By James Calemine Originally captured to two-track digital audio tape straight from the board, the enclosed recordings preserve the complete Jerry Garcia Band performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Bradley Center on November 23, 1991. Garcia produced the original...
On Tuesday, November 20, I revisited Old Car City in White, Georgia. Old Car City stands as the largest junkyard in the world. Within these almost 40 acres exists 7 miles of trails, over 4,000 vintage vehicles and all kinds of folk art. Car City owner Dean Lewis (b....
Most of these songs (recorded from 1994-2006) on Blues Sweet Blues can be heard for the first time. Only Music Maker’s stellar roster contains a vast reservoir of American blues men and women in these modern times such as this 2-CD collection. Over 120 artists–in one...
Born on March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas, Ornette Coleman exists as one of America’s greatest jazzmen. With musical influence steeped in R&B, Coleman began playing saxophone at an early age. His first recording appeared in 1958. Coleman died in 2015. Coleman...
Kentucky girl Ashley Judd earned a Saturn Award nomination for William Friedkin’s Bug. Judd plays a lonely waitress, "Agnes", living in a deteriorating motel room who meets a disturbed war veteran infested with microscopic bugs during his duty in the middle east. Soon...
When he was alive, Mississippi painter Walter Anderson lived as a recluse in his Ocean Springs home. Nature served as the fulcrum of every Anderson painting. Redding S. Sugg, Jr., edited The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson and Walter Anderson’s...
Carla Thomas–the great Rufus Thomas’ daughter–experienced a first rate musical experience growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. The angelic Thomas was later dubbed the Queen of Soul and Stax Records’ crown jewel of female vocalists. Thomas recorded on Satellite Records...
Soul legend Al Green needs no introduction… Lay It Down marks Green’s 29th studio album. On this disc, Green employed hip-hop producers Amir "Questlove" Thompson and James Poyser instead of his usual Hi-Records sidekick Willie Mitchell. Green received two Grammys for...
Ben Ratliff wastes no words in this book about John Coltrane. Ratliff wrote about Coltrane’s music in the first half of the book and his indelible influence on other musicians in the second half. Ratliff does not overlook facts in Coltrane's life that caused changes...
Louisiana writer James Lee Burke’s 2007 book of short stories, Jesus Out to Sea, does not disappoint. This collection of 11 stories–published in various periodicals–proves Burke’s prose remains lean as ever. At this point, Burke’s written around 40 books. Some of this...