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Dateline: The People's Republic of Northern Eastern Massachusetts
Weblog: perfidy.org
Articles: 127
Dateline: The People's Republic of Northern Eastern Massachusetts
Weblog: perfidy.org
Articles: 127
John Owen is a music writer, multi-instrumentalist and music industry veteran based in coastal Massachusetts.
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The blues-country-soul-gospel-whatever legend returns with a stupendous set of country songs that would be the crowning achievement of practically any career.
The legendary singer gets frank about his recent resurgence, the joy of singing, and the tiresome uselessness of genre labels.
The much-hyped and very tousled British group finally hits American shores with an album that's pretty, catchy, clever, and, ultimately, kinda boring.
The slide-trumpet player and leader of Sex Mob finally makes an album that doesn't kind of suck.
In which I onanistically ask of myself, what was I thinking?!
The new wave pioneers' 15th album is a bad, bad trip, a violent and bewildering mess drenched in guitar and theremin. It's also outstanding.
As long as you take it for what it is - the aural equivalent of movies like Escape from New York - you can do worse than to heed the mighty word of THOR.
A lurid surf-spy garage rock Miles Davis Live/Evil Mission Impossible electric pyschedelic pussycat puzzle from one of New York's finest (not) jazz drummers.
Sony Legacy's "Essential" series offers a strong but flawed introduction to the greatest living country singer, the man they call The Possum.
Bassist Chris Wood (Medeski Martin & Wood) makes it a family affair on this country-flavored offering featuring brother Oliver Wood.
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