Vince Gill once said that there’s no harmony like family harmony because the blood line of the singers is the same. The Haden Triplets — Petra, Rachel, and Tanya — display the sublime beauty of blood harmony in the ethereal […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. once called Mahalia Jackson his favorite singer. She was with him before and after he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Memorial on August 28, 1963. King asked her to sing the […]
G. Love (Garrett Dutton) made his name over 20 years ago when he and his band, Special Sauce, released their first album. With the band, and as a solo artist, he’s been blending musical genres adventurously, though the blues has […]
There are some albums that come along whose musical brilliance simply shines so radiantly that it guides our paths, illuminating the dark corners of our lives. The songs of Della Mae’s Headlight — with powerful writing, soaring vocals, and moving […]
In the 1960s, soul, gospel, and blues permeated the air in Chicago. Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler, The Dells, Gene Chandler, The Chi-Lites, The Flamingos, Eddy “Chief” Clearwater, Jimmy Burns, James Cotton, and Buddy Guy filled clubs, churches, and the street […]
Fruition releases its latest album, Broken at the Break of Day, on Jan. 17, quickly following their November 2019 release of Wild as the Night. Guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Jay Cobb Anderson took a few moments out of the band’s […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. MECO was released in February. If Lucinda Williams’ poetry and vocals met up with Etta James’ […]
Christmas is supposed to represent a time when light shines in the darkness: the darkness of winter’s bleak, short days; the darkness that shrouds the hearts of men and women in society; the darkness that blankets any hope for renewal. […]
Elton John is never going to let the sun go down on him. His rollicking memoir Me opens the curtains to reveal the highs and lows, the hopes and dreams, the rapid ascent to stardom and the just as rapid […]
It’s been a good year for music books, and thank goodness, for they have been a refuge in an otherwise stormy publishing world that’s focused on the corruption rampant in American politics. Almost every book in my list below could […]
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