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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Lilly Hiatt: Exploring Her Country Roots

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments John Hiatt, Lilly Hiatt, Nashville, New West Records, Trinity Lane, Walking Proof

The second generation singer-songwriter shines on the excellent Walking Proof

Blues Folk Soul

Still Bill, Just As He Was

April 6, 2020 James Porter 2 Comments Bill Withers, Columbia Records, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, John Hammond, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Swamp Dogg, Terry Callier

There was almost no precedent for Bill Withers in the 1970s

Folk Funk Remembrance Soul

LISTEN: Godspeed, Bill Withers

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers, folk, funk, Grandma's Hands, Just The Two Of Us, Lean On Me, Lovely Day, RIP, Soul

Family announces the passing of the soul legend, who died on March 30 at age 81

Blues Dylan Folk

On Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”

March 30, 2020April 1, 2020 Tim Sommer 10 Comments 2020, Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul, Phil Ochs, The Beatles, The Mekons

The Bard to his generation: “You Fucked Up”

Blues Classical Country and/or Western Electronic Folk Gospel Pop Rock

The Great American Quarantine Tour: Week Two

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Alexis P. Suter, Allman-Betts Band, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Devon Allman, Diplo, Tilly Foster, Tim Fogarty, Yo-Yo Ma

5 more commanding performances from the neverending living room concert

Experimental Folk Pop

Flesh Cartoons: Robyn Hitchcock’s Eye at 30

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1990, Eye, Queen Elvis, Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, The Soft Boys

In 1990, the chief Egyptian casts his vision towards further fancies

Folk Punk Rock

IN CONCERT: Patti Has The Power

March 8, 2020March 9, 2020 Evelyn McDonnell 0 Comments Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Patti Smith and Her Band, Patti Smith Group, People Have the Power, Power to the People, Richard Sohl, Robert Mapplethorpe, Todd Smith, Tony Shanahan, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Women's History Month

At the cusp of International Women’s Day weekend, Patti Smith and Her Band brought the Mouse House down with a fearless and inspired performance this past Friday night at Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall

Folk Punk

Billy Bragg’s The Internationale Imagines a Fairer world

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Jennfer Kelly 0 Comments

Bragg’s most earnest and political album remains surprisingly relevant 30 years later

Blues Folk

ALBUMS: Dom Flemons Is The American Songster

March 4, 2020March 5, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Dom Flemons, Omnivore Recordings, Prospect Hill, Taj Mahal, The American Songster Omnibus, The Carolina Chocolate Drops

On this excellent expanded edition of 2014’s Prospect Hill, the solo sounds of this onetime Carolina Chocolate Drop is taken to New Heights

Folk Remembrance Rock

Buzzy Linhart Is, Was and Will Always Be Music

March 2, 2020March 4, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 3 Comments Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Buzzy Linhart, Fred Neil, Jesse Colin Young, Mark Klingman, Max Ochs, raga-rock, RIP, Serge Katzen, The Divine Miss M, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Tim Hardin, You've Got to Have Friends

Remembering Buzzy, an unsung hero of the folk-rock connection who passed away February 13 at age 76

Folk New Wave Pop Power Pop Rock

The Miracle of Marshall Crenshaw

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment #447 (1999), Beatlemania, Marshall Crenshaw, My Truck Is My Home (1994), Pat DiNizio, Razor & Tie, Shiny-Tone Records, The 9 Volt Years (1998), The Miracle of Science, The Smithereens, What’s in the Bag?

As he rolls out an anticipated string of 90s reissues and hits the road with The Smithereens, the post-New Wave pop auteur speaks exclusively to the Rock & Roll Globe