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By Bruce Sylvester OK, it s once time to survey a few recent releases – mostly rootsy, all worthy. With Surrounded by Time (S-Curve), Tom Jones – AKA Sir Tom
American Back Roads roundup April 2021
The time s right for another roundup of cool new releases â mostly Americana with a range of reissues.
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By Bruce Sylvester
The time s right for another roundup of cool new releases – mostly Americana with a range of reissues.
Rev. Peyton s Big Damn Band s
Dance Songs for Hard Times(Family Owned Records/Thirty Tigers). With frenzied vocals and backwoods juke joint guitar, “No Tellin When,” a Covid-era song of separation, comes across like a “Poor Boy a Long Way from Home” blues lament. The Rev. s intensity and urgency convey a trace of comedy when “I ll Pick You Up” hopes a broken-down car holds up all through a hot date. Slide guitar notes practically scream. For a secularized gospel touch, his woo-woos stretch back from Paul McCartney to Little Richard to Marion Williams. The press notes say the disc “was written by candlelight and then recorded using the best technology available … in the 1950s.” W
American Back Roads blog spotlights unique songwriting
OK, it s time for another roundup of cool recent releases â five CDs and (for Stones fans) a movie. The CDs shared strength is unique writing â each in its own way.
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By Bruce Sylvester
OK, it s time for another roundup of cool recent releases – five CDs and (for Stones fans) a movie. The CDs shared strength is unique writing – each in its own way.
The Internet having made the recording process global, one of my earlier new-release roundups spoke of bluesy Sunnysiders intercontinental
The Bridges. Now here s quiet cross-generational folk/pop trio
The Burnt Pines s self-titled and self-released
A return to Lou Reed s New York deserves 5 stars
Lou Reed s New York reissue speaks to the present as well as his late- 80s Manhattan.
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5 stars
By Bruce Sylvester
If a single song line captures my feelings about the past year, it s Lou Reed s “You need a bus load of faith to get by,” from 1989 s
New York, his first album on Sire. It richly deserved its Grammy nomination and gold record sales award. Marking its 30
th anniversary, Rhino has reissued it in an expanded extravaganza: the original remastered album on CD and on two 180-gram vinyl LPs, plus a CD of its songs in evolutionary stages (some simply instrumentals), a CD compiled from performances on the tour supporting the disc, and a long-unavailable DVD of the Montreal stop on the tour.