Archive for May 27th, 2012

by / on May 27, 2012 at 8:18 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

Bachman and Turner – Live at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC (2012)

If the standard for a reunion is that it measure up to the sound and feel of the original music, then Bachman and Turner — the heart and soul of platinum-selling 1970s hitmakers Bachman-Turner Overdrive — have delivered.

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by / on May 27, 2012 at 7:39 am / in Rock Music, Singer-songwriters

Nick Africano – The Butterfly Bull (2012)

Like its title, Nick Africano’s The Butterfly Bull succeeds in these brilliantly contradictory ways. There are, over the course of its 12 songs, both shadows and light

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by / on May 27, 2012 at 7:19 am / in Jazz

Edward Ratliff – Those Moments Before (2009)

It’s said that music has its own language and syntax. I’m not talking about the technical stuff like notes, measures, and key centers, but the more subtle areas

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by / on May 27, 2012 at 6:50 am / in Rock Music, Steely Dan Sunday, Uncategorized

Steely Dan Sunday, "Gaucho" (1980) [Reader poll included!]

< >> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Becker and Fagen discovered just how true that was when their little hat tip to jazz pianist Keith Jarrett turned nasty and expensive.

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