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James Maddock – CD Review - Wake Up and Dream - Casa del Fuego Release While driving to work one morning I turned on the Centenary College FM radio station WNTI and was pleasantly surprised by the tune they were playing. The melody is infectious, the lyrical story is clever, sung in a

In its daily turning, life is a mystery. As listeners, many of us turn to music to explain that mystery. And at times, the music itself presents its own mysteries, exposing a deeper resonance in the art itself. “Music From Big Pink” was a cipher when I first encountered it

I admit straight away that, while the blues touch my deepest emotions, rap music does not strike a chord in me. Having reached the age where retirement is no longer an abstract notion, I can hide behind the (cheap, and probably invalid) excuse of a generational argument to justify my

Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard (Specialty, 1957/2012) Fifty-five years after its initial release, Little Richard’s debut LP resounds with the primordial fire of rhythm ‘n’ blues’ jump to rock ‘n’ roll. Richard took everything up a notch – the tempos, the innuendo and above all, the volume

Well, they sing about Jesus, they sing about Jones And they sing of American pride But they're all too damn clean, polished like stones And they won't sing about cheatin' and lies Well, I remember the days when the singers just sang And left it