Favorite Albums of May 2025 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of April 2025 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! What a great bunch of albums this month! Check out the list just to see what else was new, too. The top five will be featured in our […]
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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Memphis Royal Brothers – Self-Titled This is an interesting release with multiple name performers who add to the curiosity that is this illuminating project. There are 8 tidy soulfully rendered pieces by varied award-winning vocalists on Memphis Royal Brothers – Self-Titled (Drops July 26/Royal Records/40:00) produced by Grammy-Award-winning Boo Mitchell with Richard Bolen. While the […]
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Mary Gauthier Finds a Hopeful Place When Nashville-based Mary Gauthier appeared on Hulu’s I Love You, America a few years ago, host Sarah Silverman noted that one of her staffers found the folk singer-songwriter’s music so depressing “she had to listen to Morrissey to cheer up.” It’s true that Gauthier’s albums have reflected her difficult life experiences—including abandonment by her mother when she was a child, struggles related to being gay, […]
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