Deep Roots Magazine

Burnishing the Legacy

KEVIN BURT will having you hearing the great songs of BILL WITHERS with new ears.

by David McGee

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Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks — June 2013

BOB MAROVICH'S GOSPEL PICKS include THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR, APOSTLE NORBERT SIMMONS & THE GOSPELAIRES, ALVIN DARLING, EARL BYNUM and THE FLINT CAVALIERS. Plus a DVD, SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD.

by David McGee

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Orpheus, Don’t Look Back

GRAYSON CAPPS's Scarlett Roses is an epic vision of life, love and struggle in the here and now. It is some kind of masterpiece.

by David McGee

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The Strange Adventures and Alluring Music of Alessandro Stradella

An exhaustive appreciation of Alessandro Stradella, one of the most enigmatic, colorful and gifted composers of the 17th Century, from whom Handel borrowed for Israel in Egypt and whose amorous inclinations led to his assassina...

by David McGee

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Rocketship X-M

DEEP ROOTS THEATER: Now playiing--Rocketship X-M, a 1950 sci-fi opus starring Lloyd Bridges in a script by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo that subtly proselytizes against the hazards of nuclear at a time when The Bomb w...

by David McGee

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