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On The Record: The Left Banke, ‘The Beatles and India,’ Peter Tosh, the HawtThorns, & April March Jeff Burger Columns February 25, 2022 0The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train. The last album by the Left Banke – whose output included the 1966...
On the Record: Charley Patton, Jesse Correll, Mike Zito, Amy Jay, the Pine Hearts, & Joan Osborne Jeff Burger Columns February 18, 2022 0Charley Patton, Volumes 1–3 (1929–1934). Despite his induction last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Charley Patton still hasn’t garnered...
Reality Check: “LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE” WEEK James Campion Columns February 16, 2022 0How we got here and where we’re going. For about a week at the beginning of February 2022, the Republican...
On The Record: Lucinda Williams and John Sebastian Plus Marshall Crenshaw, Wild Rivers, Michael Veitch, & Kate MacLeod Jeff Burger Columns February 11, 2022 0More Great Covers from Lucinda Williams In an earlier column, I wrote about the first four volumes of Lucinda Williams’s Lu’s Jukebox,...
Makin Waves with Dave Vargo: Good Tunes ‘n’ Hearts Bob Makin Columns February 11, 2022 0Late to the songwriting table, journeyman musician Dave Vargo, who once toured extensively as a sideman, has established a great local solo...
Reality Check: THE VONNEGUT CATHARSIS & THE PAIN OF WAR James Campion Columns February 9, 2022 1In praise of The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse–Five and a discussion with its author,...
Rant ’N’ Roll – Remembering Elton Mike Greenblatt Columns February 7, 2022 0When Rocket Records threw a New York City party in 1978 for Sir Elton John’s A Simple Man album, they...
On The Record: Janis Ian, Hollywood Flames, Whitmore Sisters, Julie Christensen, & more Jeff Burger Columns February 4, 2022 0Janis Ian’s Final Statement? In 1967, at age 15, Janis Ian scored a Top 20 hit with “Society’s Child (Baby...
Reality Check: THE RUSSIA THING… AGAIN James Campion Columns February 2, 2022 0Let’s put this out there first: No one thinks engaging in a war with Russia is a good idea. No...