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Rhetta Akamatsu is an author and online journalist who writes about music, books, movies, and more. She is the author of The Irish Slaves: Slavery, Indentured Servitude and Contract Labor Among Irish Immigrants, Haunted Marietta, T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do: Blues Women Past and Present, and several other books, available at Amazon and other fine online and offline bookstores.
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Burning Man is urban, girty dark fantasy and mythology for the modern world.
The Graceland 25th Anniversary edition, with the Under African Skies film is a mesmerizing opportunity to revisit this amazing recording.
All Fall Down is a beautiful, honest, unflinching album about breaking up, falling apart and putting it all back together.
Philadelphia Road is a competent collection of country/folk/rock tunes by The Bacon Brothers that flows but seldom rocks.
Analog Man is a worthy comeback CD for Joe Walsh as a more mature and grounded but still rocking artist.
Drunken Sailor is a rousing, energetic collection of songs about the sailing life that is perfect to sing along to!
Damn Good Time is a great feel-good CD from the Nighthawks, perfect for summer parties or beach listening.
Live Fast, Die Young is a fun American trip with two English music nuts.
Stories from The Steeples delivers the strong, beautiful performances that Mary Black's fans have come to expect.
