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Review: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Legacy Edition
Early rocker turned country icon Cash hit California's Folsom like a lightning bolt on January 13, 1968, delivering two raw shows to a captive audience.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 09, 2008

Fred Frith and his Cosa Brava

Fred Frith and Cosa Brava try songs for a change
It's no surprise that Fred Frith, who's one of the world's leading improvising musicians and a wildly inventive composer, would form a group called Cosa Brava.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 09, 2008

WFNX: Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 03, 2008

Ani DiFranco: Red Letter Year (2008)

Righteous Babe (2008)
This is DiFranco’s most sophisticated album, a musical convergence of her best qualities: warm singing, graceful writing, experimentation.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | September 23, 2008

Dinallo and Carlisle: The Tremolo Twins

An interview with breakout roots-music production stars the Tremolo Twins
Pop music has a history of great production teams.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | September 23, 2008

Interview: Dick Smothers

Mom always liked him best
The Smothers Brothers have spent 50 years in funny business.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | September 17, 2008

B.B. King

One Kind Favor | Geffen
This is his best since his 2000 collaboration with Eric Clapton, Riding with the King .

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | September 10, 2008

Basic elements

The international and roots-music scene heats up
Boston was a world-music stronghold even before the “world music” genre existed.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | September 08, 2008

Bill Burr

Why Do I Do This? | Comedy Central
The tirades he delivers here, always laced with self-depreciation, amount to a lovingly mean-spirited string of barbs aimed at racists, idiots, girlfriends, bikers, and well, just about everybody.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | August 26, 2008

Blues juniors

Back Door Slam rejuvenate a British tradition
A guitar howls through the streets of downtown Chattanooga just as the sun begins to set, pealing out an elaborately improvised solo pasted onto the end of “Red House.”

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | August 19, 2008

For olde times’ sake

The return of the Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers aren’t just a cult band — they’re practically a cult.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | July 15, 2008

Poli-sci

Jimmy Tingle runs again
Comedian Jimmy Tingle is on the stump.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | July 15, 2008

New Guitar Summit: Jay Geils, Duke Robillard, Gerry Beaudoin

Shivers | Stony Plain
This cool, sleek soundtrack for a night of cocktails, sophisticated banter, and, hell, maybe even nookie brings the elegance of ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s jazz blues crisply into the present.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | July 08, 2008

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog

Party Intellectuals | Pi
Humor, melody, and weirdness rule in this NYC avant guitarist’s sonic universe.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | June 25, 2008

Preacher Jack gets it from on high

Boston rock legend and 66-year-old piano wrangler keeps hammering the keys
“I get my energy directly from Jesus,” says Preacher Jack Coughlin.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | July 02, 2008

Dr. John

City That Care Forgot | 429
Strident as it is, this CD was meant as a tonic for the people of the Crescent City.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | June 09, 2008

Al Green

Lay It Down | Blue Note
The Reverend Green gets his sexy groove back after the three uneven releases that followed his 2003 secular comeback.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | June 03, 2008

Soul men

Hucknall, Hunter, and Burke
Classic soul music’s timelessness has come again.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | June 03, 2008

T Bone Burnett

Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) | Nonesuch
The follow-up to Burnett’s 2006 masterpiece The True False Identity (Sony) is a dark, cynical, vaguely futuristic song cycle triggered by a Sam Shepard play.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | May 27, 2008

Emergency music

Clinic offer urgent care with Do It!
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore’s last words were, “Let’s do it!” The next sound was gunfire.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | May 06, 2008

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