Bentley’s Bandstand: October 2026 Christopher Wyze & the Tellers, NAPTOWN BLUES. Sometimes the blues can use a major shot in the arm by those who toiled hard and deep, but didn’t quite knock it all the way over the fence. Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell were hardcore blues-beaters who tried as hard and achieved as […]
Bentley’s Bandstand: January 2026 Ed Alstrom, THIS IDEA OF HUMANITY.There are moments in anyone’s life when the Hammond organ sounds like the only instrument that could possibly rule the world. Its notes are ready for action, no matter the mood, and it swings with a fullness that sounds like the holy ghost has taken over […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: October 2025 Queen Esther, BLACKBIRDING. There hasn’t ever been an album quite like Queen Esther’s BLACKBIRDING. It’s an emotional study of events at Gettysburg during the Civil War, and how it turned historial times into an era that never really allowed Blacks to get past the ramifications which occurred then. Queen Esther’s absolute […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: May 2025By Bill Bentley All Things Swamp, DRESSED. When it comes to New Orleans music, it is such a wondrous gift to the world that when players get together to jump into the bayou spirit there is no way to go wrong. And when the nine-piece All Things Swamp band gets rolling, it […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: August 2024 By Bill Bentley Randall Bramblett, PARADISE BREAKDOWN. There really aren’t many blue-eyed soul brothers as strong as Randall Bramblett. He has been writing and recording songs for his never-ending solo career for 50 years, always surprising listeners with a deep-seated ability to strike a new ability to go right to the […]
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