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No Mercy offers a great introduction to an amazingly diversely talented blues musician.
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CD Review: Isabelle Snakes & Music
A breath of independence and freedom; something people older than you can blame the troubles of the world on.
Read More »CD Review: War And Love – Poem de Terre
This is an intelligent, provocative, and inspired creation.
Read More »CD Review: Underdog Wishing Chair
Not since Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, and Ferron have I heard as powerful and intelligent music from a woman's folk/country group
Read More »Concert Review: Mofro
A Mofro show is something like a second coming of the Doors.
Read More »DVD Review: John Hammond: The Paris Concert
He doesn't just play the music of the past: he blows the dust of history off it so that it sounds fresh, alive, and relevant.
Read More »CD Review: PovertyNeck Hillbillies – PovertyNeck Hillbillies
...foot stompin', beer drinkin' music.
Read More »CD Review: Crow Jane Alley – Willy DeVille
Willy DeVille is one of the greats who have been ignored for too long.
Read More »CD Review: The Hard Stuff George Thorogood
...the dynamo that can power a small city.
Read More »CD Review: Pilgrimage: Mississippi To Memphis Aynsley Lister, Erja Lyytinen, and Ian Parker
No need to worry about the future of the Blues, just look beyond your backyard.
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