Wainwright's lines sometimes sound like ones you might hear in a therapy session. In fact, he released an album titled 'Therapy' back in 1989.
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Music Reviews: A Potent Live Set from Hardwicke Circus, plus Reissues from Jazz Innovator Oregon
Nobody sounds quite like Hardwicke Circus, whose music exudes enthusiasm and emotion. Its performances are tight but, importantly, never overly polished or slick.
Read More »Music Reviews: The Pioneering Mills Brothers, plus Moby Grape’s Bob Mosley and Veteran Folkie John McCutcheon
Commercially, the Mills Brothers were huge—the most popular male vocal group of all time by some measures. Yet it’s a good bet that their name would ring no bells with most music fans today.
Read More »Concert/Cabaret Review: ‘A Goyishe Christmas to You!’ from New York Festival of Song
The tradition of Jewish songwriters writing Christmas tunes dates back at least to Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas.'
Read More »Music & Film Reviews: Rolling Stones’ ‘Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush,’ plus Sun Ra, Christopher Cross, and B.B. King
A “secret” 1999 concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire music venue by a fired-up Rolling Stones included some rarely heard numbers.
Read More »Music & Film Reviews: Southside Johnny ‘Live at Rockpalast,’ plus Lucinda Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Emily Remler
...and just when you think things can’t get any hotter, Steve Van Zandt shows up to sing and play guitar on the show’s five final numbers.
Read More »Music Reviews: George Harrison’s ‘Living in the Material World’ (Anniversary Edition), plus The Blasters and More
Harrison's 1973 album earned laudatory reviews, rose quickly to the top of the charts, and spawned a No. 1 single. Now it's out in several expanded 50th-anniversary editions.
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Measha Brueggergosma-Lee, Composer-Pianist Aaron Davis Set Poems of Margaret Atwood in ‘Zombie Blizzard’
Davis' seven-part song cycle for soprano, jazz trio and brass quintet provoked thought and admiration in Brooklyn.
Read More »Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Archives, Vol. 4’ and Jelly Roll Morton’s ‘Career Anthology’
'Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976–1980)' is at least as good as any of its terrific Joni Mitchell predecessor collections.
Read More »Music Reviews: Bob Dylan & the Band’s ‘The 1974 Live Recordings,’ plus Dave Edmunds, Randall Bramblett, and Belsitzman & Herman
Concerts from 1974 capture Bob Dylan (& the Band) at a key juncture in this huge box set.
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