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The Power Trio is Backnew
North Mississippi Allstars’ fifth studio album, Hernando refines their guitar-bass-drums combo to immediately remind you of Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Port Folio Weekly |
Paul Shugrue |
02-07-2008 |
Reviews
Arlo All Alonenew
With the presidential primary season in overdrive, I had to ask this icon of the flower power era for his take on the current campaign.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
02-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arlo Guthrie
Playing off the Pagenew
On their most recent CD, A Love Supreme, the Turtle Island Quartet dropped the word "String" from the middle of their name.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Better than William Shatnernew
"I was always writing songs," Jeff Daniels said when he called a couple of weeks ago, "god-awful bad songs. I kept them in a notebook."
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeff Daniels
Doug MacLeod: Call Him a Blues Mannew
MacLeod has a great blues voice, filled with the hardscrabble grit of the Mississippi delta.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Doug MacLeod
Kathleen Grace, a Late Bloomer, Blossomsnew
She is in the vanguard of a small but exciting movement of young jazz singers who are, in her words, stepping "outside the box of the American Songbook into the world of original music."
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kathleen Grace, Songbird
Smiths Fans Rejoice in Morrisseynew
For fans of legendary post-punk phenoms The Smiths, what wasn't there to like in Morrissey's performance last week at The NorVa?
Port Folio Weekly |
Jeff Maisey |
07-23-2007 |
Music
Tags: Morrissey
FlickTracks Pairs Indie Filmmakers with Indie Bandsnew
The Mellin brothers saw film licensing as the quickest, most profitable way to help indie bands gain exposure.
Port Folio Weekly |
Taylor Harwin |
07-11-2007 |
Music
Hem's Hungernew
From a lonesome ballad to a dreamy waltz, Hem's unique, lush sound is impossible to pigeonhole.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Morrison |
04-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hem
Sharing the Giftnew
Since being introduced to much of the world by Paul Simon in 1986, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has made it in many ways, winning two Grammy awards and garnering numerous other nominations and honors.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
03-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Arlo Guthrie's Family Businessnew
As he approaches his 60th birthday, Guthrie is both the finest folksinger of his generation and one of its most entertaining performers.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
02-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arlo Guthrie
