Earlier this year, England’s Grapefruit label issued Too Much Sun Will Burn, the second of two three-CD sets celebrating the British psychedelic sounds of 1967. The anthologies underscored just how adventurous that country’s rock and pop artists were back then, and now, from the same label, comes a companion volume to remind us that just […]
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Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii,” plus a Ray Davies Tribute, Two Rockabilly Anthologies, Melanie, and More New Releases Elvis Presley’s return to prominence after a multi-year slump began with a December 1968 TV special and arguably culminated in January 1973 with another television event: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite, a concert that aired live in […]
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Grooves & Cuts July 2023 – by John Apice Boxcar Willie – No Novelty Act For those unfamiliar with the country entertainer known as Boxcar Willie (the late Lecil Travis Martin) he was certainly a polished performer, with a great personality & a wonderful voice. He projected an overwhelming sincerity in every word he sang […]
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Joni Mitchell released her last studio album, Shine, in 2007, after which her music began to take a back seat as she battled a rare skin condition called Morgellons. Then in 2015, she suffered a brain aneurism that briefly took away her ability to speak, left her unable to walk, resulted in the need for […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: July 2023 By Bill Bentley Paul Carrack & The SWR Big Band, Don’t Wait Too Long. There have been years when swinging singer and keyboard monster Paul Carrack had the go-to knack to be where the hits happened. After his early years in British band Ace, followed by tenures at the microphone with […]
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Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s The Definitive 24 Nights, plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights, which appeared in 1991, culled 15 superlative performances from a series of concerts that year and in 1990 at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, where he has appeared more than 200 times. The […]
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As you know if you’ve read Tune In, Mark Lewisohn’s peerless history of the Beatles’ pre-fame years, the Fab Four were hardly the only musicians blazing new trails in and around Liverpool in the U.K. in the early 1960s. Hundreds of groups were vying for fame while creating the genre that came to be called […]
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Lucinda Williams has recorded lots of country- and soul-flavored music over her four-decade career, but her heart has always been in rock, a fact she reaffirms on her effusive latest CD, her first collection of new material since 2020’s Good Souls Better Angels. Like that album, the just-released Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart […]
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I Know We Should: Palmyra at Wild Coyote Recordings I Know We Should is the name of the audio/video production team including audio engineer Juan M Soria and videographer Brad Wagner. I Know We Should is also the title of this session series brought to you by Americana Highways which presents world-class artists in non-traditional […]
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WINO: The Documentary I’ve been catching up on some of this years releases and features, and wanted to share this one with ya’ll. WINO: The Documentary was released back on May 13th coinciding with a festival premiere at the Maryland International Film Festival. Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich is one of the most influential artists in the […]
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