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One Track Mind: Bruce Cockburn, "Pacing the Cage" (1996)
By Tom Johnson Some people just have a gift for the odd twist of phrase that makes a song mean so much more than just a bunch of words or even just a mood. Bruce Cockburn, the Canadian sorta-Christian singer/songwriter is one such guy, and in “Pacing The Cage," from 1996's beautiful The Charity Of Night, ...
Ike Turner - Here and Now (2001)
By Derrick Lord This was just what Ike Turner fans had been waiting for. The Clarksdale, Mississippi native returned to his roots with a barrel-house style blues recording that brought him back as a force on the music scene, earning two W.C. Handy Awards from the Blues Foundation for best traditional blues album and comeback album ...
Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone - Thin Air (2009)
By Mark Saleski Tom Waits is a mysterious fellow. I mean, how much do we really know about him? Given the erudite nature of his music, I suppose we know enough. Oh sure, we've all heard the stories. Drivin' the kids on the field trip to the music store in that tank of an Oldsmobile... and ...
Drew Paralic - Roll with It, Baby (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Drew Paralic is that most unusual of things, a jazz pianist and composer who has released an album of originals played by others. Having taken up the instrument too late, he says, to approach the mastery of deeply appreciated influences like Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, Paralic instead decided to focus on writing ...
Dave Holland - :rarum X (2004)
By Mark Saleski During the first year or so of my post-college life, I developed a habit of visiting my local record shop every Saturday afternoon (it goes without saying that I already had this habit, maybe not so firmly attached to a particular day). It was an unassuming little store hiding in a nondescript strip ...
Forgotten Series: Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion (2006)
By Tom Johnson Listening to excerpted guitar solos is like viewing abstract art: It's a glimpse of something that doesn't necessarily have to make sense in the general definition of the term. Were we talking about most guitarists, an album of extracted solos would likely be a pretty dreadful proposition, but when it comes to Frank ...
Robbie Robertson - How to Become Clairvoyant (2011)
How to Become Clairvoyant is, thus far, Robbie Robertson's most blatantly personal solo release, taking on his split with the Band, nostalgia for his generation's spent idealism, and the realization of a dark aftermath for the era's hedonistic excesses. That might sound like the kind of triumphal return many had hoped for over the 13 years ...
New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band - Bon Temps Rouge (2011)
There is a magic in the old songs, but not necessarily in performing them in the old ways. The New Iberians, a band from the Pacific Northwest named after a fun little Louisiana town, boldly illustrate their understanding of this truth on Bon Temps Rouge. The record takes Cajun roots music and makes it new again ...
Steely Dan Sunday: "Dirty Work" (1972)
Since Walter Becker and Donald Fagen first wrote songs with the idea that someone else would sing them and only started a band when they found limited success peddling their songs, some of the earlier Steely Dan tunes sound a little like they were meant for a different act. “Dirty Work" is like that. Then again, ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Alan Parsons Project
The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so ... anonymous. Alan Parsons, after all, was engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway; producer for the Hollies' “The Air That I Breathe," Pilot's “Magic" and Al Stewart's “Year of ...
