No other blues musician channels the essence of Louisiana swamps — all that warm, waterlogged muck and moss drooping from cypress trees — quite like Tab Benoit. He nails it on four songs from this live collection: “Moon Coming Over […]
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Otis Taylor continues to expand on his trancey blues, remaining both more traditional and more progressive than the usual roots crews. It’s not just that the drums and organ he introduced on 2005’s Below The Fold are more prominent; this […]
A student of Bob since both ran around Greenwich Village, Maria Muldaur sings Dylan well — not as the Voice of A Generation, but as the Smooth Operator Bob, the Male Sade, or the Romantic with the Pencil Thin Mustache, […]
Remember the first time you saw or heard Junior Brown? That distinctive baritone, the one-of-a-kind guit-steel, the mirthful lyrics, the blurry flurry of notes that sounded like a five-piece band coming from one pair of restless hands? Steve Wertheimer never […]
It’s not for nothing that Otis Taylor has amassed a large cache of W.C. Handy nominations since turning his sights fully on music in the mid-’90s. With a hybrid style that blends traditional country blues and Appalachian music, Taylor composes […]
No country artist has opened, or cleaned out, more ears than Junior Brown has with his trusty guit-steel, which can take the stuffing out of a standard arrangement with the crazed authority of a buzzsaw on the loose in a […]
Before she died in 2002 at age 81, Peggy Lee was known by millions for her hit records and for co-writing the songs for Disney’s Lady And The Tramp (and voicing “Lady”). She combined the wholesomeness of the South Dakota […]
Winner of the distinguished W.C. Handy Best New Artist blues award in 2002, Otis Taylor certainly deserved the recognition, though he was hardly new. A seasoned bluesman whose career dates back to the 1960s, Taylor became discouraged with the business […]
Precious few tribute albums are in anywhere near the same league as the work of the artists they venerate. Timing only compounds the challenges Down The Dirt Road: The Songs Of Charley Patton will face getting noticed: Its release coincides […]
During his 30 years and counting as a professional musician, Nick Lowe has never shied away from blurring boundaries or bouncing around the musical landscape. With Brinsley Schwarz — the guitarist and the eponymous band — he blended rock, country, […]
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