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“An enigmatic singer-songwriter, she has crafted a sweetly sung disc that alternately revels and weeps … a genuine triumph.”
~ Country Standard Time
This CD is often classified as belonging to the ‘Americana’ genre. I’m still confused about what exactly ‘Americana’ music is. But I’m not confused about how much I love Corinne West’s [...]

Martin Sexton, Seeds.
There I Go

Will It Go Round In Circles

Happy

Wild Angels

Keep It Simple

On what’s post “hit me baby one more time,” I commented that I like variety on my radio, but I often get ‘hooked’ on a song or two and listen over and over and over again on my ipod or stereo.
Right now, at this moment, I’m hooked on Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings CD, [...]

As child of the 80’s, who simultaneously fell in love with Prince and Depeche Mode, falling for Jamie Lidell was only natural for me.
Multiply is one of my favorite albums ever. Seriously. I love that album. And now, check it out! My favorite spastic funky fresh slightly eccentric British soul singer is working [...]

You know what this blog needs? More R&B!
Let’s put on some Angie Stone, The Art of Love and War.
Go Back To Your Life

These Are The Reasons

Pop Pop

Happy Being Me

All right.

You will like the Tommy Castro Band if you like blues guitar and soul. If you like ‘brass with ass.’ If you like that old time rock n’ roll. If you like BB King. If you like Bob Seger. And, as I sit listening to Tommy Castro’s album Painkiller, I realize that most who liked [...]

The John Butler Trio with Keith Urban, Funky Tonight:

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How much do these guys rock? I mean seriously, how much? (A: You have to rock pretty hard to pull off that tag.)
Here is Funky Tonight, again, this time a live recording off KFOG’s Live From [...]

Mavis Staples. Wow. What can you say about this amazing singer and her album, We’ll Never Turn Back? This is much more than an album of freedom songs…it’s yesterday. It’s today. It’s inspiration. It’s important. It’s truth. And it’s great music.
99 and 1/2
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Down In Mississippi
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Turn Me Around
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Jesus Is On The Main [...]

“After 9 months of touring, and at the close of an 8 week tour of Europe, my band, The Innocent Criminals, and I loaded directly off the road and into an elegantly humble recording studio in Paris called ‘Studio Gang.’ The record, Lifeline, was recorded and mixed in 7 days on a 16-track analog tape [...]

“I was studying Miss Billie, Miss Ella, Miss Sarah Vaughan and Miss Natalie Cole…”-Let’s Rock, Chrisette Michele

Chrisette Michele’s album “I Am” sounds like R&B, jazz, gospel, neo-soul, and hip-hop together with an old school elegant voice that more than one person has compared to singers like Ella Fitzgerald.
This lovely lady has created something beautiful that [...]