Ellsworth – American Compost (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) His performing career is about as old as I am (and much more dignified Á¢€” he’s rubbed shoulders with Leon Russell,…
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Jeff Giles is the founder and editor-in-chief of Popdose and Dadnabbit, as well as an entertainment writer whose work can be seen at Rotten Tomatoes and a number of other sites. Hey, why not follow him at Twitter while you're at it?
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Mister Fusty – Honest Blundering (2006)purchase this album (CD Baby) Review by Jamie Lyon Back in 2000, when Damon Gough released the first Badly Drawn Boy disc The Hour of…
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Kurt’s weekly roundtable continues, with all sorts of snarking on Clapton and Def Leppard, not to mention a lively debate over certain alleged similarities between Mike Reno and Patty Smyth…
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Moondance (1970)purchase this album (Amazon) The Background: The AMG’s Jason Ankeny refers to it as “the yang to Astral Weeks‘ yin,” and that’s about right Á¢€” loosely speaking, this set…
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[Jefito’s Note: Nope, this isn’t a joke — welcome to The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slayer, written by none other than reader harmolodic, who you may remember as the author…
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The U-Krew – Ugly (1990) Here’s where good old-fashioned civic pride intersects with bad music. The U-Krew, an act I’ll be surprised if any of you remember, had a #28…
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Apologies for the extended downtime, but at the moment, I’m still a man without a host; as it turns out, the company I chose the other night (after five minutes…
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Irish Heartbeat (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) The Background: Two years removed from the critically well-received Poetic Champions Compose, Morrison took an unexpected detour, stripping back all the layers of mysticism…
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Rotten Tomatoes let me give in to my inner snark with this month’s Big Feature: The 100 Worst-Reviewed Films of All Time. (I wrote the Editor’s Notes for Numbers 20-1:except…
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Jonathan Rundman exhumes his ten-year-old interview with Styx member Glen Burtnik; Grace Potter and the Nocturnals cover “Mystery Train”; Kurt kicks off his terrific new Week in Rock feature Á¢€”…
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Beautiful Vision (1982)purchase this album (Amazon)The Background: The popular perception seems to be that Van lost his way in the early ’80s, and it’s true that Beautiful Vision, like a…
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A big group of us are sitting around and talking about some old #1 songs over at Kurt’s place. C’mon over and join the fun!
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Walter “Wolfman” Washington – Sada (1991)purchase this album (Amazon) He’s well-known in and around New Orleans, but as far as a recording career goes, Walter “Wolfman” Washington has had a…
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And here is where we pause to recognize the Bee Gees, who Á¢€” among many other achievements Á¢€” coined the word “womanifestation,” in 1991’s “Human Sacrifice” (download). Who cares about…
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HereÁ¢€â„¢s one IÁ¢€â„¢ve been meaning to get to for a long time now Á¢€” Jules Shear has always been on my list of perfect IdiotÁ¢€â„¢s Guide artists. Many of you…
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I’ve been keeping this under wraps until now, but it gives me no small amount of giddy, schoolgirl-like joy to introduce to you: Now, I really want to take credit…
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I love the night links, I got to boogie, on the disco round, oh yeah: Malchus the Geat writes a beautifully heartfelt ode to “The Rainbow Connection.” More like this,…
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Natural Selection – Do Anything (1991) Now here’s a special one. In a way, Natural Selection was formed a few decades too late; the technology used to create its music…
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The links, the links, the links are on fire: Pete at IckMusic serves up some sweet, live Steve Earle (featuring The Boss!), then makes me actually think about buying a…
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Another Friday, another jewel in the crown of Joe at 125 Records, who served up this week’s Bootleg City specifically for February 2, 2007. Why? I’m not sure. Perhaps it…
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Fountains Of Wayne – Radiation Vibe from Fountains of Wayne (1996)Compay Segundo – La Enganadora from Calle Salud (1999)Chris Trapper – Forget Me from Hey, You (2006)Blackalicious – World Of…
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Giant Steps – The Book of Pride (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) It’s easy to laugh at them now — we do it here every week — but truly, there are…
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[Jefito’s Note: I’ve been thinking about starting this series for awhile now; the way I see it, these Hooters and Peter Wolf CDs I’ve got lying around might as well…
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All of his albums have great songs on them, but for my money, 2001’s Last Man on Earth is Loudon Wainwright’s best front-to-back record, not least because of “Living Alone”…
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It hasn’t quite turned into a Behind the Music-style formula yet, but — as our pal David pointed out to me, when he was in the throes of his They…
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Al B. Sure! – Missunderstanding (1990) I’m pretty sure I’ve gone into this in detail before, but if I’m wrong, and haven’t explicitly stated this already, I’ll do it here:…
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His last few albums haven’t done anything for me, but between 1990-1995, Cliff Eberhardt was making some of the best Northeastern folk on the market. (It was a small market,…
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Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (2007)purchase this book (Amazon) As my Dad and I sat around the house one Saturday afternoon, playing…
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Don’t ask about the picture. It dates back — way, way back — to this blog’s LiveJournal origins, and was the product of an inside joke that was probably only…
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Pete at IckMusic catches Diddy ogling Jessica Biel, then serves up Old School Friday Á¢€” (Slick Rick alert!) Á¢€” then does a little Harlem Shufflin’. Bruce at Some Velvet Blog…