It’s been a hell of a year for soul/R&B comebacks. First came Bettye Lavette, with her understated marvel A Woman Like Me, a testament not just to the blues as lived, but to the virtues of collaboration — in this […]
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In Peter Guralnick’s Feel Like Going Home, Dick Waterman, onetime manager of Skip James and John Hurt, recalled James’ dismissal of Hurt’s music: “It was play-party, ball-less, pleasant music…but not to be taken seriously as great blues.” Similarly, critics struggling […]
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