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JEFF TAMARKIN

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Gram Parsons

Archives Vol. 1 | Amoeba
These two discs go a long way toward supporting the notion that Parsons was a pivotal player in the rise of country rock.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  January 07, 2008

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Queen Latifah

Trav'lin Light | Verve
Queen Latifah is never going to be Billie Holiday.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  December 31, 2007

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Scene and heard

The year ahead in DVDs
Entertainment companies are pumping out music DVD titles by the hundreds, and 2008 will see a deluge of releases across all genres.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  December 31, 2007

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City of Dreams: A Collections of New Orleans Music

Rounder
City of Dreams never comes off as an epitaph.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  December 17, 2007

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In action

The ‘Jazz Icons’ DVDs
In the era of YouTube, we’re apt to forget that not every note of music ever played has been captured on film or video.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  November 26, 2007

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Bert Jansch

Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning | MVD
Jimmy Page admitted being “absolutely obsessed” with him.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  November 13, 2007

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Joni Mitchell

Shine | Hear Music
Joni Mitchell’s first album for Starbucks’ Hear Music label isn’t being hyped as a concept album, but that’s what it is.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  November 06, 2007

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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

100 Days and 100 Nights | Daptone
You can’t really call Sharon Jones a retro soulster.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 30, 2007

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Beyond bhangra

Anoushka Shankar joins forces with Karsh Kale
Shankar, who’s now 26, has been paying dues as a sitarist since she was eight.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 30, 2007

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Neil Young

Chrome Dreams II | Reprise
Don’t start wondering how you missed the first Chrome Dreams .
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 22, 2007

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Steve Earle

Washington Square Serenade | NewWest
This is Steve Earle’s big hug to his new home town, New York City, and his new wife (his seventh), country singer Allison Moorer.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 15, 2007

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20 to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair

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John Sinclair was the poster boy for the radicalization of American youth in the ’60s.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 08, 2007

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Do you believe in Magic?

Bruce Springsteen returns to the E Street Band
On Magic (Columbia), Bruce Springsteen’s first album with the E Street Band in five years, not everything is what it seems.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  October 01, 2007

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Manu Chao

La Radiolina | Nacional/Because
Chao’s bold, kitchen-sink approach was unlike anything else.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  September 24, 2007

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Get Ready, Here Come... The '70s

Shout Factory!
Okay, so they missed a few things, but Get Ready manages to be a whole lot of fun by ignoring the music that mattered.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  September 12, 2007

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Merle Haggard

The Bluegrass Sessions | McCoury Music | Working Man’s Journey | Cracker Barrel
Merle Haggard has always been a keen observer of American thought and spirit.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  August 28, 2007

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Yin Yang

Rhino resurrects the Doors’ Live in Boston 1970
They wanted to see his cock. But as shit-faced drunk as he was, Jim Morrison had learned his lesson.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  August 14, 2007

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Judee Sill

Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973 | Water
If Judee Sill’s story isn’t fodder for a Lifetime TV movie, then nothing is.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  August 07, 2007

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Zap Mama

Supermoon | Heads up
Any similarities between Zap Mama 2007 and the group who bore that name in 1990 is purely coincidental.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  July 30, 2007

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Los Zafiros

Music from the Edge of Time | Shout! Factory
As with anything Cuban, politics is never far away.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  July 23, 2007
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