Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt September 11, 2019 Albums, Reviews The Dance of Love Tango music is sensuous. Originating in 1800s Argentina and Uruguay, and originally performed only on solo guitar, its staccato phrasing, dramatic swoops and glides, and, especially, the a...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 28, 2019 Albums, Reviews This Rhythm Method Works It’s As Live As It Gets on the self-released, self-produced fifth album from Seattle’s Polly O’Keary & The Rhythm Method, a hard-charging, blues-busting power trio from the grea...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 21, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Bad-Ass Piano-Playing Hipster The 11 originals that constitute the free-flowing multi-genre solo piano of Baltimore hipster Lafayette Gilchrist’s self-released Dark Matter range from jazz, go-go, blues, pop...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 14, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Stranger Things One of the more entertaining aspects about the first two seasons of Stranger Things is the music. The soundtrack for season three is a mixed bag that interlocks into a mesmerizing 16-track w...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 7, 2019 Albums, Reviews Real Life Tales of the Disenfranchised Singer-songwriter Mark Cline Bates writes profound poetry on King Of The Crows, his self-released all-original manifesto on the philosophical conundrums of trying to m...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 24, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The Guitar Is the Star Canadian guitarist Kevin Breit named his second Stony Plain Records solo album Stella Bella Strada, which loosely translates to “beautiful star of the road,” after his new guitar, spe...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt July 9, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll 2 Meet Me On Southern Avenue I’ll be on Southern Avenue for a while because I Keep On (Concord Records) playing this Memphis band’s second album. Their 2017 self-titled debut had me up nights dancing by mysel...
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...
