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TED DROZDOWSKI

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North Mississippi Allstars

Hernando | Songs of the South
This time they’ve hit on a more original strain blending the slimy supercharged guitar tones of stoner rock with old-school boogie and roll.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 22, 2008

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Northeast newgrass

The rootsy routes of Hot Day at the Zoo
Lowell is known for Kerouac, its historic canal system, and the Industrial Revolution, not the “high and lonesome” sound of bluegrass.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 22, 2008

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Honeydripper

A hot sticky mess
John Sayles’s first clunker is a threadbare yarn about the emergence of rock and roll that substitutes clichés for character development.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 16, 2008

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Kula Shaker

Strangefolk | Cooking Vinyl
Paisley drips from the notes these British neo-transcendentalists wring from the instruments on their third album, which ends a six-year hiatus.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 14, 2008

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Guitar leaders

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ronnie Earl
Boston is known for the ’60s folk boom, the garage-y “Bosstown sound,” and as one of the birthplaces of alternative rock.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 31, 2007

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Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration

Stax
This year, California’s Concord label took ownership of Memphis’s greatest musical treasure chest, the Stax Records catalogue.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 17, 2007

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Monster Magnet

4-Way Diablo | SPV
Now straight and sober, 18 years, six albums, and two EPs into his Monster Magnet career, Wyndorf remains that world’s absolute master.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 10, 2007

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The Blind Boys of Alabama

Down in New Orleans | Time Life
The Blind Boys today are as much an American institution as a singing group, with a history that stretches through the last seven decades and every fabric of 20th-century gospel music.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 03, 2007

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Marc Ribot

Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7 — Marc Ribot Plays Masada Book Two | Tzadik
If you know Ribot only through his brilliant sidemanning with Burnett and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, you don’t really know Ribot.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 27, 2007

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Wolfgang’s Big Night Out | Surfdog
Sure, this is a lowdown take on uptown music, but Setzer’s standards stay elevated through all the high jinks.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 19, 2007

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Never poor in spirit

Homeless, not rootless
The prospect of New England gospel-soul singer Mighty Sam McClain recording a duet with Jon Bon Jovi or performing onstage with Natalie Merchant seems improbable.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 14, 2007

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. LIVE | Warner Bros.
Unless you’re a diehard fan, wait for their new album in the spring.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 13, 2007

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Robert Wyatt

Comicopera | Domino
The sweetest instrument is Wyatt’s voice, whose fragile, high, quavering tone is honest to the core.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 06, 2007

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The ‘x’ factor

The roots pedigree of Boston’s Mystix
The Mystix want you to know they’re not fortune tellers.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 06, 2007

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Bettye’s business

The battles of a blues belter
The battles of a blues belter
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 30, 2007

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Beyond the White Stripes

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant lead an Americana resurgence
There’s a blues and old-school R&B resurgence rumbling in the indie-music underground, and it goes well beyond the icky thump of the White Stripes.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 30, 2007

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Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection

Shout!
What pioneering American indie label issued records by both the Beatles and John Lee Hooker?
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 30, 2007

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Prime time

Heeere’s . . . Johnny Cash!
To many political conservatives during Vietnam, championing the music of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Joni Mitchell was the equivalent of French-kissing Chairman Mao.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 23, 2007

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Joe Bonamassa

Sloe Gin | J+R Adventures
Six CDs into his solo career, this singer and six-stringer from upstate New York has hit his artistic stride.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 22, 2007

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John Fogerty

Revival | Fantasy
Fogerty is again in full command of his talent for blending heartfelt writing with irony-free meat-and-potatoes rock.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 15, 2007
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