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'The Al Purdy Songbook' proves once and for all that poetry in the right hands is relevant to everyone and anyone.
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Music Review: Keith Morris & the Crooked Numbers – ‘Psychopaths & Sycophants’
If you’re a fan of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, this is an album you definitely want to own.
Read More »Concert Review: Camille O’Sullivan Sings Jacques Brel (NYC, Oct 19 2017)
The Irish-French chanteuse strikes a teetering balance between a kaleidoscope of rocky personal emotional and an homage to a great inspiration.
Read More »Music Review: Marianne Faithfull – ‘Give My Love to London’
Marianne Faithfull's 20th album celebrates 50 years in the music business and pulls together themes and styles from her distinguished career.
Read More »Music Review: Leonard Cohen – ‘Popular Problems’
Leonard Cohen's 'Popular Problems' isn't a landmark album, but it belongs in every fan's library.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Video Debut – Organ Superstar Cameron Carpenter’s Title-Track Video ‘If You Could Read My Mind’
Carpenter's self-designed International Touring Organ (ITO) dispenses with pipes in favor of digitized sounds.
Read More »Music Review: Barb Jungr – ‘Hard Rain: The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen’
Jungr takes the music of Dylan and Cohen and makes it glow.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): ‘Barb Jungr: Dancing in the Dark’
The renowned British songstress sang songs that touched upon the motifs of night and the bleak winter season when light is most absent.
Read More »Music Review: Liz Mitchell – Pretty House
The doctor is in as Liz Mitchell releases her debut album.
Read More »Music Review: The Unthanks – Diversions Vol 1: The Songs Of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons
This is an evocative and thoughtful interpretation of two very different artists done with astonishing warmth and talent.
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