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Half Notes: Cassandra Wilson – Glamoured (2003)
Ooooh baby … just one listen to Wilson’s gorgeous and sultry voice intertwined with Willie Nelson’s classic melody from “Crazy” is enough to make me think things I just shouldn’t be thinkin’!
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The Friday Morning Listen: The Band – The Last Waltz (1978)
Yesterday, I received a message from an old high school friend. We shared a lot of great times, but one of the greatest was the afternoon we spent at Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville, Maine, watching Martin Scorsese’s concert film The Last Waltz.
Gimme Five: Celebrating Levon Helm, co-founder and voice of the Band
News came on Tuesday that Levon Helm’s cancer has returned, leading us to marvel all over again on his towering achievements in music.
Cancer has returned for Levon Helm, multiple solo Grammy winner and voice of the Band
A new message from LevonHelm.com confirms what many fans feared when he suddenly postponed an April 6 concert appearance, just weeks after returning from an unexplained surgical procedure: The legendary co-founder of the Band and multiple solo Grammy winner has seen his cancer battle take a turn for the worse.
The Grateful Dead – All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection (2012)
There was something about a New Year’s Eve show and the Grateful Dead, as the forthcoming All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection so artfully illustrates.
Dar Williams – In the Time of Gods (2012)
Dar Williams might be one of the few singer-songwriters around who could take the age-old fables surrounding Zeus and Aphrodite, and smartly connect them to our current state of affairs.
Guitarist Sonny Landreth’s 11th outing is a long-awaited all-instrumental project
Louisiana’s Sonny Landreth, long known for his wizardry on the slide, has never issued an all-instrumental recording — until now. Due May 22, 2012 on his own Landfall label, Elemental Journey will include guest appearances by Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani, among others.
Forgotten series: Erik Friedlander – Block Ice and Propane (2007)
As a jazz cellist, you may not think you’ve heard Friedlander — but you’ve heard this dude and probably didn’t know it, I would bet.
The Ramblers – Getting There (2010)
I’m trying to remember when it was. It was definitely during a pop-music fad that involved a lot of synthesizers and other electrical accoutrements. Maybe it was the New Wave era … or maybe when The Prodigy hit it big.
To get into the groove, Dr. John says he ate African food and listened to Ethiopian jazz
Dr. John’s forthcoming collaboration with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach has a turbulent, polyrhythmic propulsion, and that’s no accident, the legendary keyboardist says.
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