The Grateful Dead or perhaps Bob Dylan may hold the record for most releases from the vaults, but the Beach Boys aren’t far behind. Over the years, we’ve seen the group’s studio albums reissued as twofers, with a wealth of […]
The Grateful Dead or perhaps Bob Dylan may hold the record for most releases from the vaults, but the Beach Boys aren’t far behind. Over the years, we’ve seen the group’s studio albums reissued as twofers, with a wealth of […]
Tift Merritt must have been stoked to find Don Henley had chosen to open his first solo album for 15 years with the title track from her 2002 debut album, Bramble Rose. It’s a stab at a country credential Henley doesn’t need – […]
Reviewers have been quick to mention the apparent contradiction of the “Okie From Muskogee” scribe including two undisguised Bush bashes on his latest release. Never mind that Merle Haggard has often characterized “Okie” as a “joke” and only released “Where’s […]
Leave it to the media to cover Les Paul’s 90th birthday by mangling his legacy. It’s a terrific story. Too gritty and ballsy to be sidelined by arthritis that would silence one with lesser spirit, he still performs weekly with […]
The cover of this single-disc compilation shows three Nat King Coles loitering side by side in a parking garage in various dapper poses: one looking just past his shoulder, a yellow overcoat on his arm; the center with hat in […]
Bonnie Raitt’s Starbucks appeal was established long before she scored as one of Ray Charles’ duets partners on his huge-selling swan song for the coffee chain. Among pop artists of a certain age, she has long provided the equivalent of […]
Forty years ago the Brits got hold of American blues (and Johnny Cash), minus most of its cultural context, and spit it back across the ocean, giving birth to, y’know, the Byrds and stuff. These days twentysomething Americans have the […]
It’s a measure of how debased the vocation of pop singer has become that Shelby Lynne’s artfully understated work on Suit Yourself ends up sounding like a mark of integrity. Leave the histrionic, octave-vaulting showboating to Celine and Beyonce and […]
Pop songs and pop vocalizing have been busy influencing what we call country music for precisely as long as country music has been around. From Charlie Poole recording for Columbia because that’s where his hero Al Jolson worked, to Milton […]
The mention of Glen Campbell is likely to evoke either a shrug or a snicker. For those under 20, he doesn’t exist, and to 40-year-olds, he endures largely as a caricature: clad in a white leisure suit, waving his good-guy […]
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