3/22/2011
Harry Connick, Jr.'s cool, caressing croon crossed him over from jazz journeyman to pop star, but his piano wizardry earns plenty of acclaim on its own. He blows bebop kisses to Tchaikovsky's dreamy, t …
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3/22/2011
In 1938, when Bill Monroe renamed his band the Blue Grass Boys, he changed the course of music history. Bluegrass was his innovation - a Southern-flavored cocktail of blues, gospel, country, and folk t …
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3/15/2011
Pitched as a riposte to country's slavish and too-often-predictable production line, boasting a communal approach to band composition - rotating vocalists, multiple guitar leads, shared songwriting - a …
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3/15/2011
Here among such excellent Waco Brothers album cuts as the tender/sinister "If You Don't Change Your Mind" and the rock-and-hard-place rabble-rouser "Dragging My Own Tombstone," we've included a bunch o …
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3/15/2011
Boulder, CO, jam gods the String Cheese Incident started out playing in return for ski passes, but evolved into a band capable a transmitting their vibe a long way beyond Colorado's snow-dusted slopes. …
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3/15/2011
Fourth studio album Untying the Knot continued the band's tireless pursuit of innovation, and showcased their level of comfort with a multiplicity of styles, under the production guidance of Youth (a.k …
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3/15/2011
Sinatra said it, we believe it, and that settles it: Ray Charles was "the only true genius in the business." For more than half a century, the genius moniker stuck to Ray like a shadow, as he dominated …
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3/15/2011
While latter-day pop stars ravage the Great American Songbook for material, Ray Charles always had his ears finely tuned to what was going on around him, as we'll hear in our Deep Cuts. The stately big …
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3/15/2011
If They Might Be Giants happened to look in the mirror the morning after tying one on, that group might recognize its evil twin (and former labelmates), Ween. Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman founde …
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