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Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks – December 2012

Gospel editor BOB MAROVICH's latest new album picks include the latest releases from JAMES FORTUNE & FIYA, ISRAEL & NEW BREED, ISRAEL T. MARTIN & GOD'S ULTIMATE PRAISE, JAMES HALL & WORSHIP & PRAISE, RENEE SPEARMAN and MODERN D...

by David McGee

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My Own Field Trip

A field trip with her students to Hawaii's Hoa 'Aina O Makaha reminds TOUTKA WONGSE-ONT of some eternal truths about nature--strong, spontaneous feelings that nonliving things could not evoke.

by David McGee

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Chuck Yeager Struts The Right Stuff At 89

This week, 89-year-old nonpareil badass Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, recreated his historic achievement of Oct. 14, 1947 on that very day in 2012. The right stuff indeed.

by David McGee

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Funk-tion At the Junction

At age 77, BOBBY RUSH is reinvigorated, as he proves in the potent performances he musters on his latest album, DOWN IN LOUISIANA, found at the junction where funk, soul and blues meet.

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It Takes Two…

Two great Christmas albums emerged in 1964, and one of the artists in question did it again in '69.

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Feeling The Vibrations

Post-Kronos Quartet, cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has created one compelling solo work after another. Her latest, VISUAL MUSIC, delivers an unusual range of emotional wallops, says reviewer DERK RICHARDSON.

by David McGee

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Oceanic Swells of Feeling and Musicality

On COUCHVILLE SESSIONS, DARRELL SCOTT'S 'patient, perfectionism and passion' come together in 'ocean swells of feeling and musicality,' says our DERK RICHARDSON.

by David McGee

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Right On Time, Indeed

Daring to change, CHATHAM COUNTY LINE is renewed and reinvigorated to the nth degree on HIYO

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Pushing the Boundaries

South Africa's FRESHLYGROUND enlisted Los Lobos's STEVE BERLIN as its producer and came up with a border crossing Afropop gem in TAKE ME TO THE DANCE

by David McGee

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