CD Review - Jim Anton "High Highs and Low Lows"
Jim Anton, Minneapolis Chairman of the Low End releases eclectic solo albumJim Anton will forever be the man who played a jaw dropping electric bass solo with a pig puppet on his left hand.
But it wasn't just a gimmick during that crowded March night at Minneapolis'
Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo, Nostalgia and Wallander
Wallander. While some of you in the US will have no idea what I'm talking about, my friends in Sweden and the UK certainly will. Just a few short days ago I had not a clue either, but thanks to browsing Netflix I discovered the BBC version of
CD Review - Beth Hart "Bang Bang Boom Boom"
Bang Bang Boom Boom, the new album from California chanteuse Beth Hart, runs the gamut of musical styles from low down blues to swinging cabaret, rock, gospel and soul with one simple theme holding the songs together: love. The 11 songs were recorded live off the floor and masterfully produced
Johnny Cash and the Power of Self & Myth
Johnny Cash is known as "Our Founder" at Dirty Roots Radio. I give him that distinction because he was probably the gateway that led to what has become my musical taste today. It's an honor intended to recognize his fearlessness in his music, in championing causes
Broadway Eddie's Big Grammy Moment
Camden New Jersey was a burnt out shell of a city across the river from Philadelphia ever since I was a little kid, and I'd guess it still is, although it's been decades since I've been there. Think of "The Wire" TV
Book Review - Stanley Booth’s “Rythm Oil - Music of the American South”
This is a ridiculously good book of music writing – though, that’s an injustice, it’s a book about soul, and life, and America as much or more as it is about “just" music, by the great Stanley Booth.
As many of you no doubt know, Booth is also