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Black Top Run (Provogue/Mascot Label Group). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Black Top Run (Provogue/Mascot Label Group). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Joe Bonamassa and his mighty blues ensemble rolled into Clearwater, Florida for two nights of contemporary blues at its finest. Michelle Wilson caught Evening One of this towering blues extravaganza.
Believe (Mascot Label Group/Provogue Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Ann Arbor Blues Festival Vol. 1+2 (Third Man Records). Review by James Mann.
The legacy of Southern Rock lives on through The Allman Betts Band. Jeremy Glazier catches a show in Iowa.
Smokehouse Serenade (Highlander Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Sunshine Blues (Lakehouse Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Beth Hart offered a healthy serving of blues in Orlando, and Michelle Wilson was there to savor the sweet experience.
Tedeschi Trucks Band kicked off their Summer Wheels of Soul Tour with a hometown show in Jacksonville. Michelle Wilson rolled in right behind them to capture the event.
Reinvented. Review by Stacey Zering.
Trouble & Whiskey ( American Showplace Music). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Meeting My Shadow (Ruf Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Heal My Soul (Provogue). Review by Joe Frietze.
Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.
Tab Benoit brings it in Orlando and Michelle Wilson loved it!
Doyle Bramhall II flat tore it up in Melbourne, and Michelle Wilson was there!
In The Magic Shop (Vizztone Label Group). Review by James Mann.
Feels So Good ( TRC Records). Review by James Mann.
Live at Legends (Silvertone/RCA). Review by Joe Frietze.
Revelator (Sony Masterworks). Review by James Mann.
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.
Late bloomer Tony Bowman spins a tale of past decades with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack.
This week Christopher Long scores a timely treasure — a near-mint vinyl copy of The Dream Weaver, the classic 1975 LP from Gary Wright — for just eight bucks.