Watermelon Slim and the Workers can rock the house and break your heart, and do it in a way that we can all understand.
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Music Review: Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal
A throwback to when Rock & Roll was something that scared your parents and made the authorities nervous.
Read More »Music Review: John Dee Holeman – You Got To Lose, You Can’t Win All The Time
You Got To Lose, You Can't Win All The Time, that which was old, can be made new again.
Read More »Music Review: The Homemade Jamz Blues Band Pay Me No Mind
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band play a brand of Blues music that is as authentic and passionate as any I've heard played.
Read More »Music Review: Swamp Cabbage – Squeal
Rootsy, southern-fried blues doesn't come much more boggy than this.
Read More »Music Review: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – 1978: Live In Boston
A vintage live show surfaces from that "other guy" from Asbury Park, NJ.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Stone Coyotes, Bloom, Preston, Sugar Blue
The Stone Coyotes' stark naturalness is what makes them so good.
Read More »Music Review: Mudcrutch – Mudcrutch
I am already anticipating their second release.
Read More »Music Review: I’m Not There Soundtrack
The greatest achievement may be the way this reveres the songs without becoming another tired artifact of Dylan worship.
Read More »Music DVD Review: Jon Dee Graham – Swept Away
There aren't many people like Jon Dee Graham out there.
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