Sarawak Cultural Village, Malaysian Borneo Many elements make the Rainforest World Music Festival unique. The ‘living museum’ setting, a 35-minute drive from the state’s capital Kuching, is a sprawling green and serene world of its […]
ZIGGY MARLEY ZIGGY MARLEY Tuff Gong Worldwide/Source Music Reggae and beyond Sixteen albums into a career that began when he was ten years old accompanying his legendary father in the studio, Ziggy Marley knows exactly […]
GAYE ADEGBALOLA & THE WILD RUTZ Is It Still Good To Ya? Hot Toddy Music/Gaye Adegbalola.com Acoustic blues Blues music can often be labelled as music with ‘attitude’; indeed attitude is generally at the very […]
DOUG MacLEOD LIVE IN EUROPE Under The Radar Music Acoustic blues Here we have a new album recorded live some years ago, back in 2006 to be precise. Now, a full decade down the road, […]
Cahors Blues Festival is now clearly the premier blues event in France, having comfortably overturned Cognac’s claim for the title by remaining firmly rooted in blues music with many quality US and European players guesting […]
Cognac used to host the premiere blues festival in France, if not Europe. Sadly, now however, it seems to have largely lost its way with blues players mostly sidelined to smaller side-stages, while mega-stars rule […]
The mysteries of the ’65/’66 recordings revealed (maybe)! How deep can you go into a song? As Greil Marcus’ two recent books, The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs and Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations, […]
By Michael Goldberg. Improbable as it might seem at first, Dylan has recorded an album of songs associated with Frank Sinatra – and it’s damn good. I hated Frank Sinatra. As a teenager, Sinatra, who […]
By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan and The Band The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (Six-CD set) (Columbia Records) Note: Because the Basement Tapes are, for me, about a time long past, and a […]
By Michael Goldberg. One of our best music critics is Bill Wyman, who wrote an incredible piece about Michael Jackson for the New Yorker in 2012. I’ve been reading Bill since at least the mid-’90s, and he always has […]
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