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Book Review: ‘Leon Russell’ by Bill Janovitz – Illuminating One of Rock’s...
Leon Russell (1942-2016), a brilliant songwriter and arranger and a pianist supreme, was in the early 1970s the very archetype of a rock star. Then he slid into relative obscurity for decades, until...
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Book and Music Reviews: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,’ plus the Third...
God knows, no shortage exists of books devoted to Bob Dylan and his music. There are album-by-album critiques, songbooks, scholarly works, biographies, and a memoir, along with other writings from the...
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Music and Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt...
This column rarely covers EPs—the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy—but a six-song set called Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leigh is too good to...
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Music and Book Reviews: A Joe Meek Anthology, an Arthur Lee/Love Biography,...
A Joe Meek Anthology Focuses on 1962 Recordings Most music producers remain relatively unknown and must content themselves with credit lines on the CDs they oversee. A few, though, develop styles so...
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Graphic Biography Review: ‘Audrey Hepburn’ by Botton and Giacchetto from NBM
Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn by Michele Botton and Dorilys Giacchetto from NBM Graphic Novels presents the varied life of one of the 20th century’s most popular figures, showing just how many facets...
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