Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt December 5, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll R.E.M. at the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation always did love that little old band from Georgia, REM. Active from 1980 to 2011, you could make a convincing argument that Michael Stipe, Bill B...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt November 28, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll A Man Named Ilhan As the fourth installment of his esteemed “Istanbul Sessions,” Solar Plexus (Nublu Music) by Ilhan Ersahin, is one of the most adventurous, satisfying, eclectic, cinematic, far-out C...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt November 21, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Lucky Girl Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Producer Carter Sampson’s fifth album, Lucky (Horton Records), is a died-in-the-wool traditional country gem but with alt-pop sensibilities. Her pe...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt November 14, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Songs Of Illness and Death Before The Devil Steals Your Soul (Coffeegrinds Music) by Blue Largo is a delicious slab of retro (their fourth). Vocalist Alicia Aragon and guitarist/composer Eric Lie...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt November 7, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Holy Smoke! Koko Mojo Records has put out a few dozen of these compilations of rare ‘50s rock ’n’ roll/bop ’n’ soul but none of ‘em has been completely devoid of clinkers. That’s not to sa...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 31, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll An Abundance of Cervini Abundance (Anzic Records) by Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop has the wildly eclectic Canadian sextet reaching out simultaneously in numerous directions, oftentimes in t...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 24, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The Maturation of Bonamassa Redemption (J&R Adventures), Joe Bonamassa’s 13th solo studio album, is all-original and it burns like arson. He’s taken his blues-rock to creative new height...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 17, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll In Tribute Was there ever a more enigmatic American songwriter than Fred Neil? Born in Ohio, raised in Florida, he died at age 65 in 2001 from skin cancer. As a Brill Building composer, his songs were...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 10, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Black Eyed Wonder Pea Jazz When the Black Eyed Peas hit No. 1 in 2003 with “Where Is The Love?” they had no idea 15 years later it would be turned into a hot six-minute jazz jam. When Stev...
Rant’n’Roll – One-On-One With Edgar Winter Mike Greenblatt October 3, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll He came out of Beaumont Texas fully formed. His older brother Johnny Winter was the guitarist of the family so he just figured he’d play “everything else.” And he did. In their first band tog...
