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TED DROZDOWSKI

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Mystic muso

The erudition of Robert Palmer
“America’s Pre-eminent Music Writer Dead at 52” was the headline on Robert Palmer’s obituary in Rolling Stone after his liver failed in 1997.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 04, 2009

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Brendan Hogan | Long Night Coming

Self-released (2009)
Self-released (2009)
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 21, 2009

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Darrell Nulisch | Just For You

Severn (2009)
This Boston-based blues and soul singer’s seventh album might seem an update of the elegantly funky Stax sound, with its deep grooves and smartly harmonized horns.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 22, 2009

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Review: Tom Russell | Blood and Candle Smoke

Shout! Factory (2009)
This LA-born troubadour with a Dustbowl voice works voodoo on his 24th studio album, conjuring ghosts of the ’60s and ’70s along with apocalyptic visions as he relates tales of gun-toting madmen and dark rifts of the heart.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 22, 2009

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Taking care of business

Digging for gold in the roots and world-music scene
Boston is one of the healthiest markets for live roots music in the country. Here are the 10 roots shows we don't want to miss this fall.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 14, 2009

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Review: The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker | Burn It Down

OuttaSight (2009)
These Nashville-based high ministers of retro-groove — known for their muscular live sermons — broaden their gospel on CD #2.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 09, 2009

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Woody Guthrie | My Dusty Road

Rounder (2009)
The agit-pop songwriter of "This Land Is Your Land," "Going Down the Road," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Philadelphia Lawyer," and a passel of other bedrock American folk classics carried a business card that identified him as "Woody, Th' Dustiest of the Dustbowlers."
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  August 19, 2009

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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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Head with wings

Remembering Morphine’s Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman died with his boots on. Or at least the rock-and-roll equivalent of the Old West gunfighter’s epitaph.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  July 06, 2009

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Levon Helm | Electric Dirt

Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard
Helm's 2007 Dirt Farmer won the Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy for its acoustic arrangements of songs plucked from the Delta soil of the Band drummer and singer's rural Arkansas youth.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 23, 2009

Steven Wright | I Have a Pony

Warner Bros. (2009)
"I used to be a parking attendant in Boston at Logan Airport. I parked jets. They let me go, though, 'cause I kept locking the keys in them."
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 09, 2009

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Easy Star All-Stars | Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band

Easy Star (2009)
A dub-wise version of the Beatles' classic album seems a novelty concept, but this madly entertaining disc is a buoyant tribute to the flexibility of the Fab Four's open-ended vision of pop, as well as the low-tech sonic trickery perfected in Jamaica's famed Studio One.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  May 12, 2009

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King Wilkie | King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers

Dead Oceans (2009)
Today, "risk" is less popular than George W. Bush, but this former Virginia band — now in NYC — are rolling the dice hard.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  April 28, 2009

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Various artist | Chicago Blues: A Living History

Raisin (2009)
The first two generations of electric Chicago blues are either dead or on the endangered list, but this double-disc set proves the style still has teeth and claws.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  April 14, 2009

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott | A Stranger Here

Anti- (2009)
The country-blues songbook as written by Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and Charley Patton seems like natural, if previously unexplored, territory for this folk legend.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 30, 2009

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Diana Krall | Quiet Nights

Verve (2009)
Jazz as the language of love is the theme of this hitmaker's 12th album, an achingly pretty tribute to the spirit, pace, and sound of the bossa nova.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 23, 2009

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Holy rollers

The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The double bill of the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Symphony Hall on Friday is a match made in New Orleans.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  March 24, 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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Shemekia Copeland | Never Going Back

Telarc (2009)
Telarc (2009)
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 18, 2009
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