Bill Bentley
Nov 18, 201712 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / November 2017
Blind Boys of Alabama, Almost Home.When it’s time to turn toward the spirit world and work your way home, take the hands of the Blind...
Bill Bentley
Oct 10, 20178 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / October 2017
Amadou & Mariam, La Confusion.When it comes to modern African music, there is no greater joy expressed than by this married couple from...
Bill Bentley
Aug 31, 201710 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / September, 2017
Nicole Atkins, Goodnight Rhonda Lee. It's a strong sign when a new album gets both a ringing shout-out from The Replacements' Tommy...
Bill Bentley / Photos: JR Compton & Martha
Aug 31, 20177 min read
Margaret, A Friend from the Beginning
First of two stories on Austin Music critic Margaret Moser. When you're lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time, it's...
Bill Bentley
Aug 15, 201710 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / August 2017
Lynn Castle, Rose Colored Corner.Talk about a marvel of modern determination: singer-songwriter Lynn Castle walked right up to the...
Bill Bentley
Jul 11, 20179 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / July 2017
Arthur Alexander. There are certain albums that can take on the glow of a hallowed time, one that offered eternal promise and endless...
Bill Bentley
Jun 29, 20176 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of First Half of 2017
Pieta Brown, Postcards. If 2018 is going to hopefully bring an avalanche of justice, when wrongs are righted and things that got broken...
Bill Bentley
Jun 12, 201710 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / June 2017
Dan Auerbach, Waiting on a Song. The Black Keys have tended to race toward the aggro side of rock often enough to have staked their claim...
Bill Bentley
May 16, 201710 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / May 2017
Amy Black, Memphis. The sign on the front door of the African-American motorcycle club in Memphis said "Rattlesnakes do not commit...
Bill Bentley
Apr 10, 20178 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / April 2017
Pieta Brown, Postcards. Emotionally exquisite and passionately provocative. Those are the best two phrases to describe Pieta Brown's...
Bill Bentley
Mar 7, 20179 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / March 2017
Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard, Broken Promised Land. What happens when a noted Cajun folklorist/poet joins with one of Louisiana's...
Bill Bentley
Feb 19, 20179 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / February 2017
Bash & Pop, Anything Could Happen. Ten years ago there wouldn't have seemed like much chance of a Replacements reunion. Bandleader Paul...
Bill Bentley
Jan 9, 20178 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / January 2017
Dennis Coffey, Hot Coffey in the D. In 1968 Detroit was still on fire for musicians. Motown Records’ success had lit the city up, and its...