Blues harpist Forest City Joe might be a legend today if he’d recorded more—or lived long enough to enjoy the 1960s blues revival.
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You can do better than an iTunes gift card
Perhaps the music lovers in your life would enjoy 23 CDs of the Isley Brothers, two decades of the Staple Singers, or a half century of rural southern sounds from County Records.
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You have no excuse to give anyone a holiday album
Especially now that you know about these ten amazing box sets from the likes of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Pierre Boulez, Captain Beefheart, and Wilco
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Artist on Artist: Robbie Fulks talks to Steve Albini
Country polymath Robbie Fulks talks to engineer extraordinaire Steve Albini.
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Yeezus and the Lomaxes
Why it’s a great time to read about white people decoding black artists’ art
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Blind Joel Taggart
Gospel singer and bluesman Blind Joel Taggart may have been the first guitar evangelist ever to make a record
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Nathan Salsburg stands up with Affirmed
Lomax Archives producer Nathan Salsburg steps out from behind the board to release his own music
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Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech
Drag City celebrates the release of a compilation of Gnawan music on sublabel Twos and Fews with a listening party Thursday at Intuit.