Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lubbock to Downey Electric dustbowls
To Disneyland and beyond
Two troubadours soar
Nicki Bluhm, To Rise You Gotta Fall San Francisco fine
From Market Street to Marin
Bloom becomes a rose
David Byrne, American Utopia After the river
Into the great wild open
With dancing shoes on
Joachim Cooder, Fuchsia Machu Picu Playing magic box
Tall and strong and full of fire
The eternal lives
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal Son Music wanderer
With a leopard-skin pick-guard
Sings endless soul strings
Lamont Dozier, Reimagination Motown song wizard
Paving the yellow brick road
Up mountain of soul
Beth McKee, Dreamwood Acres Southern singer shines
By the Mason-Dixon line
Bigger times ahead
John Prine, The Tree of Forgiveness Wizened words of life
No punches pulled day or night
Prine's spine is still iron
Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile Juju brass attack
From the land of the Zulu
In new London town
Walter Wolfman Washington Medallion Lounge nights
Born of Claiborne and Orleans
The Wolf reigns supreme
Reissue of the Year:
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi's The voice of heaven
From the jazz lady supreme
Hollywood and Vine
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Bill Bentley © 2018
Bill Bentley was the music writer and typesetter for the original Austin Sun. His book SMITHSONIAN ROCK & ROLL: LIVE AND UNSEEN was published by Smithsonian Books, October 2017.
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