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Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale mix styles and fun at Lincoln Hall
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale made proficiency look easy Wednesday at a crowded Lincoln Hall. The Nashville outlaws and longtime friends staged a clinic in mixing country, R&B, rockabilly and other Americana-related styles on tunes notable for their...
Tags: Music, Robert Plant, Dixie Chicks (music group), Music Industry, Satellite Technology
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Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale take 30-year journey to first album together
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale are a couple of Nashville mavericks who’ve written, sang, played on or produced some of the best records of the last 25 years. They’re best friends who live just a few blocks from each other in Nashville, and...
Tags: Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Music, Steve Earle, Robert Plant, Blake Shelton
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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Beastie Boys (music group), Facebook, Rashied Ali, Whitney Houston, Joan Rivers
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Album review: Bobby Womack's 'The Bravest Man in the Universe'
Pop & Hiss"I got a story to tell," 68-year-old Bobby Womack announces at the outset of his remarkable new album, and at first you're pretty sure about the nature of his tale: An intergenerational hookup with producer Richard Russell and Damon Albarn...... -
Funk legend and Middletown resident Betty Harris is ready to record again
Betty Harris
Sat., Jan. 7, Trinity-on-Main, 69 Main St., New Britain, trinityonmain.org
She's often called the Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul, and she's living in Middletown. It turns out she never actually lived in New Orleans for more than a month,...Tags: Dionne Warwick, Arts and Culture, Music, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Folklore and Mythology
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Historical home studio
Like most professional musicians these days, singer-songwriter-guitarist Joe Henry has a home studio where he produces records for himself as well as other artists, which — unlike most at-home recordings — include recent Grammy-winning...Tags: Tom Waits, Arts and Culture, Music, Hugh Laurie, Aaron Neville
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Top weekend shows: Otis Clay, Joe Henry
Joe Henry: The singer-songwriter is perhaps best known these days as a producer for his excellent work on albums by Allen Touissant, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann and Solomon Burke, among others. But his own albums are reliably excellent, even as they...Tags: Aimee Mann, Old Town School of Folk Music, Berwyn, Al Green, Elvis Costello
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Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers 'a deacon who spoke our gospel'
Pop & HissLevon Helm: Musician, songwriter and producer Joe Henry writes an appreciation for Levon Helm, drummer and singer with the Band who died on Thursday.... -
Joe Henry talks the open-window approach to 'Reverie'
Pop & HissJoe Henry will play his new album 'Reverie' in its entirety on Oct. 11 at Largo in Los Angeles. Joe Henry prizes human inconsistency over technological perfect live and in his home studio.... -
'The X Factor' recap: Back to the judges' homes
Show TrackerA recap of the X Factor, judges' houses round, part two, in which Chris Rene and Melanie Amaro perform.... -
Live review: Global Soul with Stevie Wonder at the Hollywood Bowl
Pop & HissAt the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, the Tonight Show's Ricky Minor presented Global Soul, featuring Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae, Sharon Jones, Mia Doi Todd and others.... -
Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer dies at 66; vagabond singer made albums with Frank Zappa
"Wanna buy a song for a dime?" For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry "Wild Man" Fischer introduced himself.
Anyone who took him up on his offer was rewarded with a brief, bellowing burst of...Tags: Comedy (genre), Mental Illness, Venice, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program)
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Jan 27, 2012
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Jun 18, 2011
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