This is the feel-good album of a year that could surely use one. In their evocation of 1960s boy-girl harmonies, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs conjure an era of comparative innocence, when the single reigned supreme. This collection of fifteen […]
This is the feel-good album of a year that could surely use one. In their evocation of 1960s boy-girl harmonies, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs conjure an era of comparative innocence, when the single reigned supreme. This collection of fifteen […]
Freddie King’s business card billed him as “The Texas Cannon Ball,” a fitting moniker for the physically imposing blues guitarist and singer. King left an indelible stamp on the genre with both instrumental hits (“Hide Away”, “San-Ho-Zay”) and fiery vocal […]
The years were 1975 and ’76, the locations Austin and Nashville, the machine a Nagra 2 track, the purpose a film documentary on the lyrical outsiders, neither outlaws nor folkies, mostly spending their days trying to outdrink and outwrite each […]
Hubert Sumlin wasn’t the first guitarist to record with Howlin’ Wolf, but he was in Wolf’s band longer than anyone else — from about 1953, off and on, until Wolf died in ’75 — and it’s his name most people […]
Solomon Burke’s recent pair of new releases — produced by Joe Henry and Don Was, respectively — have somewhat returned the King of Rock & Soul to the spotlight where he belongs. But don’t call it a comeback. As these […]
First, forget everything you’ve ever heard about Roky Erickson — the lead singer with the banshee wail for psychedelic pioneers the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, noted acid casualty and rock ‘n’ roll sacrificial lamb who was administered court-ordered shock treatments to […]
Louisiana music undergoes a transformation when you cross the causeway over Lake Pontchartrain and enter New Orleans. The chanky-chank of Cajun music and the brisk, percussive snap of zydeco that comprise the soundtrack of much of the rest of the […]
A friend recently told me he thought Bob Dylan should be inducted, post haste, into the Country Music Hall of Fame. I’m sympathetic to most anything that’ll muddy the lines between genres, but this proposal struck me as a real […]
Despite charting a clutch of country and pop hits some three decades ago, as well as hosting her own prime-time TV hour, Bobbie Gentry is remembered, at this remove, as a one-hit wonder. But what a record it was, an […]
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