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 […]
Music Reviews: The Wandering Hearts, Willie Nile, Christopher Cross, Iron Horse, and the Black Watch The Wandering Hearts, Déjà vu (We Have All Been Here Before). Original material dominates Wild Silence, The Wandering Hearts, and Mother, the three previous albums from this British folk-rock trio. For its latest outing, however, the group eschews self-penned tracks, […]
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Iron Horse – Pickin’ On Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bluegrass Rising Growing up, I found ‘60s Country music a little silly (unless it was the late Jim Reeves or Johnny Cash). But when Country music started sounding more upbeat, fun & melodic, I was told I was listening to Bill Monroe’s bluegrass. I started to listen […]
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John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ Under a Microscope So-called “ultimate” editions of John Lennon’s first two solo albums, 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and 1971’s Imagine, appeared in 2021 and 2018, respectively. Now we have a similarly fashioned box devoted to his fourth LP, Mind Games, which originally surfaced in 1973. (Lennon’s third release, Some Time in […]
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Paul Simon’s Seven Psalms, his first album since 2018’s In the Blue Light, isn’t quite like anything he has done before. For starters, it’s more prayer than pop, more meditative than melodic, and it is subdued enough to make even songs like “America” and “The Only Living Boy in New York” seem sprightly by comparison. […]
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