The Charlie Daniels Band Off The Grid – Doin’ It Dylan Blue Hat 9716 www.charliedaniels.com The Charlie Daniels Band serves up ten Bob Dylan songs here. I’ll bet the germ of this project was planted … Continue reading →
Renaissance Symphony of Light Red River www.renaissancetouring.com Perhaps England’s most symphonic-minded prog-rock band, Renaissance was one of the bands emerging out of the ashes of The Yardbirds in 1969. While Jimmy Page continued to … Continue reading →
Various Bob Dylan In The ’80s, Vol. One ATO 0224 www.80sdylan.com Bob Dylan’s work in the 1980s beginning with his Christian albums Saved and A Shot of Love have received plenty of scorn and … Continue reading →
Blitz The Ambassador Afropolitan Dreams Jakarta www.blitz.mvmt.com Samuel Bazawule was born and raised in Accra, Ghana. In his youth he was introduced to the Highlife and Afrobeat sounds popularized in West Africa, but it … Continue reading →
Anansy Cissé Mali Overdrive Riverboat 1079 www.worldmusic.net Sometimes listening to West African music is like looking at the surface of a beautiful pond. In the ripples we see reflections of American blues created by … Continue reading →
Kathy Kallick Cut to the Chase Live Oak 590 www.kathykallick.com More than a decade before the arrival on the scene in the late 1980s of the teenaged wunderkind Alison Krauss, a band called The Good … Continue reading →
Wayne Raney Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me 20 Old-Time Gospel Favorites Gusto 2228, 2229 www.gustorecords.com Besides ranking with the top harmonica players of the post-World War II years, Arkansas-born Wayne Raney … Continue reading →
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams A Box of Everything Red River www.red-river-records.com With influences including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren, and the marching bands in Philadelphia’s Mummer … Continue reading →
Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Songs Sterling Children’s BooksISBN: 1-4549-0446-1, 28 color pages w/ CD,10″x10″ hbk, $17.95 (U.S.) / $19.95 (Can.) www.sterlingpublishing.com To say that Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) was one of the most prolific authors of … Continue reading →
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Pizzica Indiavolata Ponderosa Music & Art 101 www.canzonieregrecanicosalentino.net One of the best musical discoveries I made recently was this fantastic band from southern Italy. I attended two superb live concerts and … Continue reading →
