Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection overwhelms Carl F. Gauze with 12 music CDs reprising the 1972 benefit concert to rebuild Watts, Los Angeles, seven years after the riot.
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection overwhelms Carl F. Gauze with 12 music CDs reprising the 1972 benefit concert to rebuild Watts, Los Angeles, seven years after the riot.
The Griot Swings the Classics (Bluclok Records). Review by Stacey Zering.
Melodies from the Heart. Review by Stacey Zering.
Cheyenne Valley Drive. Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Green Man (Do Music Records). Review by Stacey Zering.
Bed, Bath & Behind (Sphinxter). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Want More (Bloodshot). Review by Scott Adams.
Live in Concert (Concord Music Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Thirty-five years of Soul Train on three DVDs leaves Scott Adams with a serious ’70s jones.
The Kudzu Ranch. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Relayted (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Tin Can Trust (Shout! Factory). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Sincerely, Severely (Orange Records). Review by Jeff Schweers.
The Complete Columbia Singles (Collectors’ Choice). Review by Steve Stav.
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. (Concord Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Epiphany (Jive). Review by Bill Bergstrom.
Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International). Review by Cindy Barrymore.
Kelis Was Here (LaFace). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Here I Am (Dreamworks). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Frank Henenlotter’s gory grindhouse classic Basket Case looks as grimy as the streets of Times Square, and that is one of the film’s greatest assets. Arrow Video gives this unlikely candidate a welcome fresh release.
Despite the Mother’s Day factor, hundreds of fervent, faithful followers still flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live to catch an earlybird set from Jimmy Failla — one of the hottest names on today’s national comedy scene.
Ink 19 readers get an early listen and look at “Cool Sparkling Water,” a new single from Lonnie Walker.
Jeremy Glazier has a bucket list day at a Los Lobos 50th Anniversary show in Davenport, Iowa.
Carl F. Gauze reviews the not-quite one-woman show, Always… Patsy Cline, based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Louise Seger, who met the star in l961 and corresponded with Cline until her death.
Carl F. Gauze reviews this interesting look at the surprising history and scandalous etymology of jazz, in Weird Music That Goes On Forever, by Bob Suren.
Two new releases from Free Dirt Records use sound and music to tell stories about our history.
A lady Tarzan and her gorilla have a rough time adapting to high society in Lorraine of the Lions (1925), one of four silent films on Accidentally Preserved: Volume 5, unleashed by Ben Model and Undercrank Productions, with musical scores by Jon C. Mirsalis.
Carl F. Gauze takes in See You at the Movies, another exciting Winter Park Playhouse Spotlight Cabaret featuring Orlando’s own Tay Anderson.
A small town woman finds peace with her family in Rachel Hendrix, part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.