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Music & Film Reviews: Graham Parker’s ‘Live at Rockpalast,’ Queen’s ‘Rock...
Graham Parker Concert DVDs Reissued with a Bonus English rocker Graham Parker’s Last Chance to Learn the Twist, which came out last year, was just the latest chapter in a distinguished career that has...
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Music Reviews: Collective Soul, Jeff Slate, Ruth Moody, and J.M. Kearns
Collective Soul, Here to Eternity. Atlanta-based Collective Soul has been around for three decades but on the evidence of its sprawling 20-track latest release, this rock group isn’t even close to...
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Music Reviews: Joe Grushecky and a Rolling Stones tribute, plus Lynne Hanson,...
Joe Grushecky: Something Old, Something New Joe Grushecky, a household name in his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania hometown, has never achieved the sort of fame enjoyed by such similarly styled artists as...
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Music Reviews: Robert Earl Keen, Skeeter Davis with NRBQ, Damon Fowler, and...
Robert Earl Keen, Western Chill. One bit of good news for fans of Americana/folk singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen is that his retirement announcement early last year didn’t mean much more than—as...
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Music Reviews: David Bowie’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!’ plus Late Slip, Dorsey...
An Anthology Chronicles the Creation of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ LP A 2015 box set covering David Bowie’s early years included a remastered copy of his landmark 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of...
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Music Reviews: ‘I See You Live on Love Street: Music from Laurel Canyon,’...
California’s Laurel Canyon music scene still garners attention half a century after its heyday. In 2019, for example, Jakob Dylan and friends produced Echo in the Canyon, a terrific film documentary...
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Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘The Asylum Albums (1976–1980),’ plus Little...
A Box Set Collects Four Notable Joni Mitchell Albums The third in a series of box sets of Joni Mitchell’s studio LPs includes four trailblazing LPs: Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Mingus, and...
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Music Reviews: A ‘Girl Group’ Anthology, Grateful Dead’s Expanded ‘From the...
A Joe Meek Anthology Unearths Some Gems The late rock and pop producer Joe Meek, who is widely regarded as England’s answer to Phil Spector, masterminded many British hits, such as the Cryin’ Shames’...
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Music Reviews: The Rascals’ ‘Complete Atlantic Recordings,’ Johnny Cash’s...
An Exhaustive Rascals Box Set Stevie Van Zandt heaped a ton of praise on the Rascals when he inducted them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. If you think he was being hyperbolic, you...
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Music Reviews: John Lennon’s Expanded ‘Mind Games,’ plus Iron Horse, ‘Silver...
‘Mind Games’ Under a Microscope So-called “ultimate” editions of John Lennon’s first two solo albums, 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and 1971’s Imagine, appeared in 2021 and 2018, respectively....
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Music Reviews: J.D. Souther’s Reissued ‘You’re Only Lonely,’ plus an...
J.D. Souther’s name might not ring any bells unless you read songwriter credits or are old enough to remember his two hits, 1979’s “You’re Only Lonely” and 1981’s “Her Town Too” (with James Taylor)....
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Music Reviews: Amy Annelle’s Mesmerizing ‘The Toll,’ plus Mighty Mike Schermer
Singer, songwriter, and acoustic guitarist Amy Annelle has been releasing albums for a quarter-century, but not consistently in recent years. Now, reportedly “emerging from a long battle with chronic...
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Music Reviews: Shabaka Hutchings, Timo Andres
Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace “What genre is Shabaka?” That’s the first “People also ask” result when you Google “Shabaka Hutchings.” A telling factoid. With some music, “genre”...
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Music Reviews: Dickey Betts, Amanda Anne Platt, Teni Rane, and an Anthology...
Dickey Betts, Live from the Lone Star Roadhouse New York City 1988. This recording preserves a January 1988 concert by rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dickey Betts, who died this past April....
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Music Reviews: Steve Young’s ‘Stars in the Southern Sky,’ plus Cat Stevens...
A 3-CD Set Features Country Rock Pioneer Steve Young Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Steve Young, who died in 2016, had a long and notable but mostly under-the-radar career. He never had a pop hit...
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Amelia Earhart One of the great mysteries of the 20th century was the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. While she was attempting to circumnavigate the earth her plane disappeared over the Pacific...
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Music Reviews: Lindsey Buckingham’s ‘20th Century Lindsey,’ plus Steve...
It’s not surprising that portions of Lindsey Buckingham’s solo albums could be mistaken for Fleetwood Mac records. For one thing, he contributed immeasurably to the best-known LPs by that group, which...
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Music Reviews: Jerry Phillips, Uncle Lucius, Colin James, Wild Ponies, and...
Jerry Phillips, For the Universe. Jerry Phillips, the son of legendary Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, grew up rubbing shoulders with icons such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash....
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Music Reviews: A Gerry and the Pacemakers Anthology, plus Ronnie Self, Duke...
A 25-track Gerry and the Pacemakers anthology from 1991 is subtitled The Definitive Collection, but that claim no longer applies because a new three-CD compendium delivers a whopping 98 numbers from...
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Music and Book Reviews: A Joe Meek Anthology, an Arthur Lee/Love Biography,...
A Joe Meek Anthology Focuses on 1962 Recordings Most music producers remain relatively unknown and must content themselves with credit lines on the CDs they oversee. A few, though, develop styles so...
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