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TED DROZDOWSKI

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Shemekia Copeland | Never Going Back

Telarc (2009)
Telarc (2009)
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 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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Review: Matthew Stubbs's Soul Bender

VizzTone (2009)
This solo debut is a departure from Stubbs's regular gig playing guitar for blues great Charlie Musselwhite.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 27, 2009

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Review: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Legacy Edition
Early rocker turned country icon Cash hit California's Folsom like a lightning bolt on January 13, 1968, delivering two raw shows to a captive audience.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 09, 2008

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A small, good thing

Fred Frith and Cosa Brava try songs for a change
It's no surprise that Fred Frith, who's one of the world's leading improvising musicians and a wildly inventive composer, would form a group called Cosa Brava.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 09, 2008

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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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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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Mix nuts

An interview with breakout roots-music production stars the Tremolo Twins
Pop music has a history of great production teams.
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

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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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