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Article: Book Review

The Gospel According to the Blues by Gary W. Burnett

by C. Michael Bailey
June 13, 2015

The Gospel According to the Blues Gary W. Burnett 161 Pages ISBN: #978-1620327258 Cascade Books 2014 Dr. Gary Burnett wears a lot of hats. He teaches courses in New Testament Greek, Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Pauline Epistles and Theology, and Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels at ...

Article: Album Review

Lucky Peterson: I'm Back Again

Read "I'm Back Again" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 9, 2015

Chi ha già il cofanetto Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin del 2012, comprendente 3 DVD e 2 CD, può evitare di acquistare questo disco che risulta esserne una selezione stringata, con le esecuzioni del solo bluesman di Buffalo. Per coprire tutti i possibili segmenti del mercato (anche il pubblico occasionale o chi ...

Article: Book Review

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own by Edward Komara & Greg Johnson

by C. Michael Bailey
February 7, 2015

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own Edward Komara and Greg Johnson 299 Pages ISBN: #9780810889217 Rowman & Littlefield 2014 The length of time between a cultural trend developing and its introduction into the academy has grown ever shorter in the last 50 years. Authors Edward Komara and ...

Article: Book Review

Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well by Rick Mitchell

by C. Michael Bailey
January 26, 2015

Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well Rick Mitchell 339 Pages ASIN: #B00N2331GC Dharma Moon 2014 Much of jazz analysis and reportage is history; the exposition and re-exposition of old forms and older artists. Precious few books written about jazz today have contemporary artists or movements as ...

Article: Album Review

Corey Harris: Fulton Blues

Read "Fulton Blues" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 14, 2015

Sono trascorsi due decenni dal debutto di Corey Harris in Between Midnight and Day, che fece gridare al miracolo catapultando il bluesman sulla scena internazionale. Quelle torride esecuzioni di Delta Blues suscitarono alti consensi e grandi attese (confermate dal successivo Fish Ain't Bitin'), portando il New York Times a paragoni -certo eccessivi-con Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins ...

Album

Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers Vol I & II

By Robert Johnson

Label: Music On Vinyl
Released: 2014
Track listing: Vol.I: Crossroads Blues; Terraplane Blues; Come on in my Kitchen; Walking Blues; Last Fair Deal Gone Down; 32-20 Blues; Kindhearted Woman Blues; If I Had a Possession Over Judgement Day; Preaching Blues; When You Got a Good Friend; Rambling on My Mind; Stones in My Passway; Travelling Riverside Blues; Milkcow's Calf Blues; Me and the Devil's Blues; Hellhound on My Trail. Vol II: Kind Hearted Woman; I Believe I-ll Dust My Broom; Sweet Home Chicago; Ramblin' On My Mind; Phonograph Blues; They're Red Hot; Dead Shrimp Blues; Preachin' Blues; I'm a Steady Rollin' Man;From Four Till Late; Little Queen of Spades; Malted Milk; Drunken Hearted Man; Stop Breakin' Down Blues; Honeymoon Blues; Love in Vain Blues.

Article: Rediscovery

Bill Frisell: This Land

by John Kelman
December 27, 2014

Bill Frisell This Land Elektra Nonesuch 1994 Today's Rediscovery? This Land, guitarist Bill Frisell's landmark 1994 album with Don Byron, Curtis Fowlkes, Billy Drewes, Kermit Driscoll & Joey Baron. Coming on the heels of 1993's eclectic covers record Have a Little Faith (Elektra Nonesuch), This Land is as much about ...

Article: Album Review

George Taylor: TroubleTown

Read "TroubleTown" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 11, 2014

On George Taylor's second recording, Rain or Shine (Self Produced, 2014), the guitarist looked oddly like a square accountant. On his first recording, TroubleTown he looks like Texas surfer cleaned up in a blue blazer. On both recordings, Taylor plays some of the freshest throw-back Americana being played. Touted as a “Blues musician," and, while he ...

Article: Catching Up With

John Butcher: So Far

by Sammy Stein
November 7, 2014

Saxophonist John Butcher's career could have taken an academic path. He completed a Ph.D in theoretical physics--Charmed Quarks to be precise--but left the academic world behind shortly thereafter. As a saxophonist, Butcher has played with and collaborated with many musicians. He is not afraid to try completely off the wall musical experimentation.

Article: Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin II, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2014

January 12, 1969 to October 22, 1969. Two-hundred eighty-three days. That is the length of time between the releases of Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II. By any estimation, in rock music it defies the space-time continuum. By 21st Century time, it only compares to the incessant leakage of Rap mixtapes pooling on the floor of ...