Lambchop Is a Woman (Merge) Over the course of six increasingly accomplished albums, Lambchop has wandered freely among country, soul, muted psychedelia, easy listening, space rock, and other assorted varieties of reefer madness. The band’s format has been almost as hazy as the genre boundaries, accommodating a membership of at least 14 players who float […]
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Santa’s Mixed Bag
Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Westside) Babyface Christmas With Babyface (Epic) By Pat Daly A widespread misconception about Christmas Eve is that people (not to mention mice) aren’t stirring. In fact, Christmas Eve is the night when a significant segment of the population gets a few final spins out […]
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True Blues
Devil in a Woodpile at the Hideout, November 10 By Pat Daly Sweet home Chicago. So sweet my tummy hurts. For anybody who has scoured the city’s blues emporiums during the past ten years in search of some shred of the rumor of the ghost that was the Chicago blues, those three words undoubtedly cause […]
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Life After Death
Elvis In Concert ’97 August 16, Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis By Pat Daly It was the fall of 1972. The youth of Chicago’s suburbs were neck deep in kid stuff, which in my case consisted mainly of brutal pickup football games. For those of us tuning the radios in our parents’ station wagons to Super CFL, […]