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Big Joe and the Dynaflos with Anson Funderburgh

Big Joe and the Dynaflos with Anson Funderburgh

In the beginning, there was the beat. Some possessed, it, some were possessed by it. The sound was unmistakable. The rhythm was alive -- a throbbing pulse that got under your skin, spreading through your body like a wave. Around these parts, they call it beach music. In its original

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

He looks like Big Dam Band leader Reverend Peyton, dances like James Brown, and sings like a holy ghost revival preacher at a backwoods camp meeting. Nathaniel Rateliff and his band the Night Sweats lay it down hard and soulful, recalling the exuberance and bombast of great r&b

Gregg Allman - Live: Back to Macon GA

“Macon serves as the home of a great group of fellows that played and lived laughed and cried and created and worked out and arranged and adjusted things together for 45 years now,” Gregg Allman says, introducing his latest, Gregg Allman Live, Back to Macon, Ga. Macon's Grand

Bluegrass on the Blue Ridge: How North Carolina Inherited Bill Monroe’s Music

Bluegrass on the Blue Ridge: How North Carolina Inherited Bill Monroe’s Music

Once upon a time, around the middle of the 20th century, there was music in the mountains that run from Georgia up through the Carolinas, into Kentucky and beyond – a high and lonesome sound that reflected the lives of hard-working people who had to be strong to survive. It was

Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart

Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart

With a nasal twang and a pair of jeans shrink-wrapped to his slinky pelvis, Dwight Yoakam plowed a furrow across conventional country, bringing back the Bakersfield sound. But for the past few years, he's kept a low profile, going five years between Dwight Sings Buck and 2012'

Serpents of Reformation - David Childers

Lordy, lordy. David Childers has got religion. Anybody familiar with Childers' work won't be surprised to discover that his worship style is not the head-bowed, on your knees variety, however. Childers is more of an Old Testament type of guy -- a two-fisted, snake handling prophet, shouting

A Celebration of Blues and Soul: The 1989 Presidential Inaugural Concert - Various Artists

A Celebration of Blues and Soul: The 1989 Presidential Inaugural Concert - Various Artists

You might not agree with his politics, but the man sure knew how to throw a party. For his '89 inauguration gala, G.W. Bush the first hosted a musical shindig worthy of a superstar arena tour. The backing band was almost as impressive as the front line. Led