Album Review
Album Review, WWW.ROOTSTIME. BE(29.1.10).
Translated online from Flemish.
Jeff Bell is not a world artist. At least not if you base it on the info you can find about the man. He has hardly a decent website but its as good as any music website. Based
Captain Beefheart to Tour and Release Album
It's like déjà vu all over again! The legendary Captain Beefheart, whose last foray into the music industry was in 1982, has recorded a new album and will be reconvening his Magic Band to tour behind it.
The tour will have its official unveiling at Bonnaroo in June,
One-Man Band Series, #2: Bloodshot Bill
One of the more standout presences in the obscure music world today is the Montreal-based one-man band Bloodshot Bill. When it comes to this rockabilly wild man, it is pretty safe to say that he is an exception to what many have come to expect from modern one-man bands. That
Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Really. Really?
I don't get that many press releases anymore, so I shouldn't be such a crab, right?
And it doesn't matter, anyhow.
Still. This one needs sharing. I happen to like the publicist who sent this out, and so I've removed the firm&
Review: Doug Sahm And The Sir Douglas Quintet - The Complete Mercury Recordings (box 5cd) [Hip-O Select 2006]
Even though he’s often considered as a possible American answer to the impetuous British Invasion of the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Yardbirds, Who, Dave Clark Five etc, and in spite of a group who mockingly called him “Sir”, well stating once again that such an unpenitent hippie like Doug Sahm
HOW ROCK (ALMOST) DIED WHILE ELVIS WAS IN THE ARMY
When asked to reflect on Elvis’ passing, John Lennon famously said, “Elvis died in the army.” When Elvis entered the Army in 1958 rock and roll was viewed as the soundtrack to rebellious youth. Churches organized public burnings of records, riots happened in nearly every town Presley and his fellow