Alabama Shakes with Mavis Staples at Tanglewood on September 5 What better way to spend a sunny summer Saturday in the Berkshires on Labor Day weekend than to see two extraordinary, Grammy-award winning female singers and music artists: Brittany Howard & Alabama Shakes and Mavis Staples, who performed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts on Saturday, […]
Bentley’s Bandstand: Favorite Albums of 2025: (second half) Rodney Crowell, AIRLINE HIGHWAY. There is something about artists like Rodney Crowell that shares such a powerful sound from note one that there is never any question they’ve hit it out of the park. Again. It’s been that way forever with the best music. The song starts […]
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BENTLEY’S BANDSTAND: November 2025 Al Basile, BLUES IN HAND. Lock up the blues crew, because Al Basile is on the lurch and recorded what is the best album of his celebrated career. He’s grabbed the uptown blues by the horns and is more than ready to kick up some naugahyde action through the window. This […]
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Mavis Staples Sad and Beautiful World I feel like, even if we don’t always deserve Mavis Staples, we need her. She’s been singing for over seven decades, traveled as a performer during the Jim Crow era and helped soundtrack the Civil Rights movement, and has now become an elder stateswoman in rock, soul and gospel. […]
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Soulshine, Benefit For A Hurricane Relief and Recovery, November 24, 2024, Madison Square Garden, NY, NY On the evening of November 24, 2024, Madison Square Garden hosted a monumental benefit concert, Soulshine: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief and Recovery, bringing together an eclectic roster of artists to raise funds for those impacted in Florida and […]
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