North Mississippi Allstars frontman Luther Dickinson isn’t climbing any rural hills on his latest outing, Magic Music for Family Folk. It’s billed as a kids album, but the content here is for children of all ages. It’s a real family […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed Applies Soul Appeal to a Wide Range of Covers on ‘Hits and Misses’
For the last two decades, Eli “Paperboy” Reed has been screamin’ like a lost soul trying to find his way home. The Brookline, Massachusetts, native started vocalizing like a ’60s soul demon after moving to Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after his […]
Ghalia Volt doesn’t need any help getting her oomph on. For her latest, Shout Sister Shout!, she comes out roarin’ and stompin’. The Belgian busker honed her craft on the streets of Brussels before coming to New Orleans, hooking up […]
In 1969, Lee Oskar went to war. But this one was not an armed conflict, but rather a war using words and music as ammunition against a system that fed young men into a shredder for political gains and ignored […]
Willie Nelson is on the road again. But this time the road goes backwards to the roots music that influenced him. He’s labeled it simply Bluegrass, but with Willie, nothing is that simple. You can stick banjos and dobros and […]
Black Keys guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach is a blues curator. But unlike collectors and disseminators of obscure folk and blues like the Lomaxes, who recorded artists in their native habitats, Auerbach summoned his finds to Nashville to record with him for […]
After traipsing all over the countryside hanging around out-of-the-way juke joints and knocking on doors trying to run down obscure local or regional performers and record them, most field recording collectors want to share their findings with the general public. […]
Having the blues is a universal situation. But expressing it seems to require a regional hub. Although it didn’t originate there, Chicago was the place to be for serious blues practitioners in the early 1950s. The music came from […]
A legion of Chicago blues ghosts are back for a resurrection of their sounds by a modern-day bluesologist. It may not be their material showcased here, but it feels so authentic you keep thinking that perhaps it’s just obscure cuts […]
Shinyribs looks like it’d be a band as much fun to be in as it is to listen to. If you were the frontman, you’d get to wear a hooded cape that not only glows in the dark but flashes […]
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