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News: Recording

Copal: Electro-Acoustic Folktronic Belly Dancers

Tying into the ancient past of austere nobility, elegant damsels, extremes of affluent wealth and bitter poverty, lays Copal. Their music mirrors our fast-paced modern world, with electronics and stylish innovations all while keeping focus on their old-world traditions. It inspires visions of mystery pools and deep forested paths—it's a journey from dusk to dawn through ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Jimmy Dawkins Presents the Leric Records Story

Read "Jimmy Dawkins Presents the Leric Records Story" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

The term “stalwart" wasn't invented for Jimmy Dawkins, but as far as the Chicago blues scene is concerned that's just what he is. His stinging, succinct guitar has graced too many sessions to mention, while back in the 1980s he owned the label that's compiled on this title. Now the 1980s wasn't a ...

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Article: Talkin' Blues

Susan Tedeschi: Dreams and Legends

Read "Susan Tedeschi: Dreams and Legends" reviewed by Alan Bryson

by Alan Bryson

A string of Grammy-nominated albums, along with a critically acclaimed and commercially successful DVD of her appearance on the American television program Austin City Limits, have helped to establish Susan Tedeschi as one of today's premiere blues artists. On top of that, she's performed in front of millions of music lovers by headlining numerous festivals and ...

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Article: Live Review

Galactic/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Fillmore in Denver

Read "Galactic/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Fillmore in Denver" reviewed by Geoff Anderson

by Geoff Anderson

Galactic/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Fillmore Denver February 20, 2010 The grooves were deep, the rhythms infectious, the funk ubiquitous. Saturday night the Fillmore in Denver served up a double helping of syncopation with Galactic and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. The Tiny Universe opened with an hour and twenty minute ...

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Article: Album Review

Various: Rhythm & Blues

Read "Rhythm & Blues" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Putumayo World Music has gone across a wide spectrum in picking songs for its look at Rhythm & Blues. The American presence is strongly manifested, but artists from England, including a band that has a singer from Panama, show the wide influence of the music. Vintage singers strut their stuff and new acolytes blend styles while ...

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Article: Live Review

WWOZ: Thirty Years of "Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe"

Read "WWOZ: Thirty Years of  "Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe"" reviewed by Wade Luquet

by Wade Luquet

In a small office just off of the main studio, music director Scott Borne sits among stacks of boxes containing 25,000 CD's with a machine that picks up a CD from a stack, copies it and then digitizes it. The music from that CD will now be safely housed on a server in the second floor ...

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Article: Album Review

Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi

Read "The Bright Mississippi" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts

Pianist, writer, producer and arranger Allen Toussaint can justifiably be called a living legend. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he helped define the New Orleans R&B sound of the '60s and '70s through his work with Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, The Meters and Dr. John, then went on to collaborate with ...

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AfterThe Rain

By Irma Thomas

Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2006

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Hittin' On Nothin' / Hip Shakin' Mama

By Irma Thomas

Label: Columbia
Released: 1989


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