No summer barbecue is complete without the right soundtrack, and as a host, you have several choices: You can select straight ahead rock or some good soul music. You May Also Like: Natsuki Tamura – ‘Summer Tree’ (2022) Richard Turgeon, “Goodbye to Summer” (2020): One Track Mind Richard Elliot –Read More
Robert Randolph and his Family Band are poised to follow up on that T-Bone Burnett-produced affair We Walk This Road (2010) with Lickety Split, a group of a dozen new recordings including nine new originals. You May Also Like: Robert Randolph & the Family Band – Got Soul (2017) MarcusRead More
A couple of years ago, the brilliantly creative Steven Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra made a Sly Stone tribute MTO Plays Sly, and after his band got done reconstructing Stone’s music, I wondered if there was a need to devote an album revisiting that body of work anymore. YouRead More
Like The Endangered around this time last year, I came across a EP from a band just getting off the ground that stands out from the current crop of emerging acts You May Also Like: Mike Dillon & Punkadelick – ‘Inflorescence’ (2023)
With a smart assist from Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples transforms Funkadelic’s “Can You Get To That” from a sing-along slab of greasy-good uplift into this Americana-inflected groover. You May Also Like: Mavis Staples Wrote a New Ending For Her Father With ‘Don’t Lose This’
Last month we got a taste of UK acid jazzers The Brand New Heavies’ first release since 2006’s Get Used To It, and the advance single “Sunlight” signaled a pretty decent return. You May Also Like: Biscay – Burnt Mementos EP (2017) Mark Anthony K on Projekt Gemineye’s ‘A BrandRead More
The best peace, love and harmony anthem of 1985 didn’t come from the composing pen of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, wasn’t produced by Quincy Jones and not sung by hordes of rock music’s biggest stars. You May Also Like: How the Isley Brothers Made Seals and Crofts’ ‘Summer Breeze’Read More
The last recordings of an early rock legend had none of the crunchy grit of “Dizzy Miss Lizzy.” Instead, Larry Williams reimagined his sound.
It would be easy enough to tag this as Southern rock, or as blues, or even — at times — as gospel, were Randall Bramblett’s The Bright Spots not so consistently all of those things, and something more. You May Also Like: Royal Southern Brotherhood – The Royal Gospel (2016)
This is a first-time CD reissue in any form of Sam The Sham’s fine 1971 solo album, originally released on Atlantic Records and produced by the legendary Tom Dowd at Criteria Studios in Miami You May Also Like: Boz Scaggs + Duane Allman, “Loan Me a Dime” (1969): One TrackRead More
