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Pleasure principles

King Sunny Adé still brings the beats
King Sunny Adé's music is bubbly as a tonic — a percolating, pop-infused update of the traditional Yoruba sound. "My songs are made to lift worries, so people can be happy and dance their troubles away," declares the 62-year-old Nigerian world-music star.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 10, 2009
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Slideshow: Easy Star All-Stars at the Middle East downstairs

Easy Star All-Stars, live at the Middle East downstairs, May 15, 2009
Easy Star All-Stars at the Middle East downstairs
By DAVID F. NICHOLSON  |  May 21, 2009

Soul survivors

A short list of gospel essentials
Gospel recordings go back to the 1920s, the beginning of commercial recording.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 23, 2009
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Roots of spring

Homegrown recordings from Boston and beyond
Homegrown recordings from Boston and beyond
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 18, 2009
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Griot act

Malian performer Rokia Traoré breaks through with Tchamantché
Some albums are extraordinary because they capture their time. Others are great because they transcend it.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 12, 2009
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Open House

After more than a year of construction and relative quiet, the Lansdowne Street music scene is about to be reborn
I put on the obligatory hard hat and walk through the doors of what used to be Avalon on Lansdowne Street, across from Fenway Park. To the layman — me — it's all dust, noise, metal, and mess.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  February 06, 2009
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Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 03, 2008
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Rhapsodies in blues

Scissormen razor sharp on Luck in a Hurry
“There are a lot of people that play the blues with too much reverence. And that’s the reason that most blues sucks,” says Scissormen frontman (and Phoenix contributor) Ted Drozdowski.  
By MIKE MILIARD  |  October 15, 2008
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Ani DiFranco | Red Letter Year

Righteous Babe (2008)
This is DiFranco’s most sophisticated album, a musical convergence of her best qualities: warm singing, graceful writing, experimentation.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 23, 2008
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Interview: Dick Smothers

Mom always liked him best
The Smothers Brothers have spent 50 years in funny business.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 17, 2008
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B.B. King

One Kind Favor | Geffen
This is his best since his 2000 collaboration with Eric Clapton, Riding with the King .
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 10, 2008
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Basic elements

The international and roots-music scene heats up
Boston was a world-music stronghold even before the “world music” genre existed.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 08, 2008
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Bill Burr

Why Do I Do This? | Comedy Central
The tirades he delivers here, always laced with self-depreciation, amount to a lovingly mean-spirited string of barbs aimed at racists, idiots, girlfriends, bikers, and well, just about everybody.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  August 26, 2008

The (other) British invasion

Five great bands from UK blues’ back pages
Five great bands from UK blues’ back pages
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  August 19, 2008
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Blues juniors

Back Door Slam rejuvenate a British tradition
A guitar howls through the streets of downtown Chattanooga just as the sun begins to set, pealing out an elaborately improvised solo pasted onto the end of “Red House.”
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  August 19, 2008
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For olde times’ sake

The return of the Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers aren’t just a cult band — they’re practically a cult.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 15, 2008
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Poli-sci

Jimmy Tingle runs again
Comedian Jimmy Tingle is on the stump.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 15, 2008
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New Guitar Summit: Jay Geils, Duke Robillard, Gerry Beaudoin

Shivers | Stony Plain
This cool, sleek soundtrack for a night of cocktails, sophisticated banter, and, hell, maybe even nookie brings the elegance of ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s jazz blues crisply into the present.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 08, 2008
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Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog

Party Intellectuals | Pi
Humor, melody, and weirdness rule in this NYC avant guitarist’s sonic universe.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 25, 2008
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Preacher Jack gets it from on high

Boston rock legend and 66-year-old piano wrangler keeps hammering the keys
“I get my energy directly from Jesus,” says Preacher Jack Coughlin.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 02, 2008
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Dr. John

City That Care Forgot | 429
Strident as it is, this CD was meant as a tonic for the people of the Crescent City.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 09, 2008
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Al Green

Lay It Down | Blue Note
The Reverend Green gets his sexy groove back after the three uneven releases that followed his 2003 secular comeback.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 03, 2008
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Soul men

Hucknall, Hunter, and Burke
Classic soul music’s timelessness has come again.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 03, 2008
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T Bone Burnett

Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) | Nonesuch
The follow-up to Burnett’s 2006 masterpiece The True False Identity (Sony) is a dark, cynical, vaguely futuristic song cycle triggered by a Sam Shepard play.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  May 27, 2008

Oddballs and noisemakers

Looking back 20 years to the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and the beginning of the Best Music Poll
Twenty years ago, the American Top 40 was nothing like Boston’s live music scene.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  May 07, 2008

Emergency music

Clinic offer urgent care with Do It!
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore’s last words were, “Let’s do it!” The next sound was gunfire.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  May 06, 2008
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Backwoods Barbie

Dolly Parton rolls out the big guns
Dolly Parton should run for president.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  April 30, 2008
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Home body

The Laurie Anderson world view
Laurie Anderson is the world’s pre-eminent performance artist — a musician, writer, and electronics and visual wizard.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 24, 2008
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When Jacko was king

The 25th anniversary of Thriller
Richard Nixon may be the only figure whose decline in popularity eclipsed Michael Jackson’s.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 26, 2008

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