Music & Book Reviews: Talking Heads: 77 Box Set, plus the Flatlanders, a History of Street Singing, and More Talking Heads: 77 ranks among the most striking, fully realized, and important debut albums of the punk/new wave era that spawned it, though it doesn’t particularly sound like punk or new wave. In fact, it sounds […]
“Down On The Corner (Adventures In Busking & Street Music)” In the digital age, the ancient art of street singing or busking might seem like an anomaly. But in his new book Down On The Corner – Adventures In Busking & Street Music (Jawbone Press) author Cary Baker makes the case for its continuing vitality–while […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: October 2024 By Bill Bentley Gregg Allman Band, UNCLE SAM’S. It doesn’t take long for Gregg Allman’s well-tested road band to hit the monkey nerve and go for the gusto. There is something so pleasingly swinging about this octet that once the first song, “Midnight Rider” kicks in, it’s all over but the […]
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