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A wonderfully detailed background on the making of one of the best live albums ever. Photo: The Allman Brothers (Image credit: Capricorn) 09 December 2021 | Alan Paul | Guitar Player The Allman Brothers Band’s 1971 double album At Fillmore East is often and rightly proclaimed rock’s greatest live release. Fifty years on, it still sounds fresh,…
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The Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet album was released in 1968 and then… vanished. 08 December 2021 | Matthew Brennan | WSWS In December 2020 Matsuli Music, a small record label specializing in overlooked and suppressed South African music, re-issued a striking 1968 album composed by the jazz pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab. Featuring a talented group…
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It has been seven years since their last ‘non-project’ release and ages since their last tour. 03 November 2021 | Press Release | The Unthanks We are hugely excited to announce a new album and tour! It will be over two years since the last show! And seven years after the release of Mount The…
Okay, the new lineup (if true) would include Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Kenney Jones would be fine but the last ‘full’ Faces album was in 1973. 10 September 2021 | PAUL CASHMERE | Noise11 | With two additional live concert videos The Faces appear to have more than a dozen new songs set to…
Photo: ‘I arrived at the beginning of the real Jamaican music’ … Jimmy Cliff photographed in Miami, August 2021. Photograph: Vision Addict Jamaican Independence Day marks more than 60 years in music from a man who has always looked beyond local life to move himself – and Jamaican music as a whole – on to a…
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Photo: ‘She wrote songs celebrating motherhood, female sexuality and her menstrual cycle’ … Laura Nyro in New York, 1968. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Imagine a time when ‘new albums’ -not new ‘female’ albums- included Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Blue and Tapestry. American Dreamer, a box set containing Nyro’s first seven albums and an eighth…
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23 July 2021 | Press Release/Website | Neil Casal Music Foundation Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal is a tribute to the life and music of the gifted singer, songwriter, musician, and friend to many. Featuring 41 of Neal’s songs on 5 LPs or 3 CDs, the collection brings together a galaxy of rock…
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03 July 2021 | RICK MOORE | American Songwriter | Includes additional videos and articles. Some songwriters write for an entire lifetime and never see much success, or never have their work publicly acknowledged, good as it may be. And then there are writers who seem to just be in the right place at the…
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Cover Art: Art by Ben Shannon 19 June 2021 | CBC Music Original art and testimonials in praise of one of the greatest albums ever. See the full interactive experience here. “My music is not designed to grab instantly,” Joni Mitchell once told historian Alice Echols. “It’s designed to wear for a lifetime, to hold up like a…
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Bob Koester in the stacks at the Jazz Record Mart in 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON Bob Koester leaves a colossal legacy in Chicago jazz and blues 19 May 2021 | Howard Mandel | Chicago Reader Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked—and what you should like too. For nearly 70…
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OTTAWA, ON – JULY 01: Canadian singer Buffy Sainte-Marie performs during Canada Day celebrations at Parliament Hill on July 1, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Mark Horton/Getty Images 26 May 2021 | Steve Baltin | Forbes (on…) May 27 at 7 PM EST, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (hosted) a virtual conversation between…
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The more than 150 gold or platinum records that bore his name in the credits included recordings by Henry Mancini, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Josh Groban, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. 27 April 2021 | Chris Willman | Variety (original link) Al Schmitt, one of the most…
