Articles by: Nick DeRiso

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Eliane Elias, “Brasil” from Made in Brazil (2015): One Track Mind

Eliane Elias is routinely connected with her Brazilian roots but, the truth is, “Brasil” begins her first full-length recording from back home since 1981.

Little Walter - The Blues World of Little Walter (1988): Forgotten Series

Little Walter – The Blues World of Little Walter (1988): Forgotten Series

Remembering lesser-known sides from Muddy Waters harpist Little Walter, who hurtled his instrument forward before dying today in 1968.

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Jimmy Page, “A Minor Sketch” from Sound Tracks (2015): One Track Mind

A long-awaited new Jimmy Page album is being promised. Until then, we’re left with table scraps from a feast that’s somehow never been served.

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Steve Earle, “The Tennessee Kid” from Terraplane (2015): One Track Mind

You can’t dig too deeply into blues, as Steve Earle is doing these days, without a teeth-splintering clang of your shovel against Robert Johnson’s legend.

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Florence + the Machine, “What Kind Of Man” from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)

Florence + the Machine follows an introductory video of sweeping expectancy with something that provides a more detailed sense of what’s ahead.

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Steve Hackett goes deep on Genesis, solo work and GTR: ‘It was a fusion of influences’

In honor of his 65th birthday today, we returned with Steve Hackett to Genesis, his ever-inventive solo career and the one-off supergroup GTR.

Boz Scaggs, "Last Tango on 16th Street" from A Fool to Care (2015): One Track Mind

Boz Scaggs, “Last Tango on 16th Street” from A Fool to Care (2015): One Track Mind

Box Scaggs’ new wistfully urbane interpretation of “Last Tango on 16th Street” is about more than Mission Street atmospherics.

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Joe Bonamassa, “Tiger in Your Tank” (2015): One Track Mind

This lead song from ‘Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks’ makes clear the difficulty Joe Bonamassa — really, anybody — has in taking on Muddy Waters.

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Florence + the Machine, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” (2015): One Track Mind

A lot seems to happen, but also not much. Is this simply an album intro? A taste of a more free-form direction Florence + the Machine might go?

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Alabama Shakes, “Don’t Wanna Fight” from Sound and Color (2015): One Track Mind

Lean and hurtful, anthemic and damaged, Alabama Shakes’ “Don’t Wanna Fight” pulls no punches — not musically, not emotionally.