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Download | Play Download | Play (Sorry file is Quicktime only) I just got back from a visit to Mali and music was one of the highlights of the trip. I wrote about some of my musical adventures in Mali at my travel blog. Anyone who follows world music knows there was no way I could have experienced the music of Mali's greatest contemporary musician, Ali Farka Touré, since he died in 2006. (He's the...
In case you are still unsure of your goals for the New Year and still talking ’bout the man in the mirror and thinking about making that change, then this is your guide for a resolution. If there has ever been a musician with a soundtrack for righting life’s ship, it’s the late great Warren Zevon with his uplifting, half-full outlook on life. Well, maybe not exactly, but Warren always had a way of...
Thanks to our buddies at Bill Silva Presents, we got the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Robert Francis a few hours before he started his January residency at The Echo. Robert Francis, the son of classical record producer, whom Ry Cooder taught to play guitar, and with a voice that can just melt you, [...]
Joachim Cooder produced his dad Ry’s new retrospective double disc The UFO Has Landed; he got to make the ultimate mixtape by picking which cuts would represent the elder Cooder’s four decades’ worth of recorded output. Popdose bent the 30-year-old drummer’s ear and discussed what it was like hanging out with a working musician for [...]
Climax Blues Band - Crazy Bout My Baby Davy Graham & Alexis Korner - 3 4 AD Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane Jo Ann Kelly - Moon Goin Down Sean Webster - The Thrill Has Gone Ry Cooder - Crazy 'Bout An Automobile MississippiJohn Hurt - Stagger Lee Groundhogs - Groundhog Blues Danny Glover - Goin Down Slow Hubert Sumlin - You Got To help me Robben Ford - Moonchild Blues Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown -
Though it’s hard to pick the best records of the year in today’s highly ramified pop scene, it might be instructive to pit some of the year’s top albums against one another. Some of these matches find wily veterans battling promising newcomers; others feature more unexpected pairings. Write us at . . .
A rather extensive sunday brunch with sausage, eggs with spinach and mushrooms, toast, etc, cooked by sister's boyfriend. Rather magnificent. My sister is off teaching an exercise class and I'm tucked away in the basement getting ready to do my...
Deepak Nayar, 49, is the independent film producer whose critically acclaimed hits have included David Lynch's Lost Highway, Bend it Like Beckham and Buena Vista Social Club. He lives in LA with his wife and two children
Do your homework before seeing Taj at Yoshi’s. Check out these discs. Also, big Taj fans, I’d love to learn what are your favorite Mahal discs. Please post some recommendations here: “Taj Mahal” (1968) – In an era when many blues cats were plugging into modern rock ‘n’ roll, Mahal went the other direction – toward [...]
Thanks to Bill Whelan for the news that multi-instrumentalist and pioneer of 'world music' Ry Cooder will be in Dublin to play three consecutive shows in 2009. The Irish Times reports that Ry Cooder, his son Joachim (drums), accordion wizard Flaco Jimenez, and Nick Lowe will be at the Olympia Theatre on 10, 11, and 12 June 2009. Tickets go on sale on Friday 19 December, at prices ranging from €96.25...
From the 8th through the 19th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2008. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to soundtracks, and several points in-between, culminating in a Whole Note feature that [...]
Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, known the world over for his mastery of Hindustani classical music, and more recently his foray into American blues, has bagged the uber-prestigious Best Traditional World Music Album nomination for the 51st Grammy Awards.
