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The New Orleans Social Club - Sing Me Back Home (2005)
By Derrick Lord Faith is a difficult and complicated thing. If you understand that much you likely also realize that even the strongest faith is doomed to eventually be tested by hard times. When those tests come, questions follow: Have you learned from your challenges? Have you grown? Have you come to accept your limitations? Are ...
Nick Lowe - The Old Magic (2011)
Growing older has made Nick Lowe grayer, a little quieter, but no less clever, no less relevant, and certainly no less off-handedly absorbing. He is the living, breathing, guitar-playing, Buddy Holly shade-wearing embodiment of the old saw about getting better with age. And that's saying something. After all, Lowe helped shape the New Wave sound of ...
Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965, Reissue)
For Junior Wells, there was just something about working with Buddy Guy. On Hoodoo Man Blues, a spark-filled mid-1960s Chicago blues album, Wells stops on more than one occasion, while letting loose these flying shards of harmonica blasts, to issue a pleased grunt. So very in the moment, his vocals start with an unguarded joy, a ...
George Lernis Jazz Quartet - Shapes of Nature (2011)
An ambitious debut featuring seven original titles, George Lernis' Shapes of Nature is a great new example of how Tony Williams' legacy continues to play out in jazz. The former Miles Davis band prodigy spent his career exploring the rhythmic complexities first hinted at by bebop, and that journey continues here. Lernis, a Cyprus-born and Boston-based ...
Chris Connor - Sings Gentle Bossa Nova (1965, Reissue)
You're forgiven for forgetting that Chris Connor, one of the premier cool-jazz vocalists, took a quick detour into popular music in the mid-1960s. After just two albums dotted with hipster pop tunes that sometimes proved beneath a talent such as hers, Connor quickly returned to her original style when none of it sold. No surprise there, ...
Kyle Eastwood - Songs from the Chateau (2011)
I'm no movie buff but I still vividly recall the Charlie Parker biopic Bird, with the central character portrayed so convincingly by actor Forest Whitaker and the film well directed by Clint Eastwood. It was one of Eastwood's earliest forays into directing if I recall correctly and one thing about the flick that I felt certain ...
Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow (2011)
You keep waiting for Lindsey Buckingham, the old rebel, to soften into middle-aged acceptance, to conform. This isn't that record. Credit Buckingham for never trading true emotion for sentiment. Seeds We Sow is as hard eyed as it is musically ambitious—beginning with its abruptly confessional album-opening title track. “In Our Own Time" follows, as Buckingham reminisces ...
David Sylvian - Blemish (2003)
By Tom Johnson It isn't necessarily that blemish was so drastically different than anything David Sylvian had done before. He'd done ambient, both alone and with such visionaries as Holger Czukay and Robert Fripp, and some of it verged on being noise to me. (I'm not a fan of noise-as-music, but I do like good ambient.) ...
Greg Burk - Many Worlds (2010)
By Mark Saleski Several years ago, I happened upon a book called A Pattern Language. It was an odd purchase for me, because I'm not really an architecture person, at least not in the grand “Oooh, majestic building!" sense of the word. No, I was drawn to the book because the architectural patterns drawn and discussed—layouts ...
Brian Settles/Central Union - Secret Handshake (2011)
There's something odd I noticed about this record from the opening moments: there's a piano on it. Why is that so bizarre you ask? I don't think there's ever been a piano before on an Engine Studios recording. Then again, there hasn't been a Brian Settles record before either. Last June, both of these firsts made ...
