"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
For four decades, Bob has written commentary and reviewed music, painting, film, theatre, and other arts for local, regional, and national Canadian media. Since 1996, he’s written Sound Bytes music reviews online. A working artist in a variety of forms and media, Bob’s latest album with Poem de Terre is War & Love (July 1, 2006). With broad knowledge of the arts, Bob often takes an off-centre, quirky view, offering new insights to an artist's work.
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Music Review: Doc and Merle Watson - Black Mountain Rag
Flatpick guitarist and singer Doc Watson is one of the important artists of the last century in American folk music.
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Music Review: Sally Nyolo and the Original Bands of Yaoundé - Studio Cameroon
Sally Nyolo and the artists who worked with her have created a delightful anthology to represent the music of Cameroon to the world.
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Music Review: Coleman Hawkins - At Ease with Coleman Hawkins
Hawkins, whose playing influenced several generations of musicians, created timeless music that has as much appeal today as when it was first recorded.
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DVD Review: Texas Tornados - Live from Austin Texas
The epitome of the Tex-Mex sound, Texas Tornados brings together four Texas superstars: Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, Freddie Fender, and Flaco Jimenez.
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DVD Review: Sir Douglas Quintet - Live From Austin, Texas
Sir Douglas Quintet may just rival a certain British band for the title of The Greatest Rock & Roll Band Ever.
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Music Review: Charles Earland - Black Talk!
Even now, nearly forty years after this album was first released, this music sounds fresh, alive, and up-to-date.
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Music Review: Doug Sahm and Band
Really a pick-up band formed for this session, this is a super-group that prefigures another Sahm band, the Texas Tornados.
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Music Review: Fever Tree - Fever Tree/Another Time, Another Place
While Fever Tree may not be well-known or this an important release, the music is interesting and gives very good value.
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Music Review: The Sir Douglas Band - Texas Tornado
Texas Tornado is a mixed bag of jazz, swing, Cajun, country and rock sounds that somehow hangs together in spite of itself.
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Music Review: Respect the Dead - Otis Taylor
In these songs the words are the driving force, delivering characters and events that grab and hold our attention.
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