Bill Bentley
Dec 13, 20179 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2017
Peter Bernstein, Signs LIVE! At the end of a long and discombobulating year, what could be better than a sheer blowing session by what is...
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
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
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...
Frank Browning & Steve Weissman
Jan 22, 20176 min read
Little David Peddles Trump’s Big Agenda
David Horowitz, the Trotskyist radical turned far-right entrepreneur, has just published an instant best-seller, Big Agenda: President...
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...
Bill Bentley
Dec 29, 201611 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / Best of 2016 (last half)
2016 was rough. Losing friends and artists all through the year just would not stop, and the Presidential election turned the country...
Bill Bentley
Dec 13, 201610 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / December 2016
The Big T.N.T. Show. During the 1960s when rock and roll was just becoming the currency of the realm for youth in America, there was a...