XPoNential Music Festival Wiggens Park Camden, NJ 7/27-29/2018 This was a benchmark year for the music festival presented by Philly radio station WXPN. This was number 25. It was definitely a cause for celebration. Due to scheduling obligations I […]
I was bringing my wife, Elizabeth, her morning coffee as I always do, just as we spend the first few moments of every morning – she quietly browsing the headlines while I write a little. This morning, however, when I […]
In the Fall 2016/Speak Up! issue of No Depression in print, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer wrote about her experience performing with other artists as part of the Voices of A People’s History — a show concocted of musicians and poets, moved by Howard Zinn’s book […]
Sometimes music gets really real, and we’ve got a bunch of down-to-earth, from-the-soul new albums to tell you about this week. Whether you like your truths flavored with sweet harmonies, the blues, classic country, or gospel, you’re going to find […]
A Blind Boys Of Alabama concert is like sitting inside a pipe organ. It’s not just surround sound, but a total immersion in the spirit, drenching you with a glorious gospel experience so intense you can feel your sternum throbbing […]
While many of the early bluesmen were six-string pickin’, singing and whooping it up at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta, focusing more on vice than virtue, Blind Willie Johnson was playing his unique guitar style and singing in his […]
Up In New Orleans might have been a more appropriate title for this effort by the Blind Boys Of Alabama, one of the more soul-lifting efforts to be recorded in the Crescent City in the post-Katrina era. Not that you […]
Producer John Chelew’s work over the last half-decade with the Blind Boys of Alabama is the greatest late-career reclamation project this side of Johnny Cash’s Rick Rubin-produced American Recordings series. Chelew matched the septuagenarian Blind Boys — Clarence Fountain, Jimmy […]
The Blind Boys’ first record for Real World, last year’s Spirit Of The Century, was an instant classic. This follow-up again matches the quintet with gospel standards and quasi-spiritual numbers from more secular artists (Aretha Franklin’s “Spirit In The Dark”, […]
