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Lindsey Buckingham: Gift Of Screws
by Mike Perciaccante
On his sixth solo album, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham continues his string of releases featuring slick, crisp, sophisticated wry lyrics. Unlike his last studio effort, the acoustic-based Under the Skin (Reprise 2006), Gift Of Screws features incendiary electric guitar layered over minor chords with many of the signature grooves that Buckingham (and Fleetwood Mac) built his ...
Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978
by Mike Perciaccante
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of its historic 1978 concerts in Egypt, the Grateful Dead's two-CD/one-DVD Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 documents the legendary performances in front of the pyramids at Giza. The CDs are compiled from performances recorded on September 15th and 16th, with the DVD taken from the September 16th show, during which there was ...
Voodoo Experience 2008 (The Hidden Voodoo), New Orleans, LA
by Mike Perciaccante
Paul Sanchez and The Rolling Road Show Voodoo Experience: The Tenth RitualNew Orleans City Park New Orleans, Louisiana October 24-26, 2008 Billed as the 10th Ritual, The 2008 Voodoo Experience in New Orleans featured top-shelf headliners Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, and the festival closer, REM--each a chart-busting ...
The Radiators: Wild & Free
by Mike Perciaccante
The Radiators were formed in 1977 in keyboard player/vocalist, Ed Volker's New Orleans garage. Still comprised of all of the original members, The Radz--Volker, Dave Malone (guitar/lead vocals), Camile Baudoin (guitar/backing vocals), Reggie Scanlon (bass) and Frank Bua Jr. (drums)--serve up a tasty jambalaya of musical styles that includes Blues, R&B, Funk, Cajun, a touch of ...
Chuck Berry: St. Louis To Liverpool / Berry Is On Top
by Mike Perciaccante
John Lennon was quoted as saying, “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'!"--one hell of an endorsement. If taken solely on the merits of the individual tracks on this single disc collection, encompassing two of Berry's classic albums, Lennon was clearly making an understatement. Berry Is On ...
Foxboro Hot Tubs: Stop Drop And Roll!!!
by Mike Perciaccante
Green Day's 2008 CD release is, in a word, fantastic. But Stop Drop and Roll!!! can't be found under “G" in the local record store. Local retailers as well as the megastores all carry the disc, but it'll be found under “F" for Foxboro Hot Tubs. It seems that in 2007, while starting to work on ...
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With the Blues
by Mike Perciaccante
What do you get when you pair a certified country music renegade with contemporary jazz's “keeper of the flame"? When the renegade is Willie Nelson and the jazz champion is Wynton Marsalis, the end result is one of the best CDs of 2008.Two Men With the Blues was recorded during a historic two-night stand ...
New Guitar Summit: Shivers
by Mike Perciaccante
The second album from the triumvirate of virtuoso guitarists J. Geils, Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin is another set of vintage jazz-blues in which the three guitarists improvise while prodding, teasing and pushing each other to greater heights. While only four of the tracks are originals written by one or more members of the group, each ...
Otis Redding: Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul [Collector's Edition]
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by Mike Perciaccante
It's tough to review a classic album. What new can be said? In the case of Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, quite a lot. The beauty of this reissue is that the first 11 songs on each of the set's two discs constitute different versions of the original album--one mono, one stereo. Mono versions ...
George Michael at Madison Square Garden
by Mike Perciaccante
George MichaelMadison Square GardenNew York, New YorkJuly 23, 2008Absence does, indeed, make the heart grow fonder. After 17 years, George Michael returned to the New York concert stage with a show referencing the highlights of his almost 30-year career. Featuring songs from Wham! ("Careless Whisper," “Everything She Wants" and “I'm Your ...
