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Luca Benedetti: Slow Down For Turtles

by Doug Collette
September 17, 2026

Guitarist/composer Luca Benedetti is emerging from the same hallowed Brooklyn community that has nurtured the alchemy of Medeski Martin & Wood as well as the chameleonic likes of his fretboard peer Will Bernard.  The winsomely titled Slow Down For Turtles, Benedetti's third album with bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Tony Mason, is an object ...

John Lee Hooker: The Best of Friends

by Doug Collette
July 20, 2024

In contrast to his often (always?) irascible peer Chester Burnett, aka Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker has long been amenable to collaborations, reciprocal and otherwise. Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Charlie Musselwhite and Carlos Santana, among others, appeared on The Healer (Chameleon,1989) and all those artists also populate the credits for The Best of Friends. (Santana, the ...

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper

by Doug Collette
April 24, 2023

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper 280 Pages ISBN: # 979-8-21809624-3 Higher Ground 2023 In honor of Higher Ground's 25th anniversary, the South Burlington Vermont music venue has collaborated in the curation of ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and ...

Tedeschi Trucks Band At Red Rocks

by Geoff Anderson
August 12, 2022

Tedeschi Trucks Band Red Rocks Denver, CO July 29-30, 2022 The international COVID lockdown was a burden on everybody. Musicians were especially hard hit with no ability to play live and sing for their supper. Many hunkered down and, after some time processing the initial shock of it all, got to ...

Chrissie Hynde: Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan

by Doug Collette
September 18, 2021

The existence of Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan might well have been inevitable, if only because she and The Bard share some patently obvious personality traits, not the least of which are a staunch independence and a healthy, if wickedly wry, sense of humor. But even conceptions of the greatest clarity don't necessarily lead to so ...

Los Lobos: Native Sons

by Doug Collette
August 2, 2021

Unusual as it may seem for a veteran band like Los Lobos to display the artistic humility of Native Sons, only a single original song appears here surrounded by a diverse round of cover material by artists based in and around their home city of Los Angeles. It's a generosity of spirit that actually recalls an ...

Meet Doug Collette

by AAJ Staff
October 22, 2020

Doug Collette's pedigree for crafting honest and carefully-considered music analysis lies in a nearly fifty year devotion to contemporary rock and roll, jazz and the blues. During this time, his zeal for writing has grown to (almost) equal his devotion to the musical experiences he has documented from his astute observations of records, videos, books and ...

The Nighthawks: Tryin' To Get To You

by Doug Collette
May 28, 2020

With Tryin' To Get To You, their thirty-first album in a prolific near fifty-year career, the Nighthawks provide testament to their own longevity and that of the blues genre itself. Even regular turnover of personnel has not diminished the power and efficacy of this group's playing, perhaps because, as new members come and go, founding member ...

ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival

by John Ephland
September 27, 2019

Krannert CenterELLNORA: The Guitar Festival Champaign/Urbana, IL September 5-7, 2019 It takes place every other year; every odd year. Going back to 2005, ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival, held in the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana' one-stop-shop Krannert Center, has been celebrating the works of an amazing array of plectrists from all walks ...