Back in 2020, this column featured 16 folk, pop, and rock artists and bands that deserve wide acclaim but have attracted only cult followings. Here are 10 more. Bobby Charles The late Bobby Charles was a gifted singer who also wrote many memorable songs, including “The Jealous Kind” (Ray Charles, Delbert McClinton, etc.) and “Walking […]
The Million Dollar Bashers at Cain’s Ballroom It’s been a good year to be a Dylan fan in Tulsa. Earlier this spring, Bob himself performed over at the Tulsa Theater (see our coverage here: https://americanahighways.org/2025/03/27/show-review-bob-dylan-in-tulsa), and earlier last week, The Bob Dylan Center opened its newest exhibition Going Electric: Dylan ’65, which is a look […]
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Favorite Albums of February 2025 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of February 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 […]
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Sunny War – Armageddon in a Summer Dress While reading over the materials for Sunny War’s latest album, one phrase of her bio struck me – “when I jumped out of bed with my machete.” The line itself was referring to the ghosts she may or may not have heard living with her in her […]
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More than 20 years ago, the Rhino label issued a four-CD, 109-track box set of frequently psychedelic late 1960s rock obscurities called Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. You might think that would be enough to cover the territory, but this was an incredibly fertile time and place for the genre. […]
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