up, it has subsequently been long unavailable, but has been reissued in anticipation of the seventieth birthday of Stevie Ray's older sibling ...
Fall 2020
by Doug Collette
Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Heathcote Hill “the stories we are told" 311 Music 2020 Roots-music artists too often sacrifice ...
Chris Hillman: Time Between: My Life As A Byrd, Burrito Brother and Beyond
by Doug Collette
Time Between: My Life As A Byrd, Burrito Brother and Beyond Chris Hillman 315 Pages ISBN: # 978-1947026353 BMG Books 2020) Chris Hillman has undoubtedly led one of the most extraordinary careers of any musician in contemporary rock. In fact, if the Grammys or The Rock and Roll ...
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks: Orange Crate Art 25th Anniversary Edition (2 CD)
by Doug Collette
Personal estrangement, lawsuits and terminal illness permeated the Beach Boys' world when Orange Crate Art was originally released in 1995. It is thus little wonder it was greeted with more than a little ballyhoo (even if that was bit tentative), but that's also because it was, apart from the single song “Sail On Sailor" from Holland ...
The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma
by Doug Collette
The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma Ben Sidran 286 pages ISBN: #978-0578556604 Nardis Books 2020 Keyboardist, vocalist, composer and author, plus long-time compatriot of none other than 'The Space Cowboy' himself, Steve Miller, Ben Sidran is the epitome of well-crafted spontaneity. As was, in his own inimitable fashion, musician/producer/entrepreneur ...
Winter 2020
by Doug Collette
Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Sugar Blue Colors Beeble Music 2020 Musiclovers listening to Colors may or may not be ...
Rip it Up: The Specialty Records Story by Billy Vera
by C. Michael Bailey
Rip it Up: The Specialty Records Story Billy Vera RPM Series 177 Pages ISBN: # 978-1947026360 BMG Books 2019 The best music writing makes the reader go listen to music. It is just that simple. Volume 4 of BMG's RPM Series: Rip It Up—The Specialty Records Story is ...
The New Riders of The Purple Sage: Thanksgiving in New York City
by Doug Collette
As preserved on Thanksgiving In New York City, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage were far more than just a mere offshoot of the Grateful Dead. Initially born in the folk surge of the late Sixties as the latter band's titular leader, Jerry Garcia, initially worked and learned with future NRPS chief songwriter John “Marmaduke" ...
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