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DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2022

Honors for 2022 go to JOHN PRIMER, MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY & RYAN MURPHEY, RORY BLOCK, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES and six others.

by David McGee

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Musical Muscle & An Open Heart

Flexing musical muscle and an open heart, DULCIE TAYLOR returns with her most adventurous and piercing album yet in BETTER PART OF ME

by David McGee

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Half-Lights and Misty Streetscapes

'HALF LIGHTS and MISTY STREETSCAPES': ROBERT HUGILL reviews two introspective, atmospheric, haunting gems: pianist-composer MELISSA PARMENTER's MESSAPICA and the intriguing ECHO COLLECTIVE's THE SEE WITHIN.

by David McGee

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Paulie, Au Courant, Defying Time and Tide

Pure Paul McCartney, au courant, defying time and tide, towering over whomever would challenge his grandeur. Celebrate him now. David McGee reviews Paulie's self-curated 4-CD solo overview. Exit breathless.

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Rev. Charles Brown Goes Home

Remembering REV. CHARLES BROWN, who sang with the VIOLINAIRES, and before that was promising soul singer CHARLIE 'COAL BLACK' BROWN.

by David McGee

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Feeling the Spirit, Orcas Circle Ferry as It Carries Native Artifacts to Ancestral Home

When a ferry showed up in Puget Sound carrying Native artifacts to the Burke Museum in Seattle, nearly three dozen orcas escorted it safely to the terminal. Coincidence, or feeling the spirit?

by David McGee

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Realizing the ‘Dream’

On his new album, XALAM, Israel-born virtuoso drummer BEN AYLON teams with an all-star assemblage of West African musicians to cast the traditional music and instruments of Senegal and Mali in a fresh, contemporary setting.

by David McGee

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Chamber Blues on a Higher Plane

CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES offers a blues-classical-world music fusion that reveals its depth on first blush and then burrows deeper.

by David McGee

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