5-29 Mike Greenblatt’s Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt May 29, 2019 Albums, Reviews Nils Lofgren & Lou Reed For his first studio album in eight years, with songs worked on during his day job touring Australia as a guitarist in Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, singer/songwrite...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 22, 2019 Albums, Reviews Man, that Dale Watson sure has got it goin’ on! As one of the last of a dying breed of real true-life honky tonk heroes like Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Lefty Frizzell (all gone), Watson ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 15, 2019 Albums, Reviews A Gal Named Anoushka Listening to Reflections (Deutsche Grammophon), by Anoushka Shankar, brought me back to when I saw her dad Ravi perform at Woodstock. True story: I went so wild over the sound of my firs...
Logic – ‘Supermarket’ Jackie Petrillo May 8, 2019 Albums, Reviews Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, aka Bobby Hall, aka Logic, is a well-known rapper that has inspired many people through the years. After releasing his powerful hit song “1-800-273-8225” off his album Everybody, all ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 8, 2019 Albums, Reviews Peter Ward is on the Train To Key Biscayne (Gandy Dancer Records) with an all-star crew of top-notch blues A-Listers. This all-original 12-track gem, the follow-up to his 2017 Blues On My Shoulders debut, featu...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 1, 2019 Albums, Reviews The “Deluxe Edition” of Van Morrison’s mid-career 1997 masterpiece The Healing Game (Exile/Legacy Recordings) is a treasure trove of unbridled genius reaching out in all directions at once. Its three discs cont...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt April 24, 2019 Albums, Reviews The Legend When Ray Charles inducted Nat King Cole into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, he admitted to copying Cole’s cool vocal style prior to developing his own. Starting out as a jazz pianist wi...
Lucy Kaplansky — ‘Everyday Street’ Samantha Curreli April 2, 2019 Albums, Reviews Press play and close your eyes. Soothing, soulful guitars will guide you down memory lane while thoughtful lyrics drift you through parks and streets in New York—even the highlands of Scotland. Carefully crafte...
Mötley Crüe — ‘The Dirt Soundtrack’ Tim Louie March 27, 2019 Albums, Reviews One of the most highly-anticipated Netflix movies this year, for me anyway, is The Dirt, based on the best-selling Mötley Crüe autobiography. Of course, to coincide with any movie, there should be a soundtrack....
Rant ‘n’ Roll: Elvis Presley, Seth Walker, Larry Grenadier, and more! Mike Greenblatt March 27, 2019 Albums, Reviews By 1968, Elvis Presley had abdicated his throne to those British long-hairs whom he hated. The King just wasn’t relevant anymore and he knew it. Along came TV producer Steve Binder with an idea to restore Elvis...
