Almost two decades since the untimely death of Jeff Buckley, the law of diminishing returns has definitely asserted itself. If You and I (out March 11) hasn’t scraped the bottom of the posthumous barrel, it comes pretty close. The latest […]
Almost two decades since the untimely death of Jeff Buckley, the law of diminishing returns has definitely asserted itself. If You and I (out March 11) hasn’t scraped the bottom of the posthumous barrel, it comes pretty close. The latest […]
Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series—his outlet for alternate versions, outtakes, rare live performances, previously unheard songs and more—has delivered some fantastic music since its inception in 1997. In the past two years alone, we’ve been treated to Another Self Portrait and […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave A new four CD box set featuring highlights from Miles Davis’ appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1975 as well as from Newport Jazz Festival in Europe 1971 With the […]
Leonard Cohen has been called brilliant, unique and charming but never, to my knowledge, prolific. Between 1967, when his debut album appeared, and 2011—nearly half a century later—he issued a grand total of 11 studio LPs. During one nine-year stretch, […]
Reissues and repackagings of Johnny Cash’s recordings have multiplied like the biblical miracle of the loaves and fishes since his death in 2003. His inspirational material gets the anthology treatment on this collection of 24 songs recorded between 1957 and […]
For those of us raised on rock, Johnny Mathis is supposed to be the enemy. Mathis was, we have been instructed to conclude, an archaic singer of affected prettiness and saccharine sentiment, and he’s never been embraced as a symbol […]
You’d think that when it comes to Bob Wills’ music, there’d be no surprises left. Oh, sure, somebody’s bound to turn up another live set somewhere along the way, or something like that. But the most important — and most […]
Today Johnny Cash exists in our imagination largely as the young hellion of the 1950s and ’60s, or the grave and wise voice offered on his final American recordings. These recently unearthed tapes — very simply, Johnny Cash accompanying himself […]
Among reviewers who have given faint praise to this two-disc soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film, dismissing it as a marginal addition to the Dylan canon, the common reservation is that the alternate takes here aren’t as good as the […]
I dont know whether life was easy for the boy named Shel, but he had this triple-threat set of talents that were used to address different audiences, and they were generally kept quite separate from each other, which could seem […]
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