Digital downloads haven’t yet driven box sets extinct—and this year the best include Paul Bowles’s Moroccan field recordings, vintage Ray Charles in mono, a 50-year NRBQ retrospective, and ten discs of foundational 40s bebop from Savoy Records.
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Friday at SPACE: the new NRBQ doesn’t miss a beat
Terry Adams brings a new NRBQ lineup worthy of the group’s legacy to SPACE on Friday
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Tonight at FitzGerald’s: The Spampinato Brothers Keep the Poppy Side of NRBQ Alive
The Spampinato Brothers, one of the many post-NRBQ spin-off groups, bring their scrappy roots pop to FitzGerald’s tonight.
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Chris Ligon’s party for “Look at the Birdy”
Chicago oddball Chris Ligon celebrates a great new compilation of wacky recordings with a Saturday-night show at the Hideout.
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The Opposite of Selling Out
How a month of “Margaritaville” and a bald man with a hair dryer convinced Scott Ligon to get serious about music