Category Archives: Music

Silly Wizard’s The Best of Silly Wizard

Jayme Lynn Blaschke wrote this for us. Despite the proliferation of traditional bands over the past decade, there remains something happily unique about Silly Wizard, probably the best-known of Scotland’s groups of this type. For one thing, they’ve got probably … Continue reading

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My favorite recordings of 2015

It’s a tradition for reviewers to draw up a Top 10 at the end of a calendar year. It’s also a tradition in an online music community that I’ve belonged to for about as long as I’ve been writing for … Continue reading

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JP Nystrom’s Stockholm 1313 Km

Mike Stiles penned this. Aha, another Nordic CD to review. First cut is “Spel Nisses Vals,” a lovely waltz with just a hint of the Germanic oompah influence. I’d better head out to the beer garden for the rest of … Continue reading

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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus DVD

In 1968, as the year was dying, Mick Jagger got to have what must have been seven kinds of fun, staging a response (or a bookend piece) to The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour, released a year earlier: The Rolling Stones, … Continue reading

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Down From The Mountain / Grateful Dawg

When I received a DVD player for my 50th birthday last August, my two sons had visions of using it to watch crystal clear wide-screen versions of Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude van Damme movies. Not when I’m around! Well, once … Continue reading

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Festival Express

It was a train full of insane people careening across the Canadian countryside playing music night and dayevery once in a while we’d stop and play a concert. — Phil Lesh (The Grateful Dead) It opens with a faded map … Continue reading

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Los Lobos’ Live at the Fillmore

Just what do you expect a live DVD to accomplish? I want great sound, and lots of images of the band (or soloist). I personally like lots of closeups of the guitarist’s fingers on the fretboards. Most directors and camera … Continue reading

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Bothy Band’s Old Hag You Have Killed Me

The Bothy Band’s second release was hailed by many as a ground breaking album. Irish music was to move forward in a different direction. It is hard to believe it was 33 years ago when listening to this album, as … Continue reading

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“Trad Boys, Trad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do….?” Liege & Lief remembered.

I’ve said it before: 1969 was a very good year. No, seriously. From the end of 1968 until the Altamont fiasco in December 1969, I had more music than most people get in their lifetimes. It was nuts, in the … Continue reading

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Wes Montgomery’s One Night In Indy

Just when you think there can’t possibly be any more undiscovered recordings of Wes Montgomery, here comes Resonance Records with yet another one. And One Night In Indy is a truly great record for jazz fans and Montgomery fans – … Continue reading

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