Maggie, Suzzy, and Terre Roche, three sisters from northern New Jersey, sang like angels on the albums they made together, with astonishingly close harmonies and imaginative phrasing. Though rooted in folk, their music owes debts to everything from jazz and barbershop quartets to 1940s vocal groups and punk. Their lyrics, which often chronicle events from […]
Eli Paperboy Reed – “Like We Used To” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Eli Paperboy Reed’s song “Like We Used To” from his forthcoming album Getting There. It was produced by Swamp Dogg; recorded and mixed by Lorenzo Wolff at Restoration Sound in Bushwick Brooklyn, NY; and mastered by Mike Kalajian. Horn arrangements […]
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BENTLEY’S BANDSTAND: June 2025 By Bill Bentley Jeffrey Broussard and the Nighttime Syndicate, BAYOU MOONLIGHT. It is well known in the burgs and bayous of New Orleans that music is meant to be put in the mixer. Any number of genres can get thrown together, and the end result often borders on bliss. There is […]
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Frank Zappa’s Cheaper Than Cheep, plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, were riding high in June 1974. They’d just completed a 10th-anniversary tour and, only three months earlier, had released Apostrophe (’), their first and only Top 10 album. […]
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