All music worth listening to reveals more about itself with repeat listens, and sometimes our interpretation of it changes with time and our own growth. This is true for albums that lay out what they’re about as though they had a sandwich board for cover art, and it’s doubly so for albums full of intriguing […]
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Barry Gibb reinvents Bee Gees cuts as country songs with help from friends
When I heard that the lone surviving Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, was releasing a country album, I didn’t bat an eye. Though the band are best known for the falsetto-laden hits of their disco years, and secondarily for the baroque psychedelia they played in the 1960s (which music snobs like me love), Gibb’s musical life […]
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Did John Prine die for Donald Trump’s sins?
The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of beloved singer-songwriter John Prine, who stood against all those things.
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On The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell grapples with the racist legacy of a shifting south
Jason Isbell had the shifting fabric of the south on his mind when he wrote the songs on his new album, The Nashville Sound (Southeastern), and his observations have only become more resonant over the past year—to say nothing of the past few weeks. On “White Man’s World” the narrator indicts himself for passively condoning […]
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Ribfest Chicago 2013
Ribfest Chicago features 20 bands, including Bobby Bare Jr. and Mucca Pazza—plus 25 tons of pork.
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Jason Isbell live
Jason Isbell, formerly of the Drive-by Truckers, at the Beat Kitchen tonight.
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Around Town: Reckless opens a modest downtown store, the south’s finest singer-songwriter, and more
Reckless opens a modest downtown store, the south’s finest singer-songwriter, and more.