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Article: Album Review

Tony Joe White: Bad Mouthin'

Read "Bad Mouthin'" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

You might not recognize Tony Joe White by name but chances are you recognize his songs. A musical lone wolf born and raised on a Louisiana cotton farm about twenty miles from the nearest town (Oak Grove), White's unique blend of country funk and blues proved fertile for soulful singers from Elvis Presley ("Poke ...

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Article: Album Review

Tony Joe White: Bad Mouthin'

Read "Bad Mouthin'" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

If Tony Joe White's seventeenth album, Bad Mouthin', proves anything, it's how deeply evocative of his Southern heritage are his own songs, even as they stand next to--and sound of a piece with--those of Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and Charlie Patton. Appropriately, virtually all twelve tracks on this LP find the author of ...

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Article: Interview

Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing is Ordinary

Read "Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing is Ordinary" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

More than any other person, Leonardo Pavkovic has made me write some crazy shit. Pavkovic is the primal force behind the joyously eclectic MoonJune Records, which he established in 2001. “Established" may not be the right word: “I am truly an unusual and rules breaking call-it-record-company with a 'label' identity despite the fact that ...

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Article: SoCal Jazz

John Mayall: In The Pocket at 84

Read "John Mayall: In The Pocket at 84" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley

For the past five and a half decades, John Mayall has written scores of both relevant and joyous music. It should come as no surprise that at the tender age of 84 he continues to do so. It soothingly, and ingeniously seems to flow out of him like a calm, yet telling, river. Many ...

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The Modern, Chess & Vee-Jay Singles And Collection 1949-1962

By John Lee Hooker

Label: Acrobat Music
Released: 2017
Track listing:
CD 1:
Sally May; Boogie Chillun; Hoggie Boogie; Hobo Blues; Whistlin' and Moanin' Blues; Weeping Willow Boogie; Crawlin' King Races; Drifting from Door to Door; I'm a Howlin' Wolf; Playin' the Phone Number; Roll and Roll; Let Your Daddy Ride; One More Time; John Lee's House Rent Boogie; Queen Bee; Tease Me Baby; Women in My Life; Mad Man Blues; Boogie Now; Leave My Wife Alone; Ramblin' by Myself; Louise.

CD 2:
High Priced Woman; Union Station Blues; I'm in the Mood; How Can You Do It; Anybody See My Baby; Turn Over a New Leaf; Ground Hog Blues; Rock Me Mama; Cold Chills All Over Me; I Got Eyers for You; Hurts Me So; Bluebird Blues; Key to the Highway; Walkin' The Boogie; Sugar Mama; It's My Own Fault; Women and Money; It's Been a Long Time Baby; Rock House Boogie; It's Stormin' and Rainin'; Ride 'Till I Die; Love Money Can't Buy; Please Take Me Back; Too Much Boogie.

CD 3:
Need Somebody; Down Child; Gonna Boogie; I Wonder Little Darling; Jump Me (One More Time); I Tried Hard; Let's Talk It Over;; Bad Boy; Cool Little Car; Shake Holler and Run; Half a Stranger; Taxi Driver; You Receive Me; Hug and Squeeze; The Syndicator; I'm Ready; Lookin' for a Woman; Mambo Chillin'; Time Is Marching; Every Night; Trouble Blues; Baby Lee; Dimples; I'm So Worried Baby; The Road Is So Rough.

CD 4:
I'm So Excited; I See When You're Weak; Rosie Mae; Little Wheel; Unfriendly Woman; You Can Lead Me Baby; I Love You Honey; You've Taken My Woman; Maudie; I'm in the Mood; Boogie Chillun' Tennessee Blues; Hobo Blues; Crawlin' Kingsnake; Solid Sender; No Shoes; Dusty Road; Tupelo (a.k.a. Backwater Blues); I'm Mad Again; I'm Going Upstairs; Take Me as I Am; Want Ad Blues; Boom Boom; Drug Store Woman; Let's Make It; She's Mine; A New Leaf.

Article: Album Review

Roberto Ottaviano QuarkTet: Sideralis

Read "Sideralis" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti

Per il suo più recente lavoro, appena pubblicato, Roberto Ottaviano ha inteso realizzare un omaggio a John Coltrane nella ricorrenza del cinquantesimo anniversario dalla sua scomparsa. In realtà il disco è molto più di un semplice tributo al grande artista, che è sempre stato uno dei principali punti di riferimento per Ottaviano; le dieci composizioni originali ...

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Article: Interview

A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano

Read "A dialogo con Roberto Ottaviano" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Poliedrico quanto a collaborazioni ed esplorazioni di aree stilistiche, sempre rigorosissimo nel modo di affrontare qualsiasi situazione musicale, ritenuto dalla critica uno dei maggiori interpreti del sassofono jazz in Europa, Roberto Ottaviano è prossimo a compiere sessant'anni, essendo nato a Bari nel dicembre del '57. E lo fa presentando un ennesimo lavoro di altissimo livello, altro ...

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Article: In Pictures

Buddy Guy and the Damn Right Blues Band Heats Up a Summer Night at the Sandler Center

Read "Buddy Guy and the Damn Right Blues Band Heats Up a Summer Night at the Sandler Center" reviewed by Mark Robbins

by Mark Robbins

When 81 years old Buddy Guy walked from stage left to the the center stage microphone of the Sandler Center the audience was already on it's feet. That's how it's been for the past 50 plus years, whether sharing the stage with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and others or, like Tuesday night (August 22), ...

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Article: Album Review

Black String: Mask Dance

Read "Mask Dance" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

The geomungo--the Korean six-stringed fretted zither--is one of the oldest string instruments in the world, the combination of paulownia and chestnut wood body and twisted silk strings dating to the fourth century. The geomungo is at the heart of Black String, an exciting quartet led by Yoon Jeong Heo, in whose hands this most traditional of ...

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Article: Album Review

John Lee Hooker: The Modern, Chess & Vee-Jay Singles And Collection 1949-1962

Read "The Modern, Chess & Vee-Jay Singles And Collection 1949-1962" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini

Questo cofanetto contiene 4 CD e un bel libretto con un saggio di Paul Watts e informazioni molto dettagliate sui 101 brani contenuti nei dischetti argentati. Sono i pezzi registrati in quel decennio abbondante che va dal 1949 al 1962 dal mitico bluesman John Lee Hooker e pubblicati dalle etichette Modern, Chess e Vee-Jay. Una collezione ...


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