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Top 10 albums of 2005
Kanye West, “Late Registration” Sigur Ros, “Takk…” Common, “Be” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah” Bettye LaVette, “I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise” Matisyahu, “Live at Stubb’s BBQ”...
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Top 10 Albums of 2007
Mavis Staples – We’ll Never Turn Back Radiohead – In Rainbows Talib Kweli – Ear Drum PJ Harvey – White Chalk Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Bettye LaVette – The Scene of the Crime Thurston Moore – The...
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Review: Buddy and Bettye at Roots N Blues N BBQ Fest 2008
By Joel Francis Buddy Guy Buddy Guy is to the electric guitar what a match is to kerosene. The 68-year-old blues legend lit into opening number “Best Damn Fool” like a house afire and closed out the...
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Review Roundup – Rakim, Dodos, Naomi Shelton, Blakroc and Daptone Gold
(Above: The title song from Naomi Shelton’s debut album.) By Joel Francis The Daily Record The first month of 2010 is almost in the history books. Fortunately, there’s still time to take one last look...
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Bettye LaVette –“Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook”
(Above: Bettye LaVette owns The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. This performance helped inspire LaVette’s latest album, and is included as a bonus track.) By Joel...
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Gladys Knight and the Pips – “If I Were Your Woman”
Gladys Knight and the Pips – “If I Were Your Woman,” Pop #9, R&B #1 By Joel Francis The Daily Record Relationship fantasies were nothing new at Motown – Mary Wells’ “The One Who Really Loves You”...
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Review: Bettye LaVette
(Above: ‘Song stylist’ Bettye LaVette captivates a sold-out crowd at Knuckleheads in Kansas City, Mo. with an a capella version of Sinead O’Connor’s “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”) By Joel...
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