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Rock, April 2025
Mike Barnes  |  May 02, 2025  |  Published: Apr 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: HiFi Sean and David McAlmont, The Delines, Edvard Graham Lewis and Bartees Strange
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Rock, October 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  Published: Oct 01, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Wand, The The, Pohl, and Personal Trainer
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Rock, March 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Apr 17, 2025  |  Published: Mar 01, 2025  |  0 comments

This month we review: Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers, Sam Amidon and Richard Dawson

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Rock, February 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  Published: Feb 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: The Cure, Frost*, Jack Cheshire, and Kim Deal
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Rock, January 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  Published: Jan 01, 2025  |  0 comments
This month we review: Rosalie Cunningham, Mirror System, Amyl And The Sniffers, and Fionn Regan
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Bonnie Raitt Give It Up
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 04, 2025  |  Published: Dec 01, 2024  |  0 comments
A year after her self-titled debut set out Raitt’s blues/folk/jazz template, the singer, songwriter and slide guitar master decamped to Woodstock’s Bearsville Studios to repeat the trick. The result, mixing new songs and reimagined standards, was a classic

In 1972, Bonnie Raitt told Joe Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle that she didn’t want to be a star. ‘The music business works to make you a star and I don’t want any part of that. I’ve seen the whole trip’. It was a theme she would return to in interviews, deeming stardom as ‘superfluous’ and having no interest in ‘the cult of personality’ that builds up around musicians. Instead, she enjoyed playing smaller venues so audiences could connect with her as they would do a friend.

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Rock, December 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  Published: Dec 01, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: David Gilmour, Gaudi Kosmisches Trio, Von Hertzen Brothers and HOO
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Rock, September 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Nov 25, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Humanist, Louise Patricia Crane, Simon Fisher Turner, and Seasick Steve
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Rock, August 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Oct 29, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Beth Gibbons, John Cale, Dirty Three, and La Luz
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George Benson Breezin’
Mike Barnes  |  Oct 02, 2024  |  0 comments
The guitarist's first album for Warner Bros saw him put together a twin-keyboard band and dig even deeper into his fusion-jazz style. The result? A set that topped the Billboard charts and brought him a Grammy award for its only vocal performance...

Overall, I think the jazz police never forgave me for taking George Benson from the jazz area to where he became a pop artist', record producer Tommy LiPuma told jerryjazzmusician.com in 2022. 'I was always a pop music freak, but I was also a big jazz fan.'

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