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16 Aug 2020
Album Review: Big Bill Broonzy — The Midnight Special
Big Bill Broonzy’s musical influence is incalculable. And even though he recorded prolifically, a new archival release is an important addition to his body of work. A solo acoustic performance, […]
10 Jul 2020
Album Review: Jimmy Sweeney — Without You
Another in the (happily and) seemingly endless stream of unearthed gems, Jimmy Sweeney’s Without You is a collection of songs by a singer who was all but unknown. His claim […]
18 Jun 2020
Album Review: Nat Turner Rebellion – Laugh to Keep From Crying
I’ve written of similar observations before; here I am doing it once again. It amazes me to no end that so many years after the fact, never-before-heard recordings surface, and […]
20 May 2020
Before the (Family) Stone Age: The Viscaynes (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two … One afternoon soon thereafter, Chuck Gebhardt found himself mowing the very same lawn. “Next thing I knew, a limo pulled up, and my mom got […]
19 May 2020
Before the (Family) Stone Age: The Viscaynes (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Belying his eventual reputation as an erratic personality, the young Sly Stone was considered an engaging fellow. “He was a great guy,” Gebhardt says. In […]
18 May 2020
Before the (Family) Stone Age: The Viscaynes (Part One)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in Goldmine Magazine. The music and career of Sly Stone and his group The Family Stone is well known. What’s less explored […]
16 Feb 2020
Album Review: Louis Armstrong and His All Stars — Live in 1956
Though he had certainly been massively popular before, in the middle 1950s jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong was near the top of his game. In 1947 he broke up […]
10 Jun 2019
At the Heart of the Vinyl Revival: ORG Music
Founded in 2010, ORG Music was launched in response to renewed interest in vinyl records. Kicking off with reissues of Nirvana’s classic Nevermind, the label quickly established itself as an […]
22 Dec 2018
A Vinyl Roundup to Round Out 2018
So much good music has found its way into my ears in 2018. As the year winds toward its close, I’d like to share words on a few of these […]
09 Nov 2018
Album Review: Dave Brubeck — Time In
The opening solo piano strains of “Last Waltz,” the opening track on Dave Brubeck’s 1966 LP Time In are lovely enough. But they suggest that the album is going to […]