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Roni Sarig, Third Coast (Da Capo)
It does not require arduous analysis to realize that the center of hip-hop has vacated the culture’s Mecca of New York City, and has bounced its way to the southern […]
Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum (Xavier Review Press)
Truth and myth have merged since the poet Everette Maddox passed in February 1989. He is better known now for starting the Maple Leaf Poetry Reading series and for his […]
John Sinclair, Va Tutto Bene/It’s All Good (Stampa Alternativa)
Poet, critic, and counterculture icon John Sinclair’s new book is a great introduction to his oeuvre as well as a compilation of writings that illustrate his themes and concerns. The […]
Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash (Da Capo Press)
Johnny Cash has been more commercially active in his latter and posthumous years than he was for much of the ’80s and ’90s. His marriage to June became an […]
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Although France may have only produced two jazz musicians of real genius, those two musicians alone give France pretty respectable bragging rights: Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt. Their quintet recordings […]
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter, By Michelle Mercer (Penguin)
The complex journey of saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter’s remarkable musical career is glimpsed on this two-CD compilation that spans the master’s recorded works from 1960 to 2001. It begins with Art […]
Ned Sublette: Cuba and Its Music (Chicago Review Press)
Ned Sublette: Cuba and Its Music (Chicago Review Press)
Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume One (Simon & Schuster)
Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume One (Simon & Schuster)
