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Aaron Neville: My True Story
by C. Michael Bailey
My True Story is New Orleans royalty Aaron Neville's first recording in three years and his first for Blue Note Records. Most recently, Neville has been covering familiar territory with I Know I've Been Changed (EMI Gospel, 2010), Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics (Burgundy, 2006), Christmas Prayer (EMI Gospel, 2005) and Nature Boy: The ...
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Album: Label Love Vol. 5: The Jazz Edition
By Kit Downes
Label: Basho Records
Released: 0
Duration: 9:56
Robert Johnson’s Persistent Ghost
by C. Michael Bailey
The centenary of blues musician Robert Johnson's birth passed quietly May 8, 2011. Anticipating it was the release of The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection (Legacy Recordings, 2011). The liner notes for this release, penned by Ted Gioia and Steve LaVere, continue the best biographical line of the allusive singer begun in the liner notes of ...
Daniel Beaumont: Preachin’ the Blues - The Life and Times of Son House
by C. Michael Bailey
Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House Daniel Beaumont Hardback; 224 pages ISBN: 0195395573 Oxford University Press 2011 Some of the new millennial writing about blues music, such as Elijah Wald's Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad, 2004) ...
Borneo Jazz 2011
by Ian Patterson
Borneo JazzMiri, Sarawak, BorneoMay 12-15, 2011 Borneo Jazz--known as the Miri International Jazz Festival for the previous five editions--has undergone a certain amount of rebranding in an effort to promote its growing stature as one of the leading jazz festivals in the region. This year the festival has increased from two to ...
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Low Country Blues is Gregg Allman's eighth (not counting anthologies) solo recording. His previous solo effort was 1997's Searching for Simplicity (Sony), and for those counting, that was 14 years ago. His present recording reflects a trend established with Johnny Cash's American> releases (American Recordings, 1994-2010) and Joe Cocker's Organic (550 Music, 1996), and most recently ...
Delta Blues & the Birth (and Death) of the Cool: Two definitive Ted Gioia Histories
by C. Michael Bailey
Does the music world need one more history of Delta blues music? Does a survey of a spongy concept like “cool" have any relevance in a post-9/11 world? Considering Robert Palmer authored a definitive narrative on depression-era Mississippi Delta music in Deep Blues (Viking, 1981) almost 30 years ago, and that Martin Williams and David Rosenthal, ...
Knut Reiersrud: Gitar
by John Kelman
So much has been written about the Nordic sound that it's easy to forget, for most Norwegians--like anyone else--that their roots don't lay entirely within the tradition of their own country. In the case of the normally far-from-reticent Knut Reiersrud and the aptly titled Gitar, there are trace elements of traditional British folk music, the blues, ...
Howlin' Wolf: Rockin' The Blues: Live in Germany 1964
by Mike Perciaccante
Through the years, Howlin' Wolf's 1964 performances in Germany have reached legendary status. Many different recordings of these concerts have surfaced in many different configurations. Rockin' The Blues: Live in Germany 1964 remained previously unreleased in the United States, until now. This Acrobat Music set was recorded in Bremen at The American Folk Blues ...
Studio Sessions: Rare and Unreleased
By Skip James
Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Back Water Blues; Everybody Ought To Live Right; I Want To Be More Like Jesus; Jack Of
Diamonds; My Last Boogie; Lazy Bones; Let My Jesus Lead You; My Own Blues; Oh. Mary Don
