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Article: Album Review

Muddy Waters 100: Muddy Waters 100

Read "Muddy Waters 100" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal

When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this music would take him. By the time he plugged his guitar into an amplifier on Chicago's Southside in 1943, he had become Muddy Waters, ...

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Article: Live Review

Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band at Club Fox

Read "Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band at Club Fox" reviewed by Walter Atkins

by Walter Atkins

Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band Club Fox Club Fox Blues Jam Redwood City CA May 13,2015 Seasoned San Francisco Bay Area blues vocalist and bandleader Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC band played an invigorating midweek set at the Club Fox. The intimate venue, part of ...

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Article: Album Review

Toots Lorraine: Make It Easy

Read "Make It Easy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Firstly, who can possibly deny the name “Toots Lorraine?" That name is to the barrelhouse music on Make It Easy as Harmon Killebrew or Dizzy Dean are to baseball. So what's in this name, Toots Lorraine? Well, that's where things expand. Along with husband, guitarist and co-leader of The Traffic, Chad Dent, Lorraine is a potent ...

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Sarah Moule: Songs From The Floating World

Read "Songs From The Floating World" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Class will out, as they say. It's certainly true on this album--class bursts out of Songs From The Floating World. From Sarah Moule's sophisticated, cool, vocals and the stylish playing of the cream of British jazzers, through to Simon Wallace's music and arrangements and Fran Landesman's inimitable lyrics, everyone involved with this fine album is a ...

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Article: Album Review

Mud Morganfield: For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters

Read "For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters" reviewed by Walter Atkins

by Walter Atkins

For this CD release, Mud Morganfield pays tribute and shows love to his father, the legendary blues artist Muddy Waters. Listening to the Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson disc For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters, the energy of the first track “Gone to Main Street" is impressive. Morganfield's deep bluesy vocals are richly supported ...

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Article: Live Review

Pamela Rose: Tribute To Etta James at The California Jazz Conservatory

Read "Pamela Rose: Tribute To Etta James at The California Jazz Conservatory" reviewed by Walter Atkins

by Walter Atkins

Pamela Rose Tribute To Etta James California Jazz Conservatory Berkeley CA February 6, 2015 Pamela Rose's tribute to Etta James was a stirring live concert/talk/multimedia celebration of the life and career of the legendary soul, R&B, rock, gospel, and jazz artist. The set was interspersed with discussions of James' ...

Article: Album Review

Lucky Peterson: I'm Back Again

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

by Angelo Leonardi

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 ...

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Article: Live From New York

The Music Of Terry Riley, Miriam Makeba, Andy Warhol & Gil Evans

Read "The Music Of Terry Riley, Miriam Makeba, Andy Warhol & Gil Evans" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Darmstadt Essential Repertoire/Ensemble LPR (le) Poisson Rouge November 4, 2014 This rendition of Terry Riley's “In C" was presented by a grouping that virtually has no name. The Darmstadt Essential Repertoire team (long associated with Brooklyn's Issue Project Room) have been presenting an annual invocation of this pioneering minimalist ...

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Article: Live Review

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver

Read "Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver" reviewed by Geoff Anderson

by Geoff Anderson

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters Fillmore Auditorium Denver October 4, 2014 Robert Plant's new album, Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch, 2014), is an atmospheric affair; music suitable for horseback riding at twilight in misty woods while on the lookout for the Headless Horseman. Perhaps the Led Zeppelin tune ...

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Article: Live Review

Live From Birmingham: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Danny Bryant & The Delegators

Read "Live From Birmingham: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Danny Bryant & The Delegators" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger The Hare & Hounds September 1, 2014 Sean Lennon expressed seemingly genuine surprise at the room's crowded nature. After all, GOASTT don't really push the knowledge that Lennon is frontman to this deeply psychedelic miasma-orientated combo. The gig's local publicity was extremely ...


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