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Author: Mike Logan

Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004

Richard Thompson – Toad’s Place (New Haven, CT)

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Isn’t this the stuff we overthrew circa 1770s colonial revolts? The technically proficient Brits and their mordant reels and jigs, which they’ll update for lucre, and the one hundred or fewer who statue stood in front of this man, Thompson, not booing or shouting scurvy but entombed in their short brain plasticity to paltry veneration. [...]

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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003

Molly Hatchet / Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen- Greatest Hits Live

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Ah sweet poontang sassafras — jailbait tattoos boogieing bare-chested at the Friday night field holler! And in case you don’t get it, Hatchet Live comes with instructions from lead singer Jimmy Farrar! “Thank you L.A. — looks like we got that rock ‘n’ roll feelin’ in the house tonite! You can clap your hands!” They [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003

Cracker / Leftover Salmon – O Cracker, Where Art Thou?

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The cough syrup’s out. I ain’t got no cough, but I’m freakin’ sick of all the pollutant strains of hybrid musical messianics goin’ on out there (hey, it took us this long to fuck up the world — don’t think you’re gonna right it with a couple choruses droppin’ Youssou N’Dour chops into the new [...]

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From the Blogs

  • A Double Shot of Southern Comfort With Tom Petty and the Tontons
    The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, isn’t all about the headlining acts such as Kings of Leon and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The pride of Gainesville, Florida, Petty had sort of the home-field advantage Saturday night on the Hangout Stage, playing just one state over and practically a direct Interstate-10 shot from Heartbreakers… […]
  • CD Review - Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters "Just For Today"
    Just For Today Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters It's Ronnie Earl's band, but he doesn't dominate it. Recorded live at a couple of venues in his home state of Massachusetts,the Stony Plains release is a seamless blend of jazz, soul and r&b by a band of seasoned vets comfortable enough with one another to have an intense musical conversation […]
  • Americana Boogie Music Releases for the week of May 21st... Jude Johnstone, Red Dirt Rangers, Cold Satellite, Augie Meyers
    COLD SATELLITE (with JEFFREY FOUCAULT) Cavalcade (Signature Sounds) 2013 sophomore album from this band centered on the collaboration between songwriter Jeffrey Foucault and poet Lisa Olstein. Cavalcade both refines and concentrates the band's signature amalgam of Rock, Blues, and Country. Described by legendary music… […]
  • CD Review - Hans Theessink "Wishing Well"
    Although Hans Theessink has made a name for himself with his acoustic blues guitar proficiency, he's the closest thing to Ry Cooder other than Cooder himself. On his last outing on Blue Groove, Theessink collaborated with long time Cooder vocalist Terry Evans for 2012's Delta Time, a soulful, gospel drenched electric blues excursion. This time out […]
  • A Tribute to The Doors Ray Manzarek 1939-2013
    "You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way."    Ray Manzarek   In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years old. I was completely transfixed by the band. Having an older musician brother […]
  • CD Review: The Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band - Roots of My Raising (Melody Roundup, 2013)
    Country artist's fine return to his bluegrass roots Clinton Gregory had a run of Top-100 country hits in the early '90s, but both his releases and commercial success became scarce by mid-decade. He returned last year with Too Much Ain't Enough, his first album in… […]

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