Rock
It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
The show cemented Joe Jackson’s reputation as an inscrutable and enigmatic songwriter, a talented musician and social outsider who speaks for Everyman.
This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.
“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”
The Grateful Dead’s music is moving forward with the help of musicians who are OK with the occasional look back over their shoulders.
When Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?
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